Ultra-contagious COVID Delta variant "wreaking havoc" worldwide
Source: Salon
"This is devastating. And it didn't have to happen. The world urgently needs a People's Vaccine"
By Jake Johnson Published July 5, 2021 4:30PM (EDT)
In Bangladesh, troops are preparing to patrol the streets to enforce newly imposed stay-at-home orders. Australia, recently heralded as a pandemic success story, is returning to strict lockdowns. Scotland is seeing a record-breaking surge in new coronavirus infections. Indonesia is teetering on the edge of a public health catastrophe.
While many rich nations continue to ease public health guidelines as they gradually move in the direction of normalcy, an ultra-contagious Covid-19 mutation known as the Delta variant is spreading like wildfire in countries that have struggled to vaccinate their populations and in communities that have refused to participate in inoculation drives, forcing governments to resort to drastic measures contain the damage.
"The new curbs on travel and daily life stretched from Australia and Bangladesh to South Africa and Germany, where authorities over the weekend set new limits on travelers from 'virus-variant zones' such as Portugal and Russia," the Washington Post reported Monday. "South Africa on Sunday extended a nightly curfew and introduced a ban on gatherings, alcohol sales, indoor dining, and some domestic travel for 14 days to halt a worrying surge in cases driven by the Delta variant."
First detected in India, the Delta variant is rapidly emerging as the dominant coronavirus strain across the globe. The mutation—which is estimated to be 60% more transmissible than the highly contagious Alpha variant—has now been detected in more than 80 countries, and it accounts for over a third of all new cases in the United States........................................
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to try to get just a few more people to change their minds and go get a free shot that is easily available.
Delta shmelta 
My husband and I have been fully vaccinated since April, and we live in a state that has reached Biden's 70% vaccinated level. After almost 15 months of having a mask mandate and varying levels of other safety precautions in place, things are loosening up. Per CDC recommendations, masks are now optional for vaccinated people. It feels pretty good, tbh.
The CDC is telling me I don't need to wear a mask now. My state, which has been very strict about masks until very recently, is telling me I don't need to wear one at this point. But I keep reading and hearing scary stuff about the Delta variant, and I'm at the point where I don't know what to believe anymore. I really want to believe that the pandemic is over over for fully vaccinated people as you say, but I feel like I'm getting bombarded with conflicting messages about things like breakthrough infections and asymptomatic infections that could lead to passing the disease to others even though I'm not sick myself. It's.... confusing af. 
I am NOT an antivaxxer or a mask scoffer. I literally couldn't WAIT to get vaccinated. I was 100% compliant with my state's mask mandate as long as it was in effect, but now that it's been lifted, I've begun to enjoy the changes, and, well, I really don't want to go back. 
Didn't Herr Leader tell them so? Besides, he had had a case and was back to work in a couple of days, notwithstanding his physicians lying about his condition, which was a lot more serious than was presented to the public. It seems getting a honest report about Fat Donnie's health was a hard as getting his tax returns. 
Anyway, if the vaccine was a good thing, T***** would have gotten one. Oh, that's right -- he did get a shot, he just didn't do it as a public event as a means of setting an example for his followers.
but won't take the vaccine that came from that project.
Ironically, Pence and several other GOP leaders did take it publicly to encourage others but they don't care about that. Several GOP governors have taken it in front of cameras to encourage their constituents to do the same, but nope.
I bet even Tucker Carlson has taken it quietly but will never admit it.
If you think about it, the 1918 pandemic did have a slightly different type of world spread in terms of transport, where although there were no commercial flights to speed it to multiple places at once, you did have "steamer" ships of people. But as we saw with the cruise ships with COVID-19, the steamers had that concentrated population on the ship that could offload a larger number of infected at some large port city, than an aircraft could at the same city. And then from there, those infected spread out to their final destinations via a similar concentrated travel, except by train. Of course the other issue then was that it happened during WWI, so you had a more mobile refugee population due to that war, both within Europe via train (concentrated transport), and between Europe and the U.S., including the U.S. military going both ways, mostly via ship.
As with most respiratory diseases, the lulls tend to be seasonal, which is clearly seen with the various waves for both pandemics, although the fact that this Delta variant is surging in some places during a "traditionally" lower transmission time of year in the northern hemisphere, is concerning.
Because most socializing happens in the evening, the curfew is to essentially underscore and reinforce the ban of certain types of concentrated activities that have been documented to cause higher levels of spread - at bars, restaurants, and parties where masking is usually eschewed, and that tend to happen more at night when a typical work day is done.
And in the case of South Africa, since they are in the southern hemisphere like Australia (where Australia seems to get more "press" about being in the southern hemisphere than many other countries that are ALSO below the equator, notably on the geographically marginalized continents of Africa and South America), then they are in their astronomical/meteorological "winter" like Australia, which is when waves tend to happen.
Mass murderous racist philosophies throughout history say the same damn thing.
than hoping others die in a pandemic