The World’s COVID19 WhatsApp group convo

South Africa: Hey guys, look what we discovered in our labs while researching Covid19 variants and mutations

World: What??

SA: It’s a new variant of Covid19. It seems to be different from others. Let’s work together and study it further.

World: What? You have a new variant of Covid19?!?!

SA: No, we just found a way to ‘identify’ a new variant. It seems it has also already been detected in Hong Kong, Israel, and Botswana.

UK: Hey guys, no offense but we already have 45,000 cases a day, we don’t wear face masks everywhere. We also allow large gatherings but we cannot risk getting a new variant.

SA: But we just identified it and showed you guys how to check for this variant, it did not originate here. We have advanced labs because we do research on AIDS, TB, and other communicable diseases.

UK: Thank you for the research. However, we are imposing a complete travel ban on you and your 5 neighbors.

Netherlands: We heard UK banned flights because you have the new variant. We are also imposing a ban on you and your neighbors!

Namibia: WTF! What did we do? We have had less than 20 new cases a day for a month now!

EU: Guys, we have a situation in our hands.

Namibia: The situation where Germany has had 76,000 cases a day and Other countries are breaking daily records for COVID19 cases?

EU: No, not that situation.

Lesotho: Is it that UK still has 40,000+ cases a day and doesn’t seem to have it under control?

EU: No, UK isn’t a part of us anymore, not our concern.

Malawi: We hear Poland has some serious rise in cases and hospitalizations

EU: Really?! We have no idea, we must look into it. But that’s not what we are talking about.

Eswatini: What situation then?

EU: We heard that South Africa has a new variant, their numbers are rising rapidly and since some of you are next to them, we need to impose travel bans to the region with immediate effect!

SA: Dude, we just identified it! We only have a few cases in the region. Especially when compared to what you guys have. What’s with the knee-jerk reaction?

Namibia: Knee-jerk, that’s the word we were looking for.

UAE: We are stopping flights to Southern Africa, we don’t want to risk it. Sorry guys.

USA: We are looking into this and studying the variant, we won’t ban flights yet but might do so in the next couple of hours.

SA: WTF!!!

Mauritius: Sorry SA and the variant group. I saw some other countries refer to you like that. We are friends and all but we are concerned about our tourism and economy, so we will also ban you guys for now until we know further what we have in our hands.

SA: We thought you were family. Goes to show how money is more important!

Belgium: We already have 1 new case of the new variant, thanks a lot SA.

SA: We literally just showed you how to identify it.

UK: Thanks a lot SA, now we also have 2 cases of it.

SA: What about our vaccinated people?

World: Nope!! We need to run tests first and figure out what this virus can do and how effective the vaccination is against it.

WHO: Hey guys, a quick question. The next Greek alphabet is ‘Xi’. What do we do? China? Are you here?

China: Don’t you dare! Leave us and our president out of it. Call it something else. And we don’t allow anyone in any way, so the variant is not our concern.

WHO: We got it, boss. Maybe we can this time around get inspiration from the name of France’President. The new variant will be called Omicron.

WHO: Sorry we meant Sir. China isn’t our boss.

SA: It’s true what they say, no good deed goes unpunished. The next time we won’t tell you guys about the next mutations or variants we find.

World: Sorry can’t hear you, too busy dealing with the outbreak that you caused. How about we talk about this later?

Namibia: It’s Christmas month friends, let’s braai & go camping and let the world figure this one out themselves, we are still open to everyone. And if you wish to travel here, ask your leaders to start thinking before making decisions.