SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service LaRouche’s Method for Defeating the Pandemic and Stopping the Coup Dec. 20, 2020 (EIRNS)—Over the weekend, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that a new strain of the coronavirus had erupted in the United Kingdom, which is estimated to be 70% more transmissible than the current virus. He immediately put London and entire sections of England under strict lockdown through the end of the year. “Christmas this year will be different,” he stated, “very different.” One ocean and an entire continent away, southern and central California are being hit by “The Big One”: not an earthquake, but a tidal wave of COVID-19 cases which has already exhausted the ICU capacity of the area’s hospitals—and yet COVID-19 hospitalizations in heavily-populated Los Angeles Country could jump more than four-fold, from 17,400 today to 75,000, by mid January, according to medical experts.