Not exactly. What the idiot is saying is that since rich countries are hoarding jabs for their 3rd and 4th shots, poor countries aren't getting the jabs they need and because of this, they're getting delta and it's mutating into something more severe - which flies in the face of pretty much everything we've ever learned about how viruses mutate.

The only reason he wants a pause on boosters is so you give those booster shots to other places that haven't had the death jab. There's also some noise in the article about the vaccine's effectiveness slipping, but that looks like opinion on the author's part.

variants of what?

colds and flu are just colds and flu.

Ghebreyesus proposed the move as a means of reducing global vaccine inequality and preventing the emergence of new coronavirus variants.

Good 'ol communist ideals. If we can't all be healthy we should be equally sick. If we can't all be rich we should all be equally poor. Drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator and then piss on them for good measure. Someone should staple a copy of Harrison Bergeron to this dipshit nigger's forehead.

*emphasis my own