Nothing like some good old fashioned doom-saying to attempt to keep the peons under control, eh?
The World Health Organization on Friday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and said there’s a possibility of new variants.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told attendees at the Munich Security Conference in Germany that vaccinations and the fact that Omicron has turned out to be a far less severe variant are “driving a dangerous narrative that the pandemic is over.”
“But it’s not. Not when 70,000 people a week are dying from a preventable and treatable disease,” Ghebreyesus added.
“Not when 83% of the population of Africa is yet to receive a single dose of vaccine,” he continued. “Not when health systems continue to strain and crack under the caseload. Not when we have a highly transmissible virus circulating almost unchecked, with too little surveillance to track its evolution.”
Except, Africa never really had a big problem with COVID. Their infection rates, and, especially their death and hospitalization rates, were way, way, way lower than in the 1st World.
Ghebreyesus also warned that the world should prepare for the potential of more variants to arise.
“In fact, the conditions are ideal for more transmissible, more dangerous variants to emerge,” he said.
At this point, not many want to listen anymore. He could be 100% correct. Maybe there will be more variants flowing around the world from the Chinese coronavirus. We don’t know. But, people are tired of the government authoritarianism. Freedom leaning folks were tired of it back in 2020. Leftists are getting tired of it now, hence why so many governments are removing masking mandates.
It's weird how no one in the "news" asks questions like "the mask mandate wasn't removed when the positivity rate was below 4%. Why now?"
Because this is all about politics, protecting Democratic Party politicians https://t.co/WG5jmeKJhW
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) February 20, 2022
There were very few cities and counties left in North Carolina which had mask mandates, and almost all were run by Democrats. They originally stated, at least here in Raleigh and Wake County, that they would remove the reinstated mask mandates when the positivity rate was below 5%. Before Omicron hit it was around 3.2%, and they were still waiting. It’s well above 5% right now. So, why is it fine now but not fine then? It couldn’t possibly be due to there being an election in 2022, where the mayor is up for re-election, right? Same in most other places in NC.
Speaking of masks, the Washington Post does their normal crazy
‘A very toxic environment’: Virginia students navigate ugly mask battle
Alexandra Swan, 17, believes it is wrong to make snap judgments about other people.
But these days, when the senior walks through the doors of her high school in Louisa County, Va., she finds it hard to follow her own rules. Whenever she sees another student — friend, foe or stranger — her eyes jump to the same place: their mouth and nose, which might or might not be covered by a mask, now that Louisa County Public Schools has complied with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) controversial order that made masking optional.
“I see these people just not wearing a mask, or wearing one pulled down, like, under their chin,” said Swan, “and my brain just immediately goes, ‘That person does not share the same ideals as me. We won’t get along.’ ” She added: “They may not be a bad person. They may just be thinking the same things as their parents.”
That’s a serious bit of mask crazy, mask cult. In just 2 years many of the kids have been taught that anyone failing to wearing their mask to the conformance of the kids is a Bad Person, and, if not them, their parents. That they can’t be friends with that person. That having different ideals is Full Stop for being able to be friendly.
School now feels, Swan said, “like a war zone”: a raging partisan battle that no one can opt out of, because every single student arrives with evidence of their politics — those without masks typically lean right, she said — written across their faces. Swan said she has stopped speaking with students who go maskless because they are dismissive of the decision to mask and unwilling to hear a different opinion.
Good grief, it’s a mask cult. They maskers have been taught that a mask is only meant to protect others, not themselves, hence, it’s a war if others refuse to wear the masks, which mostly offer barely any actual protection.
Swan said she cannot wait to graduate and escape to college, where she plans to major in musical theater.
“Before, when masks were all required, you didn’t — it wasn’t like you were making a statement,” she said. “This made everything so much worse.”
Who’s surprised that the uber-mask cultist is going to major in a discipline that will most likely give little monetary reward, and most likely be one of those screeching for the government to cancel her huge student loan debt?
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