WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
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Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#2“We had a chance in the beginning of this pandemic,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said Tuesday. “This pandemic did not need to be this bad.”
Like in February 2020 when the WHO was downplaying the risk on a daily basis? Do they think we don't remember? They are absolutely culpable. I distinctly remember Tedros preaching that "racism" (questions about China) was more dangerous than the virus. Look up the press conferences if you don't believe me.
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#3Stopped reading at "WHO"
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#4“We had a chance in the beginning of this pandemic,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said Tuesday. “This pandemic did not need to be this bad.” Like in February 2020 when the WHO was downplaying the risk on a daily basis? Do they think we don't remember? They are absolutely culpable. I distinctly remember Tedros preaching that "racism" (questions about China) was more dangerous than the viru…
Are you implying that the WHO's statements in the first few months of 2020 removes the credibility of the claim that the pandemic did not to be this bad? I'm with you that it should have been sooner than March 11, 2020 to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic, but the response of almost every country in the world in following year was lackluster at best to prevent widespread mutation opportunities.
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#5Hasn't this been the obvious answer for almost two years now?
The disease transmits to a huge pool of animals where it can mutate and transmit back. That alone is a problem too big for people to solve.
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#6“We had a chance in the beginning of this pandemic,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said Tuesday. “This pandemic did not need to be this bad.” Like in February 2020 when the WHO was downplaying the risk on a daily basis? Do they think we don't remember? They are absolutely culpable. I distinctly remember Tedros preaching that "racism" (questions about China) was more dangerous than the viru…
Are you implying that the WHO's statements in the first few months of 2020 removes the credibility of the claim that the pandemic did not to be this bad? I'm with you that it should have been sooner than March 11, 2020 to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic, but the response of almost every country in the world in following year was lackluster at best to prevent widespread mutation opportunities.
I disagree with their premise.
Humanity has NEVER stopped the propagation of a disease which is airborne, mutates rapidly, and is well-adjusted to human physiology.
SARS wasn't well adapted and not particularly airborne which is why it was reined in. MERS was better adapted and cases STILL pop up NINE YEARS LATER. We mostly stopped mumps, but it didn't mutate rapidly, so it was stopped dead by the vaccine (though there's still 100-200 cases per year in the US alone).
COVID is super-well adapted to infect humans, has changed to mutate around the vaccines, and is very airborne. This alone meant we probably weren't stopping it.
Adding to the problem, they wouldn't admit any airborne transmission until it had been transmitting for MONTHS. This fact in particular is why there was zero chance they were stopping this once it started.
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#7now is the time to begin the segregation of society between those who only trust the government ordained science and those who don’t trust their new overlords, we will slowly expand the places that require vaccine passports until over a long enough timeline all these pesky doubters and individualists are finally excluded from our systems, only those who faithfully trust our politically chosen experts and submit to human bio-engineering will be allowed to participate in the future of mankind
Pretty sure I read about this in Brave New World, the naturalist free humans were known as feral savages…
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#8“We had a chance in the beginning of this pandemic,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said Tuesday. “This pandemic did not need to be this bad.” Like in February 2020 when the WHO was downplaying the risk on a daily basis? Do they think we don't remember? They are absolutely culpable. I distinctly remember Tedros preaching that "racism" (questions about China) was more dangerous than the viru…
Are you implying that the WHO's statements in the first few months of 2020 removes the credibility of the claim that the pandemic did not to be this bad? I'm with you that it should have been sooner than March 11, 2020 to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic, but the response of almost every country in the world in following year was lackluster at best to prevent widespread mutation opportunities.
I think you are both saying the same thing, which is the WHO bares large portion of blame for letting the virus develop into perpetual pandemic, and so do most of the our governments
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#9Hasn't this been the obvious answer for almost two years now? The disease transmits to a huge pool of animals where it can mutate and transmit back. That alone is a problem too big for people to solve.
The disease transmits to and reproduces in a huge pool of humans (vaccinated and unvaccinated) where it can mutate and evolve. That too is a problem which needs to be solved. Humans created this problem and humans can solve it, if certain Govt agencies get out of the way.
Re: WHO: Covid will mutate like the flu and is likely here to stay
#10“We had a chance in the beginning of this pandemic,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said Tuesday. “This pandemic did not need to be this bad.” Like in February 2020 when the WHO was downplaying the risk on a daily basis? Do they think we don't remember? They are absolutely culpable. I distinctly remember Tedros preaching that "racism" (questions about China) was more dangerous than the viru…
Are you implying that the WHO's statements in the first few months of 2020 removes the credibility of the claim that the pandemic did not to be this bad? I'm with you that it should have been sooner than March 11, 2020 to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic, but the response of almost every country in the world in following year was lackluster at best to prevent widespread mutation opportunities.
By February 2020 the virus had already spread worldwide and it was simply too late to prevent widespread mutation opportunities. The developing countries where many of the mutations appeared usually lacked the capacity for a really effective pandemic response even if they had wanted to do more. You can't worry too much about mutations when you're struggling just to keep people fed.