anti-maskers/anti-vax fuck off my posts please! : nah im good have a great day :3

reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.

Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn't over. They're shifting from "world health emergency" to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO's announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041

of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do

solarishashernoseinabook

[Image IDs: Various tweets by the World Health Organization, quoting Dr Tedros:

"It is therefore with great hope that I declare #COVID19 over as a global health emergency.

However, that does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat.

Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes - and that's just the deaths we know about"-@DrTedros

"As we speak, thousands of people around the world are fighting for their lives in intensive care units. And millions more continue to live with the debilitating effects of post-#COVID19 condition"-@DrTedros

"This virus is here to stay. It is still killing, and it is still changing. The risk remains of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths"-@DrTedros #COVID19

"The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or ot send the message to its people that #COVID19 is nothing to worry about"-@DrTedros

"What this news means is that it is time for countries to transition from emergency mode to managing #COVID19 alongside other infectious diseases"-@DrTedros
(Note: At the end of the tweet is a link to another tweet, but the link is cut off) /end]

cookingwithroxy

I hate to be this person but...

If covid kills 175200 people each year? It's only HALF as deadly as the flu.

Influenza, the common flu virus, kills 400000 people each year.

We need to commit to treating it like we treat the flu, but assuming we need to be on a perpetual panic situation is NOT the best way to respond to this.

beardedmrbean

I was 100% done with tedros when he cried racism over vaccinations, how about they get out there and do something about this number if he's really that worried about helping the global black community.

mornington-the-crescent

What do you propose, OP? Locking everyone in their homes again, an act that did more harm than good? Forcing the ineffectual masks? Mandating useless vaccines?

From the moment that China unleashed this thing into the world, "zero COVID" was never, not even for half a second, even the remotest of possibilities. The world needs to return to normal. You can't indefinitely support the whole population in idleness.