WHO Claims We’re Only at “Halfway Mark” of Pandemic and Warns Against Treating Covid Like Flu
The World Health Organisation has said we are only at the “halfway mark” of the pandemic and warned against treating Covid like flu, days after the Government said it intended to do just that. MailOnline has the story.
David Nabarro, the WHO’s special envoy for Covid, said the comparisons were irresponsible because they suggest coronavirus “has suddenly got incredibly weak”.
He told Sky News: “It can also mutate and form variants and we’ve seen several but we know there are more not far away.
“So quite honestly, we are not saying that this should be considered to be like flu or indeed like anything else – it’s a new virus, and we must go on treating it as though it is full of surprises, very nasty and rather cunning.”
The official called on leaders to “stay focused on the job” as he claimed we were only at the “halfway mark” of the pandemic.
Parallels between coronavirus and influenza are being drawn in the U.K. now that Omicron is causing around the same number of deaths as a bad flu season.
Boris Johnson last week signalled his intention to lift isolation rules for Covid sufferers, highlighting that people with flu don’t legally have to quarantine.
And Health Secretary Sajid Javid pointed to the U.K.’s falling case numbers and relatively low hospital rates as he said “we need to learn to live with Covid in the same way we have to live with flu”.
Asked about the comparisons, Dr. Nabarro told Sky News: “I keep wondering what the people who make these amazing predictions know that I and my colleagues in the WHO don’t know.
“You see, what people are seeing from around the world and reporting to the WHO is this is still a very, very dangerous virus, especially for people who have not been vaccinated and who’ve not been exposed to it before.”
Did you spot the factual error there, saying Omicron was causing the same number of deaths as a bad flu season when deaths in the most recent week were well below average?
Dr. Nabarro’s comments also make no sense in the U.K. context, as he refers to “people who have not been vaccinated and who’ve not been exposed to it before”, which refers to almost zero percent of the U.K. population.
Will they ever let the emergency end?
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They do like to keep themselves in the headlines
As Special Envoy for Covid he’d be out of a job otherwise.
The lying SOB’s realize the game is almost over and they have lost, very badly.
Never underestimate the resilience of the human spirit
The game is NOT over. The game is moving on, worse is to come but it won’t be covid. This now only ends in a lot of death whoever wins, it’s gone too far.
I only hope those that have both instigated and promoted a road that they hoped lead to collectivism are eventually rooted out and dealt with severely so that we may enjoy another hundred years of calm.
Sadly true – mandatory Vax for Heath Service staff still the Evil Johnson Government policy.
I don’t think Johnson even deserves the word ”evil” – it’s much too distinguished an epithet for him. He’s a useful idiot. And may just have served his time.
I think their next step will be to pin blame for manufacturing viruses on Putin, China, bioterrorists or whoever. This will make it possible to prolong the “potential pandemic threat” – and thus also the set of current policies and pharma subsidies – indefinitely. It will be declared “a matter of national security” following further “investigations”.
They obviously want to keep this going for ever or until the next “pandemic” can be declared
They should rename themselves the World Hypochondriac Organisation.
Their mission seems to be make everyone believe they are sick even when they are not and that a mild disease is going to kill them.
Yes – hold the line! It is by no means over!
No – they have only ”lost” if everyone keeps up the pressure, possibly for ever. Otherwise people let down their guard – and it seems that’s just what they are doing. Here in the UK at least – many are celebrating because we’ve been sprinkled with some crumbs from the top table.
Anybody else just seen the BBC special report from a London hospital pointing out that ICU is ‘full’ (6 people) of unvaccinated patients – since when did respectable Drs stride through their wards bellowing out each patients confidential medical information, much less broadcast it in the news? Bloody disgrace, both the ‘Dr’ in question and the Beeb.
Probably just another shedload of lies.
Every Time – never watch or listen! Close it down.
Same as late summer 2020 Blackpools main hospital (700 beds) was reported as ‘full of Covid patients’.
Nurse whistleblower reported “yes, ICU was full, 7 beds, 2 on respiration”.
Makes you wonder why so few ICU beds available for such a “deadly and widespread virus” several months after it arrived.
Same question obviously still arises in this case.
All part of the Fake Pandemic Scam.
ITU/ICU tend to be small. For every patient there should be one nurse, except at break time when one nurse will look after two patients for the 30 minutes. The step down high dependency unit have a nurse:patient ratio of 1:2 or maybe 1:4 for those patients who are on the verge of returning to the main ward. I cannot recall the exact ratios as I hadn’t worked on a ward for 13 years.
Why on Earth would you believe anything the BBC said?
They are probably defining ‘vaccinated’ as people who had a vax in the last 7 days.
Yes, definitions.
We need to know if the “Unvaccinated” are “fully unvaccinated” or if they are just a little bit pregnant.
All deliberate BS – it isn’t a’ vaccination’ its a Gene Therapy Blood Clot Shot!
Yes we know, we’ve been calling it the vaxx for almost a year.
However its a play on the words used by them.
They refer to the fully vaccinated.
So to confound their propaganda on alleged efficacy, we refer to the fully unvaccinated.
All who are not fully unvaccinated are like a woman who is a little bit pregnant.
Memes & sarcasm are among the most effective ways to undermine the propaganda.
Not to mention – ”cases”.
What constitutes unvaccinated now? Just 2 jabs and no booster? How many had had their second jab within the last 14 days, I wonder?
And how many are in the ICU with other medical conditions and tested ‘positive’?
The sort of information the BBC doesn’t want the public to know!
The BBC is now totally unfit to carry the title ‘British’ – it should be stripped away!
It shames the Nation!
Hear, hear.
I teach Media Studies and refer to it as the British Bullshit Corporation every single time I refer to it as a matter of principle.
I hope there are multiple complaints to the GMC about the doctor concerned. Might encourage others to be a little less cavalier with confidential medical information. Disgusting behaviour.
More BBC BS — BBC claimed “hundreds” demonstrated against NHS Vax coercion …..videos show thousands!
BBC – a tissue of Daily Lies.
Don’t pay the licence fee. It’s the only way to finish off the BBC
The numbers tell a different story.
“Latest case rates by vaccination status show that double dosed have rates per 100,000 three times higher than unvaccinated.
Higher incidence is seen in 2 weeks after vaccination and this period after booster is attributed to the double dosed population.”
https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/status/1485657560539615232?s=20
Covid “cunning”? It hasn’t got a brain so that’s anthropomorphic and not at all professional.
My thoughts exactly. Viruses are not sentient beings. He should know that.
I expect, though, that there are people – the sort that have been taken in by everything the government/msm has told them, who do actually believe that it is a virus with consciousness, and is just waiting to get you like some kind of tiny bogey man.
There are many fecking idiots unfortunately, that have terrified themselves and seem to be enjoying it like a good horror movie. Probably because their lives were previously mundane and they had bought into the soap operas and glossy lifestyle mags.
Mine too is mundane but I like to think I’m not a fecking idiot.
He’s bureaucrat.
Of course he knows it. But no doubt the lure of viewing the bank balance on-line figures at the end of the day makes up for any slight discomfort he may be feeling.
The official called on leaders to “stay focused on the job”
And what exactly is ‘the job’ I wonder?
Stay focused on the job by picking a number out of nowhere, “halfway through”, why not 25% or three quarters?!
Halfway because t(he)y know the scamdemic isn’t set to finish until 2025.
No, it’s because their demands are growing exponentially. 2020, it was possibly until next year. 2021 until next year, doubling once. Now, it’s halfway through, which means at least two more years, ie, it doubled twice. In two years, it’ll be another four. And so on. As this is clearly going to overwhelm mankind if it goes on, all of the WHO must be locked down precautionarily now. Preferably, bound, treble-masked and gagged.
Can’t be too cautious with these carriers of dangerous germs.
https://principia-scientific.com/proof-that-the-pandemic-was-planned-with-purpose/
Well worth a read.
Subjugation.
Halfway sounds about right, still gotta get those central bank digital currencies firmly in place along with social credit passports or whatever they’re going to be called. I’m sure plenty of other digital infrastructure to be established before covid is over.
I think they also want to generate a vaccine bonanza in the developing world, especially Africa.
Rates are relatively low and there are still huge profits to be made.
And millions to dispose of.
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Who said that?
Yes they did.
they did indeed.
Yeah WHO were great in the 60’s
Wasn’t fooled the first time Pete.
And the shotgun sings its song?
Very nasty and rather cunning?
Pure projection.
Plus, how much longer can it take to “learn” to live with convid which has always been a flu?
Should we have exams before we can wipe our noses and take an aspirin?
These are mentally ill and deranged folk!
THEY need the time to cover up their mess!
Nabarro claims the virus is “very nasty and rather cunning”.
How ironic.
A classic example of projection defined as…
Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object [e.g. a virus]. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.
The concept emerged from Sigmund Freud’s work on defense mechanisms and was further refined by his daughter, Anna Freud, and other prominent figures in psychology.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection
That’s what I meant, albeit via Feuerbach!
Probably describing himself.
The global equivalent of SAGE.
I’ve just received an email from the NMC. I was reported last year by a former Employer for refusing to wear a mask and refusing to take a PCR test.The NMC ruled in my favour so maybe a shift despite the ongoing Bovine Excreta.Completly off topic but maybe a shift in the right direction.
Send this to your former employer…. Hope you get some compo….
I did walk out and told them to shove their job up the proverbial I only lasted a month!Of course I didn’t take the arm filth.I told them at my interview no mask no testing and I don’t bring politics into my practice.Thanks I wear my star with pride.
Respect.
Well done, Sir Edward!
Great news Teddy. You have posted quite a few interesting posts from the front line. Full marks for standing your ground
If it smells like WEF, looks like WEF, it probably is WEF
If every sense of somebody has beed hard-wired to return only WEF in response to any kind of external stimulus, that someone will live in a rather WEFfy world other people notice little of. Schwab is also nothing but a creep and professional brownnoser who’s presumably mainly interested in having political contacts to enable effective, commercial lobbying.
I observe that this hard-wiring inevitably results in an ugly demeanour. By their faces as well as their fruits we shall know them.
Yeah, it stinks
‘The World Health Organisation has said we are only at the “halfway mark” of the pandemic and warned against treating Covid like flu’
I agree. In no way should covid (omicron) ever be treat like the flu. No it’s not as dangerous as flu, more like a very mild cold.
It’s a new virus, and we must go on treating it as though it is full of surprises, very nasty and rather cunning. That’s sufficient to disqualify this guy once and forever. After more than two years, this is not a new virus anymore. And viruses aren’t even alive, let alone intelligent, hence, they can neither be nasty nor cunning. If this guy had any professional integrity, he would use neutral language in his statements, as befits someone who’s providing information supposed to enable other people to form an opinion. Instead, he hands out pre-formed opinions and no information beyond well-known trivia like viruses mutate. And But we don’t know …-fear mongering, obviously. And blatantly false statements like this is still a very, very dangerous virus, especially for people […] who’ve not been exposed to it before.” This was never a very dangerous virus and by now, despite the bests efforts of the global health bureacracy to stop people from being exposed to it in order to prolong this so-called pandemic, pretty much everyone will have been exposed to it. That’s actually fear-mongering as well, targetted at people who wrongly believe Corona measures prevented them from being exposed to Sars-CoV2… Read more »
If we didn’t know any better, we could almost say that he is passing on disinformation with the intent to confuse or mislead the taxpaying public who ultimately fund his obscene salary and benefits, not to mention first class globetrotting and accommodation arrangements.
Malfeasance in a public office
A mere trifle.
Nice post.
Oh dear, they need to get their stories straight, and keep Three Jabs Javid (looking more and more with each passing day like a henchman puppet from Thunderbirds, although his speaking voice could use some work, especially under questioning) in the loop
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1552936/sajid-javid-sky-news-plan-b-scrap-coronavirus-restrictions-kay-burley-vn
He’s a demented old fool.
This is their pushback to counter our pushback.
This is one of the various stooges being rolled out to try to fight back against the re-establishment of normality.
It was never going to be that easy.
They need less demented pushbacks then. Nobody is going to take his shit seriously.
Maybe he is, although I doubt that. But all which matters is that he has been invested with the right titles by the right organisation and repeats the statements he’s been instructed to make, substituting authority (sort-of authority) for actual arguments.
Yes, because when you have flu you know it, and stay home, you don’t need a test to tell you.
Whatever the WHO says, do the opposite.
They’ve become so overrun with sketchy characters, it’s completely marred all the good things they achieved in the past.
As always in this shitshow, look at where the funding comes from!
Somewhere Bill Gates is desperately trying to loosen the lid from a jam jar.
On your bike matey. You had better make it a fast one as well.
Pfizer shill and automaton, with Chinese chips installed by Microsoft. Also a “doctor” without morals or ethics. An untrustworthy halfwit.
This dude is a hustler…
https://4sd.info
It was a very clever plan.
Have a test that pings up endless false positives and then use those test to claim a proportion of the people that die from all and any cause as being dead from your new mystery disease, it has worked well for them.
Dr Nabarro said on 16th Jan:
“I’ve been watching this pandemic and working on it since January 2020 and I have never been more concerned than I am tonight, not just about the UK but about the world.”
“It will get extremely serious within the next two weeks, perhaps quicker.”
Another Neil Ferguson type character still being taken seriously after his judgement has been shown to be hopelessly pessimistic and catastrophist. It’s enough to make you think there is another agenda.
Or does he know something we don’t?
Well he has only a week left to be right, and all the trends are against him, so I am going to say nope.
He knows something we know as well, namely, COVID restrictions in England are scheduled to be lifted on Wednesday. Just as last time – July 19th 2021 – this must not happen, hence, the end of the world is being predicted if it does.
If he actually had a hand to play, he’d be playing it instead of ominously hinting at future disasters.
Meanwhile The president of the South African Medical Association, Angelique Coetzee, “In #SouthAfrica, it [#Omicron] is a mild disease, but it’s a serious, serious, serious illness in #Europe, because politicians want me to say it”
https://t.me/abirballan1/134
Good on you Angelique!
So we’ve got another 2 years to go, have we?
Ah, bollocks to it, no we haven’t!
“Dr. Nabarro’s comments also make no sense in the U.K. context, as he refers to “people who have not been vaccinated and who’ve not been exposed to it before”, which refers to almost zero percent of the U.K. population.”
Well the W in WHO doesn’t stand for UK. It stands for the world!
Will Jones whipping you all into a frenzy again!!!!!!!!!!
Well he can fuck off to “the world” then. Wherever that is?
I don’t think he cares if you dissaprove of him.
Do you get paid much for this, or are you hoping for a minor “Empire” honour, a “K”, or perhaps even a Damehood?
This is an education for me. I’m trying to discover the thought processes of idiots. So far I believe I have over estimated you.
No, you’re just trolling
You’re a conspiracy nut job, aren’t you rational? I’ve read about your sort on the BBC.
Ok what is the conspiracy theory that I support?
You need to understand what you write…
You support the theory that the government always works for our best interests, and that the all-knowing official advisors give sensible, balanced advice backed up with strong evidence.
You’d have to try hard to come up with a more ridiculous, implausible conspiracy theory than that one…
That gunfire? It’s ‘antiwaxers’ closing in on the final bunker…
Oh just FUCK OFF.
Hear hear.
What a smart comment…
Smarter than all your posts.
Only half way through scaring enough sheep to fulfil the wet dreams of Bill, Blair etc. and bigpharma is what he really means.
That said. Hold the Line against these bastards.
History shows we need only 3-4% to stop them.
And on any analysis we’ve got at least 10% – more likely towards 25% non believers in the new God, aka the Vaccine. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. Lol.
Lest they forget, the only way to true salvation is the vaxxpass.
Remember, for everyone who has never been vaxxed, there are at least as many jabbed now losing faith.
Did Nabarro lose that front tooth when he briefly went off script a few months back and said he wasn’t a big supporter of lockdowns?
He’s clearly learnt his lesson.
I worked for his dad, wonderful teacher, great integrity …..