Posted on 12/22/2021 7:13:36 PM PST by matt04
The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) warned Tuesday there is too much at stake to celebrate Christmas this year, cautioning it is better to either cancel or postpone the annual festivities than risk the death of a loved one.
W.H.O. director-general and Ethiopian biologist Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva the “fastest way” to “get back to normal” is for people to cancel or delay Christmas events, the Daily Mail reports.
Dr Ghebreyesu continued to say, “an event cancelled is better than a life cancelled. It’s better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate now and grieve later.”
The W.H.O. has not previously issued a global decree to cancel any other religious holidays such as the Muslim’s Eid or the Hindu’s Diwali as a result of coronavirus.
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The Director General Dr Tedros echoed this message suggesting that if “70 percent” of every country’s population was vaccinated by mid-2022, the coronavirus pandemic could be ended by 2023.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Explain how states like MA, VT, etc. with jab rates over 70% are seeing higher case counts than before any vaccine?
Omicron coverage reveals how the establishment, media keep us scared
By Heather Mac Donald
December 21, 2021
https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/omicron-coverage-reveals-how-the-establishment-media-keep-us-scared/
do you suppose Teddy is really on the Chinese payroll???
In the US, there have been about 804,000 fatalities where covid was on the death certificatee, out of about 330MM people.
However, per CDC, about 94% of the death certificates had more than one comorbidity like diabetes, heart disease, etc. Thus, about 48,240 fatalities came purely from COVID19 or roughly 27,600 fatalities a year.
That means there is a roughly 1-in-12,000 chance of dying from COVID19 each year.
By contrast, there is a 1-in-8,393 chance of dying in a car crash annually.
In other words, there is greater risk of dying in the car ride to the Christmas Celebration than in the Celebration itself.
Defy the odds...celebrate Christmas.
Canceling Christmas is not normal.
If we never post this shit, we will never have it subliminally planted in our heads.
If everyone gets hit at once, more likely we’ll develop herd immunity and less likely we’ll continue to get pounded by variants.
That sounds like a threat.
The communists are really desperate to get people to cancel Christmas this year. That’s not happening.
According to the media.. 25 person orgies are a-ok, but celebrating Christmas with family and friends is a big no.
It’s totally about health. /s
look at joe ... no one has told him he's a loser and may even be dead .... so guess what?
He's still here because he thinks he is.
You do realize men die with prostate cancer all the time. 50% of the population of men over 80 have prostate cancer cells in the body. It’s a comorbidity, but a Covid patient who dies unable to breathe — in your world — should not be called a Covid death. Rather a symptomless prostate cancer death.
That’s how bizarre that argument is.
I read that yesterday. Spot on with the constant fear.
Stupid statement.
Christmas is a day of hope, that our Savior has come, and that we may be redeemed through His grace. Cancelling Christmas? What a stupid thing to say.
We will grieve later? This is also stupid. Everyone dies. The number of people we will grieve does not change. Grieve soon, grieve later, what’s the difference? Death is inevitable. And how much real grieving should we do? Go ahead and count it all as loss, but focus on the important things and gain Christ and find joy.
Canceling holidays is the quickest way to get rid of Christianity.
As far as I am concerned, W.H.O. and C.D.C can take a Flying F**k in a soggy (Red) Chinese fortune cookie rolling down hill on Chinese New Year. Red Chinese, that is. ChiCom.
Get back to me when they cancel Earth Day.
And not only that, but I'm sure many of these 804,000 fatalities could have been avoided (at least until the other comorbidities did them in) by providing early theraputics (like HCQ or Ivermectin) - rather than discouraging their use. And then they applied the Coup de Grace by rigidly following the CDC/FauXi protocol of using Remdesivir (shutting down the patients kidneys, and subsequently causing their lungs to get flooded with fluid).
Prolonging the Plannedemic Puritanism appears to be the goal.
If a second Thanksgiving, a second Christmas, third Easter, and a third Independence Day, can be squelched through fearmongering (if not outright government oppression) it may not be much longer before people will not only not wish to return to pre-Plannedemic celebrations, but will actually begin to lose the memory of what such celebrations were like.
This is the CCP’s global “Cultural Revolution”.
WHO the F*** listens to these Commie mouthpiece?
Wait a minute, does that mean all of us here who have already anticipated and waited for and set up our celebrations and decorations for Kwanzaa (celebrated from December 26 to January 1 as you all know) will have to cancel it? After the airplane tickets and rental cars were arranged?
No Kwanzaa?
Or just no Christmas?
Now Get LOST!
Well, obviously the WHO has no authority to issue “decrees” (and in fact they do not).
The role of social gatherings in the spread of COVID is constantly overstated by the powers that be, BECAUSE infecting a large number of people who are gathered indoors requires at least one infected individual capable of creating infectious aerosols - and most people are not infected (80% are not in a worst case scenario, 95%-100% are not most of the time), AND, most infected people are not superspreaders.
This is not to deny that social gatherings CAN result in large numbers of infected people - this has been demonstrated over and over again.
It’s just to say that most gatherings are safe, most of the time, either because there are no infected people at them (100% safe) or because an infected person at the gathering is not a superspreader.
It’s also not to deny that some people should be extra cautious. We have had two recent ghastly COVID deaths in solid organ transplant people, and the same applies to bone marrow transplant patients. They need to consider very carefully their options for socializing at holidays and otherwise.
But for normal people, not immunocompromised and not elderly - I mean, learn the facts and make your own decision. Your chances of encountering an infected person socially are usually 10% or less. Your chances of harm if you contract COVID (harm = prolonged hospitalization or death) are probably somewhere between 1%-2%, maybe less.
None of this adds up to “cancelling Christmas”, not according to WHO or anyone else. Are there people who might skip it based on individual circumstances? Sure. Are there people who SHOULD skip it and don’t? Probably.
But, all in all, this is more overblown one-size-fits-all poor advice, which we should, unfortunately, be used to by now.
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