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The Perpetual Crisis: Now The WHO Is Telling Us That COVID-19 “May Never Go Away”
TMIN ^ | 05/15/2020 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 05/15/2020 9:11:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Are you ready for “the new normal” to become permanent? Originally, most of us assumed that “shelter-in-place orders” and “social distancing restrictions” would just be temporary, but now top health officials are warning us that some of these temporary measures may have to remain in place for the foreseeable future. That means that our lives could be severely disrupted for a long time to come. In fact, Dr. Anthony Fauci just told a Senate Committee that it may not be safe for schools all over America to reopen when the next school year begins in the fall. Apparently Fauci and other medical “experts” believe that it will not be possible for us to fully go back to our normal lives as long as this virus keeps spreading.

But how long are we really supposed to wait?

The truth is that this pandemic could still potentially be in the early chapters. The Spanish Flu pandemic lasted for three full years, and we could possibly be facing a similar scenario.

And this week WHO official Mike Ryan warned that this virus could even become “endemic”, and if that happens it “may never go away”

“It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan told an online briefing.

“I think it is important we are realistic and I don’t think anyone can predict when this disease will disappear,” he added. “I think there are no promises in this and there are no dates. This disease may settle into a long problem, or it may not be.”

In other words, Ryan is saying that this virus could become like a flu that keeps reappearing year after year.

So what are we going to do if that happens?

Are we supposed to have shutdowns every year whenever a new wave of COVID-19 infections starts happening?

Of course the lockdowns haven’t really been that effective anyway. They may have temporarily slowed down the spread of the virus, but eventually most of the U.S. population is going to get exposed to it anyway no matter what we do.

But instead of facing the reality of this pandemic, Fauci continues to stick to his guns. And many Americans were completely outraged when he suggested that schools should continue to remain closed when the next school year is scheduled to begin. The following bit of commentary comes from Tucker Carlson

So just to be clear, Fauci was not simply talking about certain workers or even all workers staying at home for the foreseeable future. He implied that schools and colleges will be able to reopen only if there is a cure for this virus or a vaccine. He said that prospect was a bridge too far.

In other words, no school until the coronavirus has been cured — stopped.

The problem is there is currently no approved vaccine for any of the several coronaviruses out there. We still don’t have one for SARS. So, that may never happen. Once again, it has never happened.

A lot of people out there didn’t seem to believe me when I first started talking about how difficult it will be for researchers to create a vaccine for COVID-19.

Just like Tucker Carlson has said, there has never been a successful vaccine for any coronavirus in all of human history.

Despite all of our efforts, there is no vaccine for SARS.

And despite all of our efforts, there is no vaccine for MERS.

Needless to say, there isn’t such a thing as a “common cold vaccine” either, because such a thing does not exist.

Perhaps our scientists will beat the odds this time, and they will certainly do their best to do so.

But meanwhile many local officials all over the nation seem convinced that the best strategy for now is to continue keeping people at home.

For example, the “stay-at-home order” in Washington D.C. was just extended through June 8th

Washington, D.C., is extending its stay-at-home order through June 8, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced on Wednesday.

The mayor said that the city has not yet met all the required benchmarks to reopen.

And Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer just extended the “stay-at-home order” in Los Angeles County indefinitely

Meanwhile, Ferrer extended the county’s stay-at-home order, which was implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus and has barred gatherings and mandated physical distancing requirements. She said there is no end date to the revised health order and stressed that people should stay home as much as possible to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1,600 people in the county.

“As I’ve said from the beginning, this will be a slow journey,” Ferrer said.

Following that announcement, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti told Good Morning America that his city will “never be completely open until we have a cure.”

Good luck with all that.

I am so glad that I don’t live in Los Angeles, because residents of that city could be waiting for a “vaccine” or a “cure” for a very, very long time.

Are residents of L.A. just supposed to put their lives on hold indefinitely? On Wednesday, we learned that the Hollywood Bowl has completely canceled their entire summer concert season

The Hollywood Bowl scrapped its entire summer concert season Wednesday due to the coronavirus crisis, in a “devastating” move that leaves the Los Angeles Philharmonic with an $80 million shortfall.

The famous open-air California venue has hosted acts from the Beatles to Yo-Yo Ma over nearly a century, and its concerts from June through September are a staple of Los Angeles cultural life.

I was really saddened when I first read about that.

Social gatherings are so central to the human experience, and now we are being told that most of our major social gatherings will need to be delayed, postponed or canceled for the foreseeable future.

And what makes all of this even more tragic is that we are now learning that these lockdowns were never necessary in the first place. If we all had worn masks from the very beginning, kept our Vitamin D levels up and used basic common sense, we could have continued our normal lives all this time just like they have been doing in Japan and Sweden.

Unfortunately, common sense is in short supply in America today, and it looks like this pandemic will continue to greatly disrupt our lives for a long time to come.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; crisis; fear; hysteria; tyranny; who
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1 posted on 05/15/2020 9:11:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Who IS getting fooled again along with a lot of gullible people and deceivers.

2 posted on 05/15/2020 9:14:59 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The lockdown won’t be lifted until we find a cure for death.


3 posted on 05/15/2020 9:15:10 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: SeekAndFind
Fine. Then we're doomed. We might as well open everything up TODAY and take our licks.

This two week 'pause to flatten the curve' has turned into 'we've seized your rights forever ... for your own good'.

4 posted on 05/15/2020 9:15:48 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The WHO is China’s bitch, no one should listen to them.


5 posted on 05/15/2020 9:16:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure, it’ll be yet another endemic seasonal flu, just like H1N1 is today.

Someone’s surprised about this reality?


6 posted on 05/15/2020 9:17:07 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How much input is the W H O getting from China.


7 posted on 05/15/2020 9:17:33 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s going to go away along with those who have perpetuated it. We will take “social distancing” with them to a degree they think not possible.


8 posted on 05/15/2020 9:18:19 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: SeekAndFind

whatever.

Don’t send people with the virus to nursing homes and give the medication that is working to those who get bad symptoms.

And those who die, die.

That sounds cold?

When you get in your car to drive, you are saying the same thing. “one hundred people are gonna die in car accidents today across the country...and I may be one of them, but I’ll take that risk so i can LIVE MY LIFE”.

Those who want to hide forever...no one is stopping you.


9 posted on 05/15/2020 9:18:50 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals N racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hoping that we’ll fall for it and stay locked down forever while their Chinese masters take over the world. Including us.

I hope they have a big job for Tedros, but I suspect they’ll probably kill him.


10 posted on 05/15/2020 9:19:34 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess it’s time to whip out the Flavor-Aid


11 posted on 05/15/2020 9:19:58 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: Lurkinanloomin

A person who believes anything — anything at all — that comes from the WHO or is reported by China is a fool ... a complete-in-every-respect fool. (This goes as well to anything — anything at all — that comes from “The Experts”.)


12 posted on 05/15/2020 9:21:18 AM PDT by glennaro (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity")
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone with a brain knows that.
There is no containing the Chinese Chest Cold. The reality is for 99.9% of people it’s not even particularly dangerous. The media-hyped “3%” mortality rate is BS. It doesn’t account for all the people that got mild or no symptoms and never bothered getting tested or involved with the medical system.

Lock down nursing homes and other places with vulnerable people (they do that anyhow during flu season). Tell people to be careful, there’s a nasty bug out there, don’t let Grandma get it. Like the flu. Other than that, it’s time to put on the Big Boy pants and come out of hiding.


13 posted on 05/15/2020 9:23:00 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, one more thing, and this is a big one.
DON’T PUT ACTIVE INFECTIOUS PATIENTS IN NURSING HOMES!
You shouldn’t have to even tell people this, but Democrats make even low functioning retards look smart.


14 posted on 05/15/2020 9:24:46 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: SeekAndFind

Translation: “The surfs are getting out of hand, lets spook the herd again.”


15 posted on 05/15/2020 9:29:41 AM PDT by Dawggie
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course it won’t go away. It is just one of many COVID viruses. Meh.

In other news, we still have the common cold and the black plague still exists. Yet it’s not really infecting many. Why is that?


16 posted on 05/15/2020 9:30:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’ll never go away? Y’mean ... like the FLU?


17 posted on 05/15/2020 9:31:35 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
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To: Jim W N; mumblypeg; pepsi_junkie; Lurkinanloomin; kingu; LauraJean; DarthVader; TBP; glennaro
The WHO speaks for Chinese Communist Thugs... WHO's tainted with filth...

Maybe there's a reason the Wuhan kills off:

the old (Chinese tend to feel older people have wisdom)... AND we are more conservative and will support President Trump rather than China's favorite son: Biden

and men (Chinese men need women for the overabundance of single men in China)...

and minorities... (Chinese are racist)...

and the virus doesn't damage the land... (Chinese feel they need more land to expand to...

and the virus destroys the American economy if they can't kill off enough of us to 'move in'...

Not saying it's a designer bio-weapon, but it fits the Chinese culture totalitarian wish list... and it IS odd how quickly China tied up the market on PPE - making it easier for the virus to kill off health care workers..

Just saying...

18 posted on 05/15/2020 9:32:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal 'elites' want testing to get thier "help" back - in the safety of their million dollar digs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess the best solution then is to just all commit mass suicide. Go ahead and start with Joe Biden, Hillary, Schiff, etc. I think I’ll just wait and go last, myself.


19 posted on 05/15/2020 9:32:57 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: pepsi_junkie

Yes, we who have been paying attention knew it wasn’t going away any time soon. That’s how viruses tend to be.

If some of these snowflakes knew how many diseases are just lying around in the environment waiting for a host to latch onto, they’d never leave home even without gubernatorial input.

Let’s just get on with living and accept the things we can’t change. No one ever said life was without risk.


20 posted on 05/15/2020 9:32:59 AM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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