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W.H.O. Chief Scientist: Pandemic Not Over, ‘Not the Time For Us to Encourage a Lot of Social Mixing’
Breitbart ^ | 29 Jun 2021 | HANNAH BLEAU

Posted on 06/29/2021 5:34:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), warned Monday that the pandemic is not over and said it is not yet time to return to normal and “encourage a lot of social mixing.”

Speaking to CNN on Monday, Swaminathan warned of the virus variants and emphasized the importance of realizing that the pandemic “is not over.”

“Everyone should recognize that this pandemic is not over. … It’s not that we can’t travel or do anything, but this is really not the time for us to encourage a lot of social mixing, to encourage mass events, especially without precautions, wherever you live in the world because these variants, you know, they travel around the world even before you recognize there’s a new variant,” she said, urging people to remain “very cautious.”

“I think this is the time still to be very cautious and we should remember that a large part of the world still doesn’t have enough vaccines even to protect their most vulnerable people, and we need to be getting vaccines out to them,” she continued, noting that some vaccinated people will end up in the hospital due to the variant virus spread but assuring that “the majority of vaccinated people who get the infection will be mild, will be asymptomatic, is not going to require this kind of intensive care that we’ve seen.”

Last week, W.H.O. officials began urging vaccinated individuals to wear masks again over variant concerns.

W.H.O director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said the rise of virus variants makes it “even more urgent that we use all the tools at our disposal.”

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1 posted on 06/29/2021 5:34:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 06/29/2021 5:36:53 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
... urging people to remain “very cautious.”

No.

3 posted on 06/29/2021 5:37:05 PM PDT by Allegra
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“...but this is really not the time for us to encourage a lot of social mixing...”

Who takes advice from this bitch?


4 posted on 06/29/2021 5:38:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh boy.. Looks like the 2022 midterms will be another leftist mail-in ballot orgy, because we all know they were going to keep the Covid fear alive well beyond 2021.


5 posted on 06/29/2021 5:38:44 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: EEGator
Who takes advice from this bitch?

Such a diplomat. Preach it, brother! Heh. :-)

6 posted on 06/29/2021 5:46:28 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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🍝💩🤢


7 posted on 06/29/2021 5:47:47 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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Thank you. I’ve been brushing up on my How to Win Friends and Influence People...


8 posted on 06/29/2021 5:54:12 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is exhausting.


9 posted on 06/29/2021 5:55:39 PM PDT by week 71
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I wonder if we would all be better off, by doing the opposite of what the WHO says?


10 posted on 06/29/2021 5:55:40 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: week 71

It’s meant to be.


11 posted on 06/29/2021 5:56:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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This is the Left’s ideal crisis. They can’t/won’t let it die!


12 posted on 06/29/2021 5:59:59 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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@ 11 - Agree


13 posted on 06/29/2021 6:05:38 PM PDT by week 71
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Have to keep control, scare tactics and the scamedemic going.


14 posted on 06/29/2021 6:11:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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We went out more, partied more in strange new places, ate out at more restaurants, drank at more bars than any year prior to covid.

I believe one result was to keep our immune systems in use.

Strange enough, I got sick with what I thought was covid in Jan-feb 2020. I haven’t gotten sick once since then.

15 posted on 06/29/2021 6:16:02 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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I've been predicting that the Covid Pandemic is the next generation of the Climate Change scam the democRATS have been pushing for decades.

It is the new horse to ride in pushing their agenda of fear, control and manipulation of the population to further their goal of a socialist/communist revolution.

They started last spring with their "two weeks to flatten the curve" plan and have exploded it into an 18 month long nightmare of mask wearing, social distancing and lockdowns, and most recently vaccines, to save the world from death and destruction.

They will stretch this covid pandemic out as far into the future as they can to sharpen their skills at tyranny and totalitarianism. They will use it as an excuse for more mail-in ballots to cheat with in the elections and to destroy our capitalist economy which they want to replace with socialism and communism.

Just as global cooling, then global warming, then climate change and now climate crisis is still being pushed with new names and iterations by the globalist Left, so will the virus pandemic scam.

It will be around for years and decades to come. Bank on it.

16 posted on 06/29/2021 6:16:20 PM PDT by HotHunt
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A new form of birth control ?


17 posted on 06/29/2021 6:22:00 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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Strange enough, I got sick with what I thought was covid in Jan-feb 2020.

Exact same time my wife and I had the worst plague of our lives (she works in the econ department with mostly Chinese grad students who had just returned from China). Took months to clear out our lungs.

Gave blood in April and the Red Cross Covid-19 antibody test came back positive.


18 posted on 06/29/2021 6:35:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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It’s social isolation, not social distancing.


19 posted on 06/29/2021 6:36:46 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Just the latest attempt to stop church services, Trump rallies, Independence Day celebrations, shooting matches, and other celebrations of fraternity and thankfulness.


20 posted on 06/29/2021 6:44:31 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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