Posted on 03/08/2022 12:31:50 PM PST by lightman
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said she expects COVID-19 to become seasonal like influenza.
“I do anticipate that this is probably going to be a seasonal virus,” she told NBC News on Monday. Her comment appears to be her first public acknowledgment that CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases increase or drop depending on the season. COVID-19 is caused by the CCP virus.
Walensky further said that she believes that U.S. officials will likely recommend or mandate masks, coming more than a week after the CDC moved to loosen its mask recommendation requirements for most of the country.
“We may want to be more vigilant during some seasons,” she told the outlet. “Maybe during respiratory season, if things ramped up, we would want to put on our masks again to protect both from flu and from COVID and from all other respiratory diseases.”
As early as summer 2021, some Republican officials, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said that COVID-19’s upswing appears to be seasonal.
“These things have a pattern,” DeSantis said during public remarks in July. “We saw the pattern last summer. It’s similar. I think it started a little later. I think people should just be prepared for that.”
Officials in Scandinavian countries last year also started to describe COVID-19 as seasonal.
“We are now in a new phase where we must look at the coronavirus as one of several respiratory diseases with seasonal variation,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in September 2021 while announcing an ease in restrictions.
As of Monday, the United States is averaging 49,569 new COVID-19 cases per day, according to federal data, representing a decrease of more than 50 percent over the past two weeks. COVID-related death numbers are also dropping.
While the CDC recently changed its mask recommendation for most public settings, the agency and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) both continue to mandate masks on airplanes, in airports, and on most forms of public transportation.
Other CDC officials told NBC that they believe that COVID-19 will likely never go away. From the onset of the pandemic, some countries—including China, New Zealand, and Australia—have pursued a “zero COVID” strategy that critics say triggered significant economic losses and related hardships.
“This virus will probably continue to circulate in our society, in our country, around the world for years to come,” Dr. Henry Walke, the director of the CDC’s Center for Preparedness and Response, told the outlet on Monday. “This next six months, the next year, will really inform us in terms of what living with this virus is going to look like.”
*** “We may want to be more vigilant during some seasons,” she told the outlet. “Maybe during respiratory season, if things ramped up, we would want to put on our masks again to protect both from flu and from COVID and from all other respiratory diseases.”***
Good Lord, what doesn’t this woman understand about airborne respiratory viruses? My insane family will live in fear forever.
Ho hum. Had it already. Get a cold every year.
Will likely get a cold again next year.
Got toe fungus too.
Sometimes get gas after eating beans.
Get a sore back sometimes if I pick up heavy stuff all day.
Had heartburn a few months ago.
Hmmm...let’s see...what else...
Oh yea. Why doesn’t the government seem concerned with my gas, or my toe fungus?
Meaning, every winter, the Demonrats have a ready excuse to limit freedom, close churches, force citizens to self-humiliate (masks), and basically throw the Constitution in the trash. Not that it isn’t there already...
Not to mention, ruin the holidays for those whose family members are too afraid to meet in person. Two Christmases I haven’t seen my daughter. At least this time I’ll be forewarned. I have a feeling I will never get another Christmas with her, thanks to the likes of Fauci and the CDC.
I am guessing its going to be OAS.
Credibility Dis Continued
Credibility Done Cratered
She’s nothing but a simpering political shill.
Not saying she isn’t correct, but if true, it will be because the elites and government tyrants want it to be so and will find a way to make it an annual thing (whether real or by mandates), just like they did for the past two years.
Then again, she’s the same twit that just admitted she got most of her COVID info from watching CNN.
Dipsticks like her, Fauci, Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer and the entire media establishment are proof the our nation is ruled by a cabal of evil, inept and corrupt jackasses.
We are doomed if something doesn’t change drastically and soon.
Yeah, no matter how you say it, the job is done.
Good call...
If a third Thanksgiving, a third Christmas, a 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—being deathly afraid of what “might” happen-- but will actually begin to lose the memory of what such celebrations were like.
This is the CCP’s GLOBAL “Cultural Revolution”.
And she has promised to activate all the resources of the US governmental agencies to make it so. Inventing new viruses and improving old viruses will be on the top of her list. Remember, when you think of CDC, think of death.
Where is Novavax, a traditional, not Mrna vaccine?
It,s flu/cold rebranded. The none-vaxx vaxx is the real dis-ease.
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