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CDC Director: COVID-19 Will Become a ‘Seasonal Virus’
epoch times ^ | 8 March A.D. 2022 | Jack Phillips

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid1984; neverendingpandemic; onandonandon; walensky
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To: lightman

*** “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.


21 posted on 03/08/2022 1:11:53 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: lightman

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?


22 posted on 03/08/2022 1:11:55 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: lightman

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...


23 posted on 03/08/2022 1:13:05 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

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.


24 posted on 03/08/2022 1:16:50 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I am guessing its going to be OAS.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/variant-specific-boosters-fail-to?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NzQ0NTU4MywicG9zdF9pZCI6NDk4NDE1OTksIl8iOiJjKzBEUyIsImlhdCI6MTY0Njc3NDM4MSwiZXhwIjoxNjQ2Nzc3OTgxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzIzOTE0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.82qV4-98kKo8zKApOYOx79i0Qpg3nt0LYlckuwnTeyM&s=r


25 posted on 03/08/2022 1:20:14 PM PST by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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To: lightman

Credibility Dis Continued


26 posted on 03/08/2022 1:28:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Credibility Done Cratered


27 posted on 03/08/2022 1:30:18 PM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: lightman

She’s nothing but a simpering political shill.


28 posted on 03/08/2022 1:31:24 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: lightman
BIDEN VOTER ALERT

So I went to Subway for my lunch BMT. While I was getting the veggys added, the guy asked me to give him 6 feet distance. I was four feet away but I moved to avoid conflict. This is an example of a person who is a lefty Bidenite. it’s like folks who wear a mask in their car while driving alone
29 posted on 03/08/2022 1:42:04 PM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: lightman

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.


30 posted on 03/08/2022 1:48:44 PM PST by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: JCL3

Yeah, no matter how you say it, the job is done.

Good call...


31 posted on 03/08/2022 1:54:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: FamiliarFace; backwoods-engineer
Prolonging the Plannedemic Puritanism appears to be the goal.

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”.

32 posted on 03/08/2022 2:02:32 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

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.


33 posted on 03/08/2022 2:04:46 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (When Satan craps another demon possessed Progressive is born.)
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To: lightman

Where is Novavax, a traditional, not Mrna vaccine?


34 posted on 03/08/2022 3:31:20 PM PST by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: lightman

It,s flu/cold rebranded. The none-vaxx vaxx is the real dis-ease.


35 posted on 03/08/2022 4:07:29 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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