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WHO officials recommend mask-wearing for travel in light of XBB.1.5, stop short of endorsing travel checks
The Hill ^ | 01/11/2023 | JOSEPH CHOI

Posted on 01/11/2023 2:00:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) are recommending that COVID-19 mitigation methods like masking on planes be reemphasized for regions like North America and Europe in response to the spread of the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant, which is believed to be significantly more transmissible than previous mutations.

Catherine Smallwood, senior emergency officer for the WHO, was asked during a briefing on Tuesday whether travelers from the U.S. should be subject to travel checks due to the spread of XBB.1.5. More than 70 percent of cases in the Northeastern U.S. are currently attributed to the subvariant.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: checks; mask; travel; who
I recommend you shut it and mind your bees wax
1 posted on 01/11/2023 2:00:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Masks don’t work, look it up!


2 posted on 01/11/2023 2:00:57 PM PST by wetgundog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maskerbators gonna maskerbate.


3 posted on 01/11/2023 2:02:53 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Catherine Smallwood is welcome to shove the masks up her ... whatever.


4 posted on 01/11/2023 2:07:42 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From 2020:
Fauci says masks are ineffective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBFs4o0VYk


5 posted on 01/11/2023 2:10:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

These aren’t masks. They’re muzzles.


6 posted on 01/11/2023 2:12:18 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

They’re also fomites.

Paging the healthcare workers in my neck of the woods who we see violating their own infection control protocols whenever we are in a healthcare setting around here.

Posters everywhere, yet HCWs continue to violate the same protocols they demand patients follow.

SNORT.


7 posted on 01/11/2023 2:16:15 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whatever happened to the new name “kraken “?
Too scary? Too ridiculous? Public not believing anything the medical establishment tells them to believe?


8 posted on 01/11/2023 2:36:51 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media are lower than bacteria that feed on dead pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ok that’s it everyone ...I need all you fellow FReepers to mask up NOW. /s


9 posted on 01/11/2023 2:52:19 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: BenLurkin

https://youtu.be/3IfD7o6Kr9U

I don’t care, I think it’s funny!


10 posted on 01/11/2023 3:47:38 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: jdsteel

He can be funny. I don’t stay up to watch. I met him once in Maine and he talked about my Jacksonville beaches’ nite life.


11 posted on 01/12/2023 5:52:02 AM PST by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At what point does more transmissible have little effect. For example, if it took 2 seconds of exposure to omicron to transmit, but now takes 1 second of XBB, does this really matter?

If XBB has mild effects, does the transmissibility really matter?

Asimov wrote a story called The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline. It was about a chemical that dissolved before it makes contact with water. Similar to a virus that harms people before it infects them.


12 posted on 01/12/2023 1:43:12 PM PST by Tymesup
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