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Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?
The Associated Press ^ | March 10, 2023 | By CARLA K. JOHNSON

Posted on 03/10/2023 8:28:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.

The virus appears here to stay, along with the threat of a more dangerous version sweeping the planet.

“New variants emerging anywhere threaten us everywhere,” said virus researcher Thomas Friedrich of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Maybe that will help people to understand how connected we are.”

With information sources drying up, it has become harder to keep tabs on the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University on Friday shut down its trusted tracker, which it started soon after the virus emerged in China and spread worldwide.

Saturday marks three years since the World Health Organization first called the outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the United Nation’s health organization says it’s not yet ready to say the emergency has ended.

With the pandemic still killing 900 to 1,000 people a day worldwide, the stealthy virus behind COVID-19 hasn’t lost its punch. It spreads easily from person to person, riding respiratory droplets in the air, killing some victims but leaving most to bounce back without much harm.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; virus; wuhan
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1 posted on 03/10/2023 8:28:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
With the pandemic still killing 900 to 1,000 people a day worldwide

What a load of Horsesh*t

2 posted on 03/10/2023 8:29:53 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The virus won on March 30, 2020 when Mike Pence hoisted the bait-and-switch sign “Thirty Days to Stop the Spread”

That was when the First Amendment was shredded.


3 posted on 03/10/2023 8:31:10 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“the death toll is nearing 7 million”

Really? Reasonable people may be doubtful about the government’s numbers.


4 posted on 03/10/2023 8:31:15 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“New variants emerging anywhere threaten us everywhere,” said virus researcher Thomas Friedrich of the University of Wisconsin”

Federal grants oughta be outlawed......that would put a stop to a whole lot of this fear mongering bullskate.


5 posted on 03/10/2023 8:31:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Title (honestly) translated = “Our ratings are down and need to try and scare everyone into reading our lies again”.


6 posted on 03/10/2023 8:32:26 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I had it. It’s a friggin cold. Such dray-ma.


7 posted on 03/10/2023 8:32:45 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone still wearing a mask is a moron, especially a cheap ass surgical mass meant to protect against fluids not aerosols. A person wearing a surgical mask who is not in a hospital is a good indicator of a moron, a mentally ill germaphobe, or virtue signaler, usually all three.


8 posted on 03/10/2023 8:32:58 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: BenLurkin

“the death toll is nearing 7 million”

If they’re also counting how many deaths the shot itself caused well then yeah.


9 posted on 03/10/2023 8:33:00 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Vaquero

I keep hearing how by now everybody on the planet has now had covid.......the wife and I proudly refused covid shots and have never even been tested.......if we had it we never knew it....and I seriously doubt we we’re ever infected.

I suspect covid may be the biggest falsehood ever perpetuated not only on the US but the entire world.


10 posted on 03/10/2023 8:37:46 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WOE! WOE! AND THRICE WOE!!


11 posted on 03/10/2023 8:37:55 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t know if COVID one or not, but I know who “WON” big time: FAUXI
The little, mass-murdering weasel walked away with millions of our dollars and was never held accountable for the the death and destruction he wrought upon the People with this BS.
In a sane world, both Scarf and Fauxi would have already completed the “rope dance”.


12 posted on 03/10/2023 8:40:41 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: V_TWIN

I tested at home as we got a bunch of free test kits. I had five days of feeling a bit sick and one day of fever. I never had a jab nor will I ever


13 posted on 03/10/2023 8:43:11 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Covid served it’s purpose...solidifying global oligarch power/corruption against the masses.


14 posted on 03/10/2023 8:46:16 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The virus appears here to stay...

Many here three years ago said that it would never go away. How could it when there's an animal reservoir? Can't exactly vaccinate every living mammal on the planet, even if they had a vaccine that actually worked.

15 posted on 03/10/2023 8:46:48 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only people still getting the virus mutations and still spreading it are the vaccinated.


16 posted on 03/10/2023 8:53:17 AM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: V_TWIN

Quote
I suspect covid may be the biggest falsehood ever perpetuated not only on the US but the entire world.
...

Not the biggest, but the latest.

All because Trump and MAGA wanted 4 more years..

And the reckoning comes when the dirt naps begin to come in bunches of our domestic and foreign enemies..


17 posted on 03/10/2023 8:57:24 AM PST by delchiante
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To: Clemenza
"A person wearing a surgical mask who is not in a hospital is a good indicator of a moron, a mentally ill germaphobe, or virtue signaler, usually all three."

Or they might just have allergies. There "are" other reasons to wear masks.

18 posted on 03/10/2023 8:58:25 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: BenLurkin
"The purpose of US government B$ posing as news, is to keep American citizens in the dark!"


19 posted on 03/10/2023 9:12:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave (https://www Democrats Have All ready Won the 2024 Election, Regardless of Whom, Either Party Runs!!!)
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To: Wonder Warthog

‘Or they might just have allergies. There “are” other reasons to wear masks.’

it’s been your experience in the past that numerous people went about wearing face diapers because of allergies, has it...?

must be that allergies have gotten hugely more virulent since covid appeared, right...?


20 posted on 03/10/2023 9:15:23 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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