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Posted on 04/02/2021 3:49:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Professor Chris Whitty said the virus is "not going to go away" and we will have to learn to live with it. The Chief Medical Officer said: "You've got to work out what's a rational policy to this. Here I would differentiate quite a lot between an epidemic or pandemic environment and what you get with, let's say, seasonal flu. Every year, on average somewhere between 7,000 and 9,000 citizens die of flu, most of them very elderly. And every few years you get a bad flu year where 20,000 to 25,000 die of it and it really dominates hospitals.
"The last time we had that was three years ago in the UK and no one noticed it.
"So it is clear we are going to have to manage it, at some point, rather like we manage flu.
"Here is a seasonal, very dangerous disease that kills thousands of people and society has chosen a particular way round it."
A further 51 Covid deaths were reported across the UK yesterday, down a fifth compared to 63 announced last Thursday.
Some 4,479 new cases were confirmed, a 30 percent drop from almost 6,400 a week ago.
Speaking at a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, Professor Whitty said the future approach to managing Covid would depend on what people are "prepared to put up with".
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Every time I hear of a new “variant” it makes it seem more like a cold or the flu. You never gain immunity, but it really isn’t a big deal to most. Every year it’s a new flu shot. Covid is politics. Evil politics, but that’s what it is.
Take Ivermectin at the very onset of the virus.
It worked spectacularly for me.
It’s a cheap drug, used for over 40 years.
There are NO side effects !
COVID didn’t crush the economy. Government did.
It was all a lie. There are those who knew all along what this was which included swamp people.
Did a Dr. prescribe it for you?
Like a tiger who has tasted human blood, their lust for absolute control of humanity will never be sated, having feasted on it for a year.
well duh should have done this a year ago
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Well prof there goes your elitist membership and all the privileges that go with it. I hope your next career as a bricklayer or pub server go well for you.
Normalize? Come on, that’s not going to bring us the woke socialist revolution we all want so much.
The Covid-19 response should be the same as the HIV response.
Like heart attacks, strokes .. virus is not going to go away
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