Mask-wearing and social distancing should become part of “the life to come”, says a Special Envoy on Covid for the World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr David Nabarro told Sky News that restrictive measures should stay in place because it is “inevitable” that new Covid variants will be able to “break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people”.
Sky News has more.
[Dr Nabarro’s comments come] as India said on Tuesday that the new “Delta plus” variant recently discovered in the country is of concern and that nearly two dozen cases had been detected in three states.
Speaking to Sky News, Dr Nabarro said the “issue of variants is what we are watching all over the world” and they “are going to go on coming”.
“We will go from Delta to Lambda and then on to the other Greek letters, that’s inevitable, and some of these variants will be troublesome,” he said.
“They will be able to break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people and that will cause problems.”
He added: “I’m basically saying variants are going to go on coming. That’s part of life, we need to pick them up fast, we need to move quickly if we see them in a certain location, we need to build the management of variants into what we call our Covid-ready strategy, which is going to be the pattern for the foreseeable future.”
Due to new strains, Mr Nabarro suggested that mask-wearing and keeping apart would still be necessary for areas of high infection.
He said there was a need to “maintain defences against the virus to stop it welling up more and more, and that’s going to be the life to come, at least until there’s enough vaccine, and enough certainty, to be sure that vaccination will protect us. Right now we can’t say that.”
Dr Nabarro said we will have to continue social distancing as well as using vaccines “as part of our defence” against Covid, particularly in virus hotspots.
Reports this morning suggest that guidelines on face masks and distancing could be dropped on July 19th because of the slowdown in Covid infections. Earlier this month, however, a top Government adviser and long-time member of the Communist Party of Britain said they should stay in place “forever”, not only for Covid but also “to reduce other [diseases]”.
The Sky News report is worth reading in full.
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Guidelines or law?
these creatures ought to be in jail now
I guess this ‘top Communist advisor’ hasn’t yet realised that ~50% of those who died in the Spanish flu did so *because* of face coverings, i.e. bacterial pneumonia.
Only 3 weeks to the EUFA variant of concern…….
Why would anyone continue to do things that have been proven to be utterly useless?
Why give these apparatchiks air time? He works for an incompetent organisation which he now considers controls global behaviour.
I watched this interview. Why did it not occur to Sky news to ask David Nabarro about WHO’s u turn on the usefulness of mask wearing? Is any research undertaken by the channel in advance of an interview or is it that any glaring inconsistencies in the lockdown narrative simply get automatically suppressed?
I almost feel sorry for the guy. In the beginning he, and the WHO, talked sense, advising against lockdowns and especially against masks. What kind of punishment has been applied to turn him into a puppet?
To be blunt he can Eff Off
So… the variants will get around vaccine protection but be stopped by a face rag? Who worked that one out?
People like this need to be assassinated.
Pig’s ass we’re going to stay muzzled or, in my case, become muzzled.
Nabarro should stuff his mask down his lying, cheating gob!
Deeply disturbed by these bastards and their love of masks.
Total cult.
Bog off.
Now that more data, albeit undereported, are becoming available, I think it’s about time that Ferguson, the Warwick necromancers and anyone else in that field should set to work to model the vaccine casualty lists, with especial reference to building in future effects of the experiment.
Another publicity seeking grandiose sociopath with a completely unhinged view of risk. The politicians need to rein these people in but of course most of them are
grandiose sociopaths with an unhinged view of risk.😩
OK, so all the “experts” who are STILL calling for this bullshit to continue are the truly stupid. All the intelligent “experts” started hiding already.
Isn’t this the same guy who said Lockdowns don’t work and the world should not be using them against COVID? No government took any notice of him as it didn’t fit their agenda. Will be interesting to see what happens, as our government will do anything to keep the sheeple muzzled.
Fascistic totalitarian b*llocks. 😎
Oh for Gods sake someone give this man his fishing rod and hat back and put him back with his matesin the Garden
No home for his sort of gnome in any decent garden.
Even in Zurich.
These fuckers want to keep this going forever. It’s not going to end until we the people end it. I agree with the sentiments of many people on here, we should keep telling them to Fuck Off! and we should just keep ignoring their shite! (Sorry for the language but Fucks Sake! I’m sick of these arseholes!!).
Nabarro said “We will go from Delta to Lambda and then on to the other Greek letters, that’s inevitable, and some of these variants will be troublesome,”.
I understand that many people find Greek letters troublesome, but the Greeks cope just fine, as do US frat-house idiots, and I learnt most of them in my maths degree (which also taught me to spot dodgy data and fake stats), so I’m not worried at all 😁
I am alpha and omega, saith the Covid devil.
So are we going to wade through the whole Greek alphabet?
Has he let something slip there?
Do they have actual robust evidence that mask wearing and social distancing works? They keep on saying that they have this, but whenever I look at the chosen supporting paper the ‘evidence’ turns out to be rather weak.
It is strange how low quality the evidence can be for things that they want, and how impossibly high the requirement is when it is for things that they don’t want.
Actually no, the WHO itself says the evidence for masks is weak, in the very document in which they tell you to wear masks https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/publications-and-technical-guidance/2020/mask-use-in-the-context-of-covid-19-interim-guidance,-1-december-2020
The WHO was leaned on to change it’s advice by governments that had already introduced mask mandates. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Masks, social distancing and staying within your own gene pool bubble were supposed to prevent health services from being overloaded.
Now they are being sold because the variants will break through the vaccines. But it’s the masks, social distancing and the staying within your gene pool that are giving the virus the time to mutate. If the virus were to go into a crowded metro station or a rock concert it would spread and burn out because of the massive genetic diversity.
Added to this the gene based vaccine only provides a narrow genetic model of a single virus protein that is most prone to mutation and you have the ideal conditions to create the variants.
So using their own assumptions and criteria they are creating the problem and the social conditions to make the problem worse, then they are giving you the vaccine solution that doesn’t work and makes the problem worse.
Go away, Mounsey, you have a brain, you have reasoning powers, you have common sense, you shouldn’t be allowed loose.
BAH, TOO MUCH REASON, OFF YOU TROT TO THE GULAG, MR MOUNSEY.
You nutters can wear paper nappies until they stick you in the dirt.
Ill be wearing nothing on my face.
FUck off and died you cunt
Why does he not do the right thing and hide under his mattress until the bogeyman gets him and leave the rest of us alone. My liberty does not end where his fear begins.
What no one seems remotely interested in with these talking heads is that they are not even pretending to follow democracy or the principles of liberty and freedom. Just do what an “expert” tells you….fuck sake.
And may I point out that an airborne virus does not care about your 2m / 1m+ bollocks. Because it’s airborne. God it’s so illiterate. A virus that’s airborne can enter the eyes, but as long as you have a face mask that’s alright then.
Dear Dr David Nabarro,
go fuck yourself.
Signed,
The Sane.
Letter of The Week Award awarded weekly on a week-by-week basis.
Time to end this farce. And, please, ATL stop affording these deceivers and freeloaders with the dignity of their bogus titles. Call them what they are – “Liar-in-Chief for the CCP-controlled WHO” for instance.
And why the continuing naivety. Whatever might have been briefed to the MSM do you really think there is any chance of the mask mandate being dropped in the UK? Of course not.