The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that members of the public across the world abandon some of their Christmas plans, following concerns that the Omicron variant “is spreading significantly faster” than the previous Delta strain. In hammering home the message, the WHO’s Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “an event cancelled is better than a life cancelled”. BBC News has the story.
Dr. Tedros’ comments come as a number of countries, including France and Germany, have tightened Covid restrictions and imposed travel curbs to try to halt the spread of the new variant. The Netherlands has introduced a strict lockdown over the Christmas period.
The White House said on Monday that President Joe Biden was not planning on “locking the country down”. The country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, earlier warned that Christmas travel would increase the spread of Omicron even among the fully vaccinated.
In the U.K., Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the Government needed to “reserve the possibility” of bringing in new rules in England as Omicron cases surged, but did not announce further restrictions.
New Year’s Eve celebrations in London’s Trafalgar Square have been cancelled “in the interests of public safety”, Mayor Sadiq Khan said.
Omicron, first detected in South Africa in November, has been classed as a “variant of concern” by the WHO.
Speaking at a briefing on Monday, Dr .Tedros said: “All of us sick of this pandemic. All of us want to spend time with friends and family. All of us want to get back to normal.
“The fastest way to do this is for all of us, leaders and individuals, to make the difficult decisions that must be made to protect ourselves and others.
“In some cases, that will mean cancelling or delaying events… it’s better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate now and grieve later.”
Dr. Tedros also stressed that the pandemic could be ended in 2022 by ensuring that 70% of the population in every country of the world was vaccinated by the middle of next year.
He also said China, where the outbreak is believed to have started in 2019, must be forthcoming with relevant data and information.
“We need to continue until we know the origins, we need to push harder because we should learn from what happened this time in order to [do] better in the future,” Dr. Tedros said.
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Yet another diversity hire talentless grifter, turns out to be a . . . talentless grifter.
“Claudine Gay is a pseudointellectual who specialises in being a Diverse Black Female Academic.”
Well as opening statements go that is a Gold medal winner.
Eugyppius has a way with words.
Sadly for the many honest people trying to get on in life, the main result of people like this woman and those who appoint based on race is that whenever I see a “minority” person in such a position I start to wonder if they got there strictly on merit.
I am at the point now tof where I automatically assume that a black woman holding a position of some responsibility must have gained said position by virtue of skin colour and sex. Lazy I know but that’s where I’m at.
How about Kemi Badenoch?
I don’t know much about her, other than she was a covidian. I’m afraid that barring a full repentance a la Bridgen, that means she’s not worth considering in my book – nothing to do with how she got her position (FWIW she seems one of the less midwitted and more convincing ministers, and may even be vaguely actually conservative).
That’s the sad truth and the damage done by the bastards who use people for their own ends.
Agree with you and tof. I think the same. No matter the profession the person should have attained that role through merit alone, not some sort of woketastic tick box exercise so as to meet some BS ‘diversity’ target. If I go on a plane or need surgery then I’m assuming the person whose hands I’m entrusting my life to has been hired due to their competency to do do the job well, not on what they have between their legs or their ethnicity. The woman above has shown she’s unsuitable for the job but she’ll get to play the ‘race card’ and, much like the idiot racist in the article I shared below, she’ll no doubt have a job for life just based on that alone, like some sort of ‘protected species’ that the rules don’t apply to.
Actually, I’m wondering if a bit like that Blanc woman yesterday, this one lives up to her name….That’d be three boxes ticked on the ‘Diversity check list’ wouldn’t it?
Nice one Mogs. Totally agree
Do you think in America these toxic and fraudulent academics acquire their title of ‘Professor’ out of a Christmas cracker or a lucky dip? Here’s another horrendous example;
”Apparently Ibram X. Kendi — or to give him his due, Doctor, Professor, all-round intellectual giant Ibram X. Kendi — managed to convince the administration at Boston University not to shut down the Center for Antiracist Research that he founded, and mismanaged so badly that some $30 million in donor funds disappeared without any discernible research results. Of course, any attempt to fire him for incompetence and malfeasance would have led to campus riots and charges of “racism” being flung about, which all university administrators are terrified of hearing. His job, no matter how bad his performance, is safe.
Now Kendi has released a Netflix documentary that explains to white people about the history of racism in America, based on his 2016 book Stamped From The Beginning, allowing them to discover just what is wrong with them: it’s whiteness itself. Whiteness, you see, prevents white people from connecting to humanity. Apparently, over the centuries, white people have all along not been part of that “humanity” that they are now supposed to connect to, as outsiders, and they can do so, Dr. Kendi points out, only if they recognize the primal curse of being white, and learn to distance themselves from their own “whiteness.” Black, yellow, and brown people are all part of humanity; someday whites can be, too, if only they can cease to be racists — as all white people, without exception, naturally are — which can happen only if they follow the prescriptions set out by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi in his 2019 book How To Be An Antiracist.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/ibram-x-kendi-whiteness-prevents-white-people-from-connecting-to-humanity#
Why is this guy using Roman letters and Arabic numerals?
In upside down world where we all now live this troll is described in Wikipedia as an anti-racist writer.
When all this kicked off, I was hoping for the firing/resignation of Gay. Now that I see how her staff and Board reacted (full support), I’ve changed my mind. As long as she is in place at the Presidency of Harvard, the more opportunity that potential money contributors can reconsider and graduates can remove their framed diplomas from their office walls.
Give them this, the woke rally to defend their own.
Plagiarists disgust me. They are awful human beings. I have no time for them.
However, when this all started off, I was hoping Gay would be sacked or she’d resign. Now that I see how her staff and Board reacted by fully supporting her, I’ve changed my opinion. As long as she is still in her job as President of Harvard, the more opportunity that potential financial contributors can think again and graduates can remove their diplomas hanging on their office walls.
She passed the Amanda Blanc test