The coronavirus is “nowhere near” endemic, the World Health Organisation has said, and will not reach this point until it is “stable” and stops triggering unpredictable waves of infection that don’t “rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability”. The Telegraph has the story.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday Dr. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at WHO Europe, said it’s still too soon to suggest the world is moving into an endemic phase of COVID-19 – in spite of assertions from politicians in countries including the U.K. and Spain. …
“In terms of endemicity, we’re still a way off,” Dr. Smallwood told journalists. “Endemicity assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus, at predictable levels with predictable waves of transmission… that doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability. But what we’re seeing at the moment, coming into 2022, is nowhere near that… we can’t just sit back and see a stable rate of transmission,” she said.
“We still have a huge amount of uncertainty, we still have a virus that’s evolving quite quickly and posing quite new challenges. So we’re certainly not at the point of being able to call it endemic. It may become endemic in due course, but pinning that down to 2022 is a little bit difficult at this stage.”
At the weekend the Cabinet Minister Nadhim Zahawi said he believes the country is “witnessing the transition of the virus from pandemic to endemic”, while Spain’s Prime Minister this week urged Europe to consider the possibility of treating COVID-19 as an endemic illness, such as flu.
But Dr. Smallwood warned governments “to hold back on behaving as if it’s endemic before the virus is actually behaving as if it’s endemic”. She added that widespread vaccination uptake on an equitable basis will be “very very key in moving toward this scenario”.
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Note the multiple fantasies in this alarmist statement. “Widespread vaccination uptake on an equitable basis will be ‘very very key in moving toward this scenario'” – even though we already have very widespread vaccine take-up and infection rates are as high as ever.
Endemicity requires stability that “doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability” – even though there is no evidence “external forces” (i.e., interventions) have done anything to limit the spread of the virus.
Endemicity “assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus, at predictable levels with predictable waves of transmission” – even though there’s nothing predictable about existing endemic viruses like those which cause colds and flu.
So what’s the idea now? Vaccines don’t stop the spread, restrictions don’t stop the spread, hardly anyone is getting very sick and health services can cope, but for some reason we still have to stay on an emergency footing and not move on from the pandemic?
Meanwhile, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has said that a vaccine for Omicron will be ready in March and the company has begun manufacturing the doses. He also admitted that two doses are no longer any good against severe disease – though he may have had other motives for implying more doses of his product are necessary for protection. The Independent has the story.
Dr. Bourla told CNBC that the company is “already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk”.
He added that the vaccine will also be aimed at battling other variants of the virus but also acknowledged that it remains unclear if a variant-specific vaccine is needed.
The company began to create the vaccine because of high demand from some governments.
“The hope is that we will achieve something that will have way, way better protection particularly against infections, because the protection against the hospitalisations and the severe disease – it is reasonable right now, with the current vaccines as long as you are having let’s say the third dose,” Dr. Bourla said.
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Do you get the feeling some people don’t want this ever to end?
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“The coronavirus is “nowhere near” endemic, the World Health Organisation has said“
Have they invented another special new meaning that suits their manipulative scaremongering again?
The virus became endemic when it didn’t disappear after the initial epidemics.
Oh yes, that’s exactly what the panickers have done.
““In terms of endemicity, we’re still a way off,” Dr. Smallwood told journalists. “Endemicity assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus, at predictable levels with predictable waves of transmission… that doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability. But what we’re seeing at the moment, coming into 2022, is nowhere near that… we can’t just sit back and see a stable rate of transmission,” she said. ”
Endemic viruses can have periodic epidemics. That’s what cold and flu viruses do all the time. And that’s what this coronavirus is already doing because, guess what, it’s doing exactly what the four other coronaviruses do, that have previously broken through to endemic human transmission.
Exactly as many predicted right at the beginning. Because it was always far more likely than the panickers’ apocalyptic fantasies.
You’re misinterpreting this. This basically means If it was endemic, we would need to have stopped making a fuss about it and we won’t. A pretty transparent begging the question:
A: Sars-CoV2 is a dreadfully dangerous virus.
B: Dreadfully dangerous viruses cannot be allowed to circulate.
=> Social engineering is necessary to prevent that.
leading to
A: Social engineering is used to combat Sars-CoV2
B: Social engineering is always only used to prevent dreadfully dangerous viruses from circulating.
=> Sars-CoV2 is a dreadfully dangerous virus.
This kind of circular reasoning is a core woke strategy. The most popular example is XY must be a right-wing extremist because he frequents place right-wing extremists are known to meet in. AB must be such a place because people like XY go there.
Happy to agree with both of our approaches to this evil nonsense.
That’s what they usually do. It worked for vaccine, natural immunity and herd immunity. Oh yes and male, female, mother, father, etc
But what about the trans? Did it work for the trans?
I don’t know. I’m in two minds.
Endemic according to the Oxford Dictionary;
Endemic according to WHO stooge:
You understand this is the post-modern era.
The past is flexible but the future is fixed.
Ah yes, like “pandemic”. And “immunity”.
I can imagine her doing well in the Metaverse.
She’d find a way to be a Senior Metaverse Safety Officer and get paid for advising Internet junkies!
She’ll love experiencing experiences whilst experiencing the experience of experiences. She’ll be right at home in ZBerg’s master plan for the drone class
Experiencology is endmic in its signifiers… said Derrida, never.
You can judge a book by its cover. And the cover of Dr Smallwood’s book says: “barking bloody mad.”
I’m choosing my words carefully here, I wouldn’t want to mislead. Oh yes. Bollocks.
Senior Emergency Officer.
That’s it… this is never going to end!
PC BS was tolerable when it was optional; it’s now EVERYTHING THERE IS.
If you haven’t read 1984, now may be the appropriate time.
Seen the film!
https://ourdecisiontoo.com//Issue/there-s-nothing-left-to-do-but-go-our-separate-ways/320/
With a job title like that, she obviously doesn’t want it to end.
These crooks can lie all they like and doubtless will continue to do so as the narrative crumbles all around them. They have no shame – literally.
Whooo are you? Whoo-whoo, whoo-whoo…
Who let this dog out
They did indeed – and without a muzzle!
I’m who dabba Dee dabba die, dabba Dee dabba die…..
Literally, who is she???. I tried to get a bit of background on this demented looking piece of work. A page of results came up to be instantly replaced by pages and pages of press releases all saying the same thing. Talk about gatekeeping! Like someone said last week, gotta now protect the pandemic from the people!
Generic wokery human, 4th class.
What a bunch of bare faced liars. All the wheels are coming off the Big pharma / WHO wagon now. The Emperor has not been wearing clothes for two years and has a slightly annoying cold. Meanwhile the unjabbed are doing ok, would be idiots to sign up to 3 dangerous jabs that don’t touch Omicron or much else.
The woman in the picture looks young and scared.
There is desperation in the air.
More omi-popcorn!
“Lock up the streets and houses
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right”
If “predictable” is intrinsic to the definition, why can’t they successfully predict flu season deaths?
Utter bullshit.
It does make you wonder based on the number of people in the world that know or have a gut feeling that people like this are just talking arse, how does it continue to happen? How is it that no one pulls them up on their nonsense?
They REALLY don’t want to give us our freedom back, do they?!
Pity we’re already free!!!
Read article a few times, even checked the definition of ‘endemic’, none the wiser??
Discourses of endemicity signify the coalescence of factors conducive to pandemic management strategieses.
Wow! We are actually going to be tackling a virus that may no longer (possibly never did) exist soon in any meaningful way. We are approaching 1984 at pace!
“Mass Vaccination Should End” – Former UK Task-Force Chair Says We Should “Treat COVID Like The Flu”
The new normal. YouTube decided to show me this nauseating ad for tourism in Turkey.
You know what would make me “Go Turkiye”? A rejection of this bullshit. You’ve hitched your wagon to the wrong horse, Turkey.
So nauseating. Their tourism industry will be on its knees in no time, with only cretinous politicians to blame.
Id go to Turkey tomorrow – one of the best holidays I have ever had. Loved it.
I’d go to Turkey in a heartbeat, I’m so sick of this miserable weather, not to mention the never ending depressing propaganda.
But I can’t, because I have natural immunity and I can’t catch or pass on a now very weak respiratory virus said to be in circulation.
Maybe next year?
what surprises me is how much of the powers that be in the mohamedan sphere have jumped on the covid narrative hook line and sinker. Oh…wait a minute…they’ve got large relatively useless populations just waiting to be culled or exported as less troublesome replacements in other lands
“Border Force brought 274 migrants to shore at Dover. More than 270 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Sunday”
Replacements for the NHS workers. About 100,000 coming in each year?
Here’s a scamming cow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gVzdPPSRgY
Here’s the reality: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/medicspot.co.uk?stars=1
Also
Coronavirus is Nowhere Near Endemic, Says Anyone who didn’t change the definition of pandemic.
A major funder of the WHO is Bill Gates and Big Pharma either directly or indirectly so it’s all centralised and orchestrated to keep it going as long as possible.
I could be wrong here, but don’t those Emergency Use Authorisations for the vaccines expire if the Virus is no longer considered an Epidemic?
If it’s endemic, no longer pandemic
Has it ever been an epidemic?
Made available courtesy of Dr Malone and Project Veritas U.S. Marine Corp Major Joseph Murphy’s Report to Inspector General of DoD From Project veritas website “Major Murphy’s report goes on to detail great concern over the COVID-19 gain of function program, the concealment of documents, the suppression of potential curatives, like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, and the mRNA vaccines”.
Is it a bit too good to be true?
The WHO is a discredited organisation, stuffed with jobsworths and placemen. Nobody sane would listen to the rubbish that they come out with, much of which swivels from one position to another, to suit the gestalt and the orders from whoever.
As for Mr. Moneybags Bourla, it is scarcely surprising that he wants to pump his deadly substances into the world, for all eternity. Again, it’s “cui bono”, especially for those with shares, share options, consultancies and all the other perks that go with this travesty, either now or in the offing.
“Widespread vaccination uptake on an equitable basis will be ‘very very key in moving toward this scenario’” – even though we already have very widespread vaccine take-up and infection rates are as high as ever.”
This confirms the definition of in-sanity.
Endemicity assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus […] that doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability.
Ergo: External forces keep being put into place because we want to avoid admitting that Sars-CoV2 is endemic.
But that’s not really news anymore and the only place where the name of a WHO member can ever be mentioned without serious risk to the public is on a headstone.
They will tickle the wasps net in any way they see fit to adjust things to be in accordance with the agenda. But compared with two years ago there are infinitely more people who are beginning to understand the nature of these power relations. If you look at the enemy he usually looks frantic and scared, like he is being held hostage. It’s a battle of nerve and they are losing. We can see this week on week a snowball of scepticism.
Says WHO ?
Could it be the only true thing the WHO have said was that Omicron was mild and that govts should not panic?
You have those guys who got ‘Omicron’ on a remote research station in Antarctica. People need to apply their intelligence to what this Omicron really is. You can piece together a picture if you think about it.
After extensive restrictive protocols before and during transit there. It’s almost as if restrictiona are completely fucking pointless.
A wild guess. WHO, discovered cases of pneumonia in Wuhan. What better place on earth for a seed to germinate and covid was born. But that suggests covid19 was an invention and we’ve all caught a cold, metaphorically speaking. Every country in the world panics and in the confusion many lives are cut short. Enter the vaccine, a vaccine which isn’t. What follows, yet to be determined. Am I miles out?
You have to look into the idea of different batches. The researchers in Antarctica had recently been sent a shipment of booster which they loved obviously. I think its deliberate. The code of this Omicron look like it belongs to an earlier stage of development. They have overplayed their hand and they want to reel it back in but it is too late.
By invention I meant nothing more than something plucked out of thin air, a primer if you like, which allowed completion of a larger plan.
Good cop/bad cop bullshit. What else could it be given that scientific integrity disappeared a long time ago with these clowns. The fact that they might give themselves a fancy title doesn’t count for very much in the age of corporate capture. If you like these guys then be my guest but surely you should look into their true nature if you want to ascribe integrity to them.
if we do just sit back and do nothing- we will very quickly see a stable rate of transmission and low background level of infection.
She’s trying to grab onto the fact places like London bought in the military at particular points to support Drs, but that was only because of the government’s testing and isolation policies!
They don’t want it to end. I knew people in early 2020 who were happy to be off work and enjoying the good weather at home. I can understand that if you have a boring job and you hate everyone and travelling to work is awful. But you can’t have it both ways. You want the big house and lots of goods and regular travel and yet you think you can disengage from it at the same time. This is an astonishingly entitled attitude. They will come down with a bang.
A suggestion Dr Smallwood…Stop stabbing millions with an untested leeky cytotoxin in the guise of a vaccine that facilitates multiple mutations of your GOF bio-weapon ya gloabalist Totalitarian whore?
I suppose the Government will use this as an excuse to extend the coronavirus act in March for another 6 months.
Of course then when we get to September, they will extend it for another 6 months because winter is coming.
All of these symptoms have been with us since 1998. Exerting themselves every now and then, testing the water. You are swimming in a sea of toxicity various in form but all essentially emanating from the same source. Did you see it ten years ago or twenty years ago. Not everyone did. This event is shaking this up a little.
I know it doesn’t make sense but I always study these people’s faces and expressions in case I can learn to recognise evil.
This one looks like a prototype A1/humanoid blend.
I was thinking something similar – how odd it is that so many of these people have a vaguely reptilian look.
I have a little pet theory that I believe in. Look only at their left eye (your right) to literally see into their true character. The right eye shows the public, sociable eye.
Try it on known scoundrels and decent “sorts”.
The science students at university who liked spending time in their rooms and never going out.Unhealthy grubby looking bastards that one hoped would stay confined forever. This is their assertion. We see its limits and its imbecility. We need to reject them with vehemence.
This women looks rather like my niece who pleaded with me to get jabbed.
How did the system produce so many snowflakes
I know. So many people who should have never become “leaders” do somehow become leaders.
Unlike your niece this woman gets paid for her paranoia.
Rewards just beget more of the behaviour.
Anyone have any idea what Bourla did his veterinarian research in to be awarded a Ph.D.?
The WHO has given very bad advice right from the start of this pandemic.
If they’re saying it isn’t endemic then there’s probably a good argument to say that it is endemic.
She looks quite Mad: a definition :
madness – the quality of being rash and foolish; “adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness”
and where are her teeth…
” #COVID19 #vaccination is out. Vaccines saved at least 470,000 lives among over-60s in EUR in less than 1 year.”
“In Denmark, where 78.4% of the total population has received primary course of #COVID19 vaccination, COVID hospitalization rates in wk51/2021 were 6 times higher for those who were unvaccinated”
Catherine Smallwood
https://twitter.com/_katusche
Anything could happen this winter, WHO Europe senior emergency officer Dr Catherine Smallwood told the Sunday Independent
What wise words. She’s absolutely right. Anything can happen at any time – though I would put a Martian invasion quite low on the infinite list of what ifs.
What a fucking surprise. WHO don’t want to stop the panic because idiots like Dr Smallwood will have to find something else to do. The health professionals have been shown up by omicron and the WHO is no exception so they’re desperately trying to keep us all scared, now blaming politicians for having the temerity to have an opinion and ignore their bullshit advice. I’m just praying that England holds it nerve.
At the weekend the Cabinet Minister Nadhim Zahawi said he believes the country… should pay for the heating of his horses’ stables.
I love the smell of backpedaling in the morning.
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”A vaccine for omicron….” Why, for crying out loud? Oh! ”Pfizer says…” That explains it then.
Dr Geert Vanden Bossche tells us that to ‘vaccinate’ against omicron will cause an enormous catastrophe and has written to the WHO more than once to say so – he had no reply.
Like an ex that won’t take ‘No’ for an answer ….
‘it’s over…move on, please, move on..’
’but…no I can’t…what will I do..no..I’ll have no purpose…’
’just get a grip…go away’
’ok…but….I’ll be back’
’ffs’
Ah, the Independent which used to report on “Big Pharma” attempts to influence NHS policy.
I wonder if they still do…
Nice.
I would not take my advice from the WHO, ever.
And up pops the WHO to contradict itself again and put another spanner in the works. Not fit for purpose.
WHO’s afraid of the big, bad, TRUTH.
Hah! I see what you did there!
All viruses wax and wane, think the flu for example which kills multiple thousands when there’s a bad year. Around 40 thousand in 2017/2018.
Anybody heard about that, no because we don’t panic about this stuff do we. Even the MSM.
So Smallwood says Covid is unpredictable. Does that mean that Flu, that we treat as endemic, is predictable?! What an uninformed manipulator.
Should we be really cautious and wait until Flu is predictable? I’d rather wait for the day that pigs can fly!
Of course she’d be out of the limelight or out of a job so of course she wants to keep the “emergency” going.
So the WHO would seem to want the entire planet triple jabbed ( at least for now!). Might money , power and influence have a part to play, rather than a true concern for peoples’ health?
Lets NOT forget, March 19th 2020 , UK GOV: The UK government no longer considers Covid-19 to be a “high consequence infectious disease”. & days later, we had three weeks to flatten the curve !!
Of course some people don’t want this to end. Marxist despots like Sturgeon and Drakeford. Self important so called e parts like Vallance, Whitty and Ferguson who delight in oppressing the proles. Idiot sheep who seem to get off on telling the intelligent that unless we mask up, stay indoors and isolate WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE. Personally, it should ever have started