It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one.
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No one else wears a mask to protect me when they are sick.
Sick people aren't culturally discouraged from leaving home.
April's heat, when it will go away, is 4 months away. /s
People are less likely to take a COVID test when symptomatic.
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I'm capable of discussion, do you want to explain your claim?
Vaccines available in October were obsolete, they didn't closely match any variant circulating still here, so they don't stop infection in most people.
Every infection is doing damage, every infection is a roll of the dice with the odds further stacked each time. Eventually, luck runs out.
The whole “oh I’m so concerned” thing after the “COVID’s not airborne” tweet (still up). The complete abandonment of the precautionary principle.
Fuck the WHO ass-covering.
https://coronadashboard.rijksoverheid.nl/landelijk/rioolwater
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Load levels suggest we are at above 30% positive rate.
Just the facts
About 7 million people died of COVID worldwide. About 1.1 million people died of COVID in the United States. With 4.25% of the world's population we have almost 16% of the world's COVID deaths.
Who said I'm using it as an excuse? Who said I don't want better reporting?
As someone who did media relations, I'm trying to provide insight based on research & context so discourse is more productive & leads to better outcomes.
They're all getting laid off. Mass layoffs have been happening for a number of years. They're under extreme stress even without Covid.
I am trying to provide insight. That's it.
We can be smart about the situation or we can lash out.
I am just trying to help people understand the current situation so we can work to better coverage.
My apologies and you take good care. ❤️
I don’t really have any answers, I just know there are journalists like Ed Yong who are using their position to speak truth to power while so many others are willfully buying into the narrative that the pandemic is over
Fact is, people are still dying, and humanity doesn't seem to have come up with a method of destroying covid - yet
The wars going on are used as diversion to omit the subject.
Some bombs recently used contained foreign bacteria...