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Is the Covid pandemic over?

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WrinklesShminkles · 05/05/2023 15:36

Can anyone translate this from the World Health organisation?

Statement on the fifteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic (who.int)

Statement on the fifteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

The WHO Director-General has the pleasure of transmitting the Report of the fourteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) pandemic, held on Friday 27 Januar...

https://www.who.int/news/item/05-05-2023-statement-on-the-fifteenth-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-19)-pandemic

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TooOldForThisNonsense · 06/05/2023 08:29

Japanesejazz · 06/05/2023 02:27

It’s a virus
it will continue to evolve until it has killed every susceptible target
Then it won’t be a problem anymore
You can have a thousand vaccinations, but it will always evolve faster
Mother Nature is the most powerful force on earth

😂😂😂

x2boys · 06/05/2023 08:32

HaroldeVwilliam · 06/05/2023 08:24

Yes. Momentous day yesterday hidden by coronation!!

It's over.

I still know people who have had it and been ill but not hospital ill. It's still very much around.

It's a virus, it's always going to be around ,but he question was is he pandemic over ,with it is for the most part.

Iliketulips · 06/05/2023 08:41

It's over from the point of view we don't need to worrying about the NHS not coping with it, and many of us shouldn't be so ill as we would have been.

It certainly hasn't gone away though. I felt really ill for about 10 days last time, so it'd certainly mess up a special occasion/holiday. At the moment it's running rife through the school where I work, in particular with one year group so windows and doors are open. I have seven immediate work colleagues, one had it at Easter, one last week. We have at least one child a day lined up to go home as they have symptoms.

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HaroldeVwilliam · 06/05/2023 08:46

@x2boys.
Yes absolutely, it's a virus and it'll be a around for ever hence I know people who have had it.

But please remember the important take away which was a little lost yesterday in the coronation coverage that the who has said officially.

The pandemic is over.

FishFlaked · 06/05/2023 08:46

I have had long Covid and know several people much worse off that me with it, they are now living on PIP. All of us 30s and 40s, previously completely healthy, busy jobs, kids.

Every time I have it again, it takes me months to recover to minimum basic level. I still can’t exercise or have the basic stamina as I once did to live a normal life. It’s affected what I can do with my family and ruined my career and therefore my pension savings. I dread to think what the repeated infection is doing to our bodies long term because natural immunity is not long term, even if we can get past the financial fall out.

Id love to know what are these private Covid vaccines we’re all supposedly able to access?

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WrinklesShminkles · 06/05/2023 09:07

Greenfairydust · 05/05/2023 23:06

It ended when people stopped believing in/accepting the charade of pointless lockdowns & useless masks...

I am not downplaying the fact that the virus certainly affected certain groups of people really badly but the majority of us it was never a threat and the response to it was frankly insane.

WHO is finally catching up.

I personally think that the NHS backlog (people with conditions that were not diagnosed and treated during lockdowns which led to worse outcomes), the effect of repeat lockdowns on mental health & the immune system and the poverty caused by the damage to the economy have done more harm than the virus itself.

The response to Covid was a sad example of collective madness and hysteria and governments that were only too willing to control their population, and politicians who used the pandemic as an opportunity to make money with shady deals.

Agree with all of this.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 06/05/2023 09:15

Everyone is soooo happy it’s over, because there’s vaccines right?

l can’t tolerate the vaccine. 2 have made me severely disabled. I wish l felt confident and happy that it was ‘over’

MichelleScarn · 06/05/2023 09:40

Greenfairydust · 05/05/2023 23:06

It ended when people stopped believing in/accepting the charade of pointless lockdowns & useless masks...

I am not downplaying the fact that the virus certainly affected certain groups of people really badly but the majority of us it was never a threat and the response to it was frankly insane.

WHO is finally catching up.

I personally think that the NHS backlog (people with conditions that were not diagnosed and treated during lockdowns which led to worse outcomes), the effect of repeat lockdowns on mental health & the immune system and the poverty caused by the damage to the economy have done more harm than the virus itself.

The response to Covid was a sad example of collective madness and hysteria and governments that were only too willing to control their population, and politicians who used the pandemic as an opportunity to make money with shady deals.

Absolutely this and think this is worth repeating l personally think that the NHS backlog (people with conditions that were not diagnosed and treated during lockdowns which led to worse outcomes), the effect of repeat lockdowns on mental health & the immune system and the poverty caused by the damage to the economy have done more harm than the virus itself.

Abhannmor · 06/05/2023 10:16

UnmentionedElephantDildo · 05/05/2023 17:56

cardiovascular deaths are at a record high

Yes, covid has a huge impact on the cardiovascular system.

Definitely long Covid seems to be related to cardiovascular issues. My brother has racing heart for up to an hour after modest exercise. He got it in March 2020. No vaccine then of course.

These problems will ramify through the health service for a few years surely? While idiots vent about the 'clot shot'.

SheilaFromDownUnder · 06/05/2023 14:22

HaroldeVwilliam · 06/05/2023 08:46

@x2boys.
Yes absolutely, it's a virus and it'll be a around for ever hence I know people who have had it.

But please remember the important take away which was a little lost yesterday in the coronation coverage that the who has said officially.

The pandemic is over.

WHO have not said the pandemic is over, you are misquoting them.

1dayatatime · 08/05/2023 00:18

South Park has been pretty good at predicting the future and going by this clip I'm sure history will look back on the reaction to Covid as mass hysteria and mass panic

GoldenAye · 08/05/2023 01:28

1dayatatime · 08/05/2023 00:18

South Park has been pretty good at predicting the future and going by this clip I'm sure history will look back on the reaction to Covid as mass hysteria and mass panic

We're quoting South Park as reputable sources now? 😂

lemonchiffonpie · 08/05/2023 09:49

Puts a new spin on "I'd done my research'.

PinkCherryBlossoms · 08/05/2023 10:19

There are so many possible meanings. Legal, epidemiological, cultural. They're all different and you could probably fill a book on each.

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