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]”.
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Yawn
psychopath
Fuck off and die you piece of human excrement!
Exactly my sentiments.
Good summary. Captures all the essential points.
Took the words right out of my mouth (along with the taste of soap thanks to my mother that accompanied such language 😇🤣🤣).
If you stop looking for it it will go away you fucking moron
Indeed – and instead of the unhealthy mask wearing and antisocial distancing – what is wrong with THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO DO SO taking a prophylactic like vitamin D or ivermectin and then making their own decision about HOW they want to live their own lives.
Or just loosing weight!
Does tarring and feathering count as violence these days?
Asking for a friend.
I believe it is a quaint traditional practice, like Morris Dancing.
I’m all for reviving quaint traditional practices (I fight with longswords and military sabres, after all…).
Nailing upside down to the church door should also make a comeback
The blood eagle needs to make a comeback.
There are some viking reenactors around here somewhere…
Only if you dip a foot-long knife in the tar, cover it in the feathers and shove it up this wanker’s arse. Which I hotly recommend.
Who gives a toss about variants if hardly anyone is dying or getting seriously ill and nearly everyone has immunity?
who cares anyway? its only the terminally ill dying ‘with’ it.
Bit harsh but not totally untrue.
highest deaths per million
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
1 – Peru (worlds hardest lockdown)
2 – Hungary (quickest vaccination program in EU)
3 – Bosnia (dunno)
4 – Czechia (where?)
5 – Gibraltar (all deaths within 1 week of vaccination campaign )
UK at 19
Sweden at 35
India at 107 (280 deaths per million population, way below the world average of 500 deaths per million). So much for the deadly, hugely contagious Delta variant!
Delta variant looks like a safer version of the vaccine. Probably gives broader immunity too
Ivermectin
Czechia (Czech republic) had the earliest mask mandate in Europe and was held up as a poster boy for lockdown effectiveness.
there’s my answer! thanks!
The Cz govt has less fascist tendencies than the UK and lifted all mask mandates in the summer of 2020 (which made perfect sense), critics however point to this as the reason for the big rise in autumn/winter cases. Most likely due seasonality and geography (H and PL very similar patterns), but ditching the masks altogether is now politically more difficult as this will be blamed for any seasonal rise in the autumn.
Thanks for info.
CZ also authorised ivermectin, from March 2021, as did Slovakia although distribution was reportedly patchy in SK and there was negative propaganda in the press there.
… and India (home of the MOST DEADLY variant) at 109)
I think Czechia is in Austria-Hungary.
Of course people like him want this to continue, he’s no doubt extremely well paid for spouting this pseudo science.
I don’t think the role of significance seeking for mediocre people handed a stage should be underestimated. They would never gain this sort of profile on merit, and want to keep on keeping on.
There are times when only the words ‘F*ck off you C×××’ will do.
Yep, it tells it like it is. Sometimes its only thing that gets through to some people’s thick craniums.
“That issue of variants is what we are watching all over the world.”
The variant’s a scariant
This video needs spreading far and wide. Shows that the delta variant was not a threat at all.
just an excuse for keeping the screws nice and tight
Vaccine escape variants are only now a problem because they encouraged the virus to evolve vaccine escape by vaccinating far too many in the population.
Fuck off. And when you’ve fucked off – fuck off some more. Wanker.
Is that Malcolm Tucker? “F*ckity Bye” and “Off you F*ck” as he would say.
The reporting of this site is useful but it’s probably time to move from reporting to action – I always just end up knowledgeable but depressed.
Horses for courses. This has always been an information and opinion exchange site rather than activist. A talking shop, and there’s a place for those.
For activism, you need to go elsewhere. There are lots of groups, from KBF to Standup, all with their own agendas. Need to find one that suits you.
Yes, but just be cautious of who funds any of the movements you latch on to. Take Big Brother Watch for example; they’re funded by George Soros and therefore have to be treated with extreme suspicion.
Rent a quote charlatan.
Masks and social distancing rules should stay in place until Communism has been fully implemented.
After which it will be a muzzle and the gulag.
We’ve got that already. It’s called Wales.
Sadly I think we’re there already. Coercing people to do things ‘for the common good’ and relegating your personal wants, needs, etc. to the level of selfishness and even evil is straight up communism to me.
It is weird that this guy is talking about face masks, from his photo he looks like an extra from the Zombie film the return of the Living Dead. And indeed these health tyrants are doing precisely that, for out own, so called good they want to condemn us all to a life of living death. I would rather die happy breathing fresh air than cower behind a mask.
It’s true that those making these pronouncements look…very unhealthy! One person that struck me as looking vibrant and full of health was one of the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration. Ashamed to say his name currently escapes me, but I think first name was Martin.
Kulldorff.
Along with Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya. Eminent scientists who have been silenced and vilified by the best funded advertising campaign the world has ever witnessed.
Also Sucharit Bhakdi (biological age 74) is youthful.
If I had as ugly a fizzog as this miserable specimen, I daresay I’d want to wear a mask all the time. An Iron Mask connected to the mains electricity is probably the best answer for this hideous excuse for a human (?) being.
“They will be able to break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people and that will cause problems.”
but of course won’t break through naturally acquired immunity or for 99.75% of people just their normal immune system – whether its seen something similar before or not
Yes, they mention alleged benefits, but not the immense costs, which has been the problem all along and is the mark of a public policy scam.
No, No, No!
Whatever…blah, blah, blah. Same old rubbish. You’d think we would have progressed in 15 months+ beyond all this. You know, beyond Middle Age thinking.
It never ceases to amaze me that pretty much all of these experts continue to ignore the gigantic elephant in the room: The vast majority of people who fall prey to CV19 are the unhealthy.
Why wouldn’t you do everything in your power to help them get healthier, and ban the ones who don’t from seeking hospital care (instead of the unvaccinated)? That was a bit of a joke.
The other problem is, planet Earth is in pretty bad shape overall, thanks to us, so why not ban glyphosate and all the other garbage we pump into nature? That would go a long way to improving our health.
But alas, this doesn’t seem to really be about public health. Sigh.
Don’t be unfair to medieval thinking, they were far more life affirming and inventive than these tossers.
So in other words indefinitely.
Piss off!
I spend time formulating reasoned, evidence-based responses. So here goes:
FUCK OFF, YOU DRIED UP LITTLE SHIT!
World “Picture of Health” Organization expert, by the looks of it. No doubt he also offers expert advice on keeping fit, enjoying life and not looking like Dracula in dire need of a drink.
Sorry for the ad hominem, or rather ad cadaver attacks, but I can’t be bothered any more. Any society that listens to this caste of ghouls deserves all it gets.
sadly, a lot of people will swallow this BS and even worse abide by it
I went to leave this planet now please
For those who haven’t seen it – Mike Yeadon talking about masks and ( non existent ) asymptomatic transmission. Around 1hr 50mins in https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode-219-in-harms-way/
please push him off a bridge while the rest of look the other way
No, I want to watch.
So do I. I want to see with my own eyes that the bugger doesn’t come back up.
Zoe covid tracker has first drop today since the postwinter flatlining
I should add ‘in new daily symptomatic infections’
I’m not a hayfever sufferer, but is that season ending?
Naah – I’ve had a blocked schnozzle for 2 days. Too much walking through cut grass in the park, too many trees, squirrel variants etc.
Usual remedies: Oxygen tank, ventilators or some honey n’ lemon.
Careful someone doesn’t see you with those symptoms, cart you off to nearest hospital, where you will no doubt test positive [for something or other] and be placed on a ventilator with no visitors
They tend to steer clear when they see I’ve got a nose, a mouth and some tissues on display.
Saw someone on the tube trying to pick his nose through a face mask on the other day. Disgusting yet fascinating.
That’s tremendous. My favourite personal experience was the Bangkok taxi driver who had his mask on, then took it off to cough and sneeze into his hand, then carefully put the mask back on.
I think the responses here show that people like this have now lost the room.
More importantly I think they are losing the room below the line at The Guardian.
ooh – lovely – got a link?
Not really but I’ve noticed that there are increasing numbers of “OK that’s enough lockdown!” comments BTL there. They don’t make the top of the “most liked” list but they are growing in popularity.
we may well be a biased sample 🙂
True but an increasingly less biased sample each day I suspect. Friends have now all just had enough.
my experiences of the totally brainwashed indicate to me that there are plenty of people who are sufficiently terrified that they think all this locking down and these restrictions are still necessary – and what is worse they don’t want to know that they are being lied to.
True- we went out to get pizza last night and the number of people of all ages still walking around outside and driving cars with masks on is truly depressing. Try to tell them that the idea that a piece of material across their face can protect them or anyone from an airborne virus is utter nonsense and they actually get upset, as though you’re just being nasty and spiteful. Absolute waste of time.
This is my reaction to all this utter fucking stupidity…. all of it…. fucking all of it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
UTTER BRILLIANCE!
Ha ha. That’s pretty much the extent of it.
Ha ha! Brilliant!
Mask-Wearing and Social Distancing Rules Should Stay in Place Due to Covid Variants, Says WHO Official*
*ᵀᵉʳᵐˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜᵒⁿᵈᶦᵗᶦᵒⁿˢ ᵃᵖᵖˡʸ. ᴺᵒᵗ ᵃᵖᵖˡᶦᶜᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗᵒ ᴳ⁷ ˡᵉᵃᵈᵉʳˢ, ᴿᵒʸᵃˡ ᴬˢᶜᵒᵗ ᵃᵗᵗᵉⁿᵈᵉᵉˢ, ᵒʳ ᵁᴱᶠᴬ ᵒᶠᶠᶦᶜᶦᵃˡˢ.
The hypocrisy is off the scale. Do these sinecured idiots think that the whole world has been brainwashed? Many have, but hopefully the others will wake them up eventually.
Yeah, like, read the small print.
Pity sheeples can’t read at all.
Doesn’t apply to the royal family for their PR photoshoots either. Only today Daily Mail reported a love-up of Kate Middleton attending some school party (or something), getting all close and cheery with the children for photos. No masks and no covid bollocks.
Get lost! Masks don’t work and have negative health consequences. Defund the nutters at WHO.
Exacrtly what Donald Trump attempted to do, by withdrawing the USA from the WHO organisation. Of course, Drippy Joe soon reversed that on instructions of Bill.
I wouldn’t trust this guy to collect my bins
I’d put him in my bin.
One of the big, red, lockable Biffa varieties.