:mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:

Officials said the virus' death rate had dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April.

:brump: When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down, please

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    From the WHO

    "The worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that #COVID19 is nothing to worry about"-@DrTedros

    This will not be in any news article

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Hmm if only the WHO had some sort of mechanism to indicate that #COVID19 is something to worry about.

      Ooh I’ve got an idea, since they’re the “world health organization” how about we give them the ability to declare like, a “world health emergency”. Eh that doesn’t roll off the tongue well, how about a “global health emergency,” yeah that’s better

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Link? I don't see it.

      EDIT: Found it, I was looking at Tedros' personal twitter for some reason lol.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'm convinced that Trump was told to make policies to do less tests to make covid look like it's down, but it was meant to be a quiet, secret thing, but he's so stupid that he said it out loud, so they had to wait for the next president to do that.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Dr Mike Ryan, from the WHO's health emergencies programme, said the emergency may have ended, but the threat is still there.

    "We fully expect that this virus will continue to transmit and this is the history of pandemics.

    "It took decades for the final throws of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear.

    "In most cases pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins."

    my man Dr. Mike "Mike" Ryan here, asking the party organizers to keep the music down. salute.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      "It took decades for the final throws of the pandemic virus of 1918 to disappear.

      Bruh it's throes not throws and also the flu is still around and killing people. Smh doctors

  • MineDayOff [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I remember when the Democratic Party tried to shame the Bernie campaign for staying in the primary saying that he was killing people due to covid. Then the Biden campaign said go out and vote!

  • RION [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    nobody in the history thought this pandemic was gonna end

    well guess what - it's... not... gonna... end...

  • blight [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :mission-accomplished-2::mission-accomplished-1:

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    WHO has been saying this at least once a month for the last few years, as if they could wish a disease away.