WHO warns Omicron variant poses 'very
high' global risk as Dutch police arrest
couple boarding plane after fleeing quarantine
while Japan bans foreigners and Australia
scraps reopening borders
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Chris Pleasance
&
Emer Scully
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
11/29/2021 9:53:30 AM
The WHO has warned the new Omicron Covid super-mutant poses a 'very high' risk to the global pandemic recovery with 'severe consequences' possible if it causes a new wave of infections.
'Omicron has an unprecedented number of mutations, some of which are concerning for their potential impact on the trajectory of the pandemic,' the WHO said, amid fears the new variant is much more infectious than previous strains including Delta. 'The overall global risk related to the new variant ...is assessed as very high.'(Snip)'Omicron demonstrates just why the world needs a new accord on pandemics: our current system disincentivizes countries from alerting others to threats that will inevitably
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 11/29/2021 10:04:28 AM (No. 991884)
Risk of what?
Everyone getting bored of the alphabet fear porn?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nashman 11/29/2021 10:07:25 AM (No. 991888)
Suppose they manufactured a new pandemic and nobody cared? It’s coming. It’s here. Was a a Christmas party. Laughter and derision at the Omicron Variant (which sounds like a Ludlum novel). They’d all read from South Africa how it was a nothing burger and KNOW this is more power grabbing by the deep state. Resistance is growing in a big way. If the Incontinent Potato comes out with some decree shutting down Christmas because this obvious fakery, the amount of people just ignoring it will be staggering to them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 11/29/2021 10:10:18 AM (No. 991894)
I wouldn't believe WHO if they told me water was wet.
The head of WHO is an Ethopian terrorist, and NOT a medical doctor. He was selected because he is a Marxist who supports China and has ZERO ethics.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 11/29/2021 10:11:09 AM (No. 991896)
And then there is this from Western Journal:https://www.westernjournal.com/report-south-african-doctor-first-noticed-omicron-variant-reels-doomsayers-reveals-symptoms-unusual-mild/
Report: South African Doctor Who First Noticed Omicron Variant Reels in Doomsayers, Reveals Symptoms Are 'Unusual but Mild'
By Jack Davis
November 28, 2021 at 11:07am
As panic circles the globe over a new coronavirus variant first reported in South Africa, the doctor who first noticed the variant is asking for a dose of calm.
Dr. Angelique Coetzee said that the unusual infections she was seeing in her private practice in Pretoria earlier this month presented “unusual but mild” symptoms, according to the Telegraph.
Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, said it was “premature” to say the virus was going to mushroom into a global health crisis, according to the Guardian. On Friday, the World Health Association dubbed the Omicron variant a variant of concern. President Joe Biden then slapped travel restrictions on multiple African countries.
“It’s all speculation at this stage. It may be it’s highly transmissible, but so far the cases we are seeing are extremely mild,” she said.
“Maybe two weeks from now I will have a different opinion, but this is what we are seeing. So are we seriously worried? No. We are concerned and we watch what’s happening. But for now we’re saying, ‘OK: there’s a whole hype out there. [We’re] not sure why.’”
Coetzee said she would like more people to get vaccinated.
“Unfortunately, it’s not only the responsibility of the government; it’s the responsibility of the public as well … You can only ask people so many times to go and get vaccinated, and if you don’t listen, then there’s consequences, and then you have to take the consequences,” she said.
She said that the patients she treated came from very different backgrounds and had intense fatigue. None had a loss of test or smell. A 6-year-old child she treated had a high pulse rate.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” she said, according to the Telegraph.
Coetzee said that after she treated a family of four who tested positive for the virus and had complete exhaustion, she alerted South Africa’s vaccine advisory committee.
About two dozen people have exhibited symptoms of the new variant, she said, adding that they were mostly healthy men who came to her “feeling so tired.” About half of those she treated were not vaccinated.
“We had one very interesting case, a kid, about 6 years old, with a temperature and a very high pulse rate, and I wondered if I should admit her. But when I followed up two days later, she was so much better,” Coetzee said.
Older individuals with conditions such as diabetes or heart disease could face more complications from the variant than the people she treated, she said.
“What we have to worry about now is that when older, unvaccinated people are infected with the new variant, and if they are not vaccinated, we are going to see many people with a severe [form of the] disease,” she said.
South African officials have voiced anger at the restrictions slapped on the nation.
“The reaction of countries to impose travel bans are completely against the norms and standards as guided by the World Health Organization,” said Joe Phaahla, the country’s health minister, the Guardian reported. “The same countries that are enacting this kind of knee-jerk, draconian reaction are battling their own waves.”
Otto de Vries, CEO of the Association of Southern African Travel Agents, called the restrictions a “a knee-jerk reaction.”
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 11/29/2021 10:21:19 AM (No. 991906)
Fear porn! Getcher fear porn heeya!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
EQKimball 11/29/2021 10:24:23 AM (No. 991907)
Australia has borders? Who knew?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/29/2021 10:33:44 AM (No. 991910)
Says WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Going to be tough to fit that name on a door with Fauci.
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Time for more vaccinations which don't work !!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 11/29/2021 11:00:48 AM (No. 991936)
I still say that Rush is orchestrating all of this lefty hysteria to point out how insane they are. He always used absurdity to demonstrate the absurd. Case in point the name of this new variant. They HAD to skip 2 of the Greek letters NU and XI because they could be misunderstood or "hurtful" to the lovers of Red Chinese president XI.
So, (inspired by Rush) they chose Omnicron. Rearrange the letters and you get MORONIC.
Rush, you've done it again.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/29/2021 11:15:31 AM (No. 991946)
One thing is for sure. Since Biden and his Obama led leftist and socialist crew cannot stop COVID to any legitimate degree, the leftist and socialist Democrats are already hyping the so-called Omicron variant, and want the COVID pandemic to go on past the 2022 off year election and will perpetuate all sorts of bogus figures and institute so-called “lockdowns” and all that goes with them to ensure that happens.
Remember when Biden was telling the American people that they had to elect him to get the COVID pandemic under control, that was bogus. Since then all Biden’s many pronouncements have turned out to be completely bogus or fraudulent with Biden and his crew actually attempting to do as much damage to the US economy and middle class life as possible.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nina584 11/29/2021 1:45:50 PM (No. 992074)
This is normal evolution for a virus. They become weaker but more infectious. Consider this a desperate move by worthless people. They are no longer in control and they know it. Prosecute Fauci for all the people he killed by banning early treatment!!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
skacmar 11/29/2021 2:32:12 PM (No. 992115)
OH NO! Another variant! Lock the doors and throw away the keys, put on 5 masks, and get your vaccines. At least that is what Fauci, Democrats, Biden, and other power hungry people would want us to do. Luckily us common thinking people have grown used to hearing about the "variant of the week" and have come to realize that each variant, while possibly more contagious than the previous one, is also much weaker and less likely to do real harm to you. The Covid virus is quickly devolving down to the equivalent of the common cold. They new variants are hyped up and much ado about nothing.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cor-vet 11/29/2021 2:57:40 PM (No. 992141)
Omicron, the virus du jour!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
planetgeo 11/30/2021 4:37:21 AM (No. 992574)
China has already shown it is not a trustworthy country. It has also already shown that it has aspirations of global domination. This virus has proven to be a very effective new weapon to shut down all of its competitors. Very inexpensive and with absolutely no counter attack consequences for them.
I mentioned some time ago that it would be ridiculously easy for them to just keep manufacturing and releasing new variations of the virus in different locations around the world to keep the disruption going while they continue to arm with ever more lethal military tools and weapons. With the size of population they have, they may have gamed this out as an acceptable risk in order to be "the last power country standing".
The WHO organization has already been shown to be a stealth ally of China. And they're certainly acting like it now
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/30/2021 5:08:41 AM (No. 992589)
I just got the booster shot yesterday and my arm is still sore. I am 70 and still working, so I thought it was a prudent thing to do. But no more. I'm tired of sore arms, I'm tired of covid fear porn and I'm sick and tired of the arrogance of Dr. Garden Gnome. If he says another booster, I am going to tell him to go play in traffic in Los Angeles during rush hour.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/30/2021 5:26:11 AM (No. 992595)
Who would have thought there were so many individuals on this planet who in their hearts were dictators just waiting for an opportunity to boss everyone around? This is a pandemic in itself. These megalomaniacs can’t wait to flex their power and lockdown their countries all in the name of saving lives, of course. Now that they have seen how easy it is to seize power, they are not going to give that up. They are so entirely out of control that they have zero self-awareness and even less restraint. Freedom loving people must resist this assault on their God given liberty to live their lives without bureaucratic interference by people driven mad with power. If all this has been a dry run so to speak in order for the elites who desire to rule the world to gage how we would react to intimidation by fear, it may very well backfire on them. I certainly hope the people of this country and throughout the world will dig their heels in and say, no more.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/30/2021 6:02:17 AM (No. 992600)
We are saturated with COVID. This new mutation is WEAK. Let this be a lesson, liberals all over the world love power and are doing more damage to society.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 11/30/2021 7:07:28 AM (No. 992639)
Proving once again that it never was about health or "Science", but a constant assault of lies and 'fear porn' for the purpose of destroying lives, economies, freedom and common sense, and just to control of billions of people worldwide for the benefit of a few globalist -eugenicist-criminals, and the immense profits of 'vaccine' manufacturers, mask manufacturers, and giant corporations like Amazon.com and Walmart, at the expense of small and medium sized businesses.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 11/30/2021 8:40:45 AM (No. 992716)
New fear mongering variant of virus with vaccines that don't work, boosters that don't boost soon a portion of the population will become human 'pin cushions'. Potato salad for a brain Biden might try to call off Christmas but what about Kwanza that might get blue cities burned to the ground for being a racist. Make this silliness stop!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 11/30/2021 8:42:44 AM (No. 992718)
Chicken little, meet acorn. Yawn. And the globalists try again to make us believe they are our only bastion of safety for our own good. Get vaccinated because the vaccinated get infectious quicker but with milder symptoms like blood clots and heart issues. Who wants to go through the terrible harmful process of being exhausted for 4 days! All the symptoms that #4 posted are exactly what I had in August along with the low grade fever and a resting pulse of 95 and misfiring tastebuds (everything tasted over salty, Blech). Home, no hospital, no ventilator, 2 weeks to recover strength and over 60. Natural immunity. I truly am keeping granny safe!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
marbles 11/30/2021 9:11:17 AM (No. 992751)
One of the quotes posted by # 4 , the South African doctor says there are consequences if you don't get the shot. It reads like a threat. Her fascism slipped out when she said that.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trapper 11/30/2021 9:11:58 AM (No. 992753)
And yet again the Chiina lickspittles at WHO come up with a new way to defect attention away from the incompetent Chinese who let the original covid virus escape from their lab and set the whole world on this course.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jacksin5 11/30/2021 9:19:54 AM (No. 992766)
A weaker version of covid, which is more contagious? A strain that ignores vaccines? Sounds like Nature itself is pushing for Herd Immunity.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/30/2021 9:45:48 AM (No. 992787)
The doctor who found the variant said it is not a potential for dire response...it seems to act as a flu virus and the symptoms are very slight ... so china cannot shut down the world economy this time...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/30/2021 10:41:26 AM (No. 992839)
WHO is a partnership between Anthony Fauci and the lab in Wuhan China. Your tax dollars have supported the little Rose Garden gnome for most of his post doctorate life. He is the real mooch.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 11/30/2021 10:42:08 AM (No. 992840)
Wrong "I" word #22: It wasn't incompetent; It was INTENTIONAL, at the behest of Fauci, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and their globalist cabal.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/30/2021 11:30:41 AM (No. 992893)
Anyone else alarmed that the non-doctor Tedros of the Chinese WHO “called on world leaders to agree a legally-binding treaty on how future pandemics will be managed”? The Luciferians have gone crazy. Thank God for Ron DeSantis. FJB.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 11/30/2021 11:41:16 AM (No. 992909)
My Thanksgiving dinner had 20 plus people in attendance, unmasked. Gasp! They run the gamut of political opinion and, for differing reasons, have had quite enough. FJB and LGB are the sentiments of the majority... even my Boston suburban sister who is not in private industry, shall we say... and the Hamptons just elected a conservative... not a bastion of conservative thought... Did I hear that right?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 11/30/2021 11:50:27 AM (No. 992918)
Yawn. This is media and leftist driven hysteria. I recall, many years ago, our local station hyping the incoming storm of the century. We eventually had a light dusting. I've not watched local news since. That is our MSM today. Ignore...
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
red1066 11/30/2021 12:25:24 PM (No. 992955)
Well, the lead doctor in South Africa where this next variant came from claims no one in her country needed to be hospitalized, and every case seemed to be mild. Of course, her opinion will be ignored because it doesn't fit the media and government narrative that the world is going to end.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/30/2021 12:54:06 PM (No. 992977)
The DMUK crams so much into their headlines that they have nothing left for the story.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/30/2021 12:59:10 PM (No. 992983)
A lady standing beside me at Rite Aid this morning asked about a booster and was elated to find out that they were given every day of the week. I had so many questions and comments on the tip of my tongue that I had to hold my jaw shut.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/30/2021 1:20:18 PM (No. 992999)
The SCAMdemic is continuing with the next Scarient.
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The totalitarians are having a field day all over the globe.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/30/2021 4:44:48 PM (No. 993131)
Huh. WHO, now that we have a supposed super-variant, any thoughts regarding our southern border then, that biden the cheater needs to know about?
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