Must Read WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency

[dinsdale]

43 minutes ago, koolkarl said:

My friend and his wife and many of his workers caught covid a week ago. I will always wear a mask inside for covid and outside because the air is always toxic with aqi well above 100 most of the time.

I hope you're wearing a properly fitted N95 for pm2.5 otherwise don't bother. 

[Pink Mist]

 A trolling derisive and name calling post which also discusses moderation has been removed.  People are individuals and not sheeple, the mask is not a Face Nappy.  Continue and face suspension.

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, Drumbuie said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/05/covid-19-no-longer-global-health-emergency-world-health-organization

 

 Not an *emergency*, no, but "last week COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about.”

 

Plus Long COVID is, unfortunately, real. 

 

 

Globally and again is this people dying with or from and what were their ages and medical status vis a vis seious comorbidities. Covid will continue to be associated with deaths as will the flu.

[driver52]

9 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

I hope you're wearing a properly fitted N95 for pm2.5 otherwise don't bother. 

more like a full hazmat suit.....????

[Derek B]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand ended all of its Covid-19 restrictions in the middle of 2022 but even now, well into 2023, many Thais continue to wear face masks,

There are many practical reasons for people wearing a mask all year round. For example having a tendency to ride a motorcycle with your mouth open,

[Burma Bill]

7 hours ago, Gknrd said:

Here in the US it's been over for a long time. Good to hear though...

Same here across the border in Cambodia.

[Jumbo1968]

In my sons school prior to the holidays everyone wore masks, it not stop infections, my son 7 years old was still of school a couple of times with fever, not Covid.
He returns a week on Monday to school, apparently the kids are going to have to wear masks in class again. No idea why, he hasn’t worn one in months, we have had a couple vacations including flights where none of us wore masks and came back perfectly healthy.

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The spread of COVID-19 is no longer a worldwide public health emergency, the World Health Organization said

Great news and common sense at last. No doubt there will still be those in Thailand, including some ex-pats, that will continue to spread scare-mongering and paranoia among the population - just follow AN!!!!

[h90]

9 hours ago, Tug said:

That’s great news I personally am saddened that we as a society dident respond in a better way I’m sure it would have saved many lives my deepest condolences to all who have lost loved ones and for the financial hardship it caused to all of us hopefully we will do better next time

More worrysome is the split in society in the west and the many anger and overreaction.
 

[NextG]

7 hours ago, Yogiran said:

The usage of face masks was common before covid for various reasons. I saw that also in Vietnam to protect the face from sun and dust while riding bikes.

Yes there is more usage now after covid.

I wore a mask as a cyclist/motorcyclist against pollution, so it’s not an imposition for me. Of course some regard it as an outrage that someone might wish to put their health before whatever some outsider may choose to imagine at any given moment. 

[Kaopad999]

The regular Covid scaremongers will love this news.

[h90]

23 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

In my sons school prior to the holidays everyone wore masks, it not stop infections, my son 7 years old was still of school a couple of times with fever, not Covid.
He returns a week on Monday to school, apparently the kids are going to have to wear masks in class again. No idea why, he hasn’t worn one in months, we have had a couple vacations including flights where none of us wore masks and came back perfectly healthy.

I give you an example that will make the "why" clear....In the office we don't wear masks. But staff comes with motorbike and mask.
As most clear example: our accountant is married with one man who works on a machine. They stay at home with family and without mask, put it on before leaving the house. Wear the mask on the motorbike and enter the office with it and take it off there. They aren't afraid of PM2.5.

It is something you do if you are a good citizen. Like standing at the national anthem. (Sarcasm before someone think I am really that crazy)
 

[Kaopad999]

5 hours ago, Drumbuie said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/05/covid-19-no-longer-global-health-emergency-world-health-organization

 

 Not an *emergency*, no, but "last week COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about.”

 

Plus Long COVID is, unfortunately, real. 

 

 

Clutching at straws 

[Kaopad999]

2 hours ago, Derek B said:

There are many practical reasons for people wearing a mask all year round. For example having a tendency to ride a motorcycle with your mouth open,

if only Thai's would also wear their motrocycle helmets.. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

7 hours ago, Gknrd said:

Here in the US it's been over for a long time. Good to hear though...

US Covid deaths are still running about 1100 per week.

 

And just a few days ago, the CDC reported that COVID still ranked as the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. during 2022.

 

 

[Kaopad999]

33 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

Great news and common sense at last. No doubt there will still be those in Thailand, including some ex-pats, that will continue to spread scare-mongering and paranoia among the population - just follow AN!!!!

Best thing you can do with those people is block them or ignore them. Don't give them the attention that they're looking for. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

'It’s still killing and it’s still changing.' Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate

Moves by WHO and U.S. usher pandemic into new phase of disease monitoring, even as coronavirus kills thousands weekly

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"Gregg Gonsalves, a public health expert at the Yale School of Public Health, says ... Regardless of whether it is called a PHEIC, COVID-19 continues to cause death and suffering across the globe, he says....

 

“We’re willing to bake in a huge amount of morbidity and mortality to get back to normal [and] it doesn’t bode well for facing our future.”

 

https://www.science.org/content/article/who-ends-pandemic-emergency-covid-19-deaths-fall

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"The U.N. health agency’s officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t finished, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

 

WHO says thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week, and millions of others are suffering from debilitating, long-term effects.

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ... “That does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat,” he said, warning that new variants could yet emerge.

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"Nearly seven million deaths from COVID-19 have been reported to WHO, Tedros said. More than 1 million of the deaths were in the United States alone. But Tedros emphasized that "we know the [death] total is several times higher, at least 20 million."

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/05/05/1174269442/who-ends-global-health-emergency-declaration-for-covid-19

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

""It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding that the end of the emergency did not mean COVID was over as a global health threat.

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The WHO does not declare the beginning or end of pandemics, although it did start using the term for COVID in March 2020.

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COVID will continue to challenge health systems worldwide long term, including long COVID, infectious disease experts say. "No one should take (this) to mean COVID-19 is no longer a problem," said Mark Woolhouse, an epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh."

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-is-no-longer-global-health-emergency-who-2023-05-05/

 

[Snig27]

5 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

Well...I think when you look to Japan, it is a bit different, isn't?

I was in Japan when the mask advice was lifted and for the first few days they were still pretty much universal but that soon changed and after 8 days or so trains in non rush hour were 50/50. Same in the streets. Still higher than pre COVID but dropping quickly. 

[transam]

51 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

Great news and common sense at last. No doubt there will still be those in Thailand, including some ex-pats, that will continue to spread scare-mongering and paranoia among the population - just follow AN!!!!

"Spreading scaremongering and paranoia",  I don't think so, just keeping abreast of the current situation of a virus that has killed millions is only a problem for the "I've got a 100% super human body, never had a cold" brigade..

 

If the bar stool wonder boys want to dismiss the Covid updates, that is up to them, and should stay away from threads like this, as they make you look even more daft....????

[Snig27]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Same here across the border in Cambodia.

I've been to every country in SEA except Philippines and Myanmar in recent months and Thailand is the only one where masks are worn by so many. 

 

That said, if someone wants to wear one, fine, but it goes both ways and glares and looks of terror when others chose not to need to stop.

 

 

[DrJoy]

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

W.H.O. about as useless as a virgin detector in soi 6 

Correct.

 

Tedros is not a medical doctor and is the Director-General of the World Health Organization

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

16 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

"The U.N. health agency’s officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t finished, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

 

New COVID hospitalizations in Thailand for last week (1,811) were up 10-fold compared with the start of April.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos

 

Both Malaysia and the Philippines are now facing rising case counts, and COVID crowded hospitals in Malaysia.

Covid-19 rise tests Malaysia hospitals as Philippines reopens wards

Updated May 4, 2023

 

KUALA LUMPUR – Rising Covid-19 cases are threatening to strain Malaysia’s crowded hospitals and the Philippines reopened its coronavirus treatment wards amid a surge in South-east Asia, underscoring the need for governments to adjust to the disease’s ebb and flow in a world now living with the virus.

 

More than 70 per cent of government hospital beds in Malaysia were occupied as at April 29, up more than 20 percentage points from a week earlier, and the authorities have appealed to anyone testing positive to abide by a mandated seven-day quarantine in an effort to stem the pressure on its medical system. "

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/covid-19-rise-tests-malaysia-hospitals-as-philippines-reopens-wards

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, Drumbuie said:

Not an *emergency*, no, but "last week COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about.”

And many other diseases cause just as many, if not more, deaths worldwide.

[Jumbo1968]

I was in Vietnam, Da Nang and Hoi An last week, the only people wearing masks were the Chinese tourists.

[transam]

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

And many other diseases cause just as many, if not more, deaths worldwide.

But this thread is about Covid....☺️

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, dinsdale said:

3) Freedom of speach.

Maybe in your century!

[Liverpool Lou]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

6 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

And many other diseases cause just as many, if not more, deaths worldwide.

But this thread is about Covid....☺️

...as was my comment if read in context!