March 11, 2024, marks five years since the World Health Organization officially declared the outbreak of Covid-19 a pandemic. What began as a localized outbreak in Wuhan, China, in the fall of 2019 swiftly spread across the globe, altering the course of modern history.
Covid, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, appeared to be an outbreak of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. By Jan. 30, 2020, the WHO classified it as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. As cases surged worldwide, the pandemic declaration on March 11, 2020, signified the widespread and severe impact of the virus.
The next day, March 12, 2020, the first case of Covid in Alaska was diagnosed.
Governments around the world, including in the US, responded with lockdowns, travel restrictions, forced masking, mandatory shots, and social distancing measures. Those who didn’t comply lost their jobs, were shunned by family and friends, and ridiculed as conspiracy theorists.
Health systems were pushed to the brink in 2020 and 2021, and frontline health care workers faced unprecedented challenges. Unvetted vaccines were rushed into use and governments outlawed alternative treatments that could have saved lives.
Five years after WHO declared the pandemic, and after millions died either from the virus or because of an underlying condition, President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of WHO.
In his executive order of Jan. 20 — Inauguration Day — Trump wrote the withdrawal from WHO was “due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states. In addition, the WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments. China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO.”
What is really meant is the Covid panicdemic.
The only “pandemic” in history in which a spurious “test” was necessary to determine cases.
Here’a a little challenge Jefferson: Say something, anything, nice about someone, anyone, or anything. I’ll bet you can’t do it. Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong.
Here’s a little challenge, Whidbey: how about you directly address the pertinent arguments and points raised by others, rather than attempt to deflect? Also, how about trying to use reason and logic, rather than the default radical leftist tactic of simply emoting?
Since you never, NEVER give me, or us, any reason to “feel nice” towards you here, why should I, or we, express such sentiments?
That was such a dark scary time for me….I just wanted to comply and listen to the experts……I didn’t even get to see my grandkids who live 10 miles from me. There is so much to be angry about, especially the lies..
Watched a video of Dr. Mike Ryan of the WHO from March 2020. After emphasizing extreme speed in reacting, he declared: “If you need to be right before you move, you will never win.”. Well Mike, we learned that being wrong can be a real mess, too.
The power structure certainly heeded this advice, and now we know why they did – if scientists had taken an honest look at things they would learned where and how the virus originated and responded to those circumstances. Instead they demanded speed and compliance and suppressed or deflected almost all questions. Frances Collins, Anthony Fauci and Ralph Beric all KNEW where the virus came from.
These folks have altered, raped and scarred our culture forever.
To walk away, to cut the thread,
Because we give more gold, more bread-
Is this the measure of our care,
To count the cost, then leave it bare?
The world is vast, the plagues still roam,
No nation fights them all alone.
A coin withheld, a hand withdrawn,
May birth the sickness of the dawn.
For what is wealth when lives are lost?
What price to pay? What final cost?
A selfish tally, short and blind,
Leaves only ruin for all humankind.
So now, soon, the tables will turn and Trump’s protection racket mindset will be used against us. Next time there’s a pandemic and the WHO has the cure, their approach just might be “if you don’t pay, we won’t help you.” What goes around comes around.
I don’t know who’s worse Fauci or this guy…..
Actually the headline should read: “Fifth Anniversary: MRAK Declares War on Science.” There. Fixed it for you.
Actually, the headline should read: “Fifth Anniversary: Globalist Establishment Declares War on Freedom and on Mankind, while MRAK and Every Sensible Person Declares War on Blind Conformity, Sheepishness and Corporate Media Propaganda-Fueled Mass Hysteria.”
I will ask you once again, cman, because you never will answer this question: how does it feel to be a spineless lemming, a conformist to authority, and a useful idiot for sociopaths in power? Because I know a HUGE number of people who had their eyes finally opened to the profound corruption and control agendas of the powers-that-be as a result of the Covidian scam, but you apparently are not one of those, and are still willing to swallow, and to shill for, the establishment orthodoxy of lies, as laughably obvious as it is.
That establishment is the enemy of freedom and of humanity, but YOU are just as much an enemy of both, and of me, as well, for supporting and standing by that establishment. Never in a million years will I understand the profound moral and intellectual surrender of ‘people’ like you.
Jefferson, you are depressing us all. Please try to find more to love, and less to hate.
Whidbey, did it ever occur to you that your irrational, counterlogical, intolerant, arrogant and self-righteous radical leftist beliefs and opinions are profoundly depressing to the rest of us, those of us who are actually sane? Because they are, and very much so.
How types like you love your “The Science™” and your “Our Democracy™”.
Hard rain is gonna come one day for y’all. Maybe it is already falling. It will be lovely.
Lemmings and conformists like cman here have no conception of the fact that the scientific method inherently involves the ongoing questioning of existing beliefs, and an ongoing examination of facts and evidence, and that science is NOT simply a set of fixed and rigid beliefs, or an establishment orthodoxy promulgated by “experts”, that must be automatically accepted without challenge.
Science is all about challenging accepted belief by the application of the scientific method, controlled experimentation, and peer review. Please relay this message to RFK if you can.
Thank you president Trump. May we never be scammed like this ever again.
Ahhh the whole Covid thing still huh. How are your retirement accounts doing peasants under the Donny Dump. Distract and lie the Republican way.
Doing pretty good actually.
It matters not who is president when one has power over their own reality.
Sigma energy all day.
While you are hopelessly dependent on the system to get by, the rest of us are breaking free and claiming our true power of self agency.
Sorry you want to be mad about how your cult can no longer control the free minded. Your time is coming to an end and the golden age is soon to begin.
You wish to label everything you don’t like as republican or whatever other ism you can think of, but your words hold power no longer.
The old system is crumbling and you along with it Rino. So sad.
The revolution will not be televised.
I do not refer to this as an anniversary, more of a bad memory.
WHO: overpaid bureaucrats with nothing to do but make declarations.