WHO Still Misses the Mark on COVID

World Health Organization (WHO) Still 

Misses the Mark on COVID

by Shea O'Neil, 4-26-24

Read on to see how the WHO once again misses an opportunity to clarify, and instead only further muddies the waters, (or should I say huffs, puffs, and clouds the skies), and find out what WE need to do to make sure COVID doesn't blow OUR houses down! 

So you may have heard the news that the WHO finally said #COVIDisAirborne --well, they tried at least, however they could only cough out, "IRPs travel through the air")-- it's like pulling teeth with these guys! I had to make a few comments on the media I saw and on the WHO's April 2024 Report on Proposed Terminology for Pathogens that Transmit Through the Air itself. As you can see in the screenshot above of the media avoiding saying the word "COVID" like the plague, instead of focusing on how we can actually avoid the plague). 

And then comes the WHO-- an organization that those of us educated on the need to still use covid protections have been trying to get to clearly say "COVIDisAirborne" in years of hashtagged posts attached to a plethora of research from around the world. 

Infectious Respiratory Particles, aka IRP's, is the term they decided to focus on here in terminology instead, referring to all the viruses they now have confirmed can spread in aerosols... or as they like to put it "through the air". And although they mention COVID is one of these, they needed to stress that this one is THE one of these viruses that they are writing this for.

After years of the health agencies slowly and quietly releasing the info into the world on how COVID-19 does in fact travel through the air beyond 6 feet, while also confusingly maintaining policies that do not reflect airborne spread (for reasons one can only speculate on), one would think it at least "should" be known by now that COVID-19 is primarily spread in aerosols when we breathe and talk, that it travels through spaces like smoke getting into people's noses and mouths where they inhale it, that it then attaches quickly to their cells turning them into virus-producing factories, and that this can all happen within minutes, transmitting the virus from one person to another, and causing long-term health issues in a quarter of infections. And yet, this information is not known by the public, or if it is, it is not given its due attention. People do not understand that this virus lingers beyond its initial infection, that in a quarter of cases they are finding it still reproducing in our blood, and that long COVID is a huge problem for us all.

Figure Above from : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202404/covid-19-found-in-peoples-blood-months-after-infection

So if this was supposed to be the WHO's big report to clarify this all and set the record straight, if this is where they come out of the proverbial closet with COVID so that maybe the world can now understand that we need to be wearing protections like the kind they use for wildfire smoke-- N95 masks (instead of lame surgical masks that are made just for droplets)-- because N95 masks are the types that protect from infectious diseases that spread in the air... If that was their intent-- they totally flopped. 

First of all, they decide now's the time to confuse the public even more by saying Infectious Respiratory Particles (aka IRPs) instead of COVID. We already have had an ongoing disinformation campaign since day one with people saying COVID is like the flu, and no matter how many people it killed, how many people it gives long COVID to, how fast it evolves and evades, how unseasonal it really is... we can't seem to break that stupid refrain like a line straight outta Brave New World people repeat it in a thoughtless choir. 

This is not the time to feed that huge pile of B.S. that COVID is like the flu or other respiratory viruses, even if they do happen to also now be known to spread through the air. COVID-19 is everywhere, endemic, and is causing a great mass-disabling event. That message is not getting across here. We need to act urgently and make our mitigation into airborne spread mitigations. That message is not getting across here. Somehow the WHO admitting to two huge former errors on their past (that flu was spread droplet, that COVID was not airborne) and attempting to correct them has only led to MORE disinformation coming out into the world due to their ineptitude in delivery. 

Second-- if there ever WAS a goal of translating this information into practical use (ie getting it through to healthcare businesses like hospitals that they need to get their staff to wear N95s at all times, and provide and mandate that patients wear these in most cases as well)-- they completely ruined it by using wording that conflicts with their own words in the same document (ie saying "short-range airborne transmission" in this figure 3.5 below, when they clearly stated COVID-19 and other IRP's as having short and long range transmission which you can see in the figure 3.1). 

It is sad because they had so much potential in the Report when they admitted to long range transmission. 

And they even spoke of the mitigations needed to stop the spread of airborne (or that spread through the air) viruses!

But it was almost as if CDC and big business's lawyers were there, making sure they took away any meaning from this document's words. 

Their biggest error was saying mitigations depend not on how it is spread but on vague disease risks including alluding to immunity in population-- leaving an opening again for the other huge disinformation worm "prior immunity protection", which is often used to make people feel safe when they are not. 

We know for COVID that immunity from prior infection and/or vaccination is fleeting due to the virus' quick evolution into immune-evasive variants, and its immune system damaging properties, yet propaganda is constantly being put out that we have better immunity now. In reality, we are catching this virus just as much as before, whether we are testing and reporting it or not, and the rates of long-term conditions resulting is far above what anyone would consider a justifiable risk).

Figure Above screenshot from COVID-19 Variant Update (idsociety.org)

Figure Above from Long COVID - Household Pulse Survey - COVID-19 (cdc.gov)

I don't know what it is going to take... maybe the people themselves actually waking up from the propaganda and the lawyer-ing and the minimizing BS, and actually link their chronic illnesses, and strokes, and heart attacks, and brain disfunction, and loss of income and quality of life, and harm to their kids, and harm to their parents, to the fact that COVID IS AIRBORNE, highly contagious, a step ahead of immunity, that reinfections only increase risks of long COVID, and that long COVID has already hit panic-inducing levels in people all over the world, and that all the science is showing that this is no joke, and is not going anywhere! This isn't me inciting panic, this is me being real. And there is not need for panic... But there is need for N95 masks. If they can provide vaccines to the world, they can give the world N95 masks. But this message isn't going to come from the top down, as we have seen the past 4 years. The people need to start demanding it. And you don't even need to say a thing. You just need to start wearing a respirator mask, like an N95, kf94, and kn95, start now and wear it proud when you go around others from other households... Demand others do as well. Because it is necessary. Because COVID is airborne. 

Note: I do not receive any kickbacks for the masks I linked above here, these are just ones I personally like and use. I suggest trying out a few to find your own favorites that fit you well, kinda like you do for a good pair of jeans. 

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