Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”

Despite lessons that should have been learned during COVID-19, the world is unprepared for the next pandemic, be it an influenza virus, another coronavirus, or “Disease X”—a term the organization has used since 2018 to refer to a yet-unknown pandemic pathogen, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, speaking virtually from Geneva at the summit, held in Coventry, England.

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    10 months ago

    The protocol is simple. Just stay home and don’t hangout with any Republicans. This is proving to be the current course of action. Once all the remaining Republicans have outlived their COVID expected survival counts, we can emerge triumphant like the cicades. Do our thing for a few days, then go hide for another 3 years and let the Republicans long COVID their ass to their palliative care hospitals. Like a cancer taking your best friend except that they are not best or friends.

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      10 months ago

      And hire police that will come down hard as titanium on idiots rushing stores unmasked and blocking traffic at vaccination centers. And start booting trucks in anti-vax convoys. Treat them like they treat Black Lives Matter.