COVID-19
NAUGHTY OR NICE? Gov. Whitmer uses Santa to manipulate kids into following COVID regulations
Santa Claus is coming to town…as long as you follow coronavirus restrictions!
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been accused of pushing“COVID derangement” after using Santa to convince – or brainwash – children to follow her coronavirus restrictions.
The governor published a video Wednesday showing her teleconferencing with children from across the state, announcing that she had a “special guest” who has “been really following the rules and making sure that he stays safe and the elves stay safe,” BizPacReview reports.
As Michigan's kids gear up for the holiday season, I decided to surprise a few of them with a special guest from the North Pole! pic.twitter.com/aI6qGkrouS
— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) December 16, 2020
The guest was none other than jolly old Saint Nicholas.
After introducing himself, the children had the opportunity to ask questions; but, instead of asking about gifts or the “naughty-or-nice” list, they asked about the coronavirus.
“Santa, do you have to wear a mask?” one child asked.
“When I’m in my workshop with all my elves, we are all masked up and social distancing,” Santa replied.
Another set of kids asked whether the coronavirus had made its way to the North Pole, to which Santa replied: “Everyone has been testing negative. We’re still getting tested. I think we’re so far up north that it might not be getting to us, but we’re not going to take any chances. We’re all going to mask up, we’re all going to wash our hands and we’re all going to stay six feet apart.”
He then urged kids to “do…what the governor is telling all the people of the great state of Michigan to do: social distance, wash your hands, and make sure you wear your mask when you’re outside your home.”
The governor continued by basically suggesting to cancel Christmas.
“Another way to stay safe during the holiday is to stay home but call your grandparents and your cousins and your family. It’s the safest way to tell the people you love how much you care about them. This year it has to look a little bit different so we can stay safe,” she said.
The video received a ton of backlash on Twitter, accusing the governor of brainwashing children and using them as “pawns.”
https://twitter.com/kendrick_miriam/status/1339640368954916865
Why does Santa need to tell children to "follow the rules?" They don't have control with the mitigation efforts, why use them as pawns? There is ZERO reason to tell children that Santa is "masked up" in his workshop. Let them be children, without the worries. Get a better Santa!
— Pajamas It Is (@HeckofaLiberal) December 17, 2020
Those kids were coached on what to ask! I have a five year old granddaughter who would never think to ask "what can we do to keep people safe"!
— Rodney Smelser (@RockinRodney55) December 17, 2020
This is an incredible mix of foolishness, stupidity and brainwashing. So many kids are now living in fear of something from which they have little to no chance of even having symptoms, let alone dying. Let them be kids!!!
— Todd Scheuerman (@T_Sherm7) December 18, 2020
On Friday, President Biden said he doesn’t think that COVID-19 is here to stay, but added that he does think the virus will remain around the world.
“No, I don’t think COVID is here to stay, but having COVID in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
“COVID as we’re dealing with it now is not here to stay, the normal doesn’t have to be. We have so many more tools we developed and we continue to develop that can contain COVID and other strains of COVID,” he added.
Biden’s comments come shortly after six of his former health advisers, who helped him with the COVID-19 pandemic during his presidential transition, published three opinion articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association urging Biden to change his strategy in responding to COVID-19 to one accepting that the virus was here to stay and learning how to live with it.
“They say the first thing the administration needs to do is take a broader vision, by recognizing that Covid-19 is here to stay. In one article, Dr. Emanuel and two co-authors — Michael T. Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease expert at New York University — pointedly note that in July, Mr. Biden proclaimed that ‘we’ve gained the upper hand against this virus,’ which in retrospect was clearly not the case,” The New York Times reported.
Biden’s comments suggest he has not yet listened to the advice of these experts, even as the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened to reaching over 1 million new daily cases.
COVID-19
Former COVID Advisory Board tells Biden corona now ‘one of several circulating respiratory virus’ like flu
Doctors who once advised President Biden on how to handle the coronavirus are now telling him to change his strategy via a series of published articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The six doctors, Drs. Ezekiel Emanuel, Michael Osterholm, Celine Gounder, David Michaels, Rick Bright and Luciana Borio were members of the advisory board that worked with Biden during his transition period before taking office.
“As the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates, COVID-19 is here to stay” and therefore Biden’s national strategy must be “updated.”
“The goal for the ‘new normal’ with COVID-19 does not include eradication or elimination, eg, the ‘zero COVID’ strategy. Neither COVID-19 vaccination nor infection appears to confer lifelong immunity,” they wrote.
“Current vaccines do not offer sterilizing immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Infectious diseases cannot be eradicated when there is limited long-term immunity following infection or vaccination or nonhuman reservoirs of infection.”
The “new normal,” they explained, should be “recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but one of several circulating respiratory viruses that include influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and more.”
The doctors also pointed out there are many treatments with varying levels of effectiveness such as remdesevir and dexamethasone, monoclonal antibody treatment, and oral treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid.
“Finally,” Fox News reports, they said it is imperative “to rebuild trust in public health institutions and a belief in collective action in service of public health.”
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