{"id":1141181,"date":"2021-12-22T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141181"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:04:45","slug":"w-h-o-says-cancel-christmas-now-or-grieve-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/w-h-o-says-cancel-christmas-now-or-grieve-later\/","title":{"rendered":"W.H.O. Says Cancel Christmas Now or &#039;Grieve Later&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fw-h-o-says-cancel-christmas-now-or-grieve-later%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141181&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) warned Tuesday there is too much at stake to celebrate Christmas this year, cautioning it is better to either cancel or postpone the annual festivities than risk the death of a loved one.<\/p>\n<p>W.H.O. director-general and&nbsp;Ethiopian biologist Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva the \u201cfastest way\u201d to \u201cget back to normal\u201d is for people to&nbsp;cancel or delay Christmas events, the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10332801\/World-Health-Organization-tells-people-scrap-scale-Xmas.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dr&nbsp;Ghebreyesu continued to say, \u201can event cancelled is better than a life cancelled. It\u2019s better to cancel now and celebrate later than to celebrate now and grieve later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The W.H.O. has not previously issued a global decree to cancel any other religious holidays&nbsp;such as the Muslim\u2019s Eid or the Hindu\u2019s Diwali as a result of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19219522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237354027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19219522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237354027-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the W.H.O. headquarters in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr Margaret Harris, a public health doctor and spokesperson for the W.H.O., in an interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews\/status\/1473192473124028419\">Sky News<\/a><\/em> did initially advise against nations locking down, citing the \u201chuge implications\u201d they have on mental health and the economy. However, Dr Harris did also mention that lockdowns \u201cdo work\u201d, and governments will use them if \u201cthey run out of options\u201d, such as \u201cwhen the hospitals are overwhelmed\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The other key component of the W.H.O. spokesperson\u2019s advice for the Christmas period was the encouragement of vaccines.&nbsp;Dr Harris commented while \u201cwearing the mask\u201d and \u201cthe distancing\u201d will protect individuals they still need to \u201creally, really seriously, get vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Harris went on to suggest people shouldn\u2019t&nbsp; \u201cjust get vaccinated\u201d, but if individuals are aware of someone who\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cstill struggling with the idea of being vaccinated\u201d, that they should \u201chelp them to get vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.597402597403\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When participants were asked, \u201cWho deserves more credit for the COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccination program, President Biden or former President Trump?\u201d 51 percent of voters sided with Trump and 41 percent sided with Biden.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l3cqRWWIFV\">https:\/\/t.co\/l3cqRWWIFV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1417825877073801221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, if people were going to have Christmas gatherings Harris advised them to consider individuals\u2019 vaccine status if they were going to attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Director General Dr Tedros echoed this message suggesting that if \u201c70 percent\u201d of every country\u2019s population was vaccinated by mid-2022, the coronavirus pandemic could be ended by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>While pushing for increased vaccine uptake Dr&nbsp;Tedros did also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20211221-who-issues-omicron-warning-before-holidays-an-event-cancelled-is-better-than-a-life-cancelled\">mention<\/a> that the omicron variant&nbsp;\u201cis spreading significantly faster than the Delta variant\u201d and people who are vaccinated are \u201cmore likely\u201d to be \u201cbe infected or re-infected\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) warned Tuesday there is too much at stake to celebrate Christmas this year, cautioning it is better to either cancel or postpone the annual festivities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}