We cannot let the WHO rewrite pandemic history
May 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Coronavirus, Health, Liberal Press, Politically correct, Science“Believe the Science”… right. It is high, high time people push back. mrossol
UnHerd 5/23/2021 by Toby Green
The organisation’s about-turn on lockdowns has not gone unnoticed
Yesterday the WHO issued an update on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. It’s the sort of rewriting of history one would expect from an organisation which has over the past year overseen the biggest collapse in living standards for the global poor since the end of colonialism.
The WHO issued the briefing as part of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-Being for All (GAP). WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that “GAP partners have shown their unwavering commitment to countries during the pandemic”. Yet sadly this ‘unwavering commitment’ did not involve implementing the pandemic policies which were in place before Covid-19. These policies ensured that the livelihoods of those in poor countries were protected, whereas the policy championed by the WHO over the past year has destroyed them.
As recently as December 2019, the WHO published a report on how to approach pandemics: contact tracing, quarantine of exposed but asymptomatic individuals, and border closures were “not recommended in any circumstances”. The report also noted that there were ethical issues with virus control measures where there were populations of migrant workers (as is frequently the case in poor countries). The word ‘lockdown’ was not mentioned anywhere in this report.
WHO insiders say that these reports build on two or three years of research. Yet all this was discarded within two months. Following the reporting of the novel coronavirus, the WHO despatched a mission to visit affected areas of China from February 16-24, and then issued a report which overturned the recommendations it had just published. Instead, all countries with cases were to pursue the policies that the December report had said should never be applied: contact tracing and the quarantining of exposed people, while they were also to strategise “even more stringent measures” (lockdowns).
There were many problems with the WHO’s new approach. Scientifically, there was no control mechanism to see if China’s new policy was really effective. And there was no consideration of the socioeconomic variables and ethical considerations to the global poor that the December report had identified. Predictably, in the world’s poor countries, where the vast majority of work is informal, the impact of these policies has been a humanitarian catastrophe: a collapse in African economies, huge increases in poverty-induced migration (as seen this week in Morocco), and a humanitarian situation in India which has been compared to partition.
Who is the WHO trying to fool? All of us, it would appear. This claim that it now seeks an “equitable” rebuilding is just part of the massive rewriting of history that it is undertaking at the moment. Just last week we were told that the world should have moved into stringent suppression measures in February — but how world leaders were supposed to do this when it was an entirely new policy is not explained. The world cannot let the WHO escape from its role in the humanitarian catastrophe of the last year.
Toby Green’s book The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality is published by Hurst.
https://unherd.com/thepost/we-cannot-let-the-who-re-write-pandemic-history/?mc_cid=fc60056bee&mc_eid=0ff3e7ea29
And now some comments:
Lockdowns in the West were predicted IN APRIL 2020, to lead to the deaths of 1,200,000 children in the poor nations JUST from diminished economic activity in the West! They did not get stimulus checks to sit at home streaming netflix. All those cur flowers grown in Africa for Europe – left to wilt, people not paid, the T-shirt and cheap clothing sweat shops throughout Africa and SE Asia, closed, no pay – the West locked down on fat pay wile doing nothing wile the Poor in the world starved because of the reduced economic activity.For every granny you saved you killed a dozen babies. GOOD FOR YOU, you masking, lockdown, money printing, SHEEP!!!!!
Ever seen babies starving? I have. You soft, cossetted, selfish, spoiled, entitled, weak, demanding, rich Westerners sometimes sicken me. All Rights, no responsibilities, all self loathing wile being greedy, demanding, lazy, and angry, and scared rabbits. Refusing to do what needs to be done in the World and just streaming your disgusting – degenerate, Netflix and Prime and yacking of nothing on your phone social media. Every one of you a new times, self absorbed, ignorant, Marie Antoinette.
No, he’s right to be angry, it has been and continues to be (both domestically and internationally) shameful. In a reversal of the usual mammalian order of the elders protecting the young, we continue to use the young to shield ourselves. Our ancestors would not be proud.
Reply: I agree with the sentiments in both your posts. Be angry, because you are correct.
Instead, we pull down statues and cancel people, it makes us feel good, better, more concerned and connected to our inner selves. We kneel for equality, hahahaha, ‘cos we think that’ll do it.
It’s all f***ed mate.