African Nations Oppose WHO Pandemic Treaty, but for the Wrong Reasons
Here’s an article in the Washington Post about the stalled negotiations for the World Health Organization pandemic treaty, which begins with these ominous words of warning:
An unknown future pathogen could have far more devastating consequences than SARS-CoV-2, which cost some 7 million lives and trillions of dollars in economic losses.
I can’t remember the last time I heard so much mendacity packed into so few words.
No, the pandemic did not cost seven million lives. In fact, the authorities have hit every button to systematically overcount covid deaths.
Not all of those seven million had a positive PCR test. Of those that did, not all had replication-competent virus present in their systems. Of those that did, not all died from covid as opposed to with covid. Of those that did, many would have died of something else at about the same time anyway. And of the remainder, many of those lives could have been saved had they access to safe and effective over-the-counter medicines proven to cut the death rate in half.
And no, the pandemic did not cause trillions of dollars in economic losses. It was society’s panicky, scared response to the pandemic – lockdowns and school and business closures which visited devastating harm on the society I have spent my entire adult life helping to build. These harms fell hardest – as expected – on the most vulnerable members of society: children, the poor, and black and brown people These harms will continue to reverberate for decades.
So I was glad to hear that African nations are pushing back against a treaty intended to hand over even more power to the same folks who created the global trash fire that was the COVID-19 pandemic response.
But my delight quickly faded when I learned the reason Africans are opposing the treaty:
Developing nations, where pathogens such as AIDS, Ebola, and MERS emerged in recent decades, want guarantees of benefits, such as equal access to vaccines…
Why would they want “equal access to vaccines?” In my adopted spiritual homeland of Ghana, the vaccination rate was less than half of ours, while the per capita death rate due to covid was two orders of magnitude lower.
There’s an old saying: be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. If Africans demand their “fair share” of toxic mRNA shots rushed to market in a matter of weeks, they might find the results are different from what they are expecting.
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