This is Bild Zeitung making a chicken out of a feather, nothing more.
To hold such exercises is normal, it's part of the job and WHO isn't necessary for it. I dont doubt WHO is a tool for a world government-agenda, but that's a different point.
We had this scare in the 1980s and the early noughties too, but then it was that lake under Antarctica that was the big bugaboo. "Dinosaur viruses could kill all life" the tabloids raved.
I know it's not happening, but it woud be a blessing if all the European nations would leave the WHO and the UN completely and cut all funding for anything UN-related. Why?
Because when Asian and African nations were allowed influence, gradually from the late 1980s/early 1990s onwards, the UN turned into what it is today: it only functioned as intended when it was under Western control.
As much as it sounds too obvious, none of the above should be 'news'. Breathlessly announcing you're doing what is your raison d'être suggests you're *not* doing it. The Covid passport shitshow being a case in point (see my next posting).
As to leaving the UN and its organisations, I think it's more complicated: the problem isn't so much having a global forum for all nation-states but the increasing bifurcation between that (original) purpose of the UN and the more and more detached, entirely unaccountable office of the secretary-general and the permanent bureaucracy. The differentiation runs a bit like cabinet-level ministries (responsible, via parliament, to the voters) vs. agencies, such as the communications directorate, the environmental protection (sic) agency, etc. whose heads are appointed (and thus removed from direct oversight by, and responsibility to, parliament) and whose bureaucrats are empowered to enforce the law.
My opinion on the UN is based on the testimonies of Inga-Britt Ahlenius, who many years ago was given the task to audit parts of the UN, and came away frustrated and disillusioned by even the head of the entire UN at the time thwarted, stymied and opposed her every effort to get at records for expenditure receipts and so on.
Her summation was pretty much that the organisation is so thoroughly corrupt that it must be defunded and abolsihed, and then re-built with completely new people; there's no reforms possible. And this was 20-25 years ago.
Sometimes, you can't weed a patch of land into a garden or a farm: you have to slash, burn, and dig up the roots to make it usable again.
I'm not disagreeing with the notion of abolish the UN; it's the perfect example of mission creep--it had one job (no more major war), at which it failed miserably less than 5 years into its existence (Korea), and it's only gotten worse since.
Everything else is the consequence of 'we're failing at what we're supposed to do, let's find something else™ to do'.
Mammoth Pox is right up there with Bubonic Plague, which the WHO dragged out and dusted off to add to their 'Top Ten' watchlist, late, last year!
This followed the President of Mexico and his head medical officer calling them out on their claim the death of a man in Mexico was down to bird 'flu.
Maybe consoling themselves, as their Pandemic Treaty was also unilaterally rejected, trying to build up their esteem and convince the public the organisation still has relevance? 😂😂😂
I once spoke to a mediaeval archaeologist from Germany some 10+ years ago: he worked for a city gov't, and when they found an old basement from the 17th century that they didn't know about, all of his colleagues got super-antsy--and were so excited that they went into that cellar without PPE. One of them caught a super-nasty 17th-century strain of TBC and spent two weeks in an ICU (but made it through due to modern medicine).
The functional equivalent of 'don't do stupid things' also applies, perhaps particularly so, to bio-medical research™ that requires safety-level 2+ biolabs in crowded places like, say, Wuhan (pop. 13+ million). The same applies, by the way, across the board. The more stupid (or dangerous, hard to tell these two apart) any research™ gets, the likelihood of something™ going wrong approaches 100%…
This is Bild Zeitung making a chicken out of a feather, nothing more.
To hold such exercises is normal, it's part of the job and WHO isn't necessary for it. I dont doubt WHO is a tool for a world government-agenda, but that's a different point.
We had this scare in the 1980s and the early noughties too, but then it was that lake under Antarctica that was the big bugaboo. "Dinosaur viruses could kill all life" the tabloids raved.
I know it's not happening, but it woud be a blessing if all the European nations would leave the WHO and the UN completely and cut all funding for anything UN-related. Why?
Because when Asian and African nations were allowed influence, gradually from the late 1980s/early 1990s onwards, the UN turned into what it is today: it only functioned as intended when it was under Western control.
As much as it sounds too obvious, none of the above should be 'news'. Breathlessly announcing you're doing what is your raison d'être suggests you're *not* doing it. The Covid passport shitshow being a case in point (see my next posting).
As to leaving the UN and its organisations, I think it's more complicated: the problem isn't so much having a global forum for all nation-states but the increasing bifurcation between that (original) purpose of the UN and the more and more detached, entirely unaccountable office of the secretary-general and the permanent bureaucracy. The differentiation runs a bit like cabinet-level ministries (responsible, via parliament, to the voters) vs. agencies, such as the communications directorate, the environmental protection (sic) agency, etc. whose heads are appointed (and thus removed from direct oversight by, and responsibility to, parliament) and whose bureaucrats are empowered to enforce the law.
My opinion on the UN is based on the testimonies of Inga-Britt Ahlenius, who many years ago was given the task to audit parts of the UN, and came away frustrated and disillusioned by even the head of the entire UN at the time thwarted, stymied and opposed her every effort to get at records for expenditure receipts and so on.
Her summation was pretty much that the organisation is so thoroughly corrupt that it must be defunded and abolsihed, and then re-built with completely new people; there's no reforms possible. And this was 20-25 years ago.
Sometimes, you can't weed a patch of land into a garden or a farm: you have to slash, burn, and dig up the roots to make it usable again.
I'm not disagreeing with the notion of abolish the UN; it's the perfect example of mission creep--it had one job (no more major war), at which it failed miserably less than 5 years into its existence (Korea), and it's only gotten worse since.
Everything else is the consequence of 'we're failing at what we're supposed to do, let's find something else™ to do'.
Mammoth Pox is right up there with Bubonic Plague, which the WHO dragged out and dusted off to add to their 'Top Ten' watchlist, late, last year!
This followed the President of Mexico and his head medical officer calling them out on their claim the death of a man in Mexico was down to bird 'flu.
Maybe consoling themselves, as their Pandemic Treaty was also unilaterally rejected, trying to build up their esteem and convince the public the organisation still has relevance? 😂😂😂
I once spoke to a mediaeval archaeologist from Germany some 10+ years ago: he worked for a city gov't, and when they found an old basement from the 17th century that they didn't know about, all of his colleagues got super-antsy--and were so excited that they went into that cellar without PPE. One of them caught a super-nasty 17th-century strain of TBC and spent two weeks in an ICU (but made it through due to modern medicine).
The functional equivalent of 'don't do stupid things' also applies, perhaps particularly so, to bio-medical research™ that requires safety-level 2+ biolabs in crowded places like, say, Wuhan (pop. 13+ million). The same applies, by the way, across the board. The more stupid (or dangerous, hard to tell these two apart) any research™ gets, the likelihood of something™ going wrong approaches 100%…