Sceptics of the growing ‘pandemic prevention, preparedness and response’ (PPR) agenda celebrated recently, heralding a perceived ‘defeat’ of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) controversial amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR). Although the proposed amendments would have undoubtedly expanded the WHO’s powers, this focus on the WHO reflects a narrow view of global health and the pandemic industry. The WHO is almost a bit-player in a much larger game of public-private partnerships and financial incentives that are driving the pandemic gravy train forward.
While the WHO works in the spotlight, the pandemic industry has been growing for over a decade and its expansion accelerates unabated. Other major players such as the World Bank, coalitions of wealthy nations at the G7 and G20 and their corporate partners work in a world less subject to transparency; a world where the rules are more relaxed and a conflict of interest receives less scrutiny.
If the global health community is to preserve public health, it must urgently understand the wider process that is underway and take action to stop it. The pandemic express must be halted by the weight of evidence and basic principles of public health.
Funding a global pandemic bureaucracy
The FIF could be a cornerstone in the construction of a truly global PPR system in the context of the International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response, sponsored by the World Health Assembly.
WHO, April 19th 2022
The world is being told to fear pandemics. Ballooning socio-economic costs of the COVID-19 crisis are touted as justification for increased focus on PPR funding.
Calls for “urgent” collective action to avert the “next” pandemic are predicated on systemic “weaknesses” supposedly exposed by COVID-19. As the WHO steamed ahead with its push for a new pandemic ‘treaty’ during 2021, G20 members agreed to establish a Joint Finance & Health Task Force (JFHTF) to “enhance the collaboration and global cooperation on issues relating to pandemic prevention, preparedness and response”.
A World Bank-WHO report prepared for the G20 joint task force estimates that $31.1 billion will be required annually for future PPR, including $10.5 billion per year in new international financing to support perceived funding gaps in low- and middle-income countries. Surveillance-related activities comprise almost half of this, with $4.1 billion in new funding required to address perceived gaps in the system.
In public health terms, the funding proposed to expand the global PPR infrastructure is enormous. By contrast, the WHO’s approved biennium programme budget for 2022-2023 averages $3.4 billion per year. The Global Fund, the main international funder of malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS – which have a combined annual mortality of over 2.5 million – currently dispenses just $4 billion annually for the three diseases combined. Unlike COVID-19, these diseases cause significant mortality in lower income countries and in younger age groups, year in, year out.
In April 2022, the G20 agreed to establish a new “financial intermediary fund” (FIF) housed at the World Bank, to address the $10.5 billion PPR financing gap. The FIF is intended to build upon existing pandemic funding to “strengthen health systems and PPR capacities in low-income and middle-income countries and regions”. The WHO is predicted to be the technical lead, landing it with an assured role irrespective of the outcome of current ‘treaty’ discussions.
The establishment of the fund has proceeded with breathtaking speed, and it was approved on June 30th by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors. A short period of consultation precedes an expected launch in September 2022. To date, donations totalling $1.3 billion dollars have been pledged by governments, the European Commission and various private and non-government interests, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. The initial areas for the fund are somewhat all-encompassing, including country-level “disease surveillance; laboratory systems; emergency communication, coordination and management; critical health workforce capacities; and community engagement”.
In scope, the fund has the appearance of a new ‘World Health Organisation’ for pandemics – to add to the existing (and ever-expanding) network of global health organisations such as the WHO; Gavi; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI); and the Global Fund. But is this increased expenditure on PPR justified? Are the escalating socio-economic costs of COVID-19 due to a failure to act by the global health community, as is widely claimed; or are they due to negligent acts of failure by the WHO and global governments, when they discarded previous evidenced-based pandemic guidelines?
COVID-19: failure to act or acts of failure?
In the debate surrounding the growing pandemic industry, much attention is being directed towards the central role of the WHO. This attention is understandable given the WHO’s position as the agency responsible for global public health and its push for a new international pandemic agreement.
However, the WHO’s handling of the response to COVID-19 creates serious doubts about the competency of its leadership and raises questions about whose needs the organisation is serving.
The WHO’s failure to follow its own pre-existing pandemic guidelines by supporting lockdowns, mass-testing, border closures and the multi-billion-dollar COVAX mass-vaccination program, has generated vast revenue for vaccine manufacturers and the biotech industry, whose corporations and investors are major contributors to the WHO. This approach has crippled economies, damaged existing health programmes and further entrenched poverty in low-income countries. Decades of progress in children’s health are likely to be undone, together with the destruction of the long-term prospects of tens of millions of children, through loss of education, forced child marriage and malnutrition. In abandoning its principles of equality and community-driven healthcare, the WHO appears to have become a mere pawn in the PPR game, beholden to those with the real power; the entities who are providing its income and who control the resources now being directed to this area.
Corporatising global public health
Recently established health agencies devoted to vaccination and pandemics, such as Gavi and CEPI, appear to have been highly influential from the beginning. CEPI, is the brainchild of Bill Gates, Jeremy Farrar (director of the Wellcome Trust) and others at the pro-lockdown World Economic Forum. Launched at Davos in 2017, CEPI was created to help drive the market for epidemic vaccines. It is no secret that Bill Gates has major private financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, in addition to those of his foundation. This clearly places a question mark over the philanthropic nature of his investments.
CEPI appears to be a forerunner of what the WHO is increasingly becoming – an instrument where individuals and corporations can exert influence and improve returns by hijacking key areas of public health. CEPI’s business model, which involves taxpayers taking most of the financial risk for vaccine research and development whilst big pharma gets all the profits, is notably replicated in the World Bank-WHO report.
Gavi, itself a significant WHO donor that exists solely to increase access to vaccination, is also under direct influence of Bill Gates, via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gavi’s involvement (alongside CEPI) with the WHO’s COVAX program, which diverted vast resources into COVID-19 mass-vaccination in countries where COVID-19 is a relatively small disease burden, suggests the organisation is tied more strongly to vaccine sales than genuine public health outcomes.
Pandemic funding – ignoring the big picture?
At first glance, increased PPR funding to low- and middle-income countries may seem a public good. The World Bank-WHO report claims that “the frequency and impact of pandemic-prone pathogens are increasing”. However, this is belied by reality, as the WHO lists only five ‘pandemics’ in the past 120 years, with the highest mortality occurring in the 1918-19 H1N1 (‘Spanish’) influenza pandemic, before antibiotics and modern medicine. Apart from COVID-19, the ‘Swine Flu’ outbreak in 2009-10, which killed fewer people than a normal flu year, is the only ‘pandemic’ in the past 50 years.
Such a myopic focus on pandemic risk will do little to address the most serious causes of illness and death, and it can be expected to make matters worse for people experiencing the most extreme forms of socio-economic disadvantage.
Governments of low-income countries will be ‘incentivised’ to divert resources to PPR related programs, further increasing the growing debt crisis. A more centralised, top-down public health system will lack the flexibility to meet local and regional needs. Transferring support from higher burden diseases, and drivers of economic growth, has a direct impact on mortality in these countries, particularly for children.
The WHO-World Bank report states that the pillars of the global PPR architecture must be built on the “foundational principles of equity, inclusion and solidarity”. As severe pandemics occur less than once per generation, increased spending on PPR in low- and middle-income countries clearly violates these basic principles as it diverts scarce resources away from areas of regional need to address the perceived health priorities of wealthier populations. As demonstrated by the damage caused by the COVID-19 response in both high and low-income countries, the overall harm of resource diversion from areas of greater need is likely to be universal. In failing to address such ‘opportunity costs’, recommendations by the WHO, the World Bank and other PPR partners cannot be validly based in public health; nor are they a basis for overall societal benefit.
One thing is certain. Those who will gain from this expanding pandemic gravy train will be those who gained from the response to COVID-19.
The pandemic gravy train – following the money
The new World Bank fund risks compounding existing problems in the global public health system and further compromising the WHO’s autonomy; although it is stated that the WHO will have a central ‘strategic role’, funds will be channelled through the World Bank. In essence, it financially side-steps the accountability measures at the WHO, where questions of relative worth can be raised more easily.
The proposed structure of the FIF will pave the way for organisations with strong ties to pharmaceutical and other biotech industries, such as CEPI and Gavi, to gain even greater influence over global PPR, particularly if they are appointed ‘implementing entities’ – the operational arms that will carry out the FIF’s work programme at country, regional and global level.
Although the initial implementing entities for the FIF will be UN agencies, multilateral development banks and the IMF, plans are already underway to accredit these other international health entities. Investments are likely to be heavily skewed towards biotechnological solutions, such as disease surveillance and vaccine development, at the cost of other, more pressing public health interventions.
Protecting public health rather than private wealth
If the world truly wants to address the systemic weakness exposed by COVID-19, it must first understand that this pandemic gravy train is not new; the foundations for the destruction of community- and country-based global public health began long before COVID-19.
It is unarguable that COVID-19 has proved to be a lucrative cash cow for vaccine manufacturers and the biotech industry. The public-private partnership model that now dominates global health enabled vast resources to be channelled into the pockets of corporate giants, through programmes they directly influence or even run. CEPI’s “100 days Mission” to make “safe and effective” vaccines against “viral threats” within 100 days – to “give the world a fighting chance of containing a future outbreak before it spreads to become a global pandemic” – is a permit for pharmaceutical companies to appropriate public money on an unprecedented scale, based on their own assessments of risk.
The self-fulfilment of the ‘increasing frequency of pandemics’ prophecy will be ensured by the push for increased disease surveillance – a priority area for the FIF. To quote the World Bank-WHO report:
COVID-19 highlighted the need to connect surveillance and alert systems into a regional and global network to detect zoonotic transmission events, raise the alarm early to enable a swift public health response, and accelerate the development of medical countermeasures.
Like many claims being made about COVID-19, this claim has no evidence base – the origins of COVID-19 remain highly controversial and the WHO’s data demonstrate that pandemics are uncommon, whatever their origin. None of the ‘countermeasures’ have been shown to significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19, which is now globally endemic.
Increased surveillance will naturally identify more ‘potentially dangerous pathogens’, as variants of viruses arise constantly in nature. Consequently, the world faces a never-ending game of seek and ye shall find, with never-ending profits for industry. Formerly once per generation, this industry will make ‘pandemics’ a routine part of life, where rapid fire vaccines are mandated for every new disease or variant that arrives.
Ultimately, this new pandemic fund will help to hook low- and middle-income countries into the growing global pandemic bureaucracy. Greater centralisation of public health will do little to address the genuine health needs of people in these countries. If the pandemic gravy train is allowed to keep growing, the poor will get poorer, and people will die in increasing numbers from more prevalent, preventable diseases. The rich will continue to profit, while fuelling the main driver of ill-health in lower income countries – poverty.
Dr. David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease. Previously, he was Director of the Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in the USA, Programme Head for Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND in Geneva, and coordinating malaria diagnostics strategy with the World Health Organisation. He is a member of the Executive Committee of PANDA, where this article was first published.
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Here’s David Thunder, on the same wavelength as me regarding these text emergency drills being extremely suss in their timing. What’s strange is that he lives in Navarra, Spain and they’re doing it there. I wonder if they’re testing this out anywhere else…
”Under ordinary circumstances – for example, if we had level-headed and sensible people running the government – I could probably just go along with such a drill. Indeed, I would probably take them at their word that it was only for the purpose of managing genuine “catastrophes.”
But to hold an emergency drill so soon after a string of extraordinary abuses of emergency powers is quite another story. The timing for this drill could not be worse. It comes just a couple of years after governments all over the world used an “emergency” that was actually an infectious disease for which health services were ill prepared, to justify an all-out attack on citizens’ basic rights, including the right to protest, right to informed consent to medication, right to breathe freely, freedom of movement, and freedom of expression.
The reason I refuse to participate in this drill at this time, is because the authorities that are running it have forfeited their right to be trusted to honestly and competently declare emergencies without stoking up needless panic and fear in the population. I simply no longer trust these people to tell me when I need to run for cover. In fact, I am more afraid of them than I am of any emergency they might declare.”
https://davidthunder.substack.com/p/i-will-be-powering-down-my-phone
Nail on the head!
These alerts are just another nail in the coffin of freedom!
Thanks, Mogs, and a very good morning to you. Yes, I also wondered if this was happening elsewhere. David Thunder is of course absolutely right – why would we go along with a government emergency alarm system since they have forfeited the right to be trusted due to their record over the past 3 years. Personally, I see no reason for such an alarm system. An alarm system is there to induce a response from your compliant public which will inevitably come with panic and fear. What rationale could they possibly have for doing that? I mean what is so alarming as to actually justify such a system? Nothing I can think of. Weather is usually reported and has physical attributes you can’t fail to notice like, er, precipitation, air currents, big snowflakes etc. Nuclear attack? Already too late, just enjoy the flash and get a tan. So it’s something else. Control? A test to see how many compliant people are ‘out there’ with their phones on. Imagine city centres or shopping malls and other gatherings, it will be very weird. I will be somewhere remote without my phone. I will take out the SIM, pop it into a burner phone I keep, and take the battery out.
Interestingly, my brother sent me this:
NATIONWIDE ALARM
Sunday 23rd April from 2-4pm, just in case.
APPLY CRITICAL THINKING
They are doing the alarm thing on Sunday yes.
Well:-
There are 97.23 million mobile connections in the UK,
85.01m active mobile devices and 12.22m connected things.
98% of the adult population have a mobile phone, making 1.37 active connections per head of population.
Imagine all them going off at once all at the same time and you have an ideal opportunity to harm a lot of people without it being obvious by switching up the 5g frequency.
Now they will have to send a massive boosted frequency and 5g wave across the Uk at the exact same time to reach every phone.
Trust me when I say turn them off before 3pm on that day .
That frequency or wave will be extremely high for it to happen at the exact same time and extremely damaging to your brain.
They are not testing the alarm they are testing the magnitude of the frequency and the impact of the wave on us. We are all guinea pigs
It goes without saying that you need to disable your phone from even receiving this signal.
How do you do this?
On most smart phones
Go to settings – notifications – advanced settings- wireless emergency alerts – switch off alerts.
Switch off All phones
Switch off and unplug wireless networks. Ie broadband
Switch off anything that can receive a wireless signal in your home and unplug it. All unnecessary electrical equipment must be switched off.
Get out of the house but trust me stay away from large crowds like pubs, cinemas, restaurants and shops.
What you will witness will not be a natural occurrence . It will be man made.
I have it on sound advice that we must stay away as far away from other people as possible. Go to moors, woodland etc woodland is good as the trees will protect you from the wave.
Probably my over-hyped imagination and deep suspicions of government but this resonates with me with ‘The day of the Triffids’ when vast numbers of the populace were blinded by watching light effects in the sky (yes, I know it was fiction – much like the scamdemic!) This proposed audio emergency alarm smacks of a mechanised way of damaging senses – particularly hearing.
What about animals too and their acute hearing with a cacophony of mobile alerts going off?
All in all, Ellie, there is something distinctly nefarious about this. It is not a normal action. It is unprecedented. Never happened before. Yes they had air raid sirens in WWII but we are not ostensibly at war. They haven’t told us exactly what it is for. And you’re right, the stress to animals, birds and all life will be immeasurable. It is like a Day of the Triffids moment. Anyway, I’ll only find out when I get back!
I’ve warned family about this alert but most see it as a novelty event and aren’t taking any precautions, with a ‘wait and see’ attitude. I sincerely hope I’m wrong but even if there is nothing readily apparent or amiss during / following the upcoming event, I’m certain it’s a precursor for other planned events of worsening impact on life.
I have the horrors that it will eventually descend into a mass ECT like effect.
Or perhaps this 5g alarm will act as a stimulus to those who have been injected and are now carrying the nano chips, graphene or whatever.
Wow. Thanks Aethelred. I never thought of that but it makes perfect sense.
Does anyone know if there are similar emergency-alert-system “tests” being carried out in other countries this weekend/near future?
Apparently all 27 countries in the EU are required to comply with EU regulations/policy voted in/passed in *2018* ( so pre-covid etc ) which say that every country must have a national emergency alerts system ( within 5 years of the directive ) for mobile telephones, because apparently a great many other non-EU countries already had/have them.
France ( whose system went live in June 2022 ) ran a big test of its system on 28 February this year. Spain and the UK ( though now non-EU ) seem to have left it to the last minute to comply, ( though I think I read that the UK one already ran a couple of small scale tests last year? ).
And Germany ran a nationwide test of their system on 8 December 2022.
yes, USA did it yesterday.
Just read this in the Telegraph!!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/21/florida-emergency-alert-test-accident-early-morning/
Florida residents were jolted awake at 04:45 on Thursday morning by an accidental emergency alert on their phones.
Officials apologised to Floridians for disturbing their sleep, and said the alert was meant to be on TV.
“We know a 4:45 AM wake up call isn’t ideal,” The Florida Division of Emergency Management said, adding that they test emergency alerts on a variety of platforms.
“This alert was supposed to be on TV, and not disturb anyone already sleeping,” the agency added.
“We are taking the appropriate action to ensure this will never happen again and that only true emergencies are sent as alerts in the middle of the night.”
LOL!
Hopefully that cock-up prompted all savvy Floridians to disable future alerts on their phones! Bit of an own goal there methinks…lol
“It comes just a couple of years after governments all over the world used an “emergency” that was actually an infectious disease for which health services were ill prepared…”
Correction, health services were well prepared. To all intents and purposes we were made to suffer a manufactured ‘flu season and nothing more. Even if the “pandemic” had been real perfectly sensible plans existed to deal with any emergency but these were abandoned to allow for commencement of the reset.
I do agree that whatever guise the authority figures are scamming under I no longer trust them. My view is that the correct procedure is to do the exact opposite of anything authorities dictate.
They did the same emergency test to cell phones in the US yesterday. So nice to know we are all in lockstep.
“BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes”
“Dr, I’m having some serious issues with my marriage!”
“Then, I suggest you ask your washing machine for advise!, if that fails, ask your fridge freezer, I’ve noticed they seem to be a bit more sensible!”
Ai writing articles??? Ffs
Thank goodness Buzzfeed are closing down and good riddance!
It’s highly alarming what AI is capable of now. Have a look at this – two tech guys discuss AI and its capabilities in front of a tech audience. I haven’t watched it all yet but it was mentioned by Paul Kingsnorth the novelist in his newsletter ‘The Abbey of Misrule’ as a very chilling revelation about how far AI has already come and yet still no checks on its progress. About 50% of AI tech developers think that there is a 10% chance that AI will aim to wipe out the human race – quite alarming, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ
Hurray! Look what I found.
This’ll be getting watched over the weekend;
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/V.For.Vendetta-2005-DvDrip-Eng–aXXo:3
Strewth, whatever would the pious Guido have made of it?
So, here I am on a west coast of Scotland island reading the local newspaper which contains a large article about the centenary of the local WI. The women are all older and pleasant looking and work hard to keep the organisation going and help the local community. Somehow I feel they are not ready for new members like Shanu Varma so it’ll be interesting to see what happens to the WI in the next few years as the various competitions become woke. Their annual general meetings will be quite different too.
And there you have it. The venerable Women’s Institute, long a backbone of middle England and common sense will be destroyed from within on the back of ‘trans rights.’ All perfectly in keeping with Agenda 2030 which requires the destruction of our societies in order to build back better.
A possible reason why The Guardian is publishing articles hostile to China ( ref its lockdowns, despite earlier praise for them ) is that the West is gearing up for war with China, so it has to be “othered”.
Yes….exactly so…they did it with Russia as well.…..
……and why the phone alerts, exactly now,….as well?
Two hundred US troops have just landed in Taiwan to ‘assist in military training’ because of ‘increasing tensions with China’…….(which the 200 foreign troops of a self-confessed enemy of China will do nothing to help, I’m sure!)
also this week….after they offered the US expanded military bases in the region…and having also just finished the largest joint military drills with the USA…China has accused the Philippines of de-stabilising the region…
While The Global South countries (BRICS) look as though they may overtake the G7 countries in terms of GDP in the near future….the EU and the West generally seem to be sticking with self imposed de-industrialisation..while still thinking they can dictate ‘ the rules based order’ to the ‘rest of the world’…?
More countries are trying to ditch the petro-dollar …and even Janet Yellen has recently said that ‘de-coupling’ from China would be disastrous for the US..and also (haha) that sanctions on Russia may be harming the US dollar!
While, in other news relating to Ukraine, the US and allies are now talking about stopping Russian exports entirely..everything..full stop!…..so good luck with that!
So yes, we are certainly living in at one of history’s turning points I think….
At the very least this exercise is in the long chain of messages saying “Be alarmed!”
It has the advantage that you make up your own fears about what threat may be behind it, from nuclear war to alien invasion. None of which you can do anything about, apart from worry when reminded.
Well, just playing Devil’s Advocate here, but perhaps in some parts of the world such an emergency alert could be useful, e.g parts of the U.S that are prone to get hit by hurricanes, Japan where earthquakes are more common, Australia with their Bush fires etc.. And to be fair, unlike hurricanes and storms, earthquakes don’t tend to give you much warning. I just think these things should be looked at on a country by country basis as to what use would this system actually be. More useful in countries prone to natural disaster, less so in places like the UK and mainland Europe where there’s less of a threat. We’ve had it in the NL for years but, apart from the bi-annual test alarm they do, I can just remember a fire or two being warned about on the alert system. In my opinion this text alert is completely redundant for the vast majority of people. Where’s the justification for the UK government doing it? That’s what I’d like to know. Just to copy other countries? Seems an extremely lame explanation. If it doesn’t provide benefit then it’s at best pointless, at worst it’s for something dodgy.
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Basil_Barnhill
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/when-madmen-lead-the-blind/
A brilliant piece from John Ellwood over at TCW. He quotes from a recent speech by Archbishop Vigano:
“The NWO is fostering ‘a dystopian society, without past and without future, without faith and without ideals, without culture and without art, without fathers and mothers, without family and spirituality, without teachers and spiritual guides, without either respect for the elderly or hopes for our children . . .
‘The recent pandemic farce – conducted with criminal methods that I have not hesitated to denounce since the beginning of 2020 – has been followed by new emergencies, including the Ukrainian crisis, deliberately provoked with the aim of destroying the social and economic fabric of nations, devastating the world population, concentrating control in the hands of an oligarchy that no one has elected and that has perpetrated a real world coup d’état, for which sooner or later it will be called to answer before the world.
‘The theorists of this coup have names and faces, starting with George Soros, Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates . . .
‘It is the kingdom of the Antichrist. This Leviathan must be identified and combated, with an action that involves all free peoples, first of all by rejecting the programmatic points of the Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset with shared initiatives.
‘We need an Anti-Globalist Alliance which returns to citizens the power that has been taken from them, and to nations the sovereignty eroded and ceded to the Davos lobby.’
As the Earl of Gloucester said in King Lear: ‘Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.’ “
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/20/hunger-profiteers-granny-killers-and-skin-deep-morality/
An excellent article from Colin Todhunter at Off-G. How the Davos Deviants are starving populations worldwide. It commences in uncompromising fashion:
“Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition.”
Despite this opening Todhunter makes clear that Western nations are also at risk with millions in the US facing acute hunger. A grim future is being rolled out.