The Mpox emergency
The World Health Organisation (WHO) acted as expected this week and declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international headlines. This is raising a lot of angst among people who are suspicious of the WHO.
While the anxiety is warranted, it is mostly misdirected. The WHO and the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee it has convened have little real power – it is simply following a script written by its sponsors. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which declared an emergency a day earlier, is in a similar position. Mpox is a real disease and needs local and proportionate solutions, but the problem we’re facing is much bigger than Mpox or WHO, and understanding this is essential if we are to fix it.
Mpox, previously called Monkeypox (inappropriately), is caused by a virus thought to normally infect African rodents, such as rats and squirrels. It fairly frequently passes to, and between, humans. In humans, its effects range from very mild illness, to fever and muscle pains, to severe illness with its characteristic skin rash and sometimes death. Different variants, called ‘clades’, produce slightly different symptoms. It is passed by close body contact including sexual activity, and the WHO declared a PHEIC two years ago for a clade that was mostly passed by men having sex with men.
The current outbreaks involve sexual transmission, as well as other forms of close contact, such as within households, increasing their potential for harm. Children are affected and suffer the most severe outcomes, perhaps due to lower prior immunity, as well as the effects of malnutrition and other illnesses.
Reality in the DRC
The current PHEIC was mainly precipitated by the ongoing MPox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), though there are known outbreaks in nearby countries involving a number of clades. About 500 people have died from Mpox in the DRC this year, over 80% of them under 15. In that same period, about 40,000 people in the DRC, mostly children under five, died from malaria. The malaria deaths were mainly due to a lack of access to very basic commodities, like diagnostic tests, antimalarial drugs and mosquito nets, as malaria control is chronically underfunded globally. Malaria is nearly always preventable or treatable if there are sufficient resources.
During the period in which 500 people died from Mpox in the DRC, hundreds of thousands also died in the DRC and surrounding African countries from tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and the impacts of malnutrition and unsafe water. Tuberculosis alone kills about 1.3 million people globally each year, which is a rate about 1,500 times higher than Mpox in 2024.
The population of the DRC is also facing increasing instability characterised by mass rape and massacres, partly due to a scramble by warlords to service the appetite of richer countries for the components of batteries. These, in turn, are needed to support the Green agenda of Europe and North America.
An industry produces what it is paid for
For the WHO and the international public health industry, Mpox presents a very different picture. They now work for a pandemic industrial complex, built by private and political interests on the ashes of international public health. Forty years ago, Mpox would have been viewed in context, proportional to the diseases that are shortening overall life expectancy and the poverty and civil disorder that allows them to flourish. The media would barely have mentioned the disease.
Now, the public health industry is dependent on emergencies. It has spent the past 20 years building agencies such as CEPI, inaugurated at the 2017 World Economic Forum meeting, which is solely focused on developing vaccines for pandemics, and on expanding capacity to detect and distinguish ever more viruses and variants. This is supported by the recently passed amendments to the IHR. While improving nutrition, sanitation and living conditions provided the path to longer lifespans in Western countries, such measures aren’t being prioritised. Rather, the WHO is pushing vaccines instead.
We now have thousands of public health functionaries, from the WHO to research institutes, non-governmental organisations, commercial companies and private foundations, primarily dedicated to finding new markets for Big Pharma, purloining public funding and then developing and selling the cure for the disease de jour. The entire, newly minted pandemic agenda, demonstrated successfully through the COVID-19 response, is based around this approach. Justification for the salaries of those involved requires them to detect outbreaks of diseases, exaggerating their likely impact and the organisation of a commodity-heavy and usually vaccine-based response.
The sponsors of this entire process – countries with large pharma industries, pharma investors and pharma companies themselves – have the power to ensure the approach works. Evidence of the harms this approach is causing are hidden from public view by a subservient media and publishing industry. But in the DRC, people who have long suffered the exploitation of war and the mineral extractors, who got rid of a particularly brutal colonial regime, must now deal with the wealth extractors of Big Pharma.
Dealing with the cause
While Mpox is concentrated in Africa, the effects of corrupted public health are global. Bird Flu will likely follow the same course as Mpox in the near future. The army of researchers paid to find more outbreaks will do so. While the risk from pandemics is not significantly different from decades ago, there is an industry dependent on making you think otherwise.
As the COVID-19 outbreak showed, this is about money and power on a scale only matched by colonial regimes of the past. Current efforts across Western countries to denigrate the concept of free speech, to criminalise dissent and to institute health passports to control movement are not new and aren’t disconnected from the WHO declaring the Mpox outbreak a PHEIC. We are not in the world we knew 20 years ago.
Poverty and the external forces that benefit from war, and the diseases these enable, will continue to hammer the people of the DRC. If a mass vaccination programme is rolled out, which is highly likely, financial and human resources will be diverted from far greater threats. This is why decision-making is centralised far from the communities affected. Local priorities will never match those of the pandemic industry.
In the West, we must move on from blaming the WHO and address the reality unfolding in front of us. Censorship is being promoted by journalists, courts are doing the bidding of politicians and the very concept of nationhood, on which democracy depends, is being demonised. An anti-democratic agenda is openly promoted by corporate clubs, such as the World Economic Forum, and echoed by the international institutions set up after the Second World War specifically to protect democracy and guard against a resurgence of fascism. If we cannot see this, or if we can but don’t call it out, then we will have only ourselves to blame when things get even worse.
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 Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute.
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H1N1 or ‘normal’ flu with its IFR of 0.03% overtakes in ‘cases’ the terrifying Rona virus with its IFR of 0.03%….surely diapers, forced stabbinations and LDs must be imposed? For Granny. For the children. For Gaia. No one is safe from the ‘normal’ flu until we all are. Think of others. Do your duty. Sacrifice. Fight. $cience. This is the greatest battle since well. er…ah Rona, or climate thingy.
Without compelling evidence to the contrary I assume by default that government statistics are lies or distortions, therefore I can’t take seriously anything that talks about “flu hospitalisations” and “covid admissions”. We all know how the phoney concept of a “covid admission” was used to enact the biggest evil and stupidity ever perpetrated in this country.
And also now that the medical establishment has demonstrated just how inept/unethical/corrupt/unscientific/compliant/complicit they are, can we really trust doctors and hospitals to diagnose and report accurately on any and all respiratory illness now? Is the flu replacing Covid as this year’s villain given that they aren’t getting the desired effect from Covidmania any more? I smell a big fat rat because none of these jokers can be trusted to give us reliable information any longer, least of all the flipping mainstream media!
You have said it for me Mogs. For some reason ‘flu and pneumonia disappeared as they rolled out the C1984 but this year they have found both ‘flu and C1984. Wow. The testing procedures must have become ever so much more wonderfully refined, or:
“I smell a big fat rat ….”
197 000 ‘flu & pneumonia deaths to date since January 2020, about the same as alleged CoVid deaths. It is likely a number of the latter were misdiagnosed ‘flu and pneumonia.
But is it not interesting such a large number of ‘flu deaths is not reported?
Source here… choose United Kingdom from drop down.
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-united-kingdom
Very nicely put M
I don’t think so. The data is accurate. What’s the difference?
Population wide uptake of a toxic substance that lowers the immune defences.
Look around you ask about and there are tons of people with very nasty flus snd other seasonal illnesses including their second or third bout of Rona.
This is the result of immunodeficiency caused by a BIOWEAPON.
Well during the “pandemic”, “covid cases”, “covid admissions” and “covid deaths” were defined as anyone with a positive PCR test within X days, regardless of what else was wrong with the patient. I don’t know how they define it now, nor do I know how they define a “flu case/admission/death”.
I agree that the evidence points to the “vaccines” harming public health, but I would base this on the increase in all-cause mortality which is a more reliable figure.
I’m only looking at hospitalisations for flu like things. These are up. It’s not necessary to distrust whether it’s covid or flu. They are way up in an environment full of jabbed people. They want to say it’s flu because they don’t want to show that these jabs don’t stop you getting Covid, in fact they make the cases more likely.
We agree that these are jab related. The thing is just anecdotally, I’ve never seen so many people bed ridden all around me, hospital or home. The hospitalisation numbers reflect this.
Quite a number of CoVid ‘deaths’ were assumed, based on reported symptoms by doctors who hadn’t seen the patient particularly in care homes. Therefore many did not have PCR tests.
Wonder if this increase of a very similar flu virus might be down to vaccines that effect your natural immunity and your t cells ability to fight any similar flu virus?
People turning down their heating to minimum probably won’t help either. But at least those plucky Ukrainians will thank us!
Yes it does!
I’ve never believed the official line that the flu, a regular visitor that has been with us since time immemorial, just so happened to disappear for one year only ( or was it a 2 year hiatus? ) but it’s now decided to return with a vengeance. Pull the other one! If all of this data being reported is based on inappropriate and highly inaccurate PCR testing then it’s just a really bad joke.
And on a related note, I thought this was some very interesting detective work done by Jikky the mouse on ”viral pneumonia”;
https://twitter.com/TheJikky/status/1603327735853629441
Also, can anybody say how the doctors are able to specifically diagnose flu and distinguish it from all other respiratory viruses that are circulating just now? Or are we just going by the judgement of the doctors assessing the symptoms the patient presents with as opposed to basing that diagnosis on actual lab work?
This quality article by A Midwestern Doctor, goes into great depth explaining the futility and negative effects of flu vaccines, amongst other things, and touches on how the flu magically vanished when Covid came along;
”In a separate 2013 BMJ article, Doshi showed that marketing strategies by authorities designed to increase influenza vaccinations (which before COVID-19 were the most widely visible public health initiative in the Western world) lack moral integrity and scientific support.
A key point Doshi mentions is that the majority of upper respiratory illnesses are caused by viruses other than influenza, thereby making claims influenza vaccines can prevent them disingenuous and also helping to explain why cases of influenza “disappeared” once the pandemic incentivized providers to instead classify all those other illnesses as COVID-19.”
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/why-do-vaccines-consistently-fail
Doctors Jefferson and Hennegen discuss this in a recent substack. Essentially, health organisations have been very sloppy about definitions for decades and the term ‘influenza’ covers a wider variety of illnesses caused by various pathogens. All of which underlines the absolute futility of try to vaccinate against them (my words, not theirs).
You’re right. I think the term ”flu” is now just a catch-all label, flung around willy nilly with the sole intention of scaring people stupid so that their behaviour can be controlled. It’s become less of an illness in its own right and more of an umbrella term it seems. I think I prefer Dr Ryan Cole’s more appropriate name for ”flu season”; ”low Vit D season”.
What is evident is the degree of marketing in favour of ‘flu jabs. Plenty of advertising of it at the pharmacy in my local supermarket, and no doubt at most others as well.
Do the UK health authorities attempt vaccine effectiveness calculations for flu? Hopefully, without counting vaccinated people as unvaccinated until a couple of weeks after they have been vaccinated.
“Or are we just going by the judgement of the doctors assessing the symptoms”
Assessing symptoms virtually / remotely, from home?
Wow that is really creepy what Jikky uncovered. Coincidence? NOT!
By any chance could it have something to do with the weather and cost of living?
The winter of 17/18 was pretty cold for the usually mild UK, with one hit of very heavy snow (waist deep, and we’re South of the M4).
Now, the last two weeks have been particularly cold, plenty of snow, yet unlike before there’s not only rampant inflation hurting finances, but also high energy costs and propaganda telling people to save energy at all costs, rather than putting their health first.
Hence we have people being cold for days at a time, which weakens their immune systems.
So even without outside factors, just the weather can screw you up.
No.
Get ready. This is restarting the paranoia. Once again everybody is to be seen as a threat. Mrs Lemming, who works at GP surgery, has just received a text stating that “MASKS ARE BEING REINTRODUCED. For all staff and patients.”. The shouting, panic-inducing, sensationalising, use of uppercase is insightful; there’s something sickeningly gleeful about it. Anyway, a precedent has been set, one which the authoritarians and the fearful will keep falling back on now. I expect the prospect of lockdowns to be spoken about next.
How much longer are we going to sit around talking about this, standing in parks, filling out petitions? There is a time for pitchforks. We are long past that time.
Never mind the pitchforks I’m all for the 50 calibre!
You don’t have to be Einstein to work this out. The quackine jabs injures the immune system, then the jabbed are injected with the flu jab = outbreak of influenza. A few decades ago a friend who worked in a laboratory told us if we knew what went into flu jabs you wouldn’t have them. Well we never had any flu jabs nor covid jabs and we’ve lived to tell the tale. There is a lesson to be learnt here.
‘This is not going to help the NHS crisis.’
Every Winter for at least two decades prior to the Scamdemic was a ‘crisis’ for the NHS.
Why?
1) Year on year reduction in beds and staff.
2) Increasing age of population which is the cohort most susceptible to respiratory viruses and the complications therefore most likely to end up requiring hospital care. So increasing number of patients.
3) Closure by 2000 of all the isolation hospitals many of which had been repurposed for geriatric care, meaning care for geriatric patients and infectious patients was transferred to general hospitals.
Only one thing will help the ‘crisis’ – removal of State monopoly and allowing insurance and provision of medical care in the competitive, free market private sector.
And…
How many of those Covid cases over the previous two years would have been ‘flu or misdiagnosed?
Viruses are competitive so one new one can replace an older one, and as we well know ‘diagnoses’’ of CoVid are very untrustworthy.
And… how many millions are now less able to resist ‘flu and other respiratory viruses after having had their immune systems banjaxed by repeat doses of experimental gene therapy?
“And… how many millions are now less able to resist ‘flu and other respiratory viruses after having had their immune systems banjaxed by repeat doses of experimental gene therapy?”
Exactly.
And it’s resistance to everything. Colds that turn into pneumonia. Flu that becomes life threatening. Cancers re-emerging.
New mRNA shots coming soon
This X Files compilation Episode is interesting….
https://substack.com/redirect/9b13fb5e-bc13-4ea6-ba1c-4c0a104f63f8?j=eyJ1IjoiaXp0d2gifQ._ql2SkTynasKWDMKiHYH3f7y8SdWhVzs3ESsghHsAjo
No calls for lockdowns, masks and restrictions yet…
Except of course in some of the fringes of the USA, such as LA and Killadelphia. And probably San Fransicko soon as well. Otherwise, We the People will NOT be fooled again!