News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Civil Service "groupthink", Brexit and planning for flu rather than a coronavirus led Britain to be unprepared for the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry has found.
A 2007 U.S. Government document has come to light that reveals how the corporatist state was planning to close schools and businesses and lock down in response to a "potential" pandemic way back then, says Jeffrey Tucker.
It's the first General Election since Covid, yet lockdown and the rest of the catastrophic response just aren't being discussed. It's a failure of democracy, says Francis Hoar.
Germany has expanded its mRNA vaccine production capacity to up to one billion doses per year thanks to billions of euros in Government investment as it prepares to supply the world come the next pandemic.
The WHO is desperate for another pandemic, says Dr David Bell, and seems determined that bird flu is going to be it. So much is riding on it coming along that you can be sure it will.
Health authorities have been ramping up the fear over 'Bird Flu' as WHO reports the 'first death' in Mexico. But the Mexican Health Secretary disagrees, pointing out the man had died from "kidney and respiratory failure".
The WHO hasn't given up on its Pandemic Treaty, but has given itself another year to reach agreement. Most alarming was that in Geneva only six countries insisted on defending their sovereignty, says Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh.
The World Health Assembly's adoption of the IHR amendments last week paves the way for endless 'public health emergencies' under the control and supervision of the WHO, warns Dr David Bell.
Real 'pandemic preparedness' doesn't mean obsessive surveillance before locking down and rolling out a vaccine. It means helping people build healthy and resilient immune systems in their daily lives, says Dr David Bell.
Talks on the WHO Pandemic Treaty have ended without an agreed text, with the next steps up for debate, putting the treaty at risk.
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