The obstacles for the United Nations to be an effective intergovernmental agency to achieve the goals of World Peace, Human Rights and equality on a healthy planet are not obstacles of the UN or the UN Charter.
The obstacles are individual nations seeking individual solutions.
Are you old enough to remember 2009?
Nobody who's even old enough to remember 2009 remembers the pandemic of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, killing 250,000 worldwide.
In 2009, Public Health responsibility was not punted down to billions of individuals
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Trust in the WHO. Transparency, engagement, humility, and inclusion – of opposition voices – are what made the worldwide response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak effective at preventing a much more virulent and deadly virus from killing MILLIONS!
The real difference? President Obama was willing to lean heavily on expert epidemiologists and Public Health officers and let them lead. The last thing the public needs during public health crisis, is the appearance of politicians managing public health.
When historians review the failures of this pandemic; they will no doubt blame the political interference of Public Health from the US, influencing all other nations.
Scientists were muzzled by politicians the world over.
There is still lasting damage from the US President's tweet attacks on the scientific community as a whole. Public Health depends on the public's trust of Public Health and the public's trust has been completely eroded by scripted Public Health Officers.
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I've spoken at length about the US's attempts to whitewash history of their abandonment of the #PrecautionaryPrinciple
WHO’s Infection Control Prevention (IPC) guidance to use N95 grade PPE against all infectious diseases has never changed in 20 years.
Transparency.
Engagement.
Humility.
Inclusion.
That's how you build and maintain the public's trust in Public Health. Do you feel your nation's political leadership has embodied any of these?
Nobody remembers a "worldwide bullet they dodged in 2009" because only the few elites who travel internationally had any Public Health measures (NPIs) they had to follow;
- Masks on flights and airports
- Testing & contact tracing on arrival
- Temporary Isolation and quarantine
2009 was a team effort and success built on many shoulders. But we could summarize why 2009 "worked", to just this: Public Health Officials were excessively available to the media; none of the politicians ever sat in on briefings.
Trust is built when you bring your opponents to the table and seek their input and seek to answer their questions. You can't manage public trust if you attempt to silence the critics. That's never a good political strategy and that's why politicians don't belong in Public Health.
Viral pandemics are not a time for politics.
The world needs to get back to working as a team and that includes the @WHO
The success of 2009 resulted from implementing learned lessons from the 2003 SARS pandemic. Canada conducted a very thorough Public Inquiry which resulted in the SARS Commission Report's recommendations to adopt the #PrecautionaryPrinciple
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Many valuable recommendations were added to Pandemic Preparedness and Planning derived from the SARS report. Including @WHO's core Infection Prevention Control (IPC) components based on SARS Commission recommendations to adopt the #PrecautionaryPrinciple
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SARS Commission Report was written in 2006 and in 2009 @WHO adopted the #PrecautionaryPrinciple to their IPC guidance.
WHO recommends N95 grade PPE (with eye protection) when there's no scientific certainty or evidence of airborne transmission, since 2009
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@WHO Public Health Officials at all levels serve at the mercy of political leadership.
PHO are not politicians and should not be hired or fired based on their popularity for one very simple reason; PHO is never a popular position!
The whim of the people do not determine the science.
Even the WHO are muzzled. How do you muzzle the world's top epidemiologists beyond just tweet threatening them with being defunded?
Stop testing. Stop collecting #LongCOVID data.
There cannot exist evidence-based public health decision-making without epidemiological data.
Testing and surveillance is faltering globally.
“According to @mvankerkhove of @WHO, the number of SARS-CoV-2 sequences submitted to GISAID..has dropped by 90% since the start of 2022, and the number of countries submitting data has also fallen.”
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@mvankerkhove @WHO Sometimes I say, “politicians have abandoned Public Health” and everyone assumes it's Republicans or Democrats.
I mean every nation! Every politician!
Sweden PH repeats US's "immunity debt" propaganda word-for-word offering insight of US's PH influence.
The CDC is downplaying and minimizing the effects of the #Kraken #XBB15 variant. US/CDC deliberately withheld data on XBB.1.5 from the public. This ranks as the most significant cover-up with the most potential damage to the public committed by the CDC.
Throughout the pandemic, the US has increasingly politicized and tailored science to match lies from both the Trump & Biden administrations, all while attempting to discredit and undermine @WHO as a reliable Public Health Organization.
This is the current WHO guidance: wear a mask indoors, irrespective of the local epidemiological situation.
This is US politicians & CDC: 🙈🙊🙉 LaLaLaLaLa
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Sure you open Twitter and everyone and their dog is blaming the WHO. You have likely erased from memory a series of unpleasant twitter attacks by some American tweeting dotard directed at the WHO and the scientific community.
You can't recall the specifics, but you are absolutely certain you believe some evidence was required before the 2019/2020 CDC was required to act on global health emergency to provide pandemic mitigation; therefore you lost faith in the WHO?
What if I told you it was ONLY politicians lying to you?
Not only the one you voted for, ALL OF THEM.
They all don't have the balls to implement Public Health solutions that are unpopular, or step aside and lean on the scientific experts.
How does this person with millions of followers get away with promoting hatred against the UN?
Because UN lawyers can’t sue them for publishing purposely misleading information.
“Freedom of Speech” is not held in check by “Freedom to Sue”.
#DontLookUP
#TobaccoPlaybook
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