1/ The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 as the health policy body within the UN and was given the mission to “direct and coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies.”
2/ Many worry that its mission has become hopelessly compromised by strong reliance on funding from China and from private benefactors (Bill Gates’s foundation funds 13% of its budget—more than the government of the United States).
3/ The WHO was slow to call for a comprehensive investigation on the origins of the virus. The WHO’s director praised the early 2020 lockdowns in Wuhan.
4/ In a January 2020 letter the WHO congratulated China and urge the CCP to “enhance public health measures for containment of the current outbreak.”
5/ WHO Director Tedros, sounding like a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP, punctuated this with a tweet: “In many ways, #China is actually setting a new standard of outbreak response…
6/ …“Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems, and which are ill-prepared to deal with it. #2019nCoV.”
7/ Neil Ferguson, of the apocalyptic Imperial College London predictions, likewise looked to China as a model: “It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it [locking down] in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realized we could.”
8/ The U.S. and U.K. followed Italy, which followed China, and all but a handful of countries followed our lead.
9/ In light of Ferguson’s remarks, it’s worth recalling that when President Xi Jinping of China visited Imperial College London in October 2015, the college’s president Alice Gast effused, “Imperial College London strives to be China’s best academic partner in the West.”
10/ Cutting edge research collaborations between Imperial College and the Chinese included work in public health.
11/ References: justsecurity.org/73793/covid-19…
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