The social devastation caused by the pandemic response, which the WHO claims as further justification for increasing its power, resulted almost entirely from the ‘lockdown’ policies promoted by WHO, WEF, and their private sponsors. /1 pandata.org/global-health-…@bell00david
From a global perspective, these harms are immense:
97 million more people live on less than $1.90 daily. /2
Africa suffered its first wide recession in decades. In developing countries, recessions raise #mortality, particularly among children and well into the future. /10
2/ #WHO is working on two agreements that will expand its powers & role in declared health emergencies & pandemics. These include widening the definition of ‘health emergencies’ within which such powers may be used.
3/ The #IHR amendment process in WHO is relatively transparent. Amendments are proposed by national bureaucracies & collated by WHO. WHO has gone to unusual lengths to open hearings to public submissions.
For the second time, South Africa identifies a new ‘variant’. For the second time it reaps the same reward: stigmatization, isolation and more decimation of its fragile tourism industry. 1/
Already on its knees after almost two years of one of the harshest and most pointless lockdowns in the world, the South African economy stands on the brink.
For what? Viruses mutate. When they mutate into a more transmissible form, that form dominates. 2/
The Delta ‘variant’ quickly supplanted other circulating variants globally, despite all attempts to slow its spread.
SARS-CoV-2 is endemic and will mutate forever, the prevailing variant at any given time will, by definition, be the most transmissible. 3/
The severity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 is so skewed towards those with identifiable risk factors that it should have been an ideal candidate for a focused protection approach, prophylaxis and early treatment to the high risk-group. Instead targeted treatments have been shunned.
Proven safe and therapeutic candidate treatments were ignored, often suppressed or negatively portrayed in the press rather than urgently investigated. The response poured billions of dollars into ventilators and new drugs but spent nothing on research using existing drugs.
COVID-19 presents a high risk of illness and death to a few and a negligible risk to the majority. The median age of death with COVID-19 is similar to that of natural mortality in most countries. 95% of deaths occur in individuals with 1 or more existing health problems.
Safe and efficacious vaccines should be offered to high-risk individuals (mostly people above 50, with other health problems) when the benefit of the intervention clearly outweighs the risk. This strategy achieves the best outcome for all.
As a number of countries seek to focus the discussion on further coercive measures and even mandatory vaccination, PANDA is increasingly aware of the elephants in the room, the topics no one is talking about.
Let's not lose sight of the big picture. pandata.org/elephants-in-t…
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PANDA opposes "universal mask mandates". The benefit of mask wearing in healthy individuals has not been demonstrated and the harms are great, especially to our children.