It's not yet breaking into the "responsible" media yet, so take this with a grain of salt, but Tucker Carlson reports that the World Health Organization is pushing a treaty that will give them a huge amount of power over medical care, especially in the area of epidemics.
Now of course, we've got the basic question of whether top down medicine tends to work very well--it's very emphatically not the model that they use at Mayo, Cleveland, Johns Hopkins, and the like--but more importantly, we need to take a look at the record of the WHO and national regulators regarding COVID.
- They missed the fact that coronavirii are transmitted with aerosols, something that any apprentice immunologist could have pointed out.
- They completely covered for the likely involvement of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese government.
- They tended to try to shut down the alternative therapies that seem to have shown the most promise in helping people deal with this.
- They failed to raise H*** about states sending COVID patients into nursing homes.
- They promoted plans that simply would not work, like "directional shopping", excluding areas from use (ironically concentrating the "plume" of viruses and the people susceptible to them), and the like.
- They ignored increasing evidence that lockdowns and masks were of little use in preventing transmission. (this probably has a lot to do with aerosol transmission)
- Dissenters, even with wonderful qualifications, were forcefully suppressed
More or less, there was something very interesting going on with the COVID epidemic where public health authorities seem to have had an "inerring" pattern of making the wrong decision and suppressing dissent. They have, sadly, made the case that there are many great things we can do to deal with infectious diseases, but granting more power to public health authorities is not one of them.
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