From ChildrensHealthDefense.org…
“Global Health” is confusing. A few short years ago community participation, disease burden, resource allocation and human rights dominated its decision-making processes.
Causes such as improving childhood nutrition, empowering minorities and protecting girls from enslavement and mutilation were acceptable battles to fight.
Here we are in 2022: Coercion, exclusion, impoverishment and big business are in, whilst highlighting those other areas is “free-dumb” or some subversive form of denialism.
Same people, same organizations, same funders — just a change of the tide.
As with any historic shift toward fascism and colonialism, it takes a considerable group effort to ignore reality to keep this tide moving — but humans, especially in hierarchical structures, have always been up to the task.
We still are.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its staff are currently engaged in two overriding priorities that are excellent examples of humanity’s proficiency at living such lies:
- They are pushing the COVAX program to mass-vaccinate most of humanity, at an unprecedentedly high cost for any global health program, against a virus to which nearly all potential recipients are already immune.
- They are working towards an expansion of their powers to manage infectious disease outbreaks, with the expressed intent of instituting the same measures used for the first time in the response to COVID-19, but more quickly and more often.
