"The WHO’s naive global vaccine plan won’t withstand contact with reality

There are better lessons to be learnt for next time – including the indirect costs of the lockdowns"

Telegraph: Fraser Nelson on lessons learned from the pandemic and the World Health Organisation's feeble demands

"...the World Health Organisation (WHO) is trying to assert global governance for [next pandemic], where countries promise not to stockpile jabs and give away a fifth of their supplies... 

...Britain looks likely to opt out, and rightly so. It would be impossible to justify politically... The first duty of any country is to its people, a point the WHO misses in suggesting that rich countries sign some kind of global pact...

...The WHO’s remit is global... the obvious role for it to play now is in highlighting the calamitous effects that lockdowns had on the world’s poor. Shutting down economies is bad enough for rich countries... The United Nations has claimed that 50 million people in Africa “fell into extreme poverty as a result of Covid”...The WHO could point out that this was as a result of lockdowns, not Covid...even now, there’s a reluctance among global poverty campaigners to talk about the lives lost as a result not of the virus but of avoidable mistakes...

...if the WHO were to produce a comprehensive and globally-read report on the result of lockdowns, it could perhaps push for something more viable...

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