The W.H.O. has declared a “public health emergency of international concern,” in relation to an upsurge of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa. It does not take much digging to discover that monkeypox should not be high up on most people’s list of things to worry about. Here's the information I got from a quick inquiry using ChatGPT, and which simply summarises what is fairly standard knowledge about monkeypox:
For the general population, the risk of contracting monkeypox is generally considered low. The majority of cases are concentrated in specific groups, particularly among men who have sex with men and those who engage in high risk sexual behaviors. That said, cases can still occur outside these groups, so awareness and precautions remain important.…While monkeypox can cause painful and unsightly lesions, the majority of cases have been mild, with low mortality rates in Europe and the United States.
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So as far as I am concerned, most of us can just get on with our lives, and expend our mental and emotional energy on more pressing matters.
Was the WHO justified in declaring this a public health emergency? Is there a risk they may use up their credibility and be taken less seriously next time a genuine emergency of international concern comes around? Perhaps. But that is not what I wish to discuss here.
For there is a much more important question that we should we asking, everytime the WHO opens its mouth to share advice on matters of public health: should we be relying on the World Health Organization to inform our actions in relation to public health?
Judging by the behaviour and interventions of the WHO since 2020, the answer is a hard “no.” Any information or guidance coming out of the World Health Organization should now be labeled with a health warning. It is dangerous and misguided to follow the World Health Organization's advice on issues that affect your health, the health of your family, and the health of your children, for a number of reasons:
First of all, there are some major conflicts of interest inside the World Health Organization. One of their major donors is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has significant investments in the vaccine industry, including mRNA vaccines. How could you possibly expect an organization, one of whose major donors has investments in the vaccine industry, to give reliable and disinterested advice about vaccines and about medical treatment?
In addition, the track record of the world Health Organization, particularly in recent years, shows it to be a scientifically incompetent and ethically corrupt organization. To begin with, the World Health Organization completely went against the standard guidelines regarding pandemic preparedness that came out of its own experts in 2019.
That plan in no way, shape, or form contemplated large-scale lockdowns or the paralysis of social life. And yet, the head of the World Health Organization publicly praised the Chinese lockdown experiment. This helped to create an international atmosphere more favourable to lockdowns, which predictably had devastating effects on healthcare, on the economy, on mental health and on education.
Second, bizarrely, it began to recommend community masking in 2020, defying its own meta-analysis of masking studies, which suggested that the evidence for the efficacy of community masking was inconclusive at best.
Third, the WHO misled the public about the safety of mRNA vaccines because it continued to sell mRNA vaccines as safe and effective even after some very worrying, adverse effects were uncovered, including myocarditis in young men.
Fourth, the WHO conspicuously failed to defend the principle of informed consent, standing aside and allowing a coercive international regime of vaccine passports to be instituted in the European Union in the full knowledge that this would pressure healthy young adults to take an experimental vaccine that they didn't really need.
It also supported vaccine mandates for healthcare personnel, in spite of the fact that the adverse effects of Covid vaccines were not well understood and could not be well understood because they had not been tested at the level of the general population.
So for all of these reasons, any information coming from the World Health Organization should have a giant health warning attached to it. And whenever I hear anything from the World Health Organization, whether it be about monkeypox, masking, or pandemic threats, I will be corroborating and checking it to make sure that it's sound.
I most certainly will not be taking at face value anything that comes out of an organization that is riddled with conflicts of interest and has shown itself to be ethically corrupt and scientifically incompetent.
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Any information coming from the WHO should have a giant health warning attached to it