Interesting article from Politico- How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight

[dhupverg]

"Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world. But they lacked the scrutiny of governments, and fell short of their own goals, a POLITICO and WELT investigation found."

 

This is a very good piece about how the covid response was handled.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969

 

[TravelerEastWest]

"While nations were still debating the seriousness of the pandemic, the groups identified potential vaccine makers and targeted investments in the development of tests, treatments and shots."

 

We are lucky that they were there to donate billions of dollars - without which how many more lives would haven been lost? 

[onthedarkside]

A misinformation post has been removed.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Yes, as this report found, the nonprofit groups cited failed to meet their ambitious goals of getting sufficient COVID vaccines and tests distributed to third-world countries...

 

And then the article goes on to explain why:

 

"The leaders of the groups say that they were unable to meet their goals largely because wealthy, Western governments were slow to step up and make available the huge tranches of vaccine and therapeutics that were needed to protect the world."

 

And further, the article quoted Gates Foundation CEO Mark Susman as saying:

 

“In some areas we saw successes. On the most critical issue of equitable vaccine access, the world as a whole failed as high-income countries initially monopolized available supply.”

 

That's not something that the non-profits can chiefly be blamed for.

 

Rightly or wrongly, various countries with access to COVID vaccines in the early going were prioritizing access for their own citizens over access for people in other countries.

 

 

Edited September 16, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Here's a new report that puts the world's COVID failures in better perspective, and calls out where the blame lies, and Bill Gates-related groups aren't at the top of their list -- though the WHO comes in for a major shellacking for being too timid and too slow to meaningfully respond. Anti-maskers and anti-vaccine folks in the general public also are blamed:

 

Lancet Commission on COVID-19 response: 'Massive global failure'

 

"Noting an estimated 17.2 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide through May 31, the commission said, "This staggering death toll is both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels. Too many governments have failed to adhere to basic norms of institutional rationality and transparency, too many people—often influenced by misinformation—have disrespected and protested against basic public health precautions, and the world's major powers have failed to collaborate to control the pandemic."

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1272054-lancet-commission-on-covid-19-response-massive-global-failure/

 

Edited September 16, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[thaibeachlovers]

On 9/16/2022 at 9:47 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Rightly or wrongly, various countries with access to COVID vaccines in the early going were prioritizing access for their own citizens over access for people in other countries.

Do you think that was wrong? After all, they are ELECTED to look after their own citizens, not citizens of another country.

[Jingthing]

Learn from the mistakes for the next time which sadly almost definitely won't happen.