To summarize, while it’s sensible to prepare for outbreaks and pandemics, it’s even more sensible to improve health. This involves directing resources to where the problems are and using them in a way that does more good than harm. When people’s salaries and careers become dependent on changing reality, reality gets warped. The new pandemic proposals are very warped. They are a business strategy, not a public health strategy. It is the business of wealth concentration and colonialism – as old as humanity itself.
Much has been written on the current proposals putting the World Health Organization front and center of future pandemic responses.
There are fundamentals here that everyone with public health training should agree upon.
From an orthodox public health standpoint, are some problems with the proposals on pandemics to be voted on at the World Health Assembly at the end of this month.
The urgency must be for reasons other than public health need.
Higher-burden diseases should dominate public health priorities, however dull or unprofitable they may seem.
Investment in public health requires both evidence that the investment will improve outcomes and an absence of significant harm.
Most people on earth would grasp that concept far better than a public health workforce heavily incentivized to think otherwise.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-whos-proposed-pandemic-agreements-worsen-public-health/
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