WHO chief warns 'future generations may not forgive us' if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: 'There will be a next time'
(fortune.com)
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 05 Feb 2024 11:22
https://lemmy.world/post/11585751
Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”
Despite lessons that should have been learned during COVID-19, the world is unprepared for the next pandemic, be it an influenza virus, another coronavirus, or “Disease X”—a term the organization has used since 2018 to refer to a yet-unknown pandemic pathogen, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, speaking virtually from Geneva at the summit, held in Coventry, England.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Objections to the pandemic treaty were recently fueled by online rumors regarding “Disease X” ahead of a January session on the topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which Ghebreyesus attended.
Ahead of the January session in Davos, she tweeted a baseless warning that “unelected globalists at the World Elected Forum will hold a panel on a future pandemic 20x deadlier than COVID.”
The world needs a “robust” pandemic treaty, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told Fortune on Saturday.
Dr. Amesh Adalja—an infectious disease specialist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security—told Fortune that an international treaty or similar mechanism is critical for optimal preparation and response to future pandemics.
Raj Rajnarayanan—assistant dean of research and associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology campus in Jonesboro, Ark., and a top COVID variant tracker—told Fortune on Saturday that a different paradigm may be helpful in pandemic treaty negotiations.
Just as the “indaba” negotiation tactic of the Zulu people of South Africa was used to encourage consensus in 2015 at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, the pandemic treaty may benefit from the “Arthashastra” approach, based on an Ancient Indian treatise written in Sanskrit, he asserted.
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Future generations won’t forgive us for a whole lot of very good reasons.
Fortunately for us, they’ll all be dead so it won’t matter.
Current generations aren’t either.
Nor should they.
I’m sure they’ll curse us as the oceans swallow the seas anyway.
Meh. Pile it on top of all the cataclysmic climate shit.
The pile labeled “perfect storm”
The amount of compium I see in people is scary. This was the warning. Next time could be so much worse and all I see are adults who just act like children. *EDIT Had to add so many people I use to even respect. Once they were told to many times what to do had adult temper tantrums. Acting straight out weird.
Ebola was the preview. COVID was the tutorial. We barely got through them after countless sacrifices made by people who actually gave a damn and even put their own lives at risk.
Never was sure how Captain Trips spread so easily in The Stand. Boy did COVID make it clear how easy it happened.
lol, good luck with that shit when you can’t even get countries to not poison their own air, water, and land. no country will give up the technological and military advantage of understanding more about a pathogen than rivals.
We used to sling plague corpses with catapults to break sieges and weaponized anthrax - employees at Porton Downs are salivating at making a new weaponized horror for the world.
Well, luckily, the next generation will be to busy dealing with climate change to even care about a pandemic. maybe wiping 99% of the population is the solution we need, and they end up applauding us for being so stupid
Hahaha, you think climate change is a threat? They are going to be dealing with mass poverty giving rise to Fascism.
Hah you’re worried about mass poverty leading to fascism? They are going to be dealing with… Checks five page long list with horrors awaiting future generations unavoidable microplastics poisoning them from the moment they are conceived
Yes, you’re right. Microplastics are worse than Hitler.
Not directly worse, no. Microplastics are killing ocean life. That will kick off a chain-reaction of food shortage-related catastrophes: big time wars and a lot of megadeath. We’re going to see a WHOLE LOT of mini-Hitlers come from that.
Today on Facebook I saw a young mom who is getting her leg amputated because of a COVID driven infection. Idk if vaccinated or not because Facebook took away that as a keyword search, but didn’t look obnoxiously antivax at a glance. Like just what a horror show regardless. Everyone should nail every government and WHO and social media to the wall for the shitty job they did in ending this.
Solution, don’t use Facebook. I don’t and I still have my penis to play with.
That is not what future generations are going to complain about.
Capitalism run crazy? Yes. Fuck billionaires.
Government owned by corporations? Again. Fuck billionaires.
Destroyed eco system in the name of short term profits. Again. Fuck the rich.
Pedeophile rings at all levels of government. This time don’t fuck them. That’s what they’re doing to kids.
Pandemic treaties? Well we wouldn’t need them if our basic supplies were met. So once again
FUCK THE RICH.
Oh watching COVID kill your parents or friends because some plague rat coughed on them is going to motivate a lot of people. I know just seeing it happen on the news motivated me. I’m still wanting payback over the deaths of 1 million of my fellow citizens, far too many of which were fellow African Americans.
What kills me is if we’re going this whole “global coordination” way then why the fuck aren’t we discussing making those wet markets that basically breed these viruses illegal?
Sanction any nation that doesn’t properly regulate those markets so we don’t have bats shitting on monkeys that are pissing on hamsters that someone is going to eat in China or wherever…
I hope everyone dies next time
I’m alive rn and I already don’t forgive anyone in charge of anything in regards to government and the pandemic.
…but given the part that the WHO played, does giving them global “emergency powers” sound like a good course of action?
The protocol is simple. Just stay home and don’t hangout with any Republicans. This is proving to be the current course of action. Once all the remaining Republicans have outlived their COVID expected survival counts, we can emerge triumphant like the cicades. Do our thing for a few days, then go hide for another 3 years and let the Republicans long COVID their ass to their palliative care hospitals. Like a cancer taking your best friend except that they are not best or friends.
And hire police that will come down hard as titanium on idiots rushing stores unmasked and blocking traffic at vaccination centers. And start booting trucks in anti-vax convoys. Treat them like they treat Black Lives Matter.
Im a current generation and I already don’t forgive you.
*taps forehead
Can’t not forgive us if not around to not forgive us