By Nancy Thorner & Bonnie O'Neil -
The world is reeling as we have unwillingly been introduced to the Coronavirus by China. The high number of deaths this virus has inflicted worldwide has renewed awareness of the importance of family and friends. We tend to appreciate those close to us more in times of trouble, which may be the one positive result of this difficult time of mandatory shut-ins. Hopefully, our leaders will handle the current problem wisely and will not allow those who look only at the coronavirus as a disease to call the shots.
What does the U.N demand of its member nations?
The U. N. Charter sets out four worldwide steps for peace and security: our government must hold them accountable to follow the rules below.
- to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind,
- to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,
- to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained,
- to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.
The Preamble describes four areas that are the pillars of the UN:
- Peace and Security
- Human Rights
- The Rule of Law
- Development
These four pillars are all interconnected. You can’t fully achieve one without achieving all of them. Unfortunately, it appears Chinese leaders have been busy developing weapons of mass destruction rather than embracing basic U.N requirements. The World must condemn China to prevent it from happening again.
WHO, as a UN Organization
President Trump on April 8, 2020 in the Task Force news conference, raised the question of funding WHO, whose mission is looking after the health of the world and managing and communicating truthfully and transparently, events and developments of diseases, especially lethal ones that are global in scope and to be labeled pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a poor track record of being all buddy-buddy when dealing with the Chinese government. Like an appeaser in Neville Chamberlain’s cabinet, the WHO doesn’t want to do anything that offends China, whether the slight is real or imagined. Case in point, an interview between WHO official Dr. Bruce Aylward and Hong Kong’s public broadcasting service ended abruptly when the reporter asked if the WHO would continue to exclude Taiwan from its organization.
As to WHO leadership, specifically director-general Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, he has been accused of malpractice in his handling of Covid-19. The outcome of Dr. Trdros’ devotion to Beijing brass and their marching order has been gross mismanagement of the coronavirus.
Trump has floated cutting off funding for WHO as the organization's largest contributor, but WHO’s Dr. Tedros has pushed back with this warning in response, "If you don’t want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it."
The function of WHO is vital, but under the current management amid the coronavirus pandemic, it is dangerous and China-centric." Why should we pay for any organization dominated by the thug-run countries of the world? Trump seems to be the first president to object to the U.S. being treated as a patsy.
Politicizing Covid-19
Here in the United States there are a limited number of media sources not afraid to provide the public with reliable facts rather than engage in a cover-up. An unlikely source, Newsweek, did run an excellent and favorable profile of Tucker Carlson by Paul Bond on April 9/2020, Is Tucker Carlson the Most Powerful Person in Media?
Unfortunately, some Democrat governors and state legislators have used the virus for self-serving political purposes … choosing to play the blame game, with fingers pointed at President Trump.
This is not the time for political gaming. Particularly disappointing was that former President Obama joined his fellow Democrats in the criticizing Trump's handling of the virus.
When President Trump first called attention to the potential danger to Americans and ordered severe methods to avoid contagion, Democrat leaders chose to use the tragedy to malign Trumps handling of the tragedy. President Trump came under intense criticism on January 31, 2020, when he barred travel from China.
Rather than join President Trump in his efforts to keep Americans safe as possible and do whatever was needed to help those impacted by the dangerous virus, Democrats found ways to blame President Trump, critiquing Trump rather than concentrating on the harm China caused the world by their deadly silence.
China's Silence
As to China’s involvement and deathly silence about the virus, it should be condemned by every world leader. Without a strong reproach, China will continue its deceptive practices. It's not if another virus will surface, but when.
It became clear in January, 2020 that China faced a nationwide crisis; however, it was still doubted if COVID-19 would become a pandemic. China realized they couldn’t keep making critics vanish without scrutiny, so they decided to subtly control the narrative instead. For months now the Chinese government has been pumping out propaganda to cover their own rear end, going to such outrageous lengths as to claiming the US military manufactured the pathogen and unleashed it on the people of Wuhan.
Afraid of being labeled racist, “woke” mainstream media outlets quickly adopted the language used by Beijing after initially referring to the virus’s accurate origins.
It has also become apparent during this pandemic that Beijing destroyed research showing how dangerous COVID-19 is, suppressed information as the virus spread, and crushed dissent when the possibility of containing the outbreak still existed.
A Wuhan lab that identified COVID-19 as a highly contagious pathogen in late December was ordered by local officials to stop tests and destroy samples. Beijing scrambled to censor the story.
World Health Organization officials repeatedly minimized China’s deaths, the dangerous aspects of Covid-19, and its ability to quickly spread.
“Authorities in Wuhan have consistently underreported CCP virus infections and the death toll, based on internal government documents The Epoch Times received from one of the city's districts. Experts who conducted statistical modeling, eyewitness accounts from locals, and data previously provided the Epoch Times have shown that Chinese authorities concealed the true scale of the outbreak in Wuhan and other parts of China.”
Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform committee are demanding answers about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) relationship with China amid mounting congressional criticism of its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the GOP lawmakers raised concerns that the United Nations body failed to prevent China from spreading misinformation that could have helped contain the deadly virus. Questioned also was whether WHO officials were acting in the best interest of countries around the world, further accusing the WHO of failing to hold China accountable and slamming it for relying on “false information from the Chinese government.
Republicans have requested the information by April 16.
Conflicts of Interest
President Trump is supposedly locked in an intense power struggle with Bill Gates. Having lots of influence in the medical world, Gates is pushing his vaccine, even though his vaccine may not be available to the public until after November's election.
Not well known is that Gates has a multi-million-dollar relationship with Dr. Fauci which became apparent when Fauci originally took the Gates' line of supporting vaccines and expressed doubts on chloroquine.
Dr. Deborah Birx, appointed by former president to serve as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, also sits on the board of a group that has received billions from Gates' foundation. Birx reportedly used disputed Bill Gates-funded model for the White Houses' Coronavirus effort.
Of concern is the opinion piece Gates wrote on April 2, 2020 in the Washington Post:
"Some states and counties haven’t shut down completely. In some states, beaches are still open; in others, restaurants still serve sit-down meals. This is a recipe for disaster. Because people can travel freely across state lines, so can the virus. The country’s leaders need to be clear: Shutdown anywhere means shutdown everywhere. Until the case numbers start to go down across America — which could take 10 weeks or more — no one can continue business as usual or relax the shutdown.”
He then added that the impacts of the new coronavirus could linger another 18 months or so, until a vaccine was developed. Question: So, too, his proposed shutdown?
Should the fate of a hard-earned dream rest with a globalist billionaire who’s warning of dire coronavirus consequences to come — all the while making hands-over-fist coronavirus money, all the while holding top dog status in one of the very agencies tasked with sounding alarms on global health crises.
Trump must march to his own drummer in what he thinks is best for this nation.
Some good can come from the coronavirus pandemic, if people world-wide appreciate how quickly their lives can change due to rogue nations whose government cannot be trusted for transparency, truth, or cooperation with other nations.
It is also time for the United States to become independent of China, particularly for the manufacture of drugs. We cannot afford to trust China or any other foreign nation who would stay silent and allow a known dangerous virus to ravage our nation.
This must be a wake-up call.
