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WHO chief's questionable past comes into focus following coronavirus response

cryptoadam

Banned

He landed his current job after three rounds of secret-ballot voting where he knocked out Dr. Sania Nishtar, of Pakistan, and Dr. David Nabarro, of Britain.

Just ahead of the vote, Tedros was accused of covering up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia when he was health minister. Tedros denied the allegations and claimed they were made as part of a "last-minute smear campaign" against him.

At the time, Lawrence Gostin, the director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, called out Ethiopia's long history of denying cholera outbreaks even as they were going through them and said some of those outbreaks took place on Tedros' watch. Gostin said he went public with his concerns because he feared that with Tedros at the helm of the WHO, the agency "might lose its legitimacy."

In an interview with The New York Times, Tedros denied covering up cholera outbreaks in 2006, 2009 and 2011, and said the cases of suspected cholera were actually cases of "acute watery diarrhea" that occurred in remote areas of the country where testing is "difficult."

The Guardian and The Washington Post have both reported that unnamed Ethiopian officials were putting pressure on aid agencies to stop using the word "cholera" and to not report the number of people affected by it during earlier outbreaks.

Born in 1965 in Asmara, which became Eritrea's capital after its independence from Ethiopia in 1991, Tedros grew up in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region. After his younger brother died from the measles, he vowed to push for universal health coverage.

Tedros became a member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which began a protracted rebellion against the military government and was crucial in the 1991 overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia's Marxist dictator. The victory resulted in swapping out a Amhara-dominated government with one led by Tigray leaders, which led to more than a decade of conflict.

Journalist Abebe Gellaw claims Tedros was one of the top three members of the TPLF and that the party is "ultimately responsible for all the corruption, killings, torture, mass detention, land grab or displacement," he wrote in the Ethiopian Registrar.

The United States State Department has categorized TPLF as a terrorist organization due to its "violent activities before it became part of the ruling coalition and the government of Ethiopia in May 1991."

Gellaw has also accused Tedros of using a U.S.-based lobbying firm to inflate his resume.

"He is hyping up his dubious successes: conquered malaria, destroyed HIV, reduced infant mortality, built thousands and thousands of clinics," Gellaw wrote, adding, "They never talk about the reality behind those exaggerated figures."

So a communist terrorist who covered up Chlorea outbreaks is in charge of the WHO. A commie cozying up with another commie using his past experience with covering up outbreaks to help China cover up theirs.

Remember WHO said don't stop travel and don't wear masks. :unsure:
 

cryptoadam

Banned

The AP obtained documents showing that WHO “routinely has spent about $200 million a year on travel expenses, more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health, including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.”

This follows similar scandals that prompted a 2015 seminar on accountability, in which WHO finance chief Nick Jeffries said that WHO employees “can sometimes manipulate a little bit their travel.” He admitted that WHO couldn’t be sure that staff travel was booked cost-effectively, or was even warranted.

Ian Smith, executive director of the director general’s office, reportedly said that the agency often did little to prevent abuses. Moreover, the $803 million WHO has paid for travel since 2013 doesn’t include costs often covered by host countries seeking to curry favor, which are off WHO’s books.

Don’t expect improvement from director-general-elect Tedros, who stated in his victory speech to health ministers that his “central priority” will be universal health coverage, presumably at the expense of WHO donors. As to the spending scandal, he said, “Any travel costs, as long as they can be justified because of the program, it’s fine.” He refused to state whether he’d change rules.

In the same meeting, the WHO assembly voted itself a $28 million (3 percent) increase in “assessed” contributions from taxpayers for Tedros’s 2018 and 2019 budgets. Unlike the case with “voluntary contributions” from governments, WHO considers assessed contributions to be “the highest-quality funding” because they are “fully flexible, and can be allocated to any type of work.” Just the way WHO likes it, without strings.

Without a hint of irony, Tedros proclaimed that “this election has been unprecedented in that it brought transparency to the organization, and even greater legitimacy to the director-general.”


Please note the date of this article:

June 14, 2017 8:00 AM

Money down the money hole, going to an org lead by a terrorist marxist with experience in covering up outbreaks, being lead around by the evil and vile CCP.
 

Papa

Banned
An Ethiopian doctor rising to be head of the WHO is a leftist’s wet dream. Virtue signalling kills.
 
Ignore the science.

Attack your perceived ideological opponents.

Left or right, doesn't matter. Rinse and repeat.

Honk.

Honk.
 
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Mistake

Gold Member
Imagine how much better off we'd be if only the press/media spent more time shining a spotlight on real shadiness/corruption instead of spending such obscene amounts of time distracting us with fictional stories.
If there has ever been a time to start a new news organization, it’s now. People are obviously tired, and it needs to be done
 
Because of western indifference, the WHO is probably one of the international institutions where China exerts the most influence.
They use it as a tool to push their agenda.



The WHO was late to categorize Covid-19 as a pandemic and generally relied on others in all areas of their response.
Germany developed the first tests, China provided the genetic code, doctors and scientists from all over the world pinned down the viruses data points (infection rate, death rate, R0, incubation period, transmission etc.) While the WHO was busy stirring up confusion over Ibuprofen and shit.

Also, if you ask me, the WHOs purpose is mainly to support developing nations, but even on that front the WHO didn't do well. Like, we aren't beginning to comprehend the extent of the crisis in Africa, India, and South America.
Even if they already had major outbreaks we wouldn't even notice, because they aren't testing and their healthcare systems are so insufficient that deaths wouldn't even stick out until the exponential growth curve is already exploding.


But the problem isn't just with the WHO. The concept of all nation-states handling this on their own with their own bottom line in sight is fucking stupid.
We would need a good international institution to coordinate efforts and share information. But the WHO didn't do well here.

However, the basic guidelines the WHO provided were good and many countries still ignored them.
Its an all-around shit show.
 
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