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WHO pleads with G7 to step up and combat COVID

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There is a simple and cheap cure for Covid. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine ! 

This is a dangerously false statement.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19

https://www.cochrane.org/news/chloroquine-or-hydroxychloroquine-useful-treating-people-covid-19-or-preventing-infection

There is no need for these experimental gene changing vaccines.

The vaccines do not "change genes", that is not actually scientifically possible.

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I was referring to the theories floating around anti-vaxx circles that the covid-19 vaccines somehow change people's DNA (which is what vic.m was implying). They don't.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-dna-idUSL2N2L23EM

Confusion around this issue may have arisen from new mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which involve the injection of a small part of the virus’s genetic code (RNA) to stimulate immune response in a patient without an infection (here and here).

The mRNA from the vaccine does not alter the recipient’s DNA, is broken down shortly after vaccination, and does not stay in the body (here).

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I want "cant".

No problem, here's "can't":

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/will-mrna-vaccine-alter-my-dna

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is found in all living cells. These strands of genetic code act as chemical intermediaries between the DNA in our chromosomes and the cellular machinery that produces the proteins we need to function: mRNA provides the instructions this machinery needs to assemble these proteins.

However, mRNA isn’t the same as DNA, and it can’t combine with our DNA to change our genetic code. It is also relatively fragile, and will only hang around inside a cell for about 72 hours, before being degraded.

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Then the WHO WINKED, WINKED at Japan!

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How about asking the country that started this nightmare to take some responsibility for this miserable mess they created. China is like the bad drunk that spoils a decent party.

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Wouldn't having the Western nations of the G7 (and Japan) take over the rest of the globe's Covid-19 response efforts be akin to the bygone era of colonialism and imperialism? Sorry but the "me too, so woke, globalist" world you wanted is here - deal with it!

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you said it isnt scientifically possible to change genes.

I was referring to the theories floating around anti-vaxx circles that the covid-19 vaccines somehow change people's DNA (which is what vic.m was implying). They don't.

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WHO should plead with China. Not the rest of the world.

"WHO pleads with G7 to step up and combat COVID"

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someone needs to follow the "science"

"Genome editing is a way of making changes to specific parts of a genome. Scientists have been able to alter DNA since the 1970s, but in recent years, they have developed faster, cheaper, and more precise methods to add, remove, or change genes in living organisms."

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The World Health Organization said the Group of Seven industrial powers had the ability to fund the vaccines, tests and treatments needed to conquer the pandemic -- and knock down the barriers blocking faster production.

If the WHO wants a leader who can produce a new vaccine on a global scale and fast, perhaps they should ask the one person who actually produced one in record time - former President Trump. Biden’s efforts to this point have only led to more deaths and misery despite the fact that he inherited a vaccination program that was quickly ramping up at the very moment he took office.

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There are some bizarre posting above, going off on all sorts of bizarre rants. Some can't see the wood for the trees. The idea is of working together and and sharing protection and treatment more equitably, so protection and treatment is not only for a wealthy minority. Brown simply tried to sugar the pill for those without humanitarian feelings by appealing to their self-interest, saying if you don't help poorer populations, in your own country or globally, it will come back to haunt you.

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The elephant in the middle of the room that is conveniently being ignored in advance of the G-7 summit in June is the necessity of booster shots. Most public health experts appear to agree at this point that recipients of all of the existing vaccines will likely need a booster at some point, now that herd immunity seems to be unattainable in the foreseeable future (hence the UNSG saying, "In an interconnected world, none of us is safe until all of us are safe").

Much debate is underway as to how soon and how often, but it appears to be necessary under the current scientific viewpoint.

Yes, they are working on a pill, patch or spray form, but that appears to be mid next year at the earliest.

Back to the elephant: who is supposed to pay for initial immunity AND booster immunity for all the world in ad infinitum?

Is this really the first of many future discussions over having less than a dozen countries paying for the health care of citizens for all other countries?

If it is the right thing to do during a Covid pandemic, will it also be the right thing to do within the walls of the five global health crisis that have been declared by the WHO, along with the ten global health emergencies and threats that the WHO has already announced? https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019.

This has been in the making for some time. The WHO already has a plan to get it all done, so why shouldn't the rest of us get a preview over how much it is going to cost?

Consider, for example:

The rise of health issues such as HIV, pandemic influenza and Ebola on international agendas has led to the framing of threats to health as security issues. This has created an uneasy relationship between politics and health, by moving national interests into an area traditionally dominated by scientific rationalities and a predisposition towards cosmopolitan norms. Framing global health threats as risks, however, appears to be less politically charged and divisive, combining an aura of scientific objectivity with a moral call to action . . . [F]raming health in terms of risk is useful in understanding how health issues reflect and contribute to the wider **Zeitgeist concerning societal vulnerability: that dangers exist which are uncontrollable and are the product of technical progress. The risk frame allows us to place health issues into this wider context, where disease is just one of a number of concurrent dangers, rather than a separately identifiable hazard. [Bolding added] *Colin McInnes, Anne Roemer-Mahler, From security to risk: reframing global health threats, International Affairs*, Volume 93, Issue 6, November 2017, Pages 1313–1337, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix187.

Come on, we are all grown ups. Just tell us, so that we can have an informed discussion on topic.

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[Former Labour Party British prime minister Gordon Brown] said that based on national income, wealth and benefits from the resumption of trade, the United States would pay 27 percent of the cost; Europe 23 percent; Japan six percent; Britain five percent; and Canada -- plus South Korea and Australia, who will also attend the G7 -- two percent each.

Got it: 67%.

Well, maybe?

Less then a month ago, Mr. Brown penned an op-ed piece to The Guardian, entitled: The G7 must push for global vaccination. Here’s how it could do it In it, he said.

"A more equitable burden-sharing would also weigh the differential gains to richer countries from the resumption of trade and the special privileges of G7 and G20 membership. Under such a formula, the US might contribute about 25% . . . and the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan between 4% and 7% each, so the poorest countries are exempt. Here the G7 is critical: its members should declare that they will contribute their full share, totalling 60%. If they did so, China, Russia, Scandinavia and the oil states would feel bound to follow."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/12/g7-global-vaccination-covid

Not surprisingly, The China Daily immediately jumped on his words:

Gordon Brown said the world has entered a "vaccine apartheid", because a small group of affluent nations control the lion's share of treatments, while a significant majority of the developing world remains unprotected against the virus. Brown suggested that the G7 is "best positioned" to agree to transfer vaccine technology to low-income countries. The G7 is made up of the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. The next G7 annual summit, which will also be attended by representatives from the European Union, is set for June 11.

"We cannot afford to not act," Brown said. "The funds needed are a fraction of the trillions COVID-19 is costing us. They are less than 2 percent of (US President) Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. Indeed, it would benefit the US or Europe to underwrite the first $30 billion-not as an act of charity, but as self-insurance to protect national interests. If the G7 came together in June to fund mass vaccination, by 2025, their economies would be at least $500 billion better off, according to the Eurasia Group."

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202104/13/WS6074f303a31024ad0bab5127.html

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WHO pleads with G7 to step up and combat COVID

WHO should also reform itself to step up combat Covid and Beijing-favoritism.

It is reported that WHO chief Tedros is seeking re-election. Enough is enough. #UncleTedPleaseRetire

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you said it isnt scientifically possible to change genes.

It actually is scientifically possible to change genes. so how can you know the vaccine isnt doing it?

because a pharma company selling a vaccine told you so?

They didnt tell you the vaccine causes blood clots either, did they? well the J&J one does.

that is not actually scientifically possible.

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its a big difference between you know the vaccines dont because its scientifically impossible and you know they dont because the pamphlet from the vaccine maker says it wont. thats CANT vs. WONT.

I want "cant".

To each his own level of trust of pharma and big government. My friends arent too happy with J&J right now as they now have to consider the fact they can have a blood clot and die at any moment.

Thats scary, to say the least. and for what, to prevent to get something you are 99% sure not to get already?

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Keep the WHO hands of the vaccines that Canada's Trudeau is begging off of Covax!

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WEF can kick WHO bottom anytime.

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There is a simple and cheap cure for Covid. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine ! There is no need for these experimental gene changing vaccines. India was doing well on Ivermectin with cases of Covid dropping right down. They went straight up after people got the vaccinations.

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