World Health Organisation

[medsec222]

The World Health Organisation are suggesting they are best placed to control pandemic policy. I hope the UK do not sign up to this. Why should an unelected body such as the WHO have the power to decide whether we have lockdowns or when we need to be vaccinated. Their performance during the COVID pandemic has left a lot to be desired. What happened in China still remains a mystery despite their apparent investigation - perhaps the Chinese communist party prefers to keep it quiet.

[cromwell]

100% agree Meds.
There's an online petition against this move and it really does need to be stopped.

[Workingman]

I think it is not a bad idea for the WHO to help co-ordinate things between first world and third world countries because it does have reps in nearly all countries so it should know what is needed, where and when. I also think it could help with logistics in countries that do not have very good infrastructure and communications.

However, there is no way it should have anything to do with policy making in countries doing the manufacture and donating of the vaccines, medical kit and so on.

[Suff]

However, there is no way it should have anything to do with policy making in countries doing the manufacture and donating of the vaccines, medical kit and so on.

WHO would still have us all locked down, regardless of the impact on the economy, jobs or mental health. They would also have us obsessively testing almost every day if they could.

Whereas the unlocking has done more for ending the pandemic than almost anything else excepting the vaccines. We're vaccinated to an end, a good % of us had already had the virus but never known and now it is slowly dying a death. The stats, due to Scotland deliberately changing their reporting days to be different from England, are now only reported once a week.

I had a discussion with #1 daughter yesterday about testing. She said the NHS still has to test and carry all the protection activities (without the budget for it now, I might add). I mentioned that the NHS is the largest single employer in the world at 1.4m people Aslo the care homes have to carry on with the masks and the testing.

How many people were tested in the last 7 days? 1.62m.

In other words the only people testing are the NHS and the care homes.

As a result the number of deaths "with" covid are dropping off a cliff. The number on ventilators are now below 200. Hospital admissions with Covid are falling.

WHO? They'd have us wrapped up in cotton wool, still on masks, testing manically and saying "SEE people are still being infected we HAVE to stop it before we stop the precautions".

Whereas, in fact, the very best way to stop a pandemic is for the human immune system to become so used to it that it never infects strongly enough to become transmissible. At which point it dies out.

[Kaz]

I agree with you Suff. We definitely have to learn to live with it now, and I think (hope!) that natural immunity will take over, now that the initial dangerous wave has subsided.

[miasmum]

Completely agree too and the GP surgeries need to catch up. My surgery (where I go not where I work) still refuse to let you in, you have to knock the window and then they will release the door. Once you get in there the blinds are down on the reception and there is a note saying if you wish to speak to a receptionist please go back outside and knock on the window again. Yet almost every week we get at least one text to say due to staff illness they are only taking emergency calls, so its obviously not working.

Where I work is the opposite, doors open, reception available, waiting room pretty full