*Issued last September, this "Executive Summary" by the WHO's Global Preparedness Monitoring Board* *is a most impressive piece of work—not least because of its clairvoyance, as it envisions "a rapidly* *spreading pandemic due to a lethal respiratory pathogen (whether naturally emergent or accidentally* *or deliberately released)" (italics in the text). To deal with that pandemic, the nations of the world must* *realize certain "progress indicators" by this September. *
*Those "indicators" now require our careful study, as the WHO means business; and, as we have* *long since learned, what business wants, business tends to get. It's obvious throughout this* *magisterial "summary" that Big Pharm—er, I mean, Bill G—oops, that is, the WHO, by this * *September, will be very close to having that VACCINE which will surely save us all, whether we* *want it or not.* *Among the summary's two dozen references to that expedient, the second is the most intriguing:* *"a universal influenza vaccine," which "countries, donors and multilateral institutions" must* *altogether get a jump on turning out. We need to ask what "universal" means? That it will kill* *off every influenza strain there is (including all possible mutations)? Or that it will be universally* *deployed? Or both? * *Whatever "universal" means, that is a really bad idea, and one we must be ready to shoot down,* *or, failing that, resist, and well before September.* *MCM * https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_Annual_Report_English.pdf -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W8-qU0U5LV8z0J2kvmC-TjehKtKsW7Lyg7h0PbBBQbiuQ%40mail.gmail.com.
