For anyone wondering how the world joined together behind the scenes to combat COVID-19, Politico has a disturbing investigation showing that just four groups took the power from the most powerful nations, and ran with it.
“What followed was a steady, almost inexorable shift in power from the overwhelmed governments to a group of non-governmental organizations,” Politico reports.
“The largest and most powerful was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world. Then there was Gavi, the global vaccine organization that Gates helped to found to inoculate people in low-income nations, and the Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multibillion-dollar endowment that had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years. Finally, there was the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, the international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017.”
What Gates and his pals got in return, Politico says, is unprecedented access to, and influence of, the World Health Organization and the highest levels of government in countries around the world. Using their money and influence, these Gates groups are now lobbying the U.S. and EU to “embrace their priorities for the next pandemic.”
In other words, as public health law specialist Lawrence Gostin told Politico, “Putting it in a very crass way, money buys influence. And this is the worst kind of influence. Not just because it’s money — although that’s important, because money shouldn’t dictate policy — but also, because it’s preferential access, behind closed doors.”
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Politico September 14, 2022