The United Nations thinks they still have the power to compel in a world that, let’s face it, is seeing each nation, particularly in the 1st World, look at their own nation first. With Coronavirus raging, think that Germany, France, England, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and so many more aren’t worried about their own nations 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th? And they will be priotizing vaccination for their citizens and recovery for their countries the same
U.N. warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe
Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a “stampede for vaccines” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley and World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a special meeting on COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year and has so far infected 65 million globally.
The pandemic, measures taken by countries to try to stop its spread and the economic impact have fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian help, the United Nations said earlier this week. It has appealed for $35 billion in aid funding.
“2021 is literally going to be catastrophic based on what we’re seeing at this stage of the game,” said Beasley, adding that for a dozen countries, famine is “knocking on the door.”
He said 2021 was likely to be “the worst humanitarian crisis year since the beginning of the United Nations” 75 years ago and “we’re not going to be able to fund everything … so we have to prioritize, as I say, the icebergs in front of the Titanic.”
Well, there are lots of things they can set aside in 2021. They can get rid of their climate change scam funding. All those climate change conferences. They could spend a lot less on needless travel and bureaucrats. Perhaps stop giving so much money that ends up in the pockets of dictators and governments rather than helping citizens. The UN Peacekeepers program is a disaster, what with all the rapes and property theft.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his top officials have also called for COVID-19 vaccines to be made available to all and for rich countries to help developing countries combat and recover from the pandemic.
Tedros appealed for an immediate injection of $4.3 billion into a world vaccine-sharing program.
“We simply cannot accept a world in which the poor and marginalized are trampled by the rich and powerful in the stampede for vaccines,” Tedros told the General Assembly. “This is a global crisis and the solutions must be shared equitably as global public goods.”
That’s nice and all, but, America should worry about Americans being vaccinated first. Germany should worry about Germans. India should worry about Indians, etc and so on. If the U.N. wants some extra cash, why not hit up their buddies in China, whom they helped hide the outbreak of COVID19 and are still helping hide what’s actually going on in China. Otherwise, they have no power to dictate anything.
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