The World Economic Forum’s annual political and business glitterati conference is being held this week in Davos, Switzerland.
To be sure, we will be treated to staggering levels of hypocrisy and tone-deafness as clips and messaging from attendees as they stream their way into the media.
In 2023, global elitists were slammed for their “ultra-polluting” jets as they discussed the climate crisis.”Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis,” Klara Maria Schenk, a campaigner for environmental group Greenpeace International, said in a statement ahead of the conference.”Meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors,” she continued.
The flock of private jets and caravans of limousines heading to Davos for elite summits is legendary. So the question must be asked: Why are no climate protesters gluing themselves to runways or asphalt?
A broad range of topics will be covered during this conference, which will be attended by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French President Emmanuel Macron, and key Middle East leaders. Per one of the attendees, they are bringing together the “right people to see how we can solve this very challenging world.”
A challenging global economic picture, with shifting interest rate policies and rising debt, will also confront the central bankers, financiers and business leaders attending.A key closed-door session addressing this will be led by the chief executives at British-based bank Barclays (BARC.L) and Canadian life insurer Manulife Financial Corp (MFC.TO), according to a copy of the agenda obtained by Reuters.Brende said much of this year’s focus would be high level diplomatic talks on wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Africa.”We will make sure that we bring together the right people … to see how we can solve this very challenging world”.
Clearly, tone-deafness will continue to be part of WEF messaging.
I explored why British researchers were studying “Disease X.” Ultimately, I concluded that researchers were making vaccines the cure-all for all potential infections that might plague humanity.
Why does the vaccine have to be the de facto solution for diseases? There are also options for early treatment development, the creation of novel disinfecting agents, and encouraging people to get fit and eat healthy.
Of course, ensuring people get diets full of protein and other immune-system-enhancing nutrients doesn’t allow Big Pharma to prosper, nor bureaucrats to mandate policies on the global scale (which they themselves will ignore).
Well, it turns out that Disease X is on the agenda at Davos.
It comes after warnings from experts that a hypothetical new pandemic could kill 20 times more people than the recent coronavirus outbreak. It is hoped that with the correct research framework in place and enough knowledge in place on a global level, a future pandemic could be eliminated in just 100 days.The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a potential Disease X since 2017, a term indicating an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic. Speaking to the WEF on its Radio Davos podcast last year, author Kate Kelland said that extensive research into already-known families of viruses would help humanity prepare and create a vaccine quickly for the the next outbreak.She said: “Because scientists were working for decades or more on Sars vaccines and also on Mers vaccine, they found out some very key pieces of information about coronaviruses. If we do that kind of homework on every one of the 25 or so viral families that we already know have the potential to cause disease in humans … then we can actually gain a lot of knowledge ahead of time about something that doesn’t exist yet.”
I predict the attendees at Davos will remain oblivious to how their policies will be received.
Meanwhile, the WEF will continue to push the message….you will own nothing and be happy.
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