Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus. He said the World Bank and IMF offered him a bribe of $940 million USD in the form of “Covid Relief Aid.” In exchange, the World Bank and IMF demanded that he:
• imposed “extreme lockdown on his people”
• force them to wear face masks
• impose very strict curfews
• impose a police state
• crash the economy
But still on Belarus, I I can tell you, we did not demand quarantine, isolation, lockdown, but we sought assurances for steps to contain the pandemic in line with WHO recommendations, which is our standard operating procedure in all countries. So, just the same.
The World Health Organization.
Here they are in action in Syria:
Perhaps the most brutal of WHO’s failures can be seen in Syria, where the civil war caused polio vaccination rates to drop and the disease to reemerge. Again, WHO’s policy meant that it worked only with the Syrian government—Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime—on polio eradication. WHO outreach in rebel-held areas was not only non-existent because of the violent situation, but because Assad’s government intentionally
obstructed most aid from reaching rebel-held areas. While WHO was effective in containing polio within government territory, the disease was able to spread throughout rebel areas. It was only through the intervention of other organizations, like the Syrian/Regional NGO conglomerate
Polio Control Task Force (PCTF) that polio was successfully eradicated in opposition-held Syria. WHO’s failings in Syria are not strictly in the public health sphere, as its cooperation with the Syrian government played an indirect role in shaping the Syrian Civil War.
The Syrian government has pursued a military strategy that targets the health of rebels;
attacks on rebel hospitals and medical personnel cripple the opposition’s ability to care for civilians and soldiers, while the use of chemical weapons inflicts a heavy mental health burden and moral blow in addition to the inevitable loss of life. The spread of infectious diseases in rebel populations compounds the effectiveness of this strategy by increasing the health burden and further inducing fear in rebel territory. If WHO were more willing to work with Syrian rebel groups to achieve positive health outcomes, it would avoid playing into Assad’s military strategy. In accordance with WHO’s commitment to independence, extending health support to rebel groups would in fact be the apolitical approach the organization so desires: Assad’s government would not receive a strategic boost, and health responses to polio or other diseases would be more equitable across Syria.
Seems the WHO really does prefer those who "co-operate" with them, irregardless of the desperation of actual people who need their help. And of course this is just one example, but an alarming one.
