Difference between revisions of "Global Preparedness Monitoring Board"
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* identify critical gaps to preparedness across multiple perspectives; | * identify critical gaps to preparedness across multiple perspectives; | ||
* advocate for preparedness activities with national and international leaders and decision-makers."<ref>https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf</ref> | * advocate for preparedness activities with national and international leaders and decision-makers."<ref>https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf</ref> | ||
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| + | The GPMB states "The world is not prepared for a fast-moving, virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic", where "50 - 80 million people could perish".<ref>https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_Annual_Report_English.pdf</ref> By focusing on "robust preparedness", pressuring national leaders to take "determined measures" against a declared pandemic situation, they overshot the target and recommended too severe measures (a ruinous global lockdown) that in the case of a false alarm ([[swine flu]], [[Covid-19]]) led to exactly the major economic disaster they claimed they wanted to prevent. | ||
==Leadership== | ==Leadership== | ||
| − | The co-chairs as of early 2020 were [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] and [[Elhadj As Sy]]. | + | The co-chairs as of early 2020 were [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] and [[Elhadj As Sy]]. The board claims to be independent, but the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation|Gates Foundation]] is represented on the board by [[Chris Elias]], and several of the members have ties to the [[Big pharma|pharmaceutical industry]]. Several of the board members were present at the [[Event 201]] pandemic exercise. |
==Funding== | ==Funding== | ||
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Revision as of 09:13, 9 June 2020
 Global Preparedness Monitoring Board  | |
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| Abbreviation | GPMB |
| Formation | May 2018 |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
| Leader | Global Preparedness Monitoring Board/Chair |
| Interests | “pandemic” |
| Membership | • .jpg){kind=small} Gro Harlem Brundtland•  Victor Dzau•  Chris Elias•  Jeremy Farrar•  Anthony Fauci•  Henrietta Fore•  George Gao• Diane Gashumba •  Sigrid Kaag• Ilona Kickbusch • Veronika Skvortsova • Yashuhiru Suzuki • Jeanette Vega Morales • Elhadj As Sy |
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board describes itself as "an independent monitoring and advocacy body".[1]
Origins
In May 2018 the WHO and World Bank Group set up the GPMB.[2]
Own words
In its September 2019 report, the GPMB stated that the "goals of the Board are to:
- assess the world’s ability to protect itself from health emergencies;
- identify critical gaps to preparedness across multiple perspectives;
- advocate for preparedness activities with national and international leaders and decision-makers."[3]
Criticism
The GPMB states "The world is not prepared for a fast-moving, virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic", where "50 - 80 million people could perish".[4] By focusing on "robust preparedness", pressuring national leaders to take "determined measures" against a declared pandemic situation, they overshot the target and recommended too severe measures (a ruinous global lockdown) that in the case of a false alarm (swine flu, Covid-19) led to exactly the major economic disaster they claimed they wanted to prevent.
Leadership
The co-chairs as of early 2020 were Gro Harlem Brundtland and Elhadj As Sy. The board claims to be independent, but the Gates Foundation is represented on the board by Chris Elias, and several of the members have ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Several of the board members were present at the Event 201 pandemic exercise.
Funding
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Resolve to Save Lives and the German Government.
Known members
8 of the 14 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
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| Gro Harlem Brundtland | Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech" |
| Victor Dzau | Chinese/US doctor, member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, very heavy WEF AGM habit |
| Chris Elias | Doctor and Bill Gates protege, A Spreading Plague, Event 201 |
| Jeremy Farrar | Wellcome Trust/Director, took part in A Spreading Plague in 2019, assisted Daszak in promoting the zoonotic origin of COVID-19, 2021 Monkeypox Tabletop Exercise |
| Anthony Fauci | Health bureaucrat who has a preference for vaccines over other drugs. Covid-19 taskforce leader. |
| Henrietta Fore | As Executive Director of UNICEF worked in collaboration with GAVI, CEPI and the World Health Organization, among others, to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination. |
| George Gao | Chinese virologist and immunologist who participated in the notorious Event 201 and the 2021 Monkeypox Tabletop Exercise |
| Sigrid Kaag | Dutch diplomat and politician. Although an outspoken feminist, Kaag vocally opposed a public trial regarding dozen of reports of sexual abuse within her own party. A successful and career-diplomat, named by Geert Wilders as the "namesake of a runway at Schiphol Airport", she has attended two Bilderberg meetings. |
