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A picture tells a thousand words: or does it?
The USA has taken a central role in attempting to drive changes to streamline and make more enforceable a WHO-led centralized response to future pandemics. It has to be asked whether they should be involved in public health planning at all.

When evidence and dogma diverge: The sad decline of our esteemed medical journals
by Dr David Bell | There was a time when medical publishing went beyond advertising and attempted to uphold the value of objectivity and evidence.

Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-perceptions of Researchers and Practitioners
by Josh Guetzkow | In this opinion article, the author who is a Senior lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, makes the point that the deliberate dismantling of science didn’t start two years ago.

The WHO power grab, what’s it all about and what can I do about it?
A lot of hot air is circulating in respect of the WHO treaty, and this article is designed to guide you to some reliable sources of further information.

International Health Regulations and Pandemic Treaties – What is the Deal?
by Dr David Bell | The mechanisms for increasing direct WHO control of pandemics through the International Health Regulations and the WHO Pandemic Treaty have strong backing from private sector funders of the WHO and from many national governments. And the most likely scenario for preventing the adoption of the two new mechanisms is for populations in democratic States to stimulate open debate.
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The New Global Health: Doing Good by Hammering the Poor
by David Bell | “Doing good” on a global scale has never been so popular, and never more profitable. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) ongoing pandemic treaty negotiations hold promise to lock in this edifying upwards shift of wealth, enabling a repetitive regime of lockdowns, border closures and coerced vaccination to continue the impoverishment and subjugation of those less fortunate.
Freedom Is Our Birthright, Not Dependent On Medical Status
by David Bell | On occasion the majority may need to swallow a risk for a time. Sometimes respecting the freedom of others will seem to cost us, but codifying human rights, and insisting on process, legalism, and law gives wisdom time to overcome fear.
From COVID-19 to Ukraine: Bouncing from One Crisis to the Next and the Importance of Staying Focused
by Dr Piers Robinson | Current political and economic agendas have major potential consequences for our societies. We simply cannot afford to continue tumbling from one highly propagandised crisis to the next and allowing our emotions to be harnessed by those who wield political and economic power.
WHO Decides Africa’s Health? Learning from the Covid-19 Disaster
by Dr David Bell | Has healthcare been stolen? As a resident of the West, I try to make sense from afar. If public health policy in African countries is to prioritize the people of Africa, then African expertise will have to form it free of the webs of neo-colonial intent.
Global Health And The Politics Of Catastrophe: Who will save us from the WHO and its new world order?
by Dr David Bell | Imagine control of all future responses to virus outbreaks – influenza, for instance – being dictated to the entire world by a cadre of unelected health bureaucrats in a distant country or continent.
Welcome to Clown World: Part 4 — An extraordinary week
Last week gets my vote for the most eventful one in the two years of madness that has been the Covid policy response. These are the significant events that were underreported or mischaracterised by mainstream media.
OLDER ARTICLES
What about the vulnerable?
It is worth remembering that proponents on both sides of the debate have the same goal. We all want to reduce death, misery and harm while maintaining human dignity.
Questions on the UCT vaccine mandate engagement session
The University of Cape Town held a student engagement session on mandatory vaccination. PANDA has some questions.
Informed Consent is not child’s play
On 18 October 2021, the Western Cape Government sent a circular detailing the arrangements surrounding the South African vaccine rollout to 12-17 year olds. This is PANDA’s response.
GroundUp and Vaccine Immunosuppression
Legacy media outlets have, over decades, become hollowed out by the erosion of their business models and they now show every sign of being compromised and failing to present balanced accounts of key aspects of the COVID policy response.
Welcome to Clown World: Part 3 – The politics of Covid
A false narrative about Covid has supported ineffective and highly destructive policies leading to the evisceration of individual rights, democracy and the rule of law in the name of a disease that presents negligible risk to most of the population. Virtually every element of the response has not been based on good science and the data prove that wherever you look.
Taking on Hudson – BizNews community member voices criticism of PANDA chairman
Nick Hudson responds to a community member’s allegations against PANDA and its stance on Covid, flu deaths, and Ivermectin.
COVAX – Vaccine Equity, or a Moral Crime?
COVAX looks set to continue the remarkable spate of destruction to livelihoods, human rights and future health prospects resulting from lockdowns against COVID-19 across much of the globe.
Do Repurposed Treatments Provide a Viable Path to Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Not prioritizing investigation of affordable options that could potentially have saved lives is an abrogation of responsibility and a betrayal by the WHO. At the very least, a new emphasis on large-scale serious trials of repurposed treatments, while allowing sensible use of what are highly safe medicines, is warranted.
Discovery South Africa and informed consent
PANDA requested that Discovery Health remove inaccurate information about the Covid-19 vaccines from their FAQ page on the Discovery website. Here is the correspondence between PANDA and Adrian Gore on this matter.
Nathan Geffen and GroundUp – The War on Truth Continues
GroundUp’s attempts to silence PANDA continued with a recent hit-piece. In essence what PANDA is criticised for pointing out is that the government is counting some people who have had one or two jabs as unvaccinated in order to overstate the efficacy of vaccines.
The Elephants In The Room
While citizens focus on the latest issue the government directs our attention to, many of us have lost sight of the big picture and grown accustomed to severe limitations on our rights like the proverbial frogs in hot water. PANDA is increasingly aware of the elephants in the room, the topics no one is talking about.
Welcome to Clown World: Part 2 — Vaccine Zealots
From the start, PANDA has maintained that vaccination should be approached from the same risk-benefit perspective that forms the basis of all good public health policies and animates our other perspectives on the pandemic.
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