THIS POST IS A CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON THE COMMENTS MADE BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UN IN THE UNITED NATIONS COVID SUMMIT OF DECEMBER 3, 2020.

PART-1: MEDIA REPORTS ON THE COVID SUMMIT OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN DECEMBER 2020

More than 180 countries have joined COVAX, a global collaboration working with manufacturers to distribute Covid vaccines with their availability thought to be imminent. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday the world could be fighting the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic for decades to come even if vaccines are quickly approved. Guterres hailed the quick scientific progress in vaccine development but cautioned that the vaccine was not a panacea for the ills affecting the planet because Global Warming is a bigger threat than the coronavirus according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a UN agency. AGTCG said that the Covid-19 has killed 1.9 million people globally and exacerbated the long term challenge of climate change. Representatives from more than 100 countries will take part in the UN Covid Vaccine Summit but diplomats do not expect the two-day virtual meeting to lead to important decisions. AGTCG said that he needs $4.3 billion to distribute the vaccine equitably. More than 180 countries have joined the COVAX global collaboration to work with manufacturers and to distribute the vaccine equitably.

Guterres reiterated his call that vaccines be considered a “global public good” that are shared around the world. He appealed for contributions to fill a $4.3bn shortfall in financing over the next two months. More than 180 countries have joined Covax, a global collaboration working with manufacturers to distribute vaccines equitably. Guterres defended the WHO performance and said its recommendations should have been the basis for a coordinated global response but in some situations, there was a rejection of facts and an ignorance of the guidance. And when countries go in their own direction, the virus goes in every direction. UNGA President Volkan Bozkir said the world is looking to the UN for leadership and action to address the greatest challenge our world is facing today and that this is not a time to point fingers but to forge a path forward and to end the suffering of the people. The world must ensure fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and work together to protect the most vulnerable countries and ensure adequate resources for an economic recovery from the pandemic. AGTCG welcomed steps to help developing countries but said they were insufficient for the scale of this crisis because many low and middle-income countries are being forced to choose between providing basic services to their people or servicing debts. They need support. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and European Union chief Charles Michel are expected to address the session. Vaccines will be available from BioNTech, Oxford University-AstraZeneca, and the WHO’s ACT-Accelerator working to ensure that the vaccines get to the world’s poorest people. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to participate.

CRITICAL COMMENTARY

Here we see Antonio Guterres the Climate Guy (AGTCG) at an important global gathering to plan the global distribution of the all important Covid vaccine using this venue to sell climate change. And then, without using names, he launches into an attack on President Donald Trump in defense of the WHO agency that Trump had criticized for spreading misinformation about Covid. Even the UNGA President Volcan Bozkir found that sufficiently distasteful to stand up and speak out against it. This kind of behavior of the UN Secretary General shows how climate activism has corrupted the UN and its primary purpose so much so that the corruption goes all the way up to the Secretary General such that his climate agenda still calls the shots at a meeting for the release of Covid vaccines. This is why AGTCG (Antonio Guterres the Climate Guy) describes him better than “Secretary General of the United Nations”.

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