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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.275-276 [SLACK_000489] · slack_pm:msg:02870

Date: 2020-11-23 13:44
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: Intelligence community assessments WHO and international investigation Vaccines

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The ten priority actions of the Commission are summarised in panel 1. *Ten priority actions* • *1* Origins: track down the origins of the virus in an open, scientific, and unbiased way not influenced by geopolitical agendas • *2* Non-pharmaceutical interventions: suppress the epidemic through the proven package of non-pharmaceutical interventions, as accomplished by several countries including several in the Asia-Pacific region • *3* Science-based policy making: base policy making on objective scientific evidence and stop politicians and others in positions of power from subverting clinical trials and other scientific protocols • *4* Timely and consistent data: collect and publish timely and internationally consistent data on the state of the pandemic, including humanitarian and economic consequences• *5* Justice in access to tools to fight COVID-19: ensure universal access to the tools to fight COVID-19, including test kits, therapeutics, and prospective vaccines• *6* Emergency financing: secure access of developing countries to financing from international sources, especially from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank• *7* Protect vulnerable groups: direct urgent protection towards vulnerable groups, including older people, people inpoverty and hunger, women who are vulnerable, children, people with chronic diseases and disabilities, thehomeless, migrants, refugees, Indigenous Peoples, and ethnic and racial minorities• *8* Long-term financial reform: prepare for a deep restructuring of global finances, including debt relief, new formsof international financing, and reform of monetary arrangements• *9* Green and resilient recovery: economic recovery will be based on public-investment-led growth in green,digital, and inclusive technologies, based on the Sustainable Development Goals• *10* Global peace and cooperation: support UN institutions and the UN Charter, resisting any attempts at a new cold warIs that all?

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2020-11-23 13:00 Robert F. Garry open

NO point at all. It's a[nother] vanity project for the Grand Wizard and Richard Horton. Plus, they did not appreciatePO1 getting 5M+ hits and a lot of positive press.
2020-11-23 13:28 Edward C. Holmes open

:100:
2020-11-23 13:44 Andrew Rambaut

The ten priority actions of the Commission are summarised in panel 1. *Ten priority actions* • *1* Origins: track down the origins of the virus in an open, scientific, and unbiased way not influenced by geopolitical agendas • *2* Non-pharmaceutical interventions: suppress the epidemic through the proven package of non-pharmaceutical interventions, as accomplished by several countries including several in the Asia-Pacific region • *3* Science-based policy making: base policy making on objective scientific evidence and stop politicians and others in positions of power from subverting clinical trials and other scientific protocols • *4* Timely and consistent data: collect and publish timely and internationally consistent data on the state of the pandemic, including humanitarian and economic consequences• *5* Justice in access to tools to fight COVID-19: ensure universal access to the tools to fight COVID-19, including test kits, therapeutics, and prospective vaccines• *6* Emergency financing: secure access of developing countries to financing from international sources, especially from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank• *7* Protect vulnerable groups: direct urgent protection towards vulnerable groups, including older people, people inpoverty and hunger, women who are vulnerable, children, people with chronic diseases and disabilities, thehomeless, migrants, refugees, Indigenous Peoples, and ethnic and racial minorities• *8* Long-term financial reform: prepare for a deep restructuring of global finances, including debt relief, new formsof international financing, and reform of monetary arrangements• *9* Green and resilient recovery: economic recovery will be based on public-investment-led growth in green,digital, and inclusive technologies, based on the Sustainable Development Goals• *10* Global peace and cooperation: support UN institutions and the UN Charter, resisting any attempts at a new cold warIs that all?
2020-11-23 13:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

I find #10 to be very important - "Global peace and cooperation". Get on it Peter.

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