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while managing how much they
spend. What is curious is why, after
McKinsey’s recommendations about
cost reductions and the methods
for how countries could go about
this (which I will share later), did the
WHO and UN and nations of the
world change course from ‘health
care budgets around the world are
being squeezed’ to a direction that
would ensure increased spending in
healthcare and on healthcare sys-
tems in countries around the world,
by the year 2030? All the while using
as an entreaty, a principle they call
Leave No One Behind (LNOB).
A term reminiscent of US military
ethos. “The world today has 6.8 billion people, that’s head-
ed up to about 9 billion. Now, if we do a really great
So, what was this shift in health- job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health
care spending really about? Making
money for pharmaceutical com- services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15%.”
panies, manufacturers of hospi- Each one of the items on his list of things they could
tal equipment and construction do a ‘really great job’ on is connected directly to the
companies and all those in related health care industry.
value chains? Did the McKinsey
report hint at something to come
like maybe a global plan by the
World Economic Forum and its pharmaceutical industry and certain as their intended goals for global
partners to move people off heavy other aspects of allopathic ‘care’ and vaccination had not been sufficiently
spending on healthcare and health- the fitness industry that cause more met. This was before Covid. You
care systems at some point in the harm than good - among all the have to know that the ones being
future? Could this plan have been other games that are being played called ‘furthest behind’ are those
deferred, by all the parties involved, on human beings that result in $1 in Afrika and other lands that have
to the year 2030, where it can be trillion price tags on health. been subject to global economic
rolled out after the heavy anti-health manipulations. Manipulations which
campaign that is currently running The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable have ensured that these nations do
across the world? Perhaps after the Development states, in paragraph 4: not rise up and make any real moves
infrastructure for remote delivery “As we embark on this great collec- towards transformation that do not
of treatments via nanotechnology tive journey, we pledge that no one fit the global script.
has been rolled out to all citizens of will be left behind. Recognizing that
the world? The anti-health campaign the dignity of the human person As we see from this quote taken
I’m referring to goes beyond Covid. is fundamental, we wish to see the from a guest article by Pytrik Dieu-
The global vaccination campaign Goals and targets met for all nations wke Oosterhof, Sustainable Devel-
existed before this and is wreaking and peoples and for all segments of opment Expert, published on sdg.
considerable havoc in human health, society. And we will endeavour to iisd.org, the SDGs, by late 2019, had
even for the unborn. So is the use reach the furthest behind first.” This not delivered as expected. He says
of RoundUp and other herbicides paragraph captures the second prin- that: “The SDG Summit in Sep-
as well as chemical fertilizers and ciple they are using i.e., ‘reaching the tember 2019 called progress to date
pesticides. In addition, there is the furthest behind first.’ Recently, the insufficient, and analyses pointed
sugar industry, the processed foods UN shifted the timeline for univer- to stagnation in efforts to address
industry, the ‘health supplements’ sal vaccination from 2020 to 2030, SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 13 (cli-
industry, the fast-food industry, the in order to ‘leave no one behind’ mate action) and SDG 10 (reducing
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