Anti-lockdown Swede Lands Top Advisory Role for WHO!
Swedish epidemiologist Johan Giesecke’s interview with UnHerd made waves around the world when, at the height of the Covid-19 crisis in April, he made the case for why lockdowns were not the answer.
He has now been promoted to a more senior advisory role within the World Health Organisation, as Vice-Chair of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards, which advises the Director-General on the response to pandemics.
“It’s a group of thirteen scientists from all around the world. Usually we meet twice a year in Geneva but since Covid-19 we’ve been meeting once a week by telephone,” he tells me down the line from Stockholm.
The London-based Chair, David Heymann, who Dr Giesecke describes as “one of the world’s best known infectious disease fighters”, has other commitments across the WHO and Dr Giesecke will lead the group in his absence.
He was voted in as the new Vice-Chair by the other members.
I asked him if he regards his election as a sign that epidemiologists around the world were looking more towards the Swedish response to Covid-19 as a model.
“I don’t think it’s a political statement, no,” he said. “I think they like my experience.”
He repeats his customary advice that it is too early to make those kinds of comparisons anyway. “You should wait one year or maybe five years before comparing strategies. We still have a long way to go in this pandemic.”
He agreed that the tone of media coverage about Sweden had has become noticeably more positive since we spoke in April.
“Back then they thought we were crazy,” he said.
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richard
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A step in the right direction.
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Tom O
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Or a placebo for those that have disagreed with WHO from the start. You can take the best watchdog you can find and confine it to the front porch, and it’ll never stop the foxes from raiding the hen house.
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M Joseph
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I also do not necessarily see this as a good sign. Surely Dr Geisecke must completely disagree with the WHO‘s policies, and recognize that they are deeply corrupt. So why join a corrupt organization? To change it from within, or become part of themproblem?
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The Swede
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Hey
As a Swede i don’t think it is a good thing. Sweden has probably one of the biggest deep state actors called Wallenberg who is very unknown still, Rockefeller and they on top probably. Well to put it this way it is talk about Huawei controlling the telecom net being a safety risk. But who have controlled telecom net since start? Ericsson who is owned by investor and then wallenberg in turn.
If knowledge is power they have had most power, they also have connection with the Dulles brother in Cia. Add Cia and controlled telephone you have much power.
Else Swedes robbed the tsar’s gold and they had installed phones for the tsar. Maybe not so strang Stalin kidnapped Raoul Wallenberg and were paranoid if he knew people probably could listen to their phones. That the bankcenter swiss and info center Sweden not where in second world war maybe not coincidence.
Ivar Kreuger had part in Ericsson and where somewhat opposing to Wallenberg but died in suicide it said and investor talk over kruger’s stuff…
Well facebooks and windows have sever halls here also. Assange Kidnapped arrested here etc.
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