Don't get fooled again

 

Keith Moon in Taiwan earlier today

Rather confusingly, the media have begun calling the World Health Organisation by using the acronym as though it were a word in its own right. Instead of spelling it out, as with the BBC or the FBI, they have begun referring to 'The Who'.

Now, for those of us who grew up with this magnificent rock band from west London, this has put us in a bit of a tizzy. How can we take the pronouncements of this oracular and divine body seriously if we can't get the lyrics to Tommy or My Generation out of our heads?

The WHO is currently having one of its regular junkets, attempting to lord it over the monkeys despite the fact that its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (whose name invites anagrams) has no medical degree. To put that in context, when COVID began, the Minister of Health in Costa Rica, Daniel Salas, dealt with it brilliantly. He has two medical degrees and a background in epidemiology. That's how you do it.

But our man Tedros has the backing of the Chinese, and that is what counts at international level. The only problem is that it is a little bit rich to call something a 'world health organisation' when the whole world is not invited. You will not be surprised to learn, as China effectively runs the WHO and Tedros is very much their glove-puppet, that one country has not been invited to the carnival.

As far as the Chinese are concerned, Taiwan is not a country in its own right, but part of what they call 'Greater China'. Their attitude to Taiwan is exactly that of Vladimir Putin's to Ukraine. They see these countries as a part of the homeland and they want them back.

China is slowly buying the world, but it should not be allowed to own something called the 'World Health Organisation'. A treaty is about to be signed - by everyone but the Taiwanese, one assumes - that will be a dry run for the social credit system China is looking to foist on the world at large.

The only concern China has is that it runs out of money, or at least credit. Its economy already has no engine-room because of its absurd one-child policy which ran for so many decades, and it is running out of young people. It will not mimic the West by importing immigrants, as China is a notoriously racist country who look on other nations as inferior.

So, The WHO may be run by China, but if the fortune-cookie jar runs empty, new sponsors may be needed. Recall Jim Chanos, the man who predicted Enron's collapse all those years ago. A few years back, he said he had found a new Enron, and it was called China.

Don't get fooled again.