Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) – and one on whom the pandemic has not been kind, but not from the health, rather, from the diplomatic/political integrity point of view – is complaining again.
It’s by now the old song-and-dance that various global groups, official or otherwise, are constantly trying to push on the world’s nations. Their message: it’s not “institutions” that are crooked to begin with – it’s that “misinformation” just “made them” look like that.
And now, the problem is not the crooked institutions, and the task is not in improving them, but simply in how to convince people there’s nothing wrong. So we “combat misinformation” – with…more censorship.
But, here’s what Ghebreyesus did say, specifically about the ever-present issue of “misinformation” – all too often, that’s just free people expressing their free opinion as the law allows them to, yet getting persistently maligned as basically the equivalent of a nuclear bomb that will wipe out all humankind. (Such is the language of propaganda and censorship.)
