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The World Economic Forum today deferred its January 17-21 Davos annual meeting of billionaires, corporate tycoons, celebrities, politicos, influencers and ad/PR people until the early summer due to the Omicron outbreak.
The high-level of Omicron transmissibility and its impact on travel and mobility forced WEF’s hand.
WEF slates online “State of the World” sessions in January to tide participants over until the in-person gathering in the summer.
“The deferral of the annual meeting will not prevent progress through continued digital convening of leaders from business, government and civil society,” Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and executive chairman, said in a statement. “Public-private cooperation has moved forward throughout the pandemic and that will continue apace."
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Dec. 21, 2021, by Joe Honick
Two points scream out in the first paragraph: one, acknowledgement most of the ordinary people have no say in their own circumstances and futures. We knew that, of course, but seldom see it as a reason for keeping the biggies from personal risk while those "ordinaries" do not find out until it's too late! The second is that little will happen until the people who were to be at the annual meeting can settle in behind their desk tops to chat about the "situation" before determining how they should now run the world.
Given the turmoil created purposely by a combination of international realities and Trump's National Socialist obvious goal to sabotage the American political and economic system, the question has to be raised as to what if any collaboration among all these powerful "stars" might be taking place. After all, it took us some weeks publicly to confirm my own comment that the January 6, 2021, event had to have been coordinated.
So the last sentence about "public-private cooperation" moving forward needs to be deciphered more realistically.