Coronavirus Petition: For a Global Health System: Defend Earth's Most Precious Resource — People!


We, the undersigned, support Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call for global health and economic infrastructure to address the coronavirus pandemic and the conditions of underdevelopment (both economic and scientific) that caused us to be vulnerable to it.


The coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world — and the economic effects of the health measures taken to crush it — reveal the inexcusable lack of development of the human species, and demand a global approach to curing, not only the coronavirus presently menacing us, but that underdevelopment that leaves us susceptible to the pandemic’s taking a terrible toll.

When health systems even in developed regions, such as Northern Italy, have been filled beyond capacity, what is the outlook for less developed nations that have an immense shortage of health infrastructure and lack secure access to clean water, sanitation, and nutritious food? How can a person who relies on daily income to support the family remain at home for weeks on end? How can people without clean water practice good hand hygiene? If no ICU beds are available, can doctors save the life of a victim of severe Covid-19 symptoms?

While the acute suffering from the coronavirus claims our attention, what of the 800,000 children under the age of 5 who die from diarrheal diseases every year? How can the health of the hundreds of millions of people currently afflicted with food insecurity be ensured?

We call for a global health infrastructure, in its fullest sense. The world requires more hospitals, new ICU beds, additional ventilators, many more trained physicians, increased manufacturing capacity for PPE, and orders of magnitude more testing equipment than existed at the beginning of this outbreak. But it also needs much more. Poverty, malnutrition, lack of access to improved water and sanitation — these are health issues too. Our shared dignity as members of the human race calls upon us to cooperate in eliminating poverty, through development. The entire world must be made safe from diseases that threaten us all.

Barriers to the cooperation of the United States, China, Russia, and India must be overcome to ensure that the world is never again terrorized by such a threat.

To make all of this possible requires a New Bretton Woods — international agreements on economic development in the model of Franklin Roosevelt’s outlook at the end of World War II, as advanced by the studies and proposals of Lyndon LaRouche.

For more detail on the Schiller Institute’s proposals, see
LaRouche’s ‘Apollo Mission’ to Defeat the Pandemic: Build a World Health System Now!

Who's signing

Jacques Bacamurwanko
Deborah Sonnenblick
Laurence Rebello
Debra Jambor
Margaret Scialdone
Carmen Alexander
Joseph Billington
Hector Villarreal
Marsha Mallouk
Ernest Meyer
Armon Ketchum
Christopher Sare
LouAnn Timochenko
Bryan Barajas
Rosa Perpétuo
Bärbel Kühn
John Scialdone
Massimo Massetti
Durell Smith
Daniel Burke
Tom Doub
Judy Seagondollar
Chris Lothian
Marek Zyzik
Kathy Hanigan
Jesus Martinez
Judy Clark
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  • Jacques Bacamurwanko
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  • Deborah Sonnenblick
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  • Armon Ketchum
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  • Christopher Sare
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  • LouAnn Timochenko
    signed 2020-05-17 20:24:56 -0400
  • Bryan Barajas
    signed 2020-05-17 13:29:50 -0400
  • Rosa Perpétuo
    signed 2020-05-17 13:26:47 -0400
  • Bärbel Kühn
    signed 2020-05-17 12:52:42 -0400
  • John Scialdone
    signed 2020-05-17 11:28:59 -0400
  • Massimo Massetti
    signed 2020-05-17 07:38:01 -0400
  • Durell Smith
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  • Daniel Burke
    signed via 2020-05-16 22:54:58 -0400
  • Tom Doub
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  • Judy Seagondollar
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  • Judy Seagondollar
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  • Chris Lothian
    signed 2020-05-16 20:47:57 -0400
  • Marek Zyzik
    signed 2020-05-16 16:25:46 -0400
  • Kathy Hanigan
    signed 2020-05-16 16:25:33 -0400
  • Jesus Martinez
    signed 2020-05-16 16:23:50 -0400
  • Judy Clark
    signed 2020-05-16 16:15:12 -0400

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