Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur has warned in the Spectator of the coming massive expansion of the international pandemic bureaucracy and the powers of the WHO to press countries towards authoritarian public health measures. The WHO’s track record during COVID-19 hardly merits reward with further powers, he says.
Health includes mental health and wellbeing and is highly dependent on a robust economy, yet the WHO-backed package of measures to fight Covid has been damaging to health, children’s immunisation programs in developing countries, mental health, food security, economies, poverty reduction, social and educational wellbeing of peoples. Their worst effects were grievous assaults on human rights, civil liberties, individual autonomy and bodily integrity. To make it worse, in promoting these policies the WHO violated, without providing any justification beyond China’s example, (1) the guidance from its own report in October 2019 that summarised a century’s worth of worldwide experience and science; and (2) its own constitution which defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The vaccine push has similarly ignored accumulating safety signals about the scale of adverse reactions, on the one hand, and rapidly dwindling efficacy after successive doses, on the other.
Euro-U.S. efforts, backed by Australia, to amend legally binding international health regulations and adopt a new pandemic convention would confer extraordinary powers on the WHO to declare public health emergencies of international/regional concern and command governments to implement their recommendations. WHO inspectors would have the right to enter countries without consent and check compliance with their directives. They would lock in the lockdowns-vaccines narrative and preempt rigorous independent retrospective reviews of their costs and efficacy. The ‘reforms’ amount to a WHO power grab at the behest of Big Pharma and Big Donors. Whether approved as two separate instruments or folded into one overarching new treaty, the changed architecture will greatly strengthen the WHO’s core capabilities on public health surveillance, monitoring, reporting, notification, verification and response. The rush to amend the existing international health regulations encountered significant pushback last month from developing countries, China and Russia but will come up again for discussion and approval shortly. The new treaty under negotiation will be presented to the World Health Assembly in 2024.
The proposed reforms to international health agreements will only make things worse, he says.
On January 24th, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an urgent priority was to “strengthen WHO as the leading and directing authority on global health”, for: “We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO.” On April 12th, he said the Covid crisis had “exposed serious gaps in the global health security architecture”; the new treaty would be “a generational agreement” and “a gamechanger” for global health security. If adopted, it will consolidate the gains of those who have benefitted from COVID-19, concentrating private wealth, increasing national debts and decelerating poverty reduction; expand the international health bureaucracy under the WHO; shift the centre of gravity from common endemic diseases to relatively rare pandemic outbreaks; create a self-perpetuating global biopharmaceutical complex; shift the locus of health policy authority, decision-making and resources from the state to an enlarged corps of international technocrats, creating and empowering an international analogue of the administrative state that has already thinned national democracies. It will create a perverse incentive: the rise of an international bureaucracy whose defining purpose, existence, powers and budgets will depend on outbreaks of pandemics, the more the better.
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Global health ‘security’ – and there we see where the ominous sounding ‘UK Health Security Agency’ came from, replacing the more appropriate Public Health England. I suggest the UKHSA should revert to PHE. There is far more to a name than people realise. Normalising terms like ‘security’ gives corrupt power-grabbers the leverage they need to round up the sheep, just as calling ‘gene therapy’ a ‘vaccine’ helped profit-seeking pharma companies and the regulatory agencies on their payroll to get hundreds of millions of people to roll up their sleeve, even as many had doubts.
The EU will push this, as it has the same principle – centralise power so that those lower down can say “we have no choice”, abdicating responsibility. The current Dutch minister of health, a member of the
eurowhoreeurophile party D66 has already said he won’t argue against the appartheid app, as there would be no point because Brussels had already decided it was to stay. He will say the same when it comes to the who scam – Brussels decides.The EU’s apartheid app was planned long before Covid came along. Back in 2018 the implementation date was scheduled for 2022.
https://ec.europa.eu/health/system/files/2019-09/2019-2022_roadmap_en_0.pdf
British government over-ruled its expert advice (including Chris Whitty) to institute WHO lockdown in March 2020
https://www.ageofautism.com/2022/06/the-british-government-the-world-health-organization-and-global-coup-of-2020.html
One of the more important points in Robert Kennedy Jr’s book is that “public health” (at least in America) has deteriorated terribly since Fauci became the key bureaucrat in this governmental field (circa 1984).
The “public health” agencies are now just shills for Big Pharma and the vaccine companies.
Just look around. The “health” of people is awful compared to decades ago. The obesity epidemic is one epidemic that is not exaggerated. Children’s health -mental and physical – is worse than it’s ever been in my lifetime.
We need to abolish all of the “public health agencies” in my opinion … just like we need to abolish the Department of Education. I can’t remember what president signed the bill to create this agency, but I guarantee you that the level of national “education” is three times lower than it was in the decades before this bureaucracy was created.
Government getting involved with absolutely anything is invariably a disaster. BTW Bill just wanted to say I enjoy your ATL contributions here and your comments. During the darkest days here it was good to get a perspective from the (relatively) sane parts of the US.
Thanks a lot. I appreciate all the comments I read here and the noble, brave and vitally-important work of The Daily Skeptic’s contributors.
We’re all kind of like the French underground in WWII, trying our best to fight tyranny and madness using the free speech we still have. I really think we are trying to simply hold on until some kind of peaceful revolution takes hold that might purge the roster of corrupt actors who are now our world leaders.
“And now, the World Health Organization is set to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the end of June 2022 which all member states including the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Europe are legally obliged to respond to.
This means we could be about to witness Covid-19 2.0 as a cover-up for the consequences of administering an experimental Covid-19 injection to millions of people.”
From The Expose.
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/16/who-declare-public-health-emergency-covid-vaccine-shingles/
Create?
The pharma industry already has its tentacles deep into the bodies that approve medications (like the FDA), the organisms that set medical practice standards (like NICE), the universities, the medical schools. They do most of the ongoing training of licensed doctors, usually around a new medication.
They are the among biggest advertising spenders in media, giving them soft censorship power. Their owners are also the owners of the major media companies, so they collude to work for each other.
What more of a global biopharmaceutical complex do you want? What’s left to create?
Yeah, I suppose there is the total hijacking of the political and administrative system of every country.
But that’s not a biopharmaceutical complex, that’s all out world domination. They already have the former.
I’ve written to my MP and suggest everyone does although based on the Rwanda debacle, our so-called representatives are “sock puppets”
Sorry I was called a conspiracy theorist for saying such things this time last year. Conspiracy theory = Spoiler alert.
The WHO is just one branch of the “Post Democratic World” which Mandelscum told us we were now in about 15 years ago.
The Globalist Prize Pigs of the Animal Farm variety will own everything ….. including your body and soul. If you let them.
The msm also seem to gloss over that Tedros has been accused of multiple war crimes, funny that eh. I wouldn’t trust WHO as far as I could throw them.