The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) proposed Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) will hand the international health body unprecedented powers to declare pandemics, lockdowns and vaccination mandates, with the force of international law, leading experts have told MPs.
Speaking to U.K. lawmakers at a meeting of the Pandemic Response and Recovery All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), Dr. David Bell, a former WHO scientific and medical officer, and Professor Garrett Wallace Brown, Chair in Global Health Policy at the University of Leeds and Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborative Centre on Health Systems and Health Security, said that the changes would fundamentally alter the relationship between WHO and member states and put vital health programmes at risk.
Dr. Bell explained that the two agreements, as currently drafted, will hand the WHO the authority to order measures including significant financial contributions by individual states, censorship of scientific debate, lockdowns, travel restrictions, forced medical examinations and mandatory vaccinations during a public health emergency of its own declaring.
He said:
The WHO was established in 1946 with the best of intentions, to help coordinate responses to major health issues and advise governments accordingly. Over the decades we have seen a significant change in direction as funding streams have shifted to private ‘specified funding’, particularly from private donors. This has led to the WHO becoming a far more centralised and externally-directed body in which private and corporate funders shape and direct programmes. What we have also seen shifting is the definition of a health emergency, making it extremely broad. It is a worrying background against which the IHR amendments and the Treaty are being negotiated.
These pandemic instruments are founded on a fallacy regarding the frequency and impact of pandemics and would, if ratified, fundamentally change the relationship between the WHO and national governments and their citizens. Of particular concern are the amendments to the IHR which constitute a dangerous increase in power and authority bestowed on just one person. The Director-General would be able to proclaim health emergencies, whether real or potential, on any health-related matter that they, influenced by their private and corporate funders, say is a threat. The WHO would be able to issue legally-binding directions to member states and their citizens. In light of the catastrophic harms the WHO’s policies have caused during this pandemic, probably greater than the virus itself, the potential economic and health-related harms of such power cannot be overstated. There is a vast pandemic industry waiting for these buttons to be pushed and I am in no doubt that policymakers should reject WHO’s pandemic proposals.
Professor Brown and his research team has been advising the WHO and others on the $31.1 billion a year plan for pandemic preparedness and whether it is defensible or even feasible. Vital public health programmes are suffering globally as a result of the misguided shift to focus on post-Covid pandemic preparedness, he warned.
The post-Covid policy environment has triggered a remarkable grab by various institutions to capture the pandemic preparedness and response agenda and its corresponding financial capacities. This raises concerns about the legitimacy of the policy processes in terms of the representativeness of the emerging pandemic preparedness agenda. One particular concern involves the $31.1bn per year price tag, particularly the more than $24bn a year required from low-and middle income countries. The concern is whether this number is appropriate or even feasible. Nations need to be able to address their individual public health needs, to encourage better population health and resilience and the sort of sums they will be required to contribute to pandemic preparedness could threaten to divert resources from where they are most needed. We already saw this happen during the pandemic and there is evidence to suggest this has continued.
For example, tracking Overseas Development Aid for health from 2019 to the present shows that vital and established preventive public health programmes have suffered globally as a result of policy shifts to Covid and post-Covid pandemic preparedness and response. Evidence shows that malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS, reproductive health and non-communicable diseases have been impacted by resource shifting. Overseas Development Aid saw a 34% decrease in funding for basic health and a 10% decrease for basic nutrition in developing countries. The fear is that emerging pandemic preparedness instruments will be a continuation of this trend, which will have significant population health effects.
Listening to the speakers, APPG Co-Chair, Conservative MP and former Government minister Esther McVey said:
In April, I spoke at the Westminster Hall debate on this topic [and] much more parliamentary scrutiny and debate is needed. As the COVID-19 Inquiry begins to hear evidence, how we prepare for future pandemics must be carefully considered. We have heard concerns about the expansion of the WHO’s powers, the encroachment on national sovereignty and the rights of the individual and the sheer cost of the plans. These are vast amounts of public money to prepare for pandemics when we have a proportional, evidence-based pandemic plan, formulated to prevent the avoidable suffering and loss we have now experienced. The Government abandoned those plans in early 2020, despite knowing the likely outcomes.
The Treaty and IHR amendments could cement a disastrous approach to future pandemics. It seems unwise to give an unelected and largely privately-funded supranational body power over sovereignty and individual rights with seemingly no oversight. My constituents are concerned, not least because the WHO has a poor track record when it comes to pandemics. I question whether we want to hand such authority to the WHO, whose focus in recent decades has moved away from its laudable founding principles, to blunt instruments such as lockdowns and a one-size fits all approach to public health with the terrible consequences we are now seeing.
APPG Co-Chair, Labour MP Graham Stringer MP, added:
I am opposed to these plans as they could represent a huge expansion of the WHO’s powers, to the detriment of public health. The authority it could gain would surely pressure countries into complying with diktats of its choosing. We saw the unaccountable and extreme influence of China on the WHO when it refused to investigate the Wuhan laboratory and the origin of SARS-CoV-2. It’s also worrying to see the increase in commercial interests within the WHO.
We experienced the WHO’s unscientific volte face on mask wearing, despite there being no strong evidence that they had suddenly become effective. It was an entirely political decision, much like many of the decisions taken by the U.K. Government, often in the absence of any real parliamentary scrutiny. We appear to have learnt nothing from that experience, in terms of both the eye-watering cost and the vast collateral damage, which the Treaty and amendments seem set to enshrine in the WHO’s principles. If these plans come to be, we would be handing over powers to an organisation with less clinical and scientific expertise than our own.
It may not be clear how the WHO will enforce these powers but we know the potential is there as we lived through it, and not just with Covid but also swine flu previously. The ease with which unelected bureaucrats can dictate damaging public health policy and erode democracy, civil liberties and individual rights is something we never want to happen again. This is why these plans demand robust debate, and an open review in Parliament and in public. As Sweden did during the pandemic, and is an example to us all, we must make our own decisions about how we manage public health threats in this country.
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Its high time the people of Wales gave Dripford his marching orders.
In the recent council elections, he was in the north and mid-Wales. Unfortunately, in the urban south, they’d vote in an orang-utan with monkeypox if it wore a red rosette – and there’s much more of them than us mountainfolk.
What the hell do the Welsh urbanites see in him? Doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, too wimpy to even watch the match.
You guys need some George North!
His greatest triumphs came around Christmas 2020. First, pubs were forbidden to serve alcohol. Then the Dung waited until they’d all accepted bookings for Christmas meals, and got the food in – and then closed them, so thousands of tons of food had to be thrown away.
Purposeful destruction for the sake of destruction, the evil bastard.
You could stick a red rosette on a burning bag of sh*t and they would vote for it. Being Welsh is to constantly wonder what the hell is wrong with the rest of your countryman.
I got the impression he was getting his own back at society for his son being in jail.
Drakeford is the worst kind of petty tyrant, drunk on power. Google ‘Jonathan Drakeford’ and find out about his admission of a child sexual offence, two counts of rape and one count of assault causing serious bodily harm.
[Mr. Drakeford] warned measures were in reality “on hold” in case of another wave – with two new variants already being monitored by health officials.
Dickford is going to have to have his power-crazed claws prized off the levers of power.
If he gets ousted he’ll only be replaced by another Covidian.
Labour has an endless supply.
Dungford.
Will they be ”cold, dead fingers”?
And of course there’s monkeypox, which now means pets may have to be put down….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61608384
Ramping it up, as expected.
What the doomsters have failed to explain is why, if Moneypox is the threat they are trying to portray it as, it’s not spread widely around the world well before now, given that in some areas it’s been endemic for years.
It appears that certain people with certain proclivities are those most likely to get it. Worth adding that until a few days ago the NHS were saying that the majority of cases need no treatment at all.
Although the article admits that no pets in Britain are showing signs of. the pox, and none ever has.
Reality is not something which concerns the doomsters (or the modellers).
Really?
But better safe than sorry!
Just heard on the news that even hamsters have to be put in quarantine for three weeks if someone in the household has monkeypox. Honestly you couldn’t make this shit up
A Hamster cull is the only solution.
Save the National Hamster Service!
Yet the poor little blighters won’t have autoimmune blisters as a side effect of the toxic bioweapon covid injection! Link to p2 of Pfizer’s own list of side effects….
https://t.me/AnnadeBuisseretUKLawyer/1822
It’s important to keep in mind that the Worst Health Organization (aka World Hate Organization) will try a rerun of this within the next 10 years. Especially considering that they’re planning to become responsible for a so-called one hate approach, based on them equally hating humans, animals and the planet.
[The one health approach making them responsible for the holisitic health of humans, animals and the planet in their new pandemic treaty. Anybody even talking about the health of a planet is obviously either a megalomanic crackpot or a devious political schemer.]
I fear that they won’t ‘try’ but it will happen. The ordinary citizen the world over has demonstrated they will swallow whatever our leaders feed them. The majority will undoubtedly do absolutely everything again.
They’ve tried this three times since 2000 and failed twice. Hence, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I’m duckin not optimistic and so far I ain’t wrong.
There’s nothing like a pissed off Brit to put paid to global domination ambitions.
Covid was credible in the first few weeks.
Monkey Pox credibility lasted all of 5 minutes.
Give or take 4 minutes 59 seconds.
Brilliant! (From another sceptic Scot)
Or is Scot just his Christian name?
He spoke of knowing an area of Scotland well anyway.
“within 10 years?”
FFS the target date is 2030. Get a grip.
More like the World Homicide Organisation.
Covvie took a wrinkled little nonentity and turned it into a big bullying bogey. Of course the horrid creature doesn’t want covvie to end.
I think the messianic delusions of the so-called progressive left are genuine, ie, that they really do believe that they’re the universe’s chosen people on a holy mission to save Absolutely Everyhing[tm] from mortal dangers only they themselves are capable of recognizing early enough.
You could be talking about Danfuhrer or Masky Mark there.
Wretched creature.
Wales desperately needs ‘Drakeford level zero’ but he’ll be giving 12 year olds the vote soon to keep his juvenile politics going
If that be so, perhaps 12 year olds don’t want to be locked up with rags over their faces forever? On the other hand, many are Welsh.
Now all Wales needs is the electorate to give Nanny Ap Drakefford the boot.
Welsh numpties would elect a block of wood if it had the Labour label. Come to think of it, that’s exactly what they have done.
Sturgeon is as bad, but at least has a bit of spunk about her (metaphorically).
Drakeford is just a miserable, wet pillow. No self respecting Welshman would vote for a snivelling teetotaller as Welsh minister.
I reckon the polls were as bent as the 2020 US elections.
I really wish you hadn’t said that first sentence, very challenging as it were.
How can anybody with any semblance of a brain invest any credence in anything these people say about ‘The deadly virus’.
It’s surely now abundantly clear, even to NHS worshippers, that none of those in charge gave a flying F*** about it if it interfered with their own drinking, pish ups or disporting themselves with their mistresses.
Here in my part of north-east Wales, as soon as the mask mandates were lifted everybody stopped wearing one, apart from a few sorry wretches and the Chinese.
Likewise, hardly anybody was wearing one in 2020 when the mandates were in force in England, but not in Wales.
It made me wonder whether the reason mandates lasted longer and were harder in Wales is because the Welsh were less likely to voluntarily adopt them – so they had to be forced.
Unfortunately compliance was 95% when the masks were made ‘mandatory’.
What’s it like now elsewhere in the UK?
The number of people wearing one (excluding Chinese) in the Reading pedestrian zone shopping mall has fallen from 15 – 20 (when I started counting them) to solidly below ten. Today was actually first day where I didn’t see anyone with a mask while passing through once.
I like to entertain the thought of waiting until there’s routinely only one mask wearer and then throw him into the canal so that he’s gone as well.
Just give them a card with the telephone number for.a mental health helpline.]
Anyone wearing a mask, especially outdoors, has serious mental health issues.
I’d rather hit them with a standard-sized supermarket sunday roast. Preferably unpacked.
NB: That’s about 53 ounces of raw beef which is going to pack a punch. Minus blood smears, it’s not going to leave visible traces, though.
Frozen.
Any traces can be blamed on monkeypox.
The very idea behind this is to hit someone with something sufficiently soft that all the force of the impact is transferred and of enough mass that there will be an impact. When it’s as hard the skull, it’ll either break it (not desired) or skull and blunt instrument will bounce off each other.
The ‘classic’ weapon for this would be an old-style A4 sized phone book but these have fallen into disuse.
Still a lot in branches of Waitrose, for some reason
Here in the North-East it is mainly old people wearing them still, I think they have been terrorised basically. The other group is young Chinks at the uni in Durham, I would say 90% if not more are nappied up. Some people say this is part of their culture but I definitely did not see a single example of a person in Durham wearing a face mask prior to March 2020 and there were just as many Chinese students then
I went to the supermarket yesterday here in Wales. I am in a Welsh nationalist area of Snowdonia. Only one couple were wearing masks, so clearly except for a couple of retards people have wised up. Nevertheless Drakeford and Labour will be re-elected to the Senedd in exactly the same way that Sturgeon and the SNP have a monopoly on power in Scotland. This is not healthy for politics – these Poundland Parliaments need to be abolished.
Agreed. It would get rid of a lot of poxy monkeys.
This is Blairs idea of a joke.
Yep, that about sums it up.
Blair was extremely sceptical about devolution.
He implemented it because it was longstanding Labour party policy and because he believed he’d be unpopular without it.
My experience too in nationalist Snowdonia. A different story on the North coast tourist trail.
Surely there’s only so long the likes of the BBC can continue to report the death of young healthy people with a eulogy and no explanation for how the person died.
Yes.
Mark Crispin Miller’s website describes many of these unexplained deaths in much detail, complete with links to the local news reports…..
It appears that perhaps Mr Drakeford isn’t fully appraised regarding the available Covid data and consequently lacks a fully evidence-based appreciation of the issues.
I should translate from Physician-speak. What it actually means is ‘What a thick as pig sh*t f**g witless arsewipe’.
Did you say “What a thick as pig shit fucking witless arsewipe”?
My hearings a bit dodgy these days.
Your restraint does you credit.
the way these people carry on is if we are all now dead and this so called virus was the worst ever in history, last time I checked the population numbers have not shrank by millions and millions.
I read somewhere that birth rates in the UK haven’t been affected at all by covid, and the average life expectancy has risen.
Thousands more illegal immigrants may have influenced that, other than the national census came and went some time ago.
Two politicians that haunt the public psyche:
Thatcher – hated by the left for improving the country.
Blair – hated by the left for not completely destroying the country.
One politician memorable for nothing – Mark Drakepenis, First Minister of, that part of England which hasn’t the dignity of at one time actually being independent from England.
I love my Welsh Celtic cousins but, really guys?
And now Johnson, hated equally by the left and the right for destroying the country.
This Drakeford will inevitably, and sooner than we think, be charged with criminal conspiracy in regard to his commission of egregious Crimes Against Humanity. If found guilty, sentencing will be proportionate and in accordance with Nuremberg precedent.
ZZZZzzzzzz…. this sort of thing is said all the time by people who are too afraid to go round and ring Drakeford’s doorbell.
Do you really believe what you’ve written?
When found guilty he can join his rapist son in chokey!!
As with Westminster,Wales is governed by scientifically Ignorant arts graduates who are scared to question Public Heath, a reservoir of medical school failures who suddenly have been given a spotlight from their years of irrelevance. It is time for the harm caused by lockdowns,adverse reactions and mental harm to the young be litigated. Drakeford remains a menace – he was elected because we are a one party state.
The sad thing there are hundreds of MPs in England who are just as cuckoo as this man
An interesting read. https://expose-news.com/2022/05/28/19million-unvaccinated-31milllion-vaccine-refuseniks-england/
Drakeford is clearly mentally ill and needs sectioning.
He’s already sectioned, in the mental asylum called ‘Wales’.
Tell me something. Despite the extra and far longer restrictions operating in Scotland and Wales, have their Covid health outcomes been materially any different to England?
They’ve been worse
Daffy Duckford.
Do people actually VOTE for these drips?
These people need to be careful no one actually assassinates them. This is ridiculous abuse of power. This is the guy they caught lying and saying oh shit did they here that on his supposedly unmiked conversation about rolling the people that it wasn’t actually illegal to go out.
Who cares what a Marxist, who evidently gets dressed in the dark, says?
So any future jabbing will be confined to the ‘vulnerable’ – there won’t be many of those left in a couple of years time then. Mengele would be envious of this plan.