The World Health Organisation is gearing up to persuade the world’s governments to sign a new pandemic treaty in May that would allow the unelected body to seize power over nation states in future pandemics, warns Matt Ridley in the Mail. Here’s an excerpt.
Though called an ‘accord’ so as not to frighten democrats who still like that old-fashioned thing called accountability, it is a significant power grab by an unelected body that seems determined now to set down rules for how countries should react to future pandemics. Never waste a good crisis, as the saying goes.
Yet the WHO has a terrible track record in managing epidemics, not least in its response to COVID-19, where it made a series of bad mistakes and did China’s bidding. The Pandemic Accord would be a reward for failure.
Last month Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General, tweeted plaintively: “There’s a litany of lies and conspiracy theories about the #PandemicAccord.
“Let me tell you what the accord is about — it’s a set of commitments by countries to strengthen the world’s defences in several areas: prevention with a One Health approach; health and care workforce; research and development; access to vaccines, treatments and tests; sharing of information, technology and biological samples. What is so problematic about those commitments?”
This sounds lovely. But buried within the proposed treaty, and a parallel set of recommended changes to the International Health Regulations, is a grant to the WHO of power to instruct governments on how to manage societies during a pandemic, vesting that power in the Director-General.
These undertakings would be “legally binding” as the G20 leaders stated in Bali in 2022 and New Delhi in 2023.
The suggested amendment leaves little doubt as to who would be in charge: “States… recognise WHO as the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response during public health Emergency of International Concern and undertake to follow WHO’s recommendations in their international public health response.”
What would this mean for the Swedish Government, which decided against fully locking down society and closing schools, avoiding the devastating economic consequences of lockdown without suffering worse excess deaths than other countries? Could it do so next time?
The accord would oblige countries to greatly increase funding of the WHO in the event of a pandemic, to pay for the “containment of spill-over at source” and to hand over products such as vaccines “in accordance with timetables to be agreed between the WHO and manufacturers”. Would Britain under such strictures be permitted to roll out its vaccine programme with the remarkable efficiency it did from 2021 onwards?
Countries would also agree to limit criticism of the WHO in order to “combat false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation”. This very article could in theory be censored by our government at the behest of the WHO.
The recent track record of the body to which our Government is about to hand such powers and funds does not inspire confidence.
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Well the WHO doesn’t have an army so any “power” is ceded to it voluntarily by member states- by the governments of member states who find that the WHO is a useful thing to hide behind
I am not a fan of power grabbing globalist accords which is why I am a big fan of Trump for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. I don’t care if Trump is loud, obnoxious, or not a very nice man according to bleating Liberals ——I believe Maradona was an asshole according to many. But was that important at all to Napoli or Argentina fans? NO——WHO power grabbing should be stopped yes, but who is going to stop it? Our squirming politicians sign up to everything.
The left is so deranged about Trump, that if the Don said he liked breathing, the dems would hold their breath.
Now there’s an idea.
The only non-medical doctor to be appointed WHO chief honcho, Tedros appointed Robert Mugabe as a ‘WHO Goodwill Ambassador.’ Has formed relationships with Bill Clinton and his Clinton Foundation, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In light of the crises in Yemen, Ethiopia, Syria and Afghanistan not receiving, in his view, sufficient coverage, claimed this was a result of bias against non-white lives. Reappointed unopposed for a second term in 2022. What could possibly go wrong giving this fox the keys to the hen house?
Real pandemics since the middle ages can be counted on one hand.Why do we need to rush to give special powers for something that happens on average about once every 200 years.
Thanks. A point I have made many times here on DS.
Because the historical frequency may be about to ‘go for a ball of chalk’ with Tedros at the helm. His behind-the-scenes manipulators are the ones who seek to mould the future to their will. ‘Real pandemics are so passe. Engineered, bogus ones are the future.
I know that is the fear. Any engineered pandemic is a crime against humanity, as we have seen. Anyone who has caused or facilitated it, should be hanged. Of course they are too powerful to end their lives on a rope, or are they.? Never say ‘never’.
I read somewhere that financial crime does not have the death penalty, I wonder why!
Malaria is the No1 killer so if they were genuinely “concerned” they would focus their energies on that.
Because they have plans to make them a great deal more frequently.
FFS There will never be a pandemic caused by a virus tweaked by man or naturally occurring. Humanity has a superb immune system – although that is now subject to harm by mRNA jabs.
Bubonic plague/black death bacterial and now curable.
Spanish Flu – very probably caused by the good old USA “vaccinating” over 3 million unfortunate soldiers at Fort Detrick basically trashing their immune systems letting URI’s loose on the world. Just think about that vax programme – immunising exactly how – against a pathogen which apparently turned out to be a virus.
The only pandemic we have ever had was/is one of fear, caused quite deliberately and in cold blood by the RPTB and sadly still ongoing in far too many minds.
The WHO apart,who benefits? – China and the Elites.
Who was harmed? – mainly the West/Far East Capitalist countries..
Spanish flu from what I heard spared kids and took down healthy adults in their prime? Also many returning from WW1 malnourished must’ve played its part.
“Countries would also agree to limit criticism of the WHO in order to “combat false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation”…..That got me thinking of Neil Oliver and his full show now on Youtube (that is controlled by WHO on disinformation censorship) and only the first part on GB News. Is this their way of chocking him off slowly? As Mark Steyn & Dan Wotton mentioned about the management, they’re all a bunch or woketards who get shafted by oFcom over a barrel.
The Biggest Story in Town !! Tedros Terrorist needs his wings clipping !!
Basically, the WHO wants permission to become a Tyranny – and the Not-a-Conservative-Government is preparing to give it.
Hang on a sec. I thought we were all exaggerating tin foil hat conspiracy theorists believing the WHO are an unaccountable unelected evil body trying to take over our sovereignty. Has Matt Ridley joined our ranks or have some of the MSM suddenly realised we’ve been correct all along as with so many other things? Wobble.
FLUSH The WHO et al
we need to keep this above the radar somehow. it’s not going away,