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"The WHO Is a Real and Present Danger" by David Bell
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The WHO Is a Real and Present Danger
Our governments intend to transfer decisions over our health, families, and societal freedoms to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), whenever he or she declares it necessary. The success of this transfer of power depends on public ignorance of its implications, and of the nature of the WHO itself and its recent pandemic policy reversals. When the public understands, then its leaders are more likely to act in their interests rather than against them.
In late 2019, the WHO issued new recommendations for pandemic influenza. Influenza spreads by the same mechanism as Covid-19 (aerosols), with a similar mortality in most people. The WHO stated that it is “not recommended in any circumstances” to undertake contact tracing, quarantine of exposed individuals, entry and exit screening, and border closures. They envisioned that in a severe pandemic it may be necessary to close businesses for up to seven to ten days.
The WHO cautioned against strict measures because they would have minimal impact on the spread of an aerosolized respiratory virus while inevitably increasing poverty, especially harming low-income people. Poverty makes people die younger and is a major killer of babies in low-income countries.
A few months later, the WHO advocated for everything they had previously advised against, to combat Covid-19. This reversal in their recommendations had the effect they had predicted; increasing poverty and shortening life expectancy, particularly amongst the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, while having minimal overall impact on virus spread.
While the WHO’s 2019 recommendations were based on the assessment of decades of knowledge by an expert panel, its Covid-19 lockdown recommendations were based solely on reported experience from one city in China. Their new source of knowledge had, a few weeks earlier, stated that the new virus had no human-to-human transmission. This was followed by apparent propaganda taken up by the world’s media of people dropping dead in the streets.
It is vital to understand what drove this reversal of WHO policy, and to detail its harm. International public health priorities are currently being upended with the specific aim of allowing the WHO to do this again, harder and more frequently. In May 2024 our countries will vote to allow a single person to dictate border closures and quarantine, and require medical examinations and vaccination of their citizens. They will agree to censor those who protest. Our governments will undertake to make this individual’s recommendations regarding our rights to family life, work, and school effectively binding.
In promoting lockdowns, the WHO was not only following China, but a group of powerful Pharma-related interests who have been pushing these approaches for over a decade. They have established public-private partnerships such as the Swiss-based CEPI, channeling taxpayer funding to promote their authoritarian approach to public health. In October 2019, a meeting called Event-201 was convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, including the WHO, China CDC and others, to run simulations of such approaches for a hypothetical coronavirus outbreak. At this time, Covid-19 virus must already have been circulating well beyond China.
Whilst establishing this influence over public health policy, Pharma and their private investors increasingly funded the WHO itself, now providing about 25 percent of its budget. This funding is ‘specified,’ meaning the funder decides how and where it is spent. Certain governments now also ‘specify’ most of their funding, leading to over 75 percent of the WHO’s activities being determined by the donor. Germany stands out as the second highest national donor after the USA, also being a major investor in BioNTech, Pfizer’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine developer.
Discarding basic immunology, the WHO then claimed in late 2020 that only vaccination could lead to high community immunity (‘herd immunity’) and became a major proponent of mass vaccination within an epidemic, aligning fully with its private sponsors. Under pressure for obviously lying, they then changed to a preference for vaccination – equally foolish as a general statement since many everyday viruses are obviously mild. While not based on evidence or expertise, this clearly serves a purpose.
Despite there being a clearly identified subset of people at high Covid risk, vaccination-for-all was promoted by Pharma investors as a ‘way out’ of the lockdowns these same people had advocated for. The WHO’s incoherent Covid vax mantra – “No one is safe until all are safe” – is supposed to support this but logically implies that vaccination does not even protect the vaccinated.
In Western countries the results of these policies are increasingly stark; rising inequality, closed businesses and rising young adult all-cause mortality. In low-income countries across Africa and Asia that the WHO once prioritized, its actions have been even more devastating. As predicted in early 2020, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are increasing, killing more people and at a far younger age than Covid-19. Over 100 million additional people face malnutrition, up to 10 million additional girls will endure child marriage and nightly rape, and millions more mothers will lose their infants due to the impacts of deeper poverty. UNICEF estimated nearly a quarter million added child deaths from lockdowns in South Asia in 2020 alone. The WHO did this – they stated that it would happen, then encouraged its implementation.
Few gained from the Covid response, but those who did gained; particularly private and corporate funders of the WHO with large Pharma and software assets, gained massively. WHO employees and others working in global health also thrived, and are now securing lucrative careers as the agenda expands. As the old evidence-based public health is pushed aside, it is in the new public health of the software entrepreneurs and Pharma moguls that careers will be made.
So, we have a problem. The WHO, ostensibly leading the show, is deeply conflicted through its private investors, whilst governed by an Assembly including powerful States hostile to human rights and democracy. Its staffing policies, based on country quotas and rules that promote retention rather than targeted recruitment, are not even designed to assure technical expertise.
The recent behavior of these staff – blind, dutiful compliance with the organization’s multiple nonsensical claims – must raise questions regarding their integrity and competency. The expanding pandemic industry has a massive financial war chest aimed at media and political sponsorship, and our politicians fear political oblivion should they oppose it.
Pandemics are rare. In the past century, including Covid, the WHO estimates about one per generation. These cost fewer life-years during their time of spread than tuberculosis or cancer cost every year. No one can rationally claim we face an existential crisis, or that forfeiting human freedom to Pharma and private entrepreneurs is a legitimate public health response should we face one. Our democracies are being eroded through a massive amoral business deal, a structure designed to concentrate the wealth of the many in the hands of the few. Covid-19 proved the model works.
The only real question is whether, and how, this society-wrecking pandemic train can be stopped. The public health professions want careers and salaries, and will not intervene. They have proven that in previous manifestations of fascism. The public must educate themselves, and then refuse to comply. We can just hope some of our supposed leaders will step forward to help them.
David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.
Monday, June 19, 2023
"Fight this sinister power grab by the WHO, Part 2" by Dr Elizabeth Evans
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Fight this sinister power grab by the WHO, Part 2
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THE first part of this series of articles investigating the WHO power grab, which you can read here, focused on proposed amendments to the existing International Health Regulations (IHR) that, if adopted in May 2024, present a serious threat to national and individual sovereignty. Since the publication of that article, there has been a development relating to the proposed, and separate, ‘WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response’ known as ‘WHO CA+’ with the publication of a new WHO CA+ Bureau Draft on June 2. This supersedes the previous ‘Pandemic Treaty’ draft referenced in Part 1.
The Bureau Draft of the WHO CA+ ‘Pandemic Treaty’ begins with the premise that a new, legally binding, instrument is required ‘in recognition of the catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic’.
The document is littered with references to the WHO One Health policy and ideology published in October 2022, which seeks to centralise and bring all public health and related decisions and policies under WHO auspices in a Global Health Security Agenda that can only be described as fascistic in nature and based on the fallacious argument that we face many global threats which require global solutions. Combined with articles in the Bureau Draft which propose aggressively to monitor and censor dissent (Article 18), this should trigger alarm bells that health is being hijacked by politics to allow the elites to control every area of our lives in a completely undemocratic way.
One Health is defined by the WHO as ‘an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimise the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognises the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent’.Article 5 of the draft is entitled ‘Strengthening Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness through a One Health Approach’ and would require countries to take a ‘One Health Approach’ in relation to pandemics, through the development and implementation of national One Health plans and surveillance mechanisms and by agreeing to ‘identify and integrate into relevant pandemic prevention and preparedness plans interventions that address the drivers of the emergence and re-emergence of disease at the human-animal-environment interface, including but not limited to climate change, land-use change, wildlife trade, desertification and antimicrobial resistance’.
In the 43-page Bureau Draft, it is notable that there is very little content that relates to promoting health or providing healthcare. Instead, it appears to be primarily a legal instrument designed to set up a global laboratory and testing infrastructure (the WHO Global Pandemic-Related Product Network/Supply Chain Network – Article 13A) for genomic sequencing and surveillance for ‘pathogens of pandemic potential’. This would enable the creation of a pandemic industry to profit from public health emergencies, through the flow of taxpayers’ money into the system, from legal obligations on nations created by the treaty (Article 19). It is described by the US researcher James Roguski, in this recent interview, as a ‘Framework Convention and financial prospectus’ forming ‘a Venture Capital plan to install a new bureaucracy within the WHO to manage and operate essentially a new industry that is fascist in nature, through the creations of a partnership between Government, private corporations and Foundations and NGOs’.
Central to the draft treaty (Article 20) is the proposal to establish a new independent bureaucracy called the Conference of the Parties (COP), comprised of representatives from nation states as well as non-voting observers from NGOs and other stakeholders. The COP would operate with an Implementation and Compliance Committee, a Panel of Experts, a Pandemic-Related Products Committee and a Benefit-Sharing Expert Committee and would oversee and promote compliance by member states, promote and facilitate the mobilisation of the financial resources required, and could introduce new protocols into the WHO Pandemic Treaty, requiring only a two-thirds majority vote to do this.
Other proposals of concern include the requirement on member states to set up a universal health and preparedness review system to ‘promote collective global action and accountability for preparedness by bringing them together with stakeholders at the national, regional and global levels to comprehensively review their national health emergency preparedness capacities.’ (Article 8C) and a requirement to participate in multi-country or regional tabletop exercises every five years (Article 8).
The draft treaty makes clear that the WHO CA+ would be applicable at all times, not just during a pandemic (Article 2). It proposes a new WHO Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing system, responsible for pathogen analysis, sharing and storage, and able to support a massive expansion of active PCR testing in the environment, to ‘seek out new pathogens with ‘pandemic potential’, which could trigger a pandemic being declared. This could easily lead to a constant state of emergency and resulting restriction of freedoms.
Notably, the first few pages are full of reassuring propaganda. Unlike the proposed IHR amendments, the current Bureau Draft does not appear to directly threaten national or individual sovereignty, stating that it will be implemented ‘with full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons’(Article 3.1), the phrase which is proposed to be removed in the IHR Amendments.
They also state, in several places, that the treaty will be in accordance with national sovereignty: ‘States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the general principles of international law, the sovereign right to legislate and to implement legislation in pursuance of their health policies . . .’ (Article 3.2). Nation states will, however, be obligated to enact the legislation through their own National IHR Focal Points and to use existing or new national laws to fulfil their surveillance, testing, financial and other obligations, both during and between health emergencies.
In the draft, there is also a stated requirement for proportionality: ’Public health decisions for preventing, preparing for and responding to pandemics should be proportionate, such that the benefit of measures implemented outweigh their costs’ (Article 3.12).
Despite these reassuring statements, we cannot afford to be complacent. It is now undeniable that the WHO is mounting a concerted and audacious bid to increase its power, wealth and scope, with the apparent aim of becoming the de facto decision-making authority for global public health for all 194 member nations, in line with its stated One Health ideology and agenda. This is being done in myriad ways, not just through the WHO CA+ and IHR regulations.
Springboarding from the policies, laws and systems already introduced around the world during the last 3 years, the WHO is doubling down and taking multiple steps to implement and enhance an infrastructure and legal framework that will create a health dictatorship unlike no other, with an unprecedented level of power and control placed in the hands of a very few people.
This totalitarian system will serve the elites while trampling on the rights and freedoms of the masses. It is a both a political power grab and a financial coup, using public health and the healthcare system as described in the dystopian One Health Policy, as a Trojan Horse. It is wide open to corruption and conflicts of interest and will enable a huge transfer of taxpayers’ money to private corporations and the elites through the power of the WHO Director General to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) at will, and the creation of a pandemic healthcare industry/cartel which will profit from the policies triggered.
It appears that they are going for broke to achieve this Orwellian goal. On June 5, the WHO launched a digital health partnership with the European Commission with a display of Orwellian double-speak at its finest. They stated that this digital system ‘will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats’ and that ’it is the first building block of the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network that will develop a wide range of digital products to deliver better health for all’.
These chilling words were echoed in the European Commission announcement, which confirmed the intention for this to become a global system, to be used in relation to anything that constitutes a health threat: ‘In June 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) will take up the EU system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics.’
On the legal front, adoption of the IHR amendments, the ratification of the WHO CA+, and the implementation of the lesser-known UN ‘Our Common Agenda Emergency Platform’ will result in a highly centralised global public health governance which would undermine, and potentially remove, national sovereignty in a health emergency, handing it over to the WHO and, by default, to their funders and stakeholders, which include industry-backed organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI and Unicef, detailed in this Substack article by James Roguski.
The aggressive move by the WHO and its partner agencies to wrest control of healthcare decisions from local, regional and national bodies and move it to a centralised system of global conformity, compliance and top-down control, is sinister and a threat to us all. We have already experienced their chaotic and damaging handling of the Covid-19 ‘pandemic’ in a merely advisory capacity. Their advice was not science-based, rational, moral or ethical, and was heavily influenced by vested interests. Yet here they are negotiating new and binding legal instruments, without even bothering to undertake a full analysis of their handling of the ‘pandemic’ and the catastrophic negative impact of their misguided policies on economies, healthcare systems, education, societal cohesion, physical and mental health etc. This massive overreach by the WHO must be opposed and defeated by the public before it becomes a reality.
Please visit the UKMFA #StopTheWHO Campaign Page to keep updated on Calls to Action, News and Resources and please share them far and wide to raise public awareness of this dangerous threat to national and individual sovereignty and medical ethics. The time to protest, lobby our elected representatives and say ‘No’ to this power-grab is now!
In Part 3 I will look at the ethical aspect of the WHO power grab.
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