The World Health Organization recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December 2021 in a special session for only the second time since the WHO’s founding in 1948, the Health Assembly of the WHO adopted a single decision titled, “The World Together.”
The WHO plans to finalize the treaty by 2024. It will aim to shift governing authority now reserved to sovereign states to the WHO during a pandemic by legally binding member states to the WHO’s revised International Health Regulations.
In January of 2022 the United States submitted proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, which bind all 194 UN member states, which the WHO director general accepted and forwarded to other member states. In contrast to amendments to our own constitution, these amendments will not require a two-thirds vote of our Senate, but a simple majority of the member states.
Most of the public is wholly unaware of these changes, which will impact the national sovereignty of member states.
The proposed amendments include, among others, the following. Among the changes the WHO will no longer need to consult with the state or attempt to obtain verification from the state where a reported event of concern (e.g., a new outbreak) is allegedly occurring before taking action on the basis of such reports (Article 9.1).
In addition to the authority to make the determination of a public health emergency of international concern under Article 12, the WHO will be granted additional powers to determine a public health emergency of regional concern, as well as a category referred to as an intermediate health alert.
The relevant state no longer needs to agree with the WHO Director General’s determination that an event constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. A new Emergency Committee will be constituted at the WHO, which the Director-General will consult in lieu of the state within whose territory the public health emergency of international concern has occurred, to declare the emergency over.
The amendments will also give “regional directors” within the WHO, rather than elected representatives of the relevant states, the legal authority to declare a Public Health Emergency of Regional Concern.
Also, when an event does not meet criteria for a public health emergency of international concern but the WHO Director-General determines it requires heightened awareness and a potential international public health response, he may determine at any time to issue an “intermediate public health alert” to states and consult the WHO’s Emergency Committee. The criteria for this category are simple fiat: “the Director-General has determined it requires heightened international awareness and a potential international public health response.”
Through these amendments, the WHO, with the support of the U.S., appears to be responding to roadblocks that China erected in the early days of covid. This is a legitimate concern. But the net effect of the proposed amendments is a shift of power away from sovereign states, ours included, to unelected bureaucrats at the WHO. The thrust of every one of the changes is toward increased powers and centralized powers delegated to the WHO and away from member states.
Leslyn Lewis, a member of the Canadian parliament and lawyer with international experience, has warned that the treaty would also allow the WHO unilaterally to determine what constitutes a pandemic and declare when a pandemic is occurring. “We would end up with a one-size-fits-all approach for the entire world,” she cautioned. Under the proposed WHO plan, pandemics need not be limited to infectious diseases and could include, for example, a declared obesity crisis.
As part of this plan, the WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system, with plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID. “Vaccination certificates that are tamper-proof and digitally verifiable build trust. WHO is therefore supporting member states in building national and regional trust networks and verification technology,” explained Garret Mehl, head of the WHO’s Department of Digital Health and Innovation. “The WHO’s gateway service also serves as a bridge between regional systems. It can also be used as part of future vaccination campaigns and home-based records.”
This system will be universal, mandatory, trans-national, and operated by unelected bureaucrats in a captured NGO who already bungled the covid pandemic response.
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Want to know more about the PLANNED surrender of our sovereignty? Watch: “War Room” on Real America’s Voice network, The Dan Bongino Show on radio and TV. I have been following politics since 1972; we are in REAL danger of losing our freedom to national and international oligarchs. Like the BBC during WW2, these two resources provide (in my humble opinion) factual information with unimpeachable data and video evidence support. And, like the BBC, they provide the good news and the bad. So, if you decide to continue to rely on the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic Magazine, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS NBC (even FNC), and their clones, you will be in dark, not knowing facts you need to prepare for such things as: Baby Formula shortages (Biden Administration shut down a company that provided 40% of the nation’s Baby Formula without a plan to make up for the loss), upcoming massive starvation in Africa, India South East Asia, and others. We are in real danger of losing our freedom America; do not be left in the dark…
Well, Michael, as you and I both know, sheep will follow the herd…. right over the cliff… Hopefully there will be enough people that have awakened come this November that we can save what is left of this Republic, if there is anything left by then.
Reuters
“Biden invokes Defense Production Act to increase infant formula supply”
Reuters
May 18, 2022
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden took steps on Wednesday to address the shortage of infant formula in the United States, invoking the Defense Production Act to help manufacturers obtain the ingredients needed to ramp up supply, the White House said.
Biden also directed U.S. agencies to use Defense Department commercial aircraft to bring formula into the United States from overseas.
Baby formula aisles at U.S. supermarkets have been decimated since top U.S. manufacturer Abbott Laboratories in February recalled formulas after complaints of bacterial infections.
In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Biden noted that the industry should be producing more formula in the coming weeks and months.
“Imports of baby formula will serve as a bridge to this ramped-up production.”
“Therefore I am requesting you take all appropriate measures available to get additional safe formula into the country immediately,” he said.
The White House said Biden was invoking the Defense Production Act to ensure manufacturers have the ingredients to make safe formula.
“The president is requiring suppliers to direct needed resources to infant formula manufacturers before any other customer who may have ordered that good,” the White House said.
In addition, he launched “Operation Fly Formula” to hasten imports of infant formula and get more formula to stores quickly.
Biden has directed HHS and USDA to use military commercial aircraft to pick up overseas infant formula that meets U.S. health and safety standards.
“Bypassing regular air freighting routes will speed up the importation and distribution of formula and serve as an immediate support as manufacturers continue to ramp up production,” the White House said.
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Defense Production Act
Sec. 2. Declaration of Policy
(a) Findings
Congress finds that—
(1) the security of the United States is dependent on the ability of the domestic industrial base to supply materials and services for the national defense and to prepare for and
respond to military conflicts, natural or man-caused disasters, or acts of terrorism within the United States.
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Baby formula now appears to be essential to our national security.
Will it be toilet paper next?
Agreed!
The WHO has demonstrated that it is bias, secretive, useless in an emergency, politically oriented and corrupt. I would sooner ask China to mind our house while we went on vacation.