We have been following the developments related to the pandemic treaty the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed.
Legal Insurrection joined others in sounding the alarms in 2022 when it became clear that the international organization was going to use the COVID-19 pandemic response model for more power grabbing and wealth redistribution.
The World Health Organization gets to define what a pandemic is, when a pandemic is in progress and how long a pandemic lasts. Then you read the fine print and you realize the W.H.O will have total authority over emergency operations in the United States if there’s ever a “public health emergency.” Huh?What qualifies exactly as a public health emergency? Well, they don’t define that, but they get to. They get to decide what a public health emergency is, and then they have total authority. You can see where this is going. Now, the Biden administration has made certain that unelected bureaucrats, the W.H.O., have total authority to declare and define public health emergencies. They did it explicitly.The White House eliminated a provision that would have required the World Health Organization to “consult with an attempt to obtain verification from the state party in whose territory the event is allegedly occurring in.”
I have been following WHO’s efforts to gin up fear related to the bird flu ahead of a conference that would have finalized the treaty. Additionally, we noted that Republican senators wrote a letter rejecting the treaty.
Citizens, their representatives, and many national leaders are balking at agreeing to any treaty the “subject matter experts” of WHO were concocting. So, two years of negotiations ended last week without a final draft of the global agreement.
On Friday, Roland Driece, co-chair of WHO’s negotiating board for the agreement, acknowledged that countries were unable to come up with a draft. WHO had hoped a final draft treaty could be agreed on at its yearly meeting of health ministers starting Monday in Geneva.“We are not where we hoped we would be when we started this process,” he said, adding that finalizing an international agreement on how to respond to a pandemic was critical “for the sake of humanity.”Driece said the World Health Assembly next week would take up lessons from its work and plot the way forward, urging participants to make “the right decisions to take this process forward” to one day reach a pandemic agreement “because we need it.”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, indicates the negotiations will continue.
“The world still needs a pandemic treaty. Many of the challenges that caused the serious impact during COVID-19 still exist,” said Tedros. “So let’s continue to try everything.”Experts in global health expect that WHO will grant another six to 12 months for negotiators to complete their work – and resolve the sticking points.“It was a huge disappointment,” says Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, after learning about the delay. “But there is a strong appetite to carry on.”
This represents one small win for man, one significant win for mankind and its freedoms.
What was the reason WHO was in such a rush to close the deal? The ink had to dry before elections in the United States and multiple European countries.
“Donald Trump is in the room,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the W.H.O. Center on Global Health Law, who has helped to draft and negotiate the treaty.Interestingly, the presences of former President Donald Trump looms large in these treaty negotiations.“If Trump is elected, he will likely torpedo the negotiations and even withdraw from W.H.O.,” Mr. Gostin said.During his tenure as president, Mr. Trump severed ties with the W.H.O., and he has recently signaled that, if re-elected, he might shutter the White House pandemic preparedness office.
Given the policies coming out of international bodies lately, I believe Trump’s position on WHO would be a YUGE plus for his campaign. I also suspect that the European election results will result in decidedly less globalism in regional policy-making.
2025 may be a banner year for health and prosperity around the world.
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