The UK's Telegraph Criticizes the Pandemic Treaty and the W.H.O. itself/ by insider Karol Sikora
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A WHO pandemic treaty would be a threat to our freedom
Proposals for a global response shouldn’t see the light of day – healthcare decisions must be taken by national parliaments
Karol Sikora 27 May 2023 • 6:00am
Charting a course through a pandemic is not easy. Trusting those who are doing so is equally difficult, but given the choice between an elected government in Westminster and the World Health Organisation (WHO) bureaucrats in Geneva, the decision is easy.
Having spent two years as director of the WHO cancer programme, I am more informed than most about the eye-watering waste and incompetence that oozes from every crevice of that organisation. Very strong on politics, very weak on expertise. Just look at how China was treated throughout a pandemic that some say was of their own making, albeit accidentally. Ironically, I was having a beer by the Yangtze River with the cancer centre director in Wuhan in October 2019. We were putting the world to rights, admiring the beautiful sunset and wondering what the next global health problem would be. Little did we know.
Every year the World Health Assembly is held in the main United Nations building in Geneva. Everybody who is anybody in health is there. Health ministers, bureaucrats, and hangers on from the 194 member states arrive in an impressive line of black chauffeured cars, complete with flags and diplomatic plates – quite a sight. But the intellectual content inside the chamber is just appalling. There is more knowledge and lively discussion to be had with a group of first-year medical students. Expensive meals and cocktail party gossip about who’s in and who’s out are high on the agenda – not what’s needed for improving global healthcare.
Now the WHO is considering proposals for a “pandemic treaty”. Last year, its member states agreed to develop a zero draft of what would be a legally binding accord if agreed by all 194 member states. The whole thing fills me with suspicion and dread, because we know that many of its leading member states have embraced lockdowns, vaccine passports, travel bans and border closures in recent years. All were disastrous policies which should never see the light of day again. Even on a basic level, to place the power of implementation into the hands of inept and overpaid administrators would be a catastrophic decision which no responsible elected government should sign up to. Let’s work with our international friends and allies on how best to tackle cross-border health threats, but that does not mean handing the keys to Geneva.
If the WHO is given any level of binding control and made a global authority on public health measures, then I really do fear for all freedom-loving societies. A pandemic response can only be a national decision, considering all different medical, cultural, and societal factors that are so wonderfully different across the globe. It can never be one size fits all – it cannot be done in negotiation with communist states like China.
Sure, the British government handled the pandemic dreadfully and made one bad decision after another. But at least we all have the power to go to our local church or school on election day and register our displeasure. The same cannot be said for treaties embedded into international organisations. The power to take decisions should be as close as possible to the individual affected, especially when it involves health and livelihood across generations.
Critics will say that international co-operation is positive and I agree. Yet that can be done very effectively without the use of the word “binding” anywhere. Scientists and policymakers can be encouraged to share ideas across borders, but we simply cannot sign up to something that we may seriously regret in the years to come.
Right now, just focus on the many, many questions that our government needs to answer about its own disastrous lockdowns.
Professor Karol Sikora is a consultant oncologist
From Jeff Childers COFFEE and COVID substack 05/26/23:
Meryl, his seems encouraging:
Fretful folks often ask me what I think (as a lawyer) about the proposed WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty. I’ve written about this more fully before, but the short version is: Biden can’t sign a treaty without Senate ratification. If he signs anyway, like some predict, then the states will sue to overturn it. Even if the Senate does confirm the treaty, which seems unlikely, a treaty may not rewrite the Constitution, for example by delegating police powers reserved to the states to a foreign-controlled entity like the WHO.
The Constitution can’t be amended by a treaty. It may be amended only through the Constitutional amendment process and ratified by the States.
If you are anxious and want to do something about this now, the best place to start is educating both parties’ Senators. This Telegraph article could be a good place to start, since it’s from a mainstream media source and isn’t tainted by conspiracy or, perish the thought, conservatism.
The Telegraph (albeit it has a Gates funded ‘Global Security’ section) intermittently addresses the Conservative Party and its heartlands. This is the second warning they have sounded in two days - and while the government have insisted they have no intention of compromising sovereignty (and this has been said by two Foreign Office ministers) no one will believe them until the threat is removed. Of course, the short-circuiting of government to the bio-pharmaceutical state is the real objective while all government ministers seem to want to do a photo with Bill Gates. Andrew Bridgen relates how as early as 2010 David Cameron made his first address as Prime Minister to backbench MPs with Bill Gates in tow. Still, it is reasonably certain this won’t recommend recommend the party to most of its potential supporters: there will be very little support for closing down the country, restrictions on travel, or handing over more to the globalists than the EU ever had. Of course, Sunak is generally trouble - the only question whether he genuinely cares, since manifestly it was his job to wreck the country for the globalists rather than run it for the people - and according to these criteria he is already a success