Thank you for calling attention to the treaty, Michael, and I am one of those alarmists warning people about it ;-)
An even greater and more pressing threat than the treaty, however, is the International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments up for vote at the May 22–28 World Health Assembly meeting. I detail the concerns in my public comment, which I published here:
After the letter, I include a list of action steps people can take to voice their objections, which we need to do within the next week or so before these amendments are carte-blanched through.
I would add that it's also setting a precedent for a one world government. We've already had a sort of power grab by globalists and authoritarians during the Covid crisis. But this treaty serves as a sort of statement that it was not a mistake, but rather that they do have the authority to do this, and in fact should have more authority from now on.
While national sovereignty is recognised, the treaty does say that if a member nation rejects the WHO's recommendations, it needs to explain itself to the other signatories. And a compliance board is established. So there are mechanisms to pressure signatories to comply. Sovereignty is recognized de jura, but de facto, it will be eroded.
These things happen in small steps.
And I suspect we shall soon see more of this in other areas. Like perhaps ways to make states more compliant with IPCC recommendations, or with IMF recommendations and so on.
Nice essay. I do like that it's less terrifying; however, they deserve to be vilified and disbanded. How long did it take this all knowing health body to say that Covid was airborne? Does anyone remember? I feel like it was a year.
that was the most informed and least bias assessment I have read about any of this madness. Thank you Michael. the New Normal is now officially my go to news site. As if you can find "news" anywhere else these days.
The main reason I would be worried about the WHO is we subscribe to it. I am always against the US giving any power to any international organization. Of course, equity is a false concept. Equality is a much better one.
We have nothing to fear from this treaty, unless our countries have the wrong leaders, who will insist that we must follow the WHO's advice religiously.
As most countries seem to have the wrong leaders now, and the right leaders are extremely rare, I am definitely worried.
Thanks for that perspective. As you rightly point out given the level of corruption within the WHO and their absolute failure to deal with a respiratory virus ( for which they had a plan before throwing that out the window) any further endorsement of their actions via a TREATY is not what the world needs.
Hi Michael - may I ask you what convinces you that the CCP was acting alone against the world regarding lockdowns, and Covid-19 policies? I personally strongly disagree with that. I think the CCP, the WHO, the World Economic Forum, Gates, and the entire pandemic planning and vaccine industrial complex were working together and have been for more than a decade - they planned it together and carried it out in lockstep - And they've done it by seizing the high ground everywhere through both corrupt leaders and coercing leaders on board like useful idiots. (E.g. the World Council of Churches, just as one example.) If we follow the time line of the significant events and publications leading up to lockdown - we see:
1. Event 201 - the last pandemic simulation exercise late 2019 - which was attended by the head of China's CDC....
2. Event 201 made a list of 7 recommendations to the WHO and world governments for pandemic planning-which is a carbon copy of the Covid19 policies, including censorship
3. China - the CCP followed the 7 recommendations and did the lockdowns and all of the Covid19 tyranny from Asymptomatic testing to Vaccine obsession
4. On the 3.2.20 the World Health Organization published its first pandemic preparedness plan for SARS-CoV2, which began the process of turning health and science upside down. In this document is a large section on the expected 'infodemic' - and the fact that the WHO had signed agreements with both Chinese and American big tech companies - all the majors to deal with misinformation - code for censorship. AT this point there was only about 6 deaths outside of China and the cases were falling inside China. They planned it way ahead of time.
5. February 16-24th Feb - report on the WHO-China joint mission on Covid - this document is the most revealing. Quite apart from the praise it gives China and the claim they set a new benchmark - if you read it carefully you see that every single Covid policy tyranny, with a few exceptions that came later, are in here - and the CCP is recommending them, and the WHO takes them up. This is the 'justification' for the lockdowns etc.
The intention by the CCP and the western partners were to lockdown the world.
The western leaders who can be linked to the CCP and/or the World Economic Forum, especially the Young Global Leaders, but even older leaders like Biden, who predate that program, but are well on board with the globalists of the WEF, they are almost all to a man and woman the Covid dictators.
It was an east-west, left-right Global Fascist Alliance.
And remember all of the companies, investment funds, and NGO's that make up the membership and partners of the WEF, are almost all in bed with the CCP in China.
E.g. Who owns CNN? AT&T. Where has it been for the last 40 years? Snuggling up with the CCP.
All of the woke corporations are owned significantly by the investment companies of the WEF, which in turn have a huge share of their business in China.
The changes to the IHR make clear the shift of power from nation states to director general of WHO. My red flag is that it is a nudge to world governance.
Excellent post..I have your book and will be blundering through it soon..
"...which was subsequently proven to have an infection fatality rate under 0.2%..."
The link goes to this quote.
"...overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%..."
Is that the mean rate for the UK?
The global mean is quite different.
"..the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5- 2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents..."
Michael, I think you are mistaken. This is not about the new Pandemic Treaty. The real danger is the Proposal for amendments to the International Health Regulations dated 12 April 2022 document A75/18 https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA75/A75_18-en.pdf Could you please as a lawyer have a look at this? This seems to give the WHO Director-General virtually dictatorial powers to call a public health emergency. Thank you.
Thank you for calling attention to the treaty, Michael, and I am one of those alarmists warning people about it ;-)
An even greater and more pressing threat than the treaty, however, is the International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments up for vote at the May 22–28 World Health Assembly meeting. I detail the concerns in my public comment, which I published here:
• “Letter to the US HHS Office of Global Affairs” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-us-hhs-office-of-global)
After the letter, I include a list of action steps people can take to voice their objections, which we need to do within the next week or so before these amendments are carte-blanched through.
Thanks.
I would add that it's also setting a precedent for a one world government. We've already had a sort of power grab by globalists and authoritarians during the Covid crisis. But this treaty serves as a sort of statement that it was not a mistake, but rather that they do have the authority to do this, and in fact should have more authority from now on.
While national sovereignty is recognised, the treaty does say that if a member nation rejects the WHO's recommendations, it needs to explain itself to the other signatories. And a compliance board is established. So there are mechanisms to pressure signatories to comply. Sovereignty is recognized de jura, but de facto, it will be eroded.
These things happen in small steps.
And I suspect we shall soon see more of this in other areas. Like perhaps ways to make states more compliant with IPCC recommendations, or with IMF recommendations and so on.
Nice essay. I do like that it's less terrifying; however, they deserve to be vilified and disbanded. How long did it take this all knowing health body to say that Covid was airborne? Does anyone remember? I feel like it was a year.
that was the most informed and least bias assessment I have read about any of this madness. Thank you Michael. the New Normal is now officially my go to news site. As if you can find "news" anywhere else these days.
The main reason I would be worried about the WHO is we subscribe to it. I am always against the US giving any power to any international organization. Of course, equity is a false concept. Equality is a much better one.
Hy Michael,
thanks for that perspective. I mainly agree with it. Translated some of your thoughts to german and made an article about it. Greetings.
https://tkp.at/2022/05/18/pandemievertrag-who-zementiert-ihre-macht/
This runs counter to all of the fear porn that has showed up all over the place. Interesting to consider!
Good summary.
We have nothing to fear from this treaty, unless our countries have the wrong leaders, who will insist that we must follow the WHO's advice religiously.
As most countries seem to have the wrong leaders now, and the right leaders are extremely rare, I am definitely worried.
Good to know it's not binding and with a government that is awake we could walk away from the precipice. Miss you on Twitter!
The fact that people trust an organisation whose second largest donor is a private philanthropist with very specific views about pandemic management - Bill Gates - to guide global pandemic responses bespeaks extraordinary naivete. I critique this naivete here: “The State is not your Daddy...” https://davidthunder.substack.com/p/the-state-isnt-your-daddy-and-big?r=wlowt&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Tedros and WHO need to take a hike!
Thanks for that perspective. As you rightly point out given the level of corruption within the WHO and their absolute failure to deal with a respiratory virus ( for which they had a plan before throwing that out the window) any further endorsement of their actions via a TREATY is not what the world needs.
Hi Michael - may I ask you what convinces you that the CCP was acting alone against the world regarding lockdowns, and Covid-19 policies? I personally strongly disagree with that. I think the CCP, the WHO, the World Economic Forum, Gates, and the entire pandemic planning and vaccine industrial complex were working together and have been for more than a decade - they planned it together and carried it out in lockstep - And they've done it by seizing the high ground everywhere through both corrupt leaders and coercing leaders on board like useful idiots. (E.g. the World Council of Churches, just as one example.) If we follow the time line of the significant events and publications leading up to lockdown - we see:
1. Event 201 - the last pandemic simulation exercise late 2019 - which was attended by the head of China's CDC....
2. Event 201 made a list of 7 recommendations to the WHO and world governments for pandemic planning-which is a carbon copy of the Covid19 policies, including censorship
3. China - the CCP followed the 7 recommendations and did the lockdowns and all of the Covid19 tyranny from Asymptomatic testing to Vaccine obsession
4. On the 3.2.20 the World Health Organization published its first pandemic preparedness plan for SARS-CoV2, which began the process of turning health and science upside down. In this document is a large section on the expected 'infodemic' - and the fact that the WHO had signed agreements with both Chinese and American big tech companies - all the majors to deal with misinformation - code for censorship. AT this point there was only about 6 deaths outside of China and the cases were falling inside China. They planned it way ahead of time.
5. February 16-24th Feb - report on the WHO-China joint mission on Covid - this document is the most revealing. Quite apart from the praise it gives China and the claim they set a new benchmark - if you read it carefully you see that every single Covid policy tyranny, with a few exceptions that came later, are in here - and the CCP is recommending them, and the WHO takes them up. This is the 'justification' for the lockdowns etc.
The intention by the CCP and the western partners were to lockdown the world.
The western leaders who can be linked to the CCP and/or the World Economic Forum, especially the Young Global Leaders, but even older leaders like Biden, who predate that program, but are well on board with the globalists of the WEF, they are almost all to a man and woman the Covid dictators.
It was an east-west, left-right Global Fascist Alliance.
And remember all of the companies, investment funds, and NGO's that make up the membership and partners of the WEF, are almost all in bed with the CCP in China.
E.g. Who owns CNN? AT&T. Where has it been for the last 40 years? Snuggling up with the CCP.
All of the woke corporations are owned significantly by the investment companies of the WEF, which in turn have a huge share of their business in China.
It is not a coincidence.
The changes to the IHR make clear the shift of power from nation states to director general of WHO. My red flag is that it is a nudge to world governance.
Excellent post..I have your book and will be blundering through it soon..
"...which was subsequently proven to have an infection fatality rate under 0.2%..."
The link goes to this quote.
"...overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%..."
Is that the mean rate for the UK?
The global mean is quite different.
"..the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5- 2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents..."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13554
Michael, I think you are mistaken. This is not about the new Pandemic Treaty. The real danger is the Proposal for amendments to the International Health Regulations dated 12 April 2022 document A75/18 https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA75/A75_18-en.pdf Could you please as a lawyer have a look at this? This seems to give the WHO Director-General virtually dictatorial powers to call a public health emergency. Thank you.