Posted on 05/24/2022 2:12:12 PM PDT by RandFan
The WHO 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.
Just get the chip......
Doesn’t our Constitution require 2/3 on treaties? I don’t think they will be able to ram this down our throats like that.
Tell me this isn’t hand in hand with the WEF’s plans for world domination.
First, we kill all the bureaucrats.
Apologies to William Shakespeare.
It also requires the feral government to secure the border, but here we are.
“This system will be universal, mandatory, trans-national, and operated by unelected bureaucrats”
Mandatory?
Yeah?
or else what?
What constitution ?
John Roberts will decree that the chip is a health tax.
the answer is ‘no’, however you wizh to say that!
i say it now ... any and all congresscritters that say ‘yea’ to this WHO thing, through some other American citizen, I can’t I’m disabled and tied to a darn kidney machine, just might not see their second next birthday.
Doesn’t Commiecare cover this?
Look at this short clip from Davos:
Mass noncompliance guaranteed. Let them try.
Any Republicans voting for this need to be targeted for removal.
It took us 20 years to get RealID in place. Not terribly concerned about new ID “requirements”.
Biggest donor to WHO, Germany
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.
Klaus Schwab, German
https://www.telekom.com/en/company/supervisory-board
Lars Hinrichs - 2008 WEF Young Global Leader(same year as Musk)
Sidebar on right has list. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Young_Global_Leaders/2008
Sometimes it almost seems like we have another German problem.
“Honey, does the chip make my butt look big?”
“It is much worse than we thought. The rule change includes very dangerous amendments – 13 of them. Investigative reporter Leo Hohmann reports that these amendments will NOT require approval by 2/3 of the United States Senate. It’s not called a treaty. It’s amending a treaty we are a part of.”
I still don’t understand how the Administration can modify a treaty without going to the Senate for the changes to be ratified. Its not the same treaty that was once approved. Therefore, I won’t recognize it as law and will not obey their dictates.
No.
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