The World Health Organization (WHO) is not plotting to take over the world. We need to remember what it is: an organization of fairly ordinary people, not especially experts in their field, who have landed jobs and benefits that most of us would envy. Not intrinsically nefarious, the organization is just being obedient to those who fund it and who define how those funds must be used. This is necessary if its staff are to keep their jobs.
The WHO is, however, promoting a new treaty being discussed by its governing body, the World Health Assembly (WHA), aimed at centralizing its control over health emergencies. The WHA is also amending the International Health Regulations, which have force under international law, to give the WHO power to demand lockdowns, mandate vaccines for you and your family, and prevent you from traveling.
“Health emergencies,” in this context, are any potential risk that the director-general determines might cause a significant problem to health. This could be a viral variant somewhere, an outbreak of information that he or she disagrees with, or even changing weather. The current DG has already insisted that all of these are major and growing threats. He even declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern after five people in the world died of monkeypox.
The rest of the United Nations, in its current desperation over impending climate Armageddon, is much the same as the WHO. As temperatures reach giddy heights that were useful for producing meat and barley in Medieval Greenland, most of its staff don’t really believe we are on the cusp of extinction. They are just ordinary people paid to say these things and concerned about job security and promotion if they don’t.
People whose wealth has made them very powerful see great gain in having the WHO and the U.N. act in this way. These people have also invested heavily in the media and politics to ensure broad support. Staff of the WHO and the U.N. who fight this from within are hardly going to enhance their career prospects. There is also just enough of a grain of truth in the stories (viruses do kill people, and CO2 is rising while the climate is changing) to self-justify the overall harm they know they are doing.
By David Bell
