In May, I wrote that the 2021 Monkeypox tabletop exercise resulted in 3.2 billion cases and 271 million dead; in it, I discussed how the World Health Organization would use monkeypox to pass the Pandemic Treaty.
Yesterday the WHO Emergency Committee convened to decide whether monkeypox is a global health emergency or a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The last PHEIC is the COVID-19. Memories of lockdowns, quarantines, school closures, and mandated vaccinations are still fresh on our minds.
A PHEIC is defined in the IHR (2005) as “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to require a coordinated international response potentially.” This definition implies a situation that is:
- serious, sudden, unusual, or unexpected;
- carries implications for public health beyond the affected State’s national border; and
- may require immediate international action.
As of this writing, there are 3,661 monkeypox cases in non-endemic areas with no deaths. In the US, the CDC count in the US is around 157.
No valid reason to declare PHEIC
While the rise in the monkeypox cases is sudden and unusual, it is not severe since the West African Clade is the one that is spreading and not the deadlier Central African clade. The monkeypox that is currently spreading is self-limiting with supportive management.
On their CDC Monkeypox website, they say,
Monkeypox is rare and does not spread easily between people without close contact. The threat of monkeypox to the general U.S. population remains LOW.
They PHEIC may be declared without SCIENTIFIC backing
However, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first director-general of the WHO and not a medical doctor, may still declare monkeypox as a PHEIC that will bring us closer to the approval of the Pandemic Treaty, formally known as the International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response.
Why will the WHO do that? And what is wrong with the Pandemic Treaty?
According to the Mises Institute,
Contrary to popular opinion, the WHO is not an independent, unbiased, and ethical organization that aims to achieve the common good. In reality, its goals and agendas are set by its donors, including some of the world’s richest countries and most influential philanthropists.
For decades, “philanthropists and their foundations have [gained] increasing influence” when it comes to shaping the global health agenda by “placing people in international organizations and gaining privileged access to scientific, business and political elites.”
For example, as Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz explain in Philanthropic Power and Development: Who Shapes the Agenda?,“ the Gates Foundation and earlier the Rockefeller Foundation have been shaping global health policies not only through their direct grant-making but also through the provision of matching funds, the support of selected research programs, the creation of global health partnerships with Foundation’s staff in their decision-making bodies, and by direct advocacy at the highest political level.”
Back in 2006, The Guardian reported that “the Gates foundation is now the second-largest donor to the World Health Organization after the US, as well as one of the world’s largest single investors in biotechnology for farming and pharmaceuticals.”
Unfortunately, when philanthropists and their foundations advance their own interests, they do so at the expense of the common interests of society. There is no reason to believe that this dynamic will be any different in the case of the Pandemic Treaty.
The Pandemic Treaty has the potential to be extremely detrimental to the future of humanity because it will allow the WHO’s most powerful contributors to shape universal pandemic measures instead of recognizing the importance of developing specific policies and approaches based on the social, economic, and physical realities and needs of each individual country.
The treaty will eliminate the national will and sovereignty of member countries, as it will dictate their health policies based on abstraction, as opposed to considering the realities that prevail in each place.
The WHO will release its decision today. What do you think will win? Money or science?
Truth heals. Lies kill. Don’t Get Sick!
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