The Deadline for Countries to Exempt Themselves From the New Pandemic International Health Regulations is This Week
Much has been written on the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which most countries are making themselves subject to after July 19th (this week). Many raise concerns of loss of sovereignty, censorship, corporate greed and conflict of interest. But most are missing the main point; the sheer and outright stupidity and fallacy on which the whole pandemic agenda is based.
July 19th is the last day that Member States of the World Health Organisation (WHO) can withdraw from the IHR amendments (without entering a multi-year withdrawal process). By failing to withdraw, they will be committing their taxpayers to fund the key surveillance aspects of a rapidly expanding industry that is the pandemic industrial complex. They will be required to set up an extensive network to search for well-established natural phenomena, including the tendency of viruses to mutate into variants. This has been part of the natural world for hundreds of millions of years, but demonstrating it has recently become highly profitable due to a confluence of technological advances and intense marketing.
Firstly, we have developed the ability to detect variants with technologies such as PCR and gene sequencing. This also helps find a lot of viruses which we had not noticed before as they are mostly harmless. Secondly, we have developed digital identification and communications technologies that allow an unprecedented level of mass media coordination and public coercion ā what Goebbels could do on a national scale, we can now do almost globally. Thirdly, we have developed pay-to-print modified-RNA medicines (vaccines) that are really cheap and, through the use of fear and coercion, can be injected into almost everyone, returning excellent profits.
The text of the IHR amendments reads fairly innocuously. Few countries will decline their adoption. The people making the decisions often have career interests in the pandemic industry anyway, and politicians donāt see much gain in standing against the flow of finance. This will flow upwards, as it did in Covid, but some of it diverts to their electoral funds. Most think it is better that they get these funds than their opponents. Unfortunately, but obviously, modern democracies are very much about money.
Politics aside, it is worth considering how we got to such a place. The last big natural pandemic was the Spanish Flu in 1918-19. That was before we invented any modern antibiotics (most flu deaths were probably from secondary bacterial infections) and before all the gizmos and cleverness of modern medicine. Since then, infectious disease death rates have plummeted because we eat better, have better sanitation, live in better conditions and have modern clinics and all that technology provides. If the Spanish Flu spread now, it is inconceivable that an equivalent virus could cause the same pattern of mortality, unless we really wanted it to. A century of advances in medical technology and human resilience do not amount to nothing, despite what many medical authorities who stand to gain from this would have us believe.
Moderate flu pandemics in the late 1950s and 1960s were the only events since 1918 where a respiratory virus outbreak actually got significantly above baseline for annual mortality (Swine flu (H1N1) in 2009 didnāt). Then came COVID-19, associated with death in wealthy countries at just above the average age of death, a disease quite probably arising from the research carried out by the same pandemic industry that then profited from it.
This leaves a huge credibility problem in justifying the pandemic agenda that now dominates public health. It is being dealt with by pummelling the public and politicians with stories sufficiently farcical that they start to be believed. We still have an urge to believe that institutions such as the WHO, World Bank and G20 would not make stuff up to trick us.
Undaunted by the lack of evidence, the WHO set about essentially creating a fiction through its two major outbreak publications of the past five years, Managing Epidemics and Future Surveillance, both published in 2023. At one time, I am sure WHO would not have done this. The reports base their claim of rising outbreaks on a single graphic showing no outbreaks in the year 2000, but a steady accumulation since. WHO is insisting that diseases like cholera, plague, Yellow Fever and influenza that were far worse in past decades and centuries are actually increasing now. Someone was paid to design this graphic (below) to persuade rather than impart truth. It is challenging not to characterise this as fraud, but it is consistent with WHO messaging on this issue since early 2020.
In the 20 years prior to COVID-19, experts recruited by the G20 to present evidence supporting the IHR amendments could only find outbreaks amounting to about 190,000 deaths in the 20 years pre-Covid (see “major infectious disease outbreaksā in Annex D of the 2022 G20 report). Putting numbers to these, nearly all (163,000) are attributed to Swine Flu in 2009 (about a quarter of normal yearly flu mortality). Most of the remainder were from the geographically confined West African Ebola outbreak, and the Haiti cholera outbreak which arose from sewerage leaking from a United Nations compound. In contrast, about 1.3 million people currently die every year from tuberculosis and over 600,000 children from malaria. Roughly 100 million died from malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined over the same 20-year period. Undaunted, the G20 secretariat concluded that the acute outbreak above constituted an āexistential threatā justifying far more resources.
Not to be outdone, the World Bank teamed up with WHO to provide an explanatory graphic in its official report aimed at convincing our governments to divert funds to pandemics rather than the major endemic diseases: malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. To justify public money being allocated to profitable pandemic preparedness rather than high burden diseases, it needed to show pandemics cost economies far more. It drew a line for malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined at $22 billion per year (i.e., probably about 1% or 2% of true cost). Then it drew a wavy line above this to indicate that SARS1 (840 deaths) and MERS (about 800 deaths) cost $50-70 billion.
Covid is costed at over $9 trillion, which clearly includes costs of lockdowns and incentive packages from the extraordinary response. A Lancet article that the WHO would have previously agreed with estimated annual economic costs of tuberculosis alone to be $508 billion, but the WHO and the World Bank chose $22 billion for TB, malaria and HIV combined. The WHO considers a virus killing at average age of about 80 years is orders of magnitude more expensive than three diseases that have killed about 100 million, mostly children and young adults, in just 20 years.
There is far more extensive evidence of the WHO and partner agencies misleading the public, media and governments to promote the pandemic agenda. Writing about this is not fun. They are engaged in deliberate misrepresentation intended to divert funds to wealthier nations, their corporations and investors, increasing inequality and causing net harm. The private sector and a few countries can control most of the WHOās work through specified funding. Member states go along because delegates want a job with the same agencies or refuse to accept that these agencies fabricate a story, even when a cursory review shows their claims are exaggerated or unfounded.
Even though the main proponents of the IHR amendments cannot articulate a coherent case for having them, they will come into force. This is simply about building an industry to repeat Covid: taking money from the larger but less profitable disease burdens, printing more, and concentrating this wealth amongst those promoting the new normal ā the exact opposite of what the WHO is supposed to do.
The United States and Argentina have stated intent to leave the WHO. We will see how that lasts. The UK is doubling down, prioritising taxpayer funding for pharma companies through the 100 day vaccine initiative that monetises IHR amendments. The era of principles and ideals is long gone from international health. More money will be channelled to ever-growing bureaucracies whose sole function, whose only reason for existence, is to identify theoretical threats that can be used to close economies, remove the livelihoods of others and extract more of their remaining wealth.
The hapless inhabitants of WHO member states seem to have no real leaders anymore. Eventually the whole edifice will collapse under the weight of its own fallacies and economic unsustainability. In the meanwhile, the sad corporatist mess that international public health has become will continue indebt and demoralise the public.
Dr David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease. Previously, he was Programme Head for Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND in Geneva and coordinating malaria diagnostics strategy with the World Health Organisation. He is a Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute.
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Do not comply, ever. These unelected bodies are part of the hidden world government.
Not so well-hidden these days, I would suggest. They are becoming more brazen with every passing day; even Starmer boasted of it, “Davos or Westminster?” – “Davos”, came the instant reply.
Mr Starmer and his cronies can sign their government up to this claptrap, by an unelected organisation.
However it doesn’t mean that, I, as a citizen will ever comply.
I feel sure that I will be part of a substantial majority.
The reality that,unfortunately for the WHO and their partners in crime, pandemics rarely if ever (black death apart) happen has been successfully hidden from joe public.
Instead we are told we should remain in perpetual fear of illness and disease and that the only way to salvation lies in their hands and your wonderful kind and caring health systems.
If only all these pesky pathogens behaved in the way The Science says they do then maybe reliance upon bigpharma/theWHO etc. would make sense.
It should though be blindingly obvious that germ theory needs serious modification. Transmission of disease and its causes are poorly understood and even worse misunderstood.- what role does fear and anxiety play in illness for example? Precisely why and how do some people get sick/die and others do not? Was covid mainly an epidemic of fear/mass psychosis or a new and novel virus?
The works of Bechamp/terrain theory may hold a lot of answers to the above, but yield very little profit to those making billions out of modern pharmaceuticals.
The only pandemic we have is one of chronic illness, mainly prevalent in those who have relied on the miracle of modern medicine.
As they say, doctors are those who prescribe medicines about which they know little, to cure illnesses about which they know even less, in men, women and children about whom they know nothing at all.
Dr Hiram Baker (fictitious doctor, Little House on The Prairie) is the only doctor I have heard to say, “I don’t know…”
I recall the time I checked my wife and baby daughter out of hospital, against the doctors’ advice, after all their tests had come back negative, but they wanted to keep them in hospital overnight “just to be sure”. When I suggested that mother merely needed a cup of tea, at home, in her own bed and then a good night’s sleep away from them and their destructive advice, and that my baby daughter merely needed milk, wherever it came from, I was given the death stare.
“How dare this man challenge my judgement, my training, my superior person!”
But there was that GP, who – back in 2012 – told me I didn’t need a flu jab. He made me think. I wish I could remember his name. He was Romanian.
Surely any country can exempt itself whenever it likes.
“Deadline…”
It’s like Brexit, only much bigger.
“We’re leaving. Bye!”
Only it didn’t work like that, did it?!
Will we pull out by the 19th ?? Answers on a Fag packet š³ Sir Kneel will be creaming his boxers at the thought of knocking another nail in our indigenous coffin !
Starmer would sign us up to self mutilation and child slavery if the WHO, U.N, EU asked for it. So all the logic, the reality of the corruption and misanthropy of these organisations means nothing to a man and his cabinet whose eyes are on the next rung up the ladder.
If I understand it correctly, we are ālocked inā unless we choose to withdraw before the deadline. Once we sign, we lose flexibility, miss possible opportunities for the future and lose our autonomy on health. I wonder if Dr David Bull, chairman of Reform, has expressed any views on the matter.
In addition to my previous comment, I believe that the Satanic Cabal ruling the world, introduced covid as the start of the great reset. It was nothing to do with your health, and everything to do with your wealth. It also set the stage for a totalitarian form of government in the future. You will do as you are told. You may have noticed that since 2020, we have seen a change in the attitude of government. Every day a new attack on free speech, some introduced into dangerous legislation. This is no coincidence. The government are still forcing ahead with the illusion of net zero. More money to bribe people to buy useless battery cars, despite hardly any interest in buying them by the general public. You will do as you are told. Smallholder farms being taken away from growing food and re-purposed as solar farms. This apparent insanity that people cannot understand is nothing to do with insanity. It’s a plan, many years in the making. Flood the West with migrants, lower living standards, cause disruption to society. Digital control of our money and of us is less that 5 years away. You will do as you are… Read more Ā»
If we are bound to submit unless we opt out, we must have agreed in advance to being bound in this way. What agreement did we sign to be bound in this way, who signed it and when ā and did whoever signed it realise what it meant?
Beware of germs but no worries about free unchecked movement of people from all over the planet 24 F-IN 7 !! Canāt be anything to worry about can there ? Surely?
I am uncertain about the theory that Spanish Flu deaths were mainly due to secondary bacterial infection. Undoubtedly organisms such as Haemophilus influenza were isolated, but as these are commonly found in normal individuals cause and effect are not proven. Also the mode of death was quite unlike that of a bacterial pneumonia but much more akin to a hyperimmune state, aka cytokine storm. And far too rapid. We know that a large number of organisms can do this, not least our current friend SARS-CoV-2. No need to invoke two causes when one will do? For me the jury on this remains out.