Dial Back the Panic! The WHO Cannot 'Steal Our Sovereignty' OR 'Subsume Our Constitution!' Here's Why.

There has been a lot of criticism leveled at the global health infrastructure’s management of covid given the 15 years the IHR has been in effect and in response, the World Health Assembly will be preparing a new Pandemic Treaty. I’ve seen a lot of reaction to the prospect of this new treaty whose final draft is due in 2024. It is without question that we are absolutely a world on edge and poised to be engulfed in a literal digital gulag to include health passports, central bank digital currencies, and social credit scores, but I think we need to dial back the panic on this one just a bit.

The preparation of treaties is governed by the Vienna Conventions of 1969 containing 30 pages of protocol that must be adhered to by all treaty authors. Once treaty language is approved - which can be done if 2/3 of the authorized participants in the preparation of the treaty agree - the treaty is then presented to countries for adoption, rejection, or adoption with reservations. In the US, the approval process is stewarded by the US Department of State. From their website:

“…Treaties and other international agreements are written agreements between sovereign states (or between states and international organizations) governed by international law.  The United States enters into more than 200 treaties and other international agreements each year.

The subjects of treaties span the whole spectrum of international relations: peace, trade, defense, territorial boundaries, human rights, law enforcement, environmental matters, and many others. As times change, so do treaties. In 1796, the United States entered into the Treaty with Tripoli to protect American citizens from kidnapping and ransom by pirates in the Mediterranean Sea. In 2001, the United States agreed to a treaty on cybercrime…

“…The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, within the Office of the Legal Adviser, provides guidance on all aspects of U.S. and international treaty law and practice. It manages the process under which the Department of State approves the negotiation and conclusion of all international agreements to which the U.S. will become a party. It also coordinates with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on issues involving the Senate’s advice and consent to ratification of treaties..”

Everyone concerned with the Pandemic Treaty can monitor its progress on the WHO’s website, where you can find meeting agendas and even several hours of public comment from meetings held in Feb. 2022: https://inb.who.int/

There is no reason to believe the preparation of this treaty will deviate from the requirement that it follow the Vienna Convention, or that the US Department of State will deviate from its stewardship of the international treaty ratification process that it follows 200 times per year. What we need to do is to insert ourselves as appropriate within the process - with the WHO in the drafting of the treaty, or with the State Department in the ratifying process.

Because of the time involved in treaty preparation and adoption that typically spans several years, the US Mission to the United Nations has prepared a series of amendments to the existing International Health Regulations. Due to the criticism leveled at China and its lack of cooperation with respect to requests for information concerning the initial covid outbreak in Wuhan, is has been argued that these denials and delays prevented a coordinated global response in a timely manner.

As such, the amendments seek to impose strict time frames for member states to respond to a notification from the WHO to a member country that there is, or may be, a health emergency within its borders, as well as to offers of assistance in assessing and containing that health risk. The amendments also eliminate consultation with the states and permit the WHO to declare health emergencies without said consultation with the country who may be experiencing a health emergency.

There are many who view these amendments as arbitrary power grabs by a global institution seeking to enforce its will on the global population and they are absolutely correct to monitor this process closely. The W H O, however, is responding to criticism and its own internal frustration with the delays in being unable to implement the declaration of a global health emergency for several months due to China’s lack of cooperation from December 2019 to March of 2020.

The process of member states’ adoption of amendments to treaties is specified in the Vienna Conventions and are subject to debate and discussion prior to being finalized for presentation to states for consideration. The sole exception to the process specified in the Vienna Conventions is that the time frame for adoption or rejection of these amendments by states is being shortened from 18 months to 6 months. These amendments will be reviewed by the World Health Assembly in May 2022 and presented to member states in November 2022.

That these amendments are viewed as a power grab by the WHO is extremely warranted in an era where we’ve already been informed that there are global intentions to imprison us in a digital gulag via ‘health passports’ and central bank digital currencies. The WHO will tell us that they are simply seeking to mobilize global resources in a more timely manner to reduce the spread of disease. Two things to bear in mind as both these amendments and the Pandemic Treaty evolve is that no state is REQUIRED to adopt either, and that in the US, we have included, in the adoption of the original IHR, the reservation that our federal and state laws supersede anything contained in the treaty which will remain in force regardless of the extent of amendment adoption. And we must never forget the fear driven, draconian responses to Covid that our own state and federal laws allowed, or did not allow but were done anyway, which will be challenged in courts in perpetuity.