I spent one of the most boring days of my life today, listening to over 100 diplomats regurgitate their support for pandemic preparedness. I had to keep checking my mail, or checking something, anything—but I didn’t let myself turn it off, in case something interesting happened. In the end, the pushback against the UN’s pandemic preparedness agenda was out in the open, and I smiled.

Below are my notes.

The President of the General Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council told us how advanced we are scientifically, how far we have come and how nations must work together and get the Pandemic Treaty completed. The Secretary General, through his Deputy, said:

• First we must close the financing gap.

• Second, we must embrace the One Health approach.

• Finally, equity is not optional. All countries need access to life-saving tools. The PABS agreement is critical.

Then Tedros spoke. He repeated the need for the PABS agreement to be completed. He insisted the IHR and Pandemic Treaty do not infringe on national sovereignty. Yet they require nations to censor their citizens. Tedros lied about the sovereignty issue through all the Pandemic Treaty drafts, which clearly impinged on sovereignty. (For example, multiple drafts had the Director-General announcing pandemics or public health emergencies of any kind at will, and then giving orders to nations re how they must respond.) It is a hot-button issue. Besides many countries not wanting to give up sovereignty on anything, some of their Constitutions forbid nations to enter into agreements where they give up rights.

Tedros gave the General Assembly his only request: complete the PABS agreement.

NZ’s Helen Clark then spoke. She was co-chair of the “Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR)” created by the WHO to protect it from complaints about how it handled COVID-19. She repeated what those who came before had said, with a stronger call for money: “More must be invested at the front end.” “A path must be found through the current impasse in the PABS negotiations.” “Together, we could make COVID-19 the last pandemic.”

You cannot get more globalist than Helen Clark. She is the board chair of GAVI. President of the RIIA (Chatham House), the UK’s older cousin of the CFR and initiator of much mischief over the past 100 years. She is a member of The Elders. She was the Administrator of the UN Development Program agency.

The EU representative (who also represented several small countries who are not yet part of the EU—so about 30 countries) agreed with everyone else but said they had some Red lines with the document that had been proposed. Apart from the US, this was the strongest language I heard all day. So the Pandemic Declaration that the UN had put forward to the members for approval has failed consensus, in a major way. These were Europe’s red lines:

• Tech transfer must be voluntary, on mututally agreeable terms

• The Declaration was silent on a needed global financial tracker (regarding who pays and how much)

• There was no reference to existing key “actors,” like the WHO’s pandemic and epidemic intelligence hub

The UN’s Pandemic Declaration has had several drafts, and the current draft has not been made available to the public. Here is an earlier version.

The Africa Group (Burundi represented the approximately 50 nations in the group) called for primary health care; $1.5 B help with the Ebola response and recovery; 15% of national budgets for health, as determined in a previous agreement. They call for debt changes. I was not clear what those changes were, but debt forgiveness, longer payback periods, and loans to previously unreliable nations were proposed by the UN 3 years ago as part of its new financial architecture plan. They asked for measures to prevent loss of skilled health workers from developing countries (brain drain) and to enhance local training of skilled health workers. The rapid sharing of pathogens and sequence information must be matched with equal benefit sharing. Sustainable food and agricultural systems are required for pandemic preparedness. This was the only mention I heard of food all day, but it is important, since this speaker represents nearly all of Africa, and I suspect they are worried about a famine, as am I.

You can see that this High Level meeting on Day 5 of the UN General Assembly is not especially popular:

Most of the diplomats referred to “Universal Health Care,” not “Universal Health Coverage” (which is what the UN calls for)—the goal to achieve universal coverage, I think, is a linguistic trick to try to get some entities, somewhere, to pay for health insurance for all. I am glad the speakers have not fallen for the goal of “coverage” instead of actual health care

Doctor and lawyer Erica Schwartz, CDC Director, spoke for the US. She said we have strengthened prohibitions for dangerous research and are ending GOF research. Each country needs the core capabilities within its own borders to identify and respond to infectious diseases. (Presumably this means the US thinks the world doesn’t need the WHO or central authorities to assist with pandemic management.) She emphasized that the issue of PABS has failed to achieve consensus at WHO and the US does not support it.

The bottom line is that the Pandemic Declaration, which had been intended to put some extra steam behind the expensive pandemic preparedness agenda and the PABS system, fell on its face. Here is an excerpt from the AP report tonight of what happened:

Since the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, various new international funds, collaboratives, scientific programs and agreements have arisen to tackle pandemic threats better. But the international community is navigating divides about the issue — and they were clear Friday, when countries couldn’t reach consensus on a declaration that was intended to cap the special pandemic meeting.

Rahman said General Assembly members would consider the document in future.

The draft declaration, obtained by The Associated Press, reiterates an intent to scale up preparedness and improve coordination within countries and among them.

The document calls for enhancing financing, boosting lab capacity and promoting increased medication and vaccine access. Other provisions of the wide-ranging draft endorse trying to counter vaccine hesitancy and health-related misinformation, making all policies gender-equal and ensuring universal access to family planning and sexual health services by 2030.

Yes, it was all the same stuff that the WHO spent years working on. Universal Health Coverage. Reproductive health. Mental health care. Censorship. FINANCING.

The UN and WHO are looking increasingly irrelevant. Their globalist masters will have to come up with another plan.

 

IPAK-EDU is grateful to Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) as this piece was originally published there and is included in this news feed with mutual agreement. Read More