SOURCE: Brownstone Institute
Photo: Rasmus Gundorff S\u00e6derup<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the WHO hurtling towards adoption of the \u2018Pandemic Treaty,\u2019 as well as revisions of its International Health Regulations (IHR) which some knowledgeable observers regard as even more consequential, the predominant theory among opponents appears to be that the changes will consolidate the power of the WHO bureaucracy and hence of private interests which allegedly control the latter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, prima facie, the theory makes little sense. The WHO is, after all \u2013 like, say, the UN or the WTO \u2013 an international organization, in which negotiations take place among member-states<\/em> and decisions are made by them. Private sources can contribute as much funding as they like, and this may well give them influence, but it will not give them a seat at the negotiating table or a vote. Without precise state sponsorship, a project like the Pandemic Treaty and the related revisions of the IHR could not even get off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, lo and behold, if we go back far enough \u2013 before hardly anyone will have ever even heard the expression \u2018pandemic treaty\u2019 \u2013 we discover that the treaty did indeed have a state sponsor and that, unsurprisingly, the state in question is the very same state which, if albeit unbeknownst to the broader public, was the driving force behind the WHO\u2019s Covid-19 \u2018pandemic response:\u2019 namely, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n