The past week has (apparently) reshaped the arc of history. The US President-Elect has promised to leave the WHO, does not believe we are facing apocalyptic global warming, has promised to end the green energy agenda, to improve education, to restore us to two genders, and allow Mr. Kennedy wide scope to improve our healthcare and food systems.
It's a tall order. But it is overdue. And even before taking office, Mr. Trump is making big waves.
After its annual meeting in May, the WHO apparatus did everything it could to bring forth a pandemic treaty. Per an agreement made on June 1, 2024, the WHO bureaucracy was given one year maximum to get this done.
The two white male co-chairs of the pandemic treaty's Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) were sent home and were replaced by a female Swiss ambassador and dour female South African doctor Precious Matsoso, who had co-chaired the IHR amendments group. I'm not certain, but I think at least one other negotiator also got replaced.
The WHO scheduled many in-person meetings and remote meetings for the INB. They chose a very tight timeline for completion of the pandemic treaty draft: by November 12. This was the last day that would allow a meeting to be called of the full WHO membership in December to push the treaty through.
The WHO brought in outside "stakeholders" to the current negotiations for 5 days in a row–we don't know what they discussed and whether they offered and new carrots to the diplomats. Were Bill Gates' brightest bulbs there to try and tilt the negotiations?
None of it worked. The negotiators reached no agreement on a treaty by the end of business on November 11.
The same issues that have been sticklers all along remain:
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Surveillance, prevention and One Health
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How intellectual property rights will be handled in a medical emergency: what breaks will the 'low and middle income countries' (LMIC) get on the cost of patented drugs and vaccines? This has never been spelled out.
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The biowarfare library, also known as the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing System, remains unresolved. What will the benefits amount to if LMICs do turn over their deadly pathogens to the WHO for safekeeping? How much money, reduced price drugs, etc. will they be offered?
Nations are furthermore not interested in signing up to a regime where they will be monitored and told what they must do, with unknown future obligations and incalculable present and future costs.
The WHO gave a short press conference on the evening of November 11 to alert its member nations that they would not be called back to Geneva next month. The speakers tried to put a happy face on things. They know it is unlikely that an agreement will be reached, even by June 1, 2025. Or, perhaps to save face, after so much effort and money has been spent on these meetings, a meaningless treaty will be agreed to.
Our work together, yours and mine, in many countries and in many US states, helped win the day.
When the two co-chairs and WHO's principal attorney Steven Solomon (formerly a State Department lawyer) were asked at the press conference yesterday whether President Trump's victory had affected the negotiations, their smiles turned to frowns. Apparently, watching their body language, they felt it had made things much harder. But they would not provide an answer.
They had tried very hard to get the pandemic treaty finished by yesterday and passed by mid-December, so it could go into force as early as mid-January, while the Biden administration remained in power. It was written to lock nations in for at least 3 years after they ratified it… clearly a globalist's wet dream.
Of course, no one in the press conference would breathe a word about why they had been in such manic haste. But of course they knew. Their race was lost. They failed to deliver. They missed the golden ring.
And if a pandemic treaty does eventuate, it will be Trump's call whether to join, or not. And he already staked out his position last year: no WHO, no pandemic treaty. No global governance.
Meryl
