The WHO Treaty and Pandemic Threats
Do we need a World Health Organisation Pandemic Treaty?
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At the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, 27 May – 1 June 2024, Member States of the WHO are scheduled to consider for adoption the proposed pandemic treaty text. The WHA is the governing body of the WHO.
1. Why the Urgency?
The WHO and co claim there is an urgent need for the proposed WHO Treaty as there is an upward trend in the number of outbreaks arising naturally, especially from zoonotic diseases; i.e., pathogens spilling over from animals to humans.
In this report, 'A Global Deal for our Pandemic Age', the following claims are stated:
The last two decades have seen major global outbreaks of infectious diseases every four to five years.
A. There is an “exponential” increase in the frequency of non-influenza outbreaks caused by wildlife zoonoses.
B. There have been around 10 influenza spillover (transfer from animals) events each year in recent years, compared to hardly any 25 years ago.
Do their claims stand up to scrutiny?
2. How Big is the Pandemic Threat?
A 108 page report by REPPARE from the University of Leeds titled 'Re-evaluating Pandemic Risk within the Global Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Agenda' found the data and evidence is poorly supportive. View the report here and an interesting article on the report here: Before Preparing for Pandemics, We Need Better Evidence of Risk.
A. Non-Influenza Outbreaks:
From 2001 to 2020, there have been the following outbreaks (number in brackets represent associated deaths): 2018 Lassa (114); 2017 Zika (362); 2017 Ebola (3); 2014 Chiungunya (0); 2014 Ebola (11,325); 2012 MERS (858); 2010 Cholera (9,992); 2003 Sars CoV-1 (774); 2001 Nipah (54); 2018-2020 Ebola (2,287).
Note, deaths from non-influenza outbreaks only total around 25,600 over 20 years and most of these were due to Ebola and Cholera.
The Ebola virus requires direct contact for spread. It's confined to Central and West Africa where outbreaks arise every few years. These are dealt with locally. Between 2018-2020, there were 2,287 Ebola deaths. The largest outbreak was back in 2014, which took 11,325 lives.
The 2010 cholera outbreak (9,992 deaths) was confined to Haiti and was thought to have originated from poor sanitation in a United Nations compound (WHO is an agency of the United Nations). There has been a consistent downward trend of Cholera outbreaks around the word since 1859 due to improved water and sewerage sanitation.
There has been significant advances in detection technology. This would likely account for the increase in reported events, since most small and localized outbreaks would have been previously missed. For instance, HIV/AIDS was missed for at least 20 years before identification in the 1980s.
B. Influenza Outbreaks
From 2001 to 2020, there have been the following outbreaks (number in brackets represent associated deaths): 2009 H1N1 Influenza i.e. Swine Flu (163,000); 2004 H5N1 Influenza (163,000).
On average, there have been around 600,000 deaths per year from seasonal influenza for the past few decades despite increases in population. The influenza outbreaks did not reach seasonal levels. Here to, any increases in detection of spillover events are more likely than not due to advances in detection methods.
3. On Covid 19
Covid 19 is highly likely an unintentional or intentional lab leak. Watch this short, must-see Senator Paul Rand video on Gain-of-Function Research. Even the FDA has concluded Covid 19 came from a lab in Wuhun. And read this article: 'COVID Origins Hearing Wrap Up: Facts, Science, Evidence Point to a Wuhan Lab Leak'. And see more evidence here.
As the Treaty puts considerable focus on countries finding natural pathogens, Covid 19 cannot be used as justification for doing this.
Besides, even if it were natural, Covid 19 case numbers were highly inflated by the use of faulty PCR testing. See here and here and here. Covid 19 death numbers were increased by counting all deaths 'with Covid' as Covid deaths, by ignoring/maligning early treatment options, and by ignoring or censoring doctors who were treating Covid 19 successfully with repurposed drugs and the like. Also, how many Covid deaths were due to vaccine-induced immune dysfunction? I highly, highly recommend everyone watch this short video: Was the Priority Ever About Saving Lives. Please share far and wide.
4. On Saving Lives
Money is far better spent on areas of healthcare that will save many more lives and improve health outcomes in general.
For instance: malaria, which is preventable, kills over 600,000 children every year; tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people, i.e over 3,500 per day; seasonal influenza kills between 290,000 and 650,000, which is far more than the Swine flu outbreak of 2009 (163,000 deaths).
Therefore, it is certainly not justifiable to spend so much time, research, and money on unearthing unknown pathogens. In fact, searching for pathogens etc. is more likely than not to result in more outbreaks and more harm. If you play with matches, you are more likely to create a fire.
From a REPPARE article: Rational Policy Over Panic.
Focus has shifted from the highest burden diseases, and the community-based empowerment required to tackle them, to preventing, identifying, and mitigating diseases that are rare and/or of relatively low burden, or even hypothetical.
5. Fearmongering
How do analyses on pandemic risk reach more than 3 million deaths per year, such as that of the much quoted Bernstein et al.
REPPARE in their article, ‘Before Preparing for Pandemics, We Need Better Evidence of Risk’ supply the answer.
These numbers are achieved by including the Spanish flu, which occurred before the advent of modern antibiotics and mainly killed through secondary bacterial infections, and by including HIV/AIDs, a many-decade event, as an outbreak. Both influenza and HIV/AIDS already have well-established international mechanisms for surveillance and management...influenza mortality has been dropping with no outbreaks above seasonal background for 50 years.
In my opinion, to include Spanish Flu and HIV as an outbreak is unethical and immoral and illustrates the type of manipulating people our government is trusting with our health if they sign this agreement. It appears today, those with the most money in the world are in charge of “truth”.
[As an aside, there is also significant evidence that the 1918 Spanish Flu deaths were more likely iatrogenic than influenza. See How "influenza" bacterial vaccines were manufactured and used in 1918 and More evidence 1918 pandemic deaths were likely more "iatrogenic" than "influenza"]
Are the claims (based on manipulated data) promoted by the WHO etc aimed at instilling fear to frighten countries into signing the WHO Agreement?
And was the Janurary 17th 2024 World Economic Forum meeting, Preparing for Disease X, convened to heighten that fear and further create a sense of urgency? (The WEF and UN/WHO are strategic partners). The meeting was about preparing for pandemic health threats and was centred on a hypothetical pathogen, 'Disease X'.
a. As REPPARE said in their article, ‘Disease X and Davos: This is Not the Way to Evaluate and Formulate Public Health Policy/:
The WEF is a private forum supported by, and representing, private corporate interests that control much of the world’s financial and economic activity...it is arguably an inappropriate forum for the making of public policy.
b. REPPARE also pointed out the WEF laid out the reasoning behind convening this week’s pandemic panel in a 2018 article on its website, which was updated for the 2024 meeting. See here.
The article states:
The next pandemic is coming.
Known, incurable diseases lurk in hidden reservoirs all over the world. Thousands of unknown viruses circulate around the globe.
c. Although thousands of undiscovered viruses do exist since natures diversity is vast, nearly all of them are harmless to humans as we have been encountering them and their variants for thousands of years. As REPPARE showed in their report, natural outbreaks of major impact are uncommon and less harmful than many endemic infectious diseases.
d. Lab leaks of manipulated viruses are a real threat. However, as REPPARE said this is a biosecurity issue. And is definitely not best handled by private for-profit entities and rival geopolitical national laboratories that may have had a hand in creating them. Entities that would profit significantly by such outbreaks.
Listen to Dr David Bell on RCR.
DR DAVID BELL: Former WHO Public Health Epidemiologist: On His Article ‘Disease X and Davos: This is Not the Way to Evaluate and Formulate Public Policy'
Dr David Bell, who has worked on infectious diseases and coordinated malaria diagnostics strategy at the World Health Organization, returns to the programme to talk about his latest piece published on The Brownstone Institute website titled ‘Disease X and Davos: This is Not the Way to Evaluate and Formulate Public Health Policy'.
Conclusion
As REPPARE clearly showed in their report, the claims made by WHO and co on why we need a WHO Treaty are based on flawed and manipulated data.
How big is a natural pandemic threat? It’s small. Certainly not worth throwing truckloads of money at.
As the WHO promotes false claims and fear, it is NOT trustworthy.
Clean water and sanitation have played a huge part in reducing infection rates in modern times. Manipulation of natural pathogens, NOT natural zoonosis, is by far the greater threat.
And as REPPARE said this is a biosecurity issue and is definitely not best handled by private for-profit entities and rival geopolitical national laboratories that may have had a hand in creating them. Entities that would profit significantly by such outbreaks.
So do we need a WHO Pandemic Treaty? Definitely NOT, unless you think wasting truckloads of money and playing with matches is a good idea.
James Roguski sums up the ‘Treaty Madness’ brilliantly in this 1 minute video clip.
You can watch the entire interview here.
This 2017 article is frightening: The US government is lifting a ban on engineering deadly viruses to make them more dangerous.
Will the treaty result in many more outbreaks and NOT less? This topic is discussed in the next article.
What you can do
Spread the word. Most New Zealanders are not aware of the potential harms associated with the WHO Pandemic Treaty.
The Ministry of Trade and Fisheries are asking for submissions on the WHO Treaty. You can view the most recent draft here: Proposal for the WHO Pandemic Agreement, 22 April 2024 and here.
New Zealander, Keri Molloy has posted her submission on her substack. It’s worth reading. See here.