After two years of negotiations, the 77th World Health Assembly passed amendments to the International Health Regulations. "Most importantly, the IHR provides a legal framework for swift action. No more bureaucratic delays or red tape during a crisis—just decisive, life-saving measures implemented when and where needed most. These include quarantine protocols, travel restrictions, and other critical interventions during health emergencies, ensuring a more proactive and organized global response to future health crises."
Source This wasn't always part of the WHO's plans. "In its 2019 pandemic influenza recommendations, WHO stated that “not in any circumstances” should contact tracing, border closures, entry or exit screening, or quarantine of exposed individuals be undertaken in an established pandemic. They wrote this because such measures would cause more harm than good, and disproportionately harm poorer people. In 2020, in conjunction with private and national sponsors, it supported the largest wealth shift in history from low- to high-income earners by promoting these same measures. In abandoning its principles, WHO consigned millions of girls to nightly rape through child marriage, increased teenage pregnancies and child mortality, reduced childhood education, and grew poverty and malnutrition. Despite most of these people being too young to be troubled by Covid or already having immunity, they promoted billions of dollars worth of mass vaccination, whilst the burdens of traditional priorities such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS grew. Western media have met this with silence or empty rhetoric. Saving lives does not turn a profit, but selling commodities does. WHO’s sponsors are doing what they need for their investors, whilst WHO is doing what it needs to keep their money flowing."
From David Bell's article "The WHO, sovereignty, and reality" |
