An Intergovernmental Governing Body (IGB) has been drafting this document, and they will be accepting feedback from “relevant stakeholders” regarding the final draft, as well as the addition of amendments.  There are about 220 relevant stakeholders participating in this.  Not surprisingly, they include civil society, academic, and health groups; the pharmaceutical industry is also well-represented, along with agribusiness groups. Some of these negotiations have been open to the media. Many have not.

President Biden has supported this effort from the beginning, and American groups represent some of the relevant stakeholders.

Much ado has been made over this the past few weeks, with voices on the right saying it’s going to kill Americans and voices on the fact-checking left scoffing at all those conspiracy theorists who think the U.S. would sign over sovereignty to an international body.

Here’s what you need to know straight from the treaty draft itself.

So, what’s in this thing?

Let’s start off with the Zero Draft.  This is public information readily available on WHO’s website.  It’s about 30 pages long, so it’s readable.  I’ll share some highlights.

Article 4, Section 3 states:

States have. . . the sovereign right to determine and manage their approach to public health, notably pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery of health systems, pursuant to their own policies and legislation, provided that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to their peoples and other countries.  (emphasis mine)

Who determines the damage threshold for when a nation loses its sovereignty?  They don’t address that.

Article 10, Section 3h gets a lot of conservatives worked up.

It states that the WHO will receive 20% of pandemic related materials (vaccines, diagnostic tools, PPE, therapeutics) from wealthier countries for “equitable distribution” among poorer ones.  And it involves “real-time” access, which means that the WHO will take their 20% when they want it, not when richer countries are ready to donate extra supplies.

Article 11, Section 4c addresses the need to strengthen and reinforce public health functions for surveillance using the One Health approach.  One Health is a concept that gets addressed more thoroughly in Article 18.

Article 11 Section 4h addresses the need to create and maintain digital health and data science capacities.  This translates to keeping everyone’s medical records online and readily available to health professionals.  There are practical applications for this (like making sure people aren’t prescribed contra-indicated medications), but the privacy concerns are legitimate, too.

Article 15, Section 2 recognizes the WHO as the central authority, and gives the director general authority to declare pandemics.  This means a director general in Europe could theoretically declare a pandemic in Southeast Asia without ever having set foot on the ground there.  Incidentally, Southeast Asians see this potential, even though Americans may not.  They’re concerned about it.

Article 17 is titled “Strengthening Pandemic and Public Health Literacy.”  It discusses the need to tackle disinformation, particularly vaccine hesitancy.  It also discusses the need to improve trust in science and government institutions. What this really means is cracking down on dissenting voices.

Article 18 goes into a little more detail about the One Health approach.  For the purposes of this draft, it means focusing on zoonotic (animal-to-human) disease transmission and strengthening surveillance systems that include animals as well as humans.

One Health refers to the notion that everything on earth is interconnected, and that the health of humans, plants, animals, fungi, bacteria all affect each other.  This is true, but the practical application of One Health means giving public health bodies like the WHO oversight into animal husbandry practices.  This is why agribusiness groups are listed as “relevant stakeholders” and have been part of the draft process.

Even though most mainstream sources now agree Covid originated in a laboratory, power-hungry types are still clinging to the threat of zoonotic diseases to justify reaching into ever more sectors of the worldwide economy.  One Health is a way of using human health concerns as a pretext for world government bodies like the WHO to exercise control over livestock operations.

In Article 19, Section 1c, parties are expected to commit not less than 5% of current health expenditure to pandemic prevention.

This is another one that has conservatives up in arms.  The U.S. spends far more on health than any country in the world; our public health expenditures in 2022 were over $4 trillion.  American taxpayers would essentially be footing the bill for this new pandemic authority.

The money alone, I think, is reason enough for Americans to pay attention to this.  Conservative lawmakers have been pitching an absolute fit about the financial obligations, along with the references scattered throughout the document about waiving patent protection for pharmaceutical companies.

Waiving patent protection means that Big Pharma won’t retain patents on any new treatments they develop; they will have to foot the bill for development, and then hand their research materials to other nations so that they can make their own pharmaceutical products.  Big Pharma is furious about this part of the proposed treaty. Considering how many of their products get mandated by governments, though, I think they’ll survive.

And speaking of mandates, Article 22, Section 1 says that the first meeting of the WHO’s governing body will determine how to deal with noncompliance.

What does this mean for the average person?

Right now, there is a lot of finger-pointing at the tin-foil hat-wearers who think that this treaty will undermine American sovereignty.  But look at the documents yourselves.  This is in the process of turning into a legally binding agreement.  On the WHO’s own webpage, they state that members will get to define “compliance mechanisms” for parties failing to meet their obligations.

In the widely-quoted AP article fact-checking the claim that the U.S. would be ceding sovereignty to the WHO if this passes, the author quotes the same piece from Article 4, Section 3 that I did above and uses it to say, “See?  Everyone still has sovereignty!”  They do not address the clause regarding damage at all.

The fact-checkers also claim that while the treaty will be “legally binding,” there will be no consequences for noncompliant states. There are no consequences for noncomplying states right now.  The WHO hasn’t gotten to “compliance mechanisms” yet, but again, if you read their own website, they intend to.

This is a classic “You have to pass it to see what’s in it” ploy.  They’re leaving things vague at the moment so they can reprimand who they want in the future.

And the Zero Draft referenced by the fact-checkers doesn’t include any of the proposed amendments.  Obviously only some are available to the public right now, but we can view the ones proposed by the U.S. government here. They give the WHO much more power to simply show up in nations that are even suspected of harboring a pandemic.  Language about taking individual states’ views into consideration is being removed (Article 10, Section 4).

The proposed amendments also shorten the review time for member states to accept amendments from 18 months to six.  They force member states to make a decision within 48 hours of a potential emergency about collaborating with the WHO.  The best decisions are not necessarily made under time crunches.

The WHO can make big decisions..and may soon be able to enforce them.

Fact-checking articles state that the Zero Draft says nothing about lockdowns, and so we have nothing to worry about.  However, Article 21 of the WHO Constitution states that the Assembly can adopt resolutions on member states unless they expressly opt-out.

Their areas of enforcement include 1) sanitary and quarantine requirements for preventing the international spread of disease; 2) nomenclatures of diseases, causes of death, and public health practices; 3) standards for diagnostic procedures aimed at an international use; 4) standards ascertaining the safety, purity, and potency of biological, pharmaceutical and similar products in international trade; and 5) advertising and labeling of biological, pharmaceutical and similar products in international trade.

Number one sounds an awful lot like lockdowns to me.

Researchers are already complaining that the WHO needs regulatory teeth to enforce the treaty’s provisions. I think that, shortly after this passes in 2024, the WHO will get them.

Between the huge additional funding sources and the new powers granted to the WHO, we’re watching the birth of what the Brownstone Institute referred to as a “self-perpetuating pandemic industry.”

What does this mean for everyday Americans?

So, back to what this means for the average American.

First of all, with a minimum of 5% of our annual health expenditure going to a brand new bureaucracy, either our healthcare costs will go up, or our quality will go down.  Or, most likely, we’ll see some combination thereof.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that we may see more pandemics after 2024.  I hope I’m wrong about this one.  But with the amount of money getting dumped into this, I think it’s only a matter of time.  And with the increased crackdown on misinformation, as specified in Article 17 of the Zero Draft, I think it’s going to become increasingly difficult to figure out what is actually happening.

Unfortunately, this is way beyond our control.  And it’s just another step in a process that’s been going on for a long time.  Power has been getting centralized over the last few decades.  Gone are the days of personal relationships with a trusted family physician; the Affordable Care Act pushed private physicians into hospital systems, where they have far less freedom to treat each patient individually.  Without access to trusted experts, it’s much harder for the average, not particularly scientifically-literate person to get good information.

Wading through legal documents might seem tedious, but it’s important to know what’s going on.  Life’s definitely changed a lot post-Covid, but churches and schools have been open, and I’ve enjoyed the return to semi-normalcy.  However, it’s important to understand that this may not last.  It probably will not. Again, multi-billion dollar bureaucracies don’t get set up for nothing. 

Republican politicians have legitimate complaints about the money Americans will be pouring into this, especially considering how unhealthy our own population is.  However, I think it’s wrong to focus anger on other countries.  A lot of low-income countries don’t necessarily want our pharmaceutical products or our boots on their ground.  I think they’d like to be able to come to First World countries for advice without having to make binding commitments, but unfortunately, this is what the proposed treaty may stick them with.

Low-income nations are not the winners here.  Nor are average Americans. The only winners will be the army of bureaucrats, as well as Big Pharma and PPE manufacturers.  And, of course, the globalists at the center of it all.

What do you think about all this?

Are you for or against the WHO having so much control over American healthcare and policies? How do you think we’ll be affected by this? Is there any way for us to maintain our personal independence from such a system?

Let’s discuss it in the comments section.

About Marie Hawthorne

A lover of novels and cultivator of superb apple pie recipes, Marie spends her free time writing about the world around her. Article cross-posted from The Organic Prepper.

Anybody who has been following globalist billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundation knows that he wants open borders for America, which will destroy our sovereignty. Their misinformation campaign of Soros begins when this question is asked, and then he answers:

“Is the United States an open society?

We are an open society. The principles of an open society are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. And the institutions of our democracy are protected by our Constitution. The fact that we have a bunch of far-right ideologues in our executive branch does not turn us into a totalitarian dictatorship.”

Some adhere to the idea that America must be an “open society” rather than a “capitalist economy.”  Some adhere to America must be a “managed democracy,” as of a book written in 1927. Those who are nationalists adhere to the ideal we are a “constitutional republic” before anything else.

“Why America is Not An Open Society”

Those who adhere to the teachings and beliefs of Soros argue America is a “society,” not an “economy.” We should be about people and not profit margins.

The problem with this is Soros and others with average thinking abilities know that when a society has more takers than makers, the system (whether you want to call it a society or economy) is unsustainable. We have already seen this in terms of blue “Death Spiral States” such as California and Illinois. Liberal Democrat policies are causing major corporations to close shops, and corporate headquarters are moving from these states. Whether you want to look at Tesla leaving California or Caterpillar leaving Illinois, the liberal policies forced upon the corporations and residences of these states are causing a mass exodus making a bad situation go from bad to worse.

When Democrat blue states allow for the lawlessness of liberal blue voters while severely and unconstitutionally prosecuting red voters simply trying to protect their own, America becomes dysfunctional.

The most disturbing aspect of these liberal globalist Democrats is they are gaslighters at the least and out-and-out liars and the most. Take a recent Wall Street Journal article of George Soros, where he cited a bogus study of the socialist left.

On March 15, 2022, a left-wing advocacy organization called The Third Way published a 15-page study with the provocative title “The Red State Murder Problem.” The report was written by Jim Kessler, a long-time Democratic policy director to Representative/Senator Charles “Chuck” Schumer, and Kylie Murdock, a former intern for Congresswoman Barbara Lee. She also served as a volunteer for Elizabeth Warren for President.  Their study stated that the “murder rates are far higher in Trump-voting red states than Biden-voting blue states.”

The only problem with their report is it was a complete and utter lie, and they most probably knew so! The quickest way to call out bogus “researchers” is to challenge them to an open public debate with peers in their field. THEY NEVER ACCEPT THE OFFER, EVEN FOR PAY!

Dr. Tony Fauci is a good recent example after being challenged by entrepreneur billionaire Steve Kirsch to come to debate the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant vaccines that are not really vaccines at all but experimental drugs with unknown/unproven end results.

So this red state/city lie report comes out about crime being higher in Trump MAGA country. Of course, dozens of media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Hill, Inside Edition, Politifact, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Magazine, the San Francisco Examiner, NBC News18, and many others, picked up this “study” and rabidly reported on its “findings.”

Americans are not stupid. That is why they are fleeing blue states in droves for red states.

Chicago and New York are well-known killing fields, even though the mainstream media no longer gives much reporting time to the senselessness of the crimes committed there.

So what is the end game of George Soros and his desire for open borders?

It may surprise many readers that you can legally bet on something (society or economy) to fail and profit from that failure. I first learned of this as a youth in agriculture.  The publication Successful Farming did a really good editorial with an explanation on this about a year ago:

“The coming year may be a year to buy put options and perhaps sell less than you normally would. Puts provide you the right (not the obligation) to be short (sell) futures. You can think of puts like insurance against lower prices. Puts establish a price floor. Leave the crop in the bin and expected production unpriced to appreciate in value if prices rally.”

Even with this knowledge as a youth, I was shocked and horrified when this method was used as part of an insider trading or informed trading incident on 9-11-2001. A handful of investors took output options that both American and United airliners were going to go down that day, and, of course, they did.

While some “independent fact checkers” (aka gaslighters) tried to state this story was a conspiracy theory, Press for Truth offered a video that confirmed it is exactly true and another example of the FBI being derelict in duty!

The video that includes snippets of “The International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001” offers testimonies by experts that prove that those individuals who bet on these airliners failing on this particular day were no coincidence!

“9/11: 20 YEARS OF DECEPTION – EP 3 – FULL MOVIE IN HD”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT2N1xCv7ZA

Also see the journal report titled “Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001”.

George Soros is betting on America to fail.  He is actively working for it to do so in several ways.

• He controls the narrative of our news. Media Research Center (MRC) reports liberal billionaire George Soros is tied to at least 253 media organizations around the world by funding them.
• He funds campaigns of liberal prosecutors for cities and states. Chicago’s Kim Foxx is one such abysmal failure in her biased handling of the Jussie Smollett hoax, which caused the Chicago Police Department to actually have to threaten her if she did not do her job in prosecuting him. (Smollett alleged he was attacked by some guys wearing MAGA caps in downtown Chicago who attacked him for his race and homosexuality. In fact, he paid two guys he knew to rough him up as part of a publicity stunt.
• He funds states and cities that promote cashless bail, such as Illinois, with their new 2023 SAFE-T Act.
• He funds political candidates who promote sanctuary cities.
• He funds political candidates who support open borders.

And if you still think George is such as great man simply putting people over profits, go back and watch his “60 Minutes” interview of December 20, 1998, where Soros, himself, admitted to Steve Kroft that he had no regrets whatsoever about assisting the Nazis in confiscating property from the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Or maybe go see the part he played in the collapse of the Bank of England on September 16, 1992, on “Black Wednesday” when speculators “broke the pound.” You could do a deep dive as to why several countries starting with Russia, have International Arrest Warrants out on him. And while much of this is heavily hidden on the Internet these days, the story of Myanmar seizing Soros bank accounts with 11 arrest warrants issued for Open Society Foundation employees is not.

So make no mistake, Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats who have supported our open southern border in the past and are now stonewalling discussion about the humanitarian crisis developing today are not stupid or inept.  They are on George’s payroll, which is willful and intentional treason!

It is estimated some new 5 million “takers” have entered the United States from 160 countries in the form of illegal immigrants since Joe Biden assumed the Oval Office. When America fails, and it will, George Soros and all of them need to be removed by force.

About the Author

Copyright © 2022 by Mark S. Schwendau

Mark S. Schwendau is a retired technology professor who has always had a sideline in news-editorial writing where his byline has been, “Bringing little known news to people who simply want to know the truth.”  He classifies himself as a Christian conservative who God cast to be a realist.  Mark is an award-winning educator who has published seven books and numerous peer-reviewed trade journal articles, some of which can be found on the Internet.  His father was a fireman/paramedic, while his mother was a registered nurse.  He holds degrees in technology education, industrial management, OSHA Safety, and Driver’s Education.  His website is www.IDrawIWrite.Tech.