Thread by @PanData19

🧵1/ PANDA's @bell00david uses his working experience with WHO to analyse proposed IHR amendments in-depth.

🚨 Some key points in thread ⬇️
pandata.org/proposed-amend…

2/ #WHO is working on two agreements that will expand its powers & role in declared health emergencies & pandemics. These include widening the definition of ‘health emergencies’ within which such powers may be used.

3/ The #IHR amendment process in WHO is relatively transparent. Amendments are proposed by national bureaucracies & collated by WHO. WHO has gone to unusual lengths to open hearings to public submissions.

4/ However, these amendments will change the relationship between people, their governments & WHO. WHO's rights would override individuals' rights, erasing principles developed post-WW2 regarding human rights & state sovereignty.

5/ Proposals would allow the WHO DG to make decisions, consulting a committee but not bound by it - as when declaring monkeypox a #PHIEC after 5 deaths globally, against committee advice.

6/ WHO proposes that the underlying #equality of individuals is removed, and rights become subject to a status determined by others based on a set of criteria they define.

7/ This is a #totalitarian approach to society, a feudal relationship, or one of the monarch-subjects without an intervening constitution.

8/ WHO would have authority over member states by changing the definition of 'recommendations' from 'non-binding' to 'binding' in a statement that states will undertake to follow, rather than 'consider', WHO recommendations.

9/ Powers ceded by governments to the WHO DG include specifics requiring changes within legal systems, including detention, travel restrictions, forced health interventions & requirements to undergo medical examinations.

10/ Proposed restrictions on individual rights include freedom of speech. WHO's powers could designate opinions or information as 'misinformation' or 'disinformation', & require governments to intervene and stop dissemination.
pandata.org/who-is-watchin…

11/ Countries to cede power over patent law and IP to WHO, including control of manufacturing know-how of commodities that the WHO DG considers relevant to the potential or actual health problem deemed of interest.

12/ #Surveillance mechanisms required & expanded within the WHO ensure a stream of potential public health risks. In each case, the WHO DG will have the power to declare such events a health emergency of international or regional concern.

13/ If these amendments are accepted, the people taking control over the lives of others will have no real legal oversight as they have #diplomaticimmunity from all national jurisdictions.

14/ The proposed powers sought by the WHO & the developing pandemic preparedness industry aren't hidden, making the lack of push-back by politicians, lack of concern in the media & consequent ignorance of the public strange & alarming.
pandata.org/whos-driving-t…

15/ @bell00david has included full annotations on the proposed amendments to the IHR.
pandata.org/proposed-amend…

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