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    May 27, 2024, 05:26 AM
    WHO s treaty ? !!
    While we barbeque celebrating our liberty ;remember our fallen hero who made the barbeque possible ;or just hunkering down ducking tornadoes; The World Health Organization is meeting to hash out the details of a global pandemic treaty . The failure to pass the treaty does not mean it is off the shelf . More tinkering is needed.

    World Health Assembly hopes to reinforce pandemic preparedness after bold treaty project stalls | AP News

    In the meantime look for amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).
    What you did not know we don't have sovereignty over health regulations ?

    The IHR are an instrument of international law that is legally-binding on 196 countries, including the 194 WHO Member States. The IHR grew out of the response to deadly epidemics that once overran Europe. They create rights and obligations for countries, including the requirement to report public health events. The Regulations also outline the criteria to determine whether or not a particular event constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern”.
    At the same time, the IHR require countries to designate a National IHR Focal Point for communications with WHO, to establish and maintain core capacities for surveillance and response, including at designated points of entry. Additional provisions address the areas of international travel and transport such as the health documents required for international traffic.
    Finally, the IHR introduce important safeguards to protect the rights of travellers and other persons in relation to the treatment of personal data, informed consent and non-discrimination in the application of health measures under the Regulations.
    International health regulations (who.int)



    Prospects Grow For WHA To Approve Updated WHO Emergency Rules, Even While Pandemic Agreement Waits In Wings - Health Policy Watch (healthpolicy-watch.news)


    The push back in the US comes from governors who argue that the proposals would make WHO the governing body in the US for health emergencies.

    Joint Governors’ Response to Proposed Amendments to the WHO's IHR and a New Pandemic Treaty - RGA

    Letter_From_49_Republican_Senators_To_Biden_May_1_ 2024.pdf (eagleforum.org)

    As the chief legal officers of our States, we oppose two instruments under negotiation that could give the World Health Organization (WHO) unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and her people. Justice Neil Gorsuch remarked that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”1 Meanwhile, the WHO failed to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for its lies and deceptions during the pandemic.2 Rather than learning from these failures, some inexplicably want to relinquish more power to unelected and unaccountable institutions.
    The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable
    Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms
    such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our
    Constitution’s core principles.
    If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global
    authority in public health. Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s Director-
    General would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a "public health emergency of
    international concern" (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a
    range of perceived emergencies.



    The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable
    Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms
    such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our
    Constitution’s core principles.
    If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global
    authority in public health. The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable
    Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms
    such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our
    Constitution’s core principles.
    If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global
    authority in public health. Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s Director-
    General would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a "public health emergency of
    international concern" (PHEIC) in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a
    range of perceived emergencies.


    730622968-2024-05-08-WHO-Letter-Final.pdf (eagleforum.org)

    What is Clueless Joe's take ? He supports this move.

    The United States is supporting efforts to strengthen global policies and legal preparedness, including negotiating a Pandemic Agreement and targeted amendments to the IHR, as these two instruments have the potential to provide the international community with the opportunity to establish a shared path forward for preventing, preparing for, and responding to international health emergencies.”
    Global-Health-Security-Strategy-2024-1.pdf (whitehouse.gov)

    Now in the US a treaty can be passed after the Senate gives it a 2/3 majority approval . But what is Joe signs an Executive Order for the US to comply with the terms of the agreement (not the treaty) ??

    Congress is being proactive.
    All Info - H.R.1425 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

    S.444 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

    Do they really think that will deter a President who is openly defying a SCOTUS directive ?

    “The Supreme Court blocked it but that didn’t stop me.”

    (1) Joe Biden on X: "I promised to ease student debt for millions of folks. The Supreme Court blocked me, but it didn’t stop me. I found another way to help more than 3.7 million people—teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters—with over $130 billion in relief." / X

    We do live in a post-Constitutional America.

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