W.H.O. Agrees to Boost Global Pandemic ‘Surveillance’

[Tall Timbers]

Prepare to be watched. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday designed to help it tackle future health crises predicated on an enhanced ability to watch, monitor and surveil specific national responses to threats.

The U.N. subsidiary is meeting at its headquarters by the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland with thousands of members flying in for the nine-days of talks, meetings, conferences, dinners, and closed-door diplomacy.

It has moved on the back of more than three years of negotiations sparked by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as it seeks to chart a way forward after the U.S. withdrew funding from W.H.O. in the first days of the Donald Trump administration.

The U.S., traditionally the top donor to the U.N. health agency, was not part of the final stages of the agreement due to Trump’s exit, leaving the W.H.O. to grapple with a $1.7 billion gap in 2026-2027 spending plans as it seeks to trim 12 months of budget costs from $5.3 billion to $4.2 billion.

Prepare to Be Watched: W.H.O. Agrees to Boost Global Pandemic 'Surveillance'

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement designed to help it tackle future pandemic crises built on an ability to watch and surveil countries.

www.breitbart.com

I'm sure glad the USA is not a party to this. Monitor and surveil... Big Brother.

 

[Margery]

The iPhone and Smart phones are part of that program that they used during Covid.

 

[1LoverofGod]

The highly controversial Pandemic Agreement — at one point referred to as the “W.H.O. convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response” because drafting parties could not agree on what it was — was conceived of as a binding document first discussed in 2021 to address the W.H.O.’s disastrous response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The W.H.O. worked closely with the Communist Party of China during the early days of the pandemic, opposing limits of countries welcoming Chinese travelers from affected areas, denying that the highly contagious pathogen spread from human to human, and ignoring a critical early warning from the government of Taiwan that a novel infectious disease was spreading in Wuhan in 2019.

W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has blamed the United Nations agency’s failures largely on claims that it was not sufficiently empowered to act to contain the virus. Tedros has also blamed economic inequality for the large death rate, suggesting that nations at the forefront of developing medical technology, primarily the United States, must restrain their intellectual property laws during medical emergencies to allow for the inexpensive and rapid global distribution of vaccines, therapeutics, and other medical products. The Pandemic Agreement addresses these concerns by establishing a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing system (PABS) to share both medical developments and newly discovered information on the pathogens involved, expanding the pool of scientists able to work on solutions.

The final version of the document, completed in April, passed the World Health Assembly with 124 votes. Reuters reported that 11 nations abstained, notably including Iran, Israel, and Russia. Some of the most vocal opponents of the agreement, including America and Argentina, were not present, as they have withdrawn from the W.H.O.

The agreement also commands that state parties change their laws to conform to the W.H.O.’s document: “Each Party should review and consider amending, as appropriate, its national and/or domestic legislation with a view to ensuring that it is able to implement this Article in a timely and effective manner.”

Parties must also agree to improve “laboratory biological risk management,” an apparent nod to a mounting evidence that a biological laboratory leak may have been the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The W.H.O. had initially dismissed the laboratory leak theory without explanation after a Chinese regime-controlled “investigation” of Wuhan in 2021.

Withdrawing from the Pandemic Agreement for regretful countries will take three years; signatories must have adopted the agreement for two years before submitting a withdrawal request, and that request will go into vigor a year after being officially received.

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The World Health Assembly formally adopted the Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday, an international legal document.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

I'm glad I won't be here . . .
In China, they WELDED exterior doors and windows closed in apartment buildings where there were cases of covid
That must have been horrific for the people inside.



It's bad enough that neighbors can "see" bluetooth-enabled and smart devices in close-by apartments when connecting to their own.

My network name proclaims The Gospel, so everyone nearby has (gets) to see it if they don't auto-connect to the internet, but I'm still trying to figure out how to "name" various devices with Biblical names/Gospel themes

 

[Cheeky200386]

I'm glad I won't be here . . .
In China, they WELDED exterior doors and windows closed in apartment buildings where there were cases of covid
That must have been horrific for the people inside.



It's bad enough that neighbors can "see" bluetooth-enabled and smart devices in close-by apartments when connecting to their own.

My network name proclaims The Gospel, so everyone nearby has (gets) to see it if they don't auto-connect to the internet, but I'm still trying to figure out how to "name" various devices with Biblical names/Gospel themes

That’s brilliant! What is your name, if you don’t mind me asking? I love the idea and may just copy it.

 

[1LoverofGod]

This agreement is not limited to JUST a pandemic response.

It's based on the WHO’s “ONE HEALTH” framework, which views human, animal, and environmental health as ALL BEING interconnected.

Critics (rightly) argue this broadens the WHO’s scope, allowing it to influence food systems, climate policy, agriculture, and land use under the guise of “PANDEMIC PREVENTION.”

BubbaNews

This agreement is not limited to JUST a pandemic response. It's based on the WHO’s “ONE HEALTH” framework, which views human, animal, and environmental health as ALL BEING interconnected. Critics (rightly) argue this broadens the WHO’s scope, allowing it to influence food systems, climate...

t.me

The treaty also encourages ALL MEMBER STATES to adopt new “DIGITAL HEALTH DOCUMENTATION” systems, which could evolve into PERMANENT DIGITAL ID's tied to VACCINATION or health status.

While presented as public health tools, such systems have been heavily criticised by civil liberties groups as intrusive, coercive, and open to mission creep.

BubbaNews

The treaty also encourages ALL MEMBER STATES to adopt new “DIGITAL HEALTH DOCUMENTATION” systems, which could evolve into PERMANENT DIGITAL 🆔s tied to VACCINATION or health status. While presented as public health tools, such systems have been heavily criticised by civil liberties groups as...

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