The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the UN, is lobbying the WHO’s 194 member states to ensure their ratification of the global agency’s Pandemic Treaty this coming May. The push appears to be a reaction to grassroots opposition to the treaty throughout the world. Fearing a string of defeats and a delay of the treaty’s adoption beyond the May 2024 deadline, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused those against the agreement of trying to sabotage it and of spreading fake news, lies, and conspiracy theories.

 According to this logic, surrendering sovereignty is not truly giving away sovereignty if one willingly relinquishes authority even if it is virtually irreversible and countries would face penalties for non-compliance.

Under the pretext that many lives would have been saved had countries been better prepared before COVID-19 hit, Tedros believes that, in the event of an epidemic, which he has the power to declare, his agency should take charge of every nation’s health-related matters, as well as issues that may somehow be related to health, such as a climate change. Without the agency’s direction, he argues, the world will be at risk of a variety of upcoming pandemics and worse.

A power grab for power’s sake?

However, it wasn’t the COVID-19 “pandemic” that gave rise to the alleged need for a treaty and more power for the agency, nor do the 194 member states all have a real part in drafting the agreement despite Tedros’ claims. The basic ideology supporting the measures detailed in the treaty, and the acquisition of greater power for those running the agency, were already publicized by the previous WHO director-general, Hong Kong-born and Canada-educated Dr. Margaret Chan. Like Tedros, who won his post as WHO director-general through Chinese backing, Chan was personally picked by Beijing for the post.^[2] The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been working its way into the WHO through the back door, as it were, in order to spread its agenda under the guise of public health needs.

Planned

Further discrediting the narrative that COVID-19, with an average 98.2% survival rate among known COVID-19 cases,^[3] where 80% of the deaths were in individuals 65 years and older, and 94% of fatalities were in people who had at least 2.6 comorbidities,^[4] was the catalyst for the pandemic treaty, is the evidence that the power grab was already being formulated more than a decade ago.

In fact, when Tedros announced his perceived need for a pandemic treaty in 2021, he was arguably “working from the playbook” — one of his stated reasons for the treaty was to garner more power for the agency. As NPR‘s Bill Chappell reported at the time:^[5]

The COVID-19 pandemic proves that the world needs a pandemic treaty, says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It’s the one major change, Tedros said, that would do the most to boost global health security and also empower the World Health Organization. (Emphasis added.)

As such, the real goal of WHO leaders may have nothing to do with health and everything to do with a CCP/Marxist takeover under the guise of global health security — “for the public’s benefit.” And, the man who was the third most important person in the terrorist organization Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the former Health Minister of Ethiopia, who is not a doctor and ignored three cholera epidemics calling them watery diarrhea, is now the CCP picked WHO director-general, Tedros.

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By Michael Dorgan | FoxNews

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has issued a new warning about the likelihood of Disease X breaking out, telling global world leaders it is “a matter of when, not if” a new pathogen and pandemic will strike.

Tedros, who goes by his first name, told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier his week he gave a similar warning in 2018 that a pandemic was likely to hit, and he was proven right with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.

Complaining that the world is still ill-prepared for a new pandemic, Tedros once again touted the urgent need for a global treaty to be agreed upon by May and dismissed suspicions of it being a WHO power grab as outlandish.

He called the treaty “mission critical for humanity.”

“Today I stand before you in the aftermath of COVID-19 with millions of people dead, with social, economic and political shocks that reverberate to this day,” Tedros said.

“Although some progress has been made, like improvements in surveillance, the Pandemic Fund, building capacities in vaccine production … the world is not prepared for a pandemic.

“The painful lessons we learned are in danger of being forgotten as attention turns to the many other crises confronting our world.”

Tedros said that if the world fails to learn those lessons, “we will pay dearly next time, and there will be a next time.”

“History teaches us that the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if,” Tedros added.

“It may be caused by an influenza virus, or a new coronavirus or a new pathogen we don’t even know about yet — what we call Disease X.”

Disease X is a hypothetical “placeholder” virus that has not yet formed, but scientists say it could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19. About eight years ago, it was added to the WHO’s short list of pathogens for research that could cause a “serious international epidemic,” according to a 2022 WHO press release.

“As things stand, the world remains unprepared for the next Disease X, and the next pandemic,” he said.

Tedros said there has been a lot of attention on Disease X lately but insisted it’s not a new thing.

“We first used the term Disease X in 2018, the same time as I spoke here at this World Governments Summit, as a placeholder for a disease we don’t even know about yet, but for which we can nonetheless prepare.”

“COVID-19 was a Disease X, a new pathogen causing a new disease. But there will be another Disease X, or a Disease Y or a Disease Z.”

In preparation for the next outbreak, he said the clock is ticking on nations to come together and sign an international agreement on pandemic preparedness, with just 15 weeks left on the timeline agreed upon in 2021. Tedros said the treaty, which the Biden administration has been involved in negotiating, is a set of commitments by countries to strengthen the world’s defense with a “one health” approach.

While ‘Disease X’ is a hypothetical placeholder virus that has not yet been formed, scientists say it could be 20 times deadlier than COVID.

It would involve cooperation in research and development, access to vaccines and other products and sharing of information, technology and biological samples.

He cited two reasons why a consensus has not been reached. The first is nations have some differences, but he was confident they would be worked through.

The second major barrier, he said, is the “litany of lies and conspiracy theories about the agreement.”

“That it’s a power grab by the World Health Organization. That it will cede sovereignty to WHO. That it will give WHO power to impose lockdowns or vaccine mandates on countries. That it’s an ‘attack on freedom.’ That WHO will not allow people to travel, and that WHO wants to control people’s lives.

“These are some of the lies that are being spread. If they weren’t so dangerous, these lies would be funny. But they put the health of the world’s people at risk. And that is no laughing matter.

“These claims are utterly, completely, categorically false. … Anyone who says it will is either uninformed or lying.”

Critics, including Advancing American Freedom (AAF), argue the legally binding treaty would cede sovereignty to a global organization and that it amounts to a power grab. The AAF is a nonprofit advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence.

Tedros said there is a draft copy of the agreement on the WHO website and urged people to read it for themselves.

In pitching the treaty, he absolved the WHO of imposing lockdowns and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We cannot allow this historic agreement, this milestone in global health, to be sabotaged by those who spread lies, either deliberately or unknowingly.

“Let me be clear: WHO did not impose anything on anyone during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not lockdowns, not mask mandates, not vaccine mandates.

“We don’t have the power to do that, we don’t want it and we’re not trying to get it.”

The WHO faced strong criticism from around the world over its slow response to investigating China for the COVID outbreak. A WHO team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic also downplayed the possibility that the virus leaked from a lab near Wuhan, China.

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