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A local MP of someone I know replied to a question of sovereignty associated with the WHO treaty and IHR.
Their MP reassured them but I don’t think they’re correct. Here’s my take.
Please do share widely.
I’m completely open to challenge on this, but think I’m close to the truth.

If that treaty and the associated but legally separate International Health Regulations are approved, we have transferred sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable body.
Now, there’s no reason to do this. In the face of a new pathogen, WHO doesn’t know what the best responses are. Nobody does. It’s NOVEL. The way humanity has solved these novel problems throughout history is to make best choices where you are, at the level of community up to country, communicating outcomes as we go, and from these differing outcomes, picking the optimum responses.
If one body has power to decide, two things are inevitable. First, we won’t have the optimum response, because we’ll never know what that was. The trial wouldn’t have been run. So we’ll stop learning. Secondly, it’s entirely possible that what’s optimal for Nigeria is different from what’s optimal for Norway. We'll have sacrificed autonomy and democracy for no upside.
Do not permit this.

There’s an even more paradoxical problem. Mild illnesses spread without restriction, because people with them aren’t much slowed down by them. Common colds are a case in point. So these can easily go “pandemic”, but no one cares.
Moderate illnesses like severe influenza spread less readily because the most infectious people are also really quite sick & automatically (without being instructed by government) withdraw from general social mixing. That slows infection.
Take the most serious illnesses. Ebola does not spread extensively. Through its earliest emergence it’s never been seen as a sizeable outbreak in more than two countries at once and has always burned out swiftly. This isn’t luck. These diseases make those infected so seriously unwell that they stop interacting and possibly spreading it in the first few days. They’re self terminating. Add some precautions but no more than awareness and distance & it is stopped in its tracks. It cannot be otherwise. That’s how human immune systems work and they’ve developed over millennia and more by being in this soup of pathogens.
I’m saying severe disease global pandemics are immunologically implausible. Perhaps impossible.
WHO knows this. Your national public health officials know this. Pharma and the regulators know this.
So why are they all pretending there’s suddenly some huge risk that requires something that’s NEVER happened before in history?
Giving up the power to decide things in your country is the worst form of treachery I can imagine.
It’s totally unnecessary and completely unacceptable.
You know why they’re doing it?
No, neither do I.
But I’ve demonstrated there’s no good reason to do this.
If somebody wanted to undermine democracy and put in place a supranational system, well, this would be a darned good way to start.

Dr Mike Yeadon

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