Globalists suffer big upset in Geneva; WHO chief urges aggressive crackdown on 'global pandemic agreement' skeptics



WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other globalists were met with failure at the May 27-June 1 World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Rather than win over critics with reassurances ahead of the next stage of his campaign to promote the failed scheme, Ghebreyesus instead doubled down, urging a crackdown on skeptics.

Road to failure

Ghebreyesus has spent several months promoting his "global pandemic agreement."

In his Feb. 12 Dubai address, entitled, "A Pact with the Future: Why the Pandemic Agreement Is Mission-Critical for Humanity," Ghebreyesus said, "We cannot allow this historic agreement, this milestone in global health, to be sabotaged by those who spread lies, either deliberately or unknowingly."

The critics whom Ghebreyesus branded liars and conspiracy theorists include those who reckon the pact would undermine national sovereignty as well as those skeptical of the WHO's competence. In the latter case, the WHO did itself no favors in recent years, particularly during the pandemic.

After all, the organization reportedly aided the Chinese communist regime in its cover up of COVID-19's origins; told the nations of the world not to restrict travelers from China or close their borders even though China had domestically; granted Beijing a veto over the WHO's COVID-19 origins report; and it endorsed vaccines that were not nearly as safe or as effective as advertised, including the blood clot-inducing Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine whose developer now faces a class-action lawsuit over injuries in the United Kingdom as well as a recent lawsuit in Utah. Prior to the pandemic, it also courted controversy with its sexual abuse scandal, wasteful spending, and corruption.

Evidently, it was not enough for the WHO director to demean opponents of his grand scheme to see it through.

'I know that there remains among you a common will to get this done.'

"Of course, we all wish that we had been able to reach a consensus on the agreement in time for this health assembly, and cross the finish line," Ghebreyesus said in his opening remarks at the 77th World Health Assembly. "I remain confident that you still will, because where there is a will, there is a way. I know that there remains among you a common will to get this done."

In the days that followed, the assembly failed to cross the finish line or even come close. As the result, Ghebreyesus has sought to transform the race into a marathon.

New deadline for a desired result

Desperate to keep the dream alive after two years of futile negotiations, the WHO had countries agree to continue negotiating the proposed globalist pact. A package of half-measures have apparently been accepted to tide over pandemic treaty supporters in the meantime.

The WHOsaid in a statement Saturday that the World Health Assembly and its 194 member countries "agreed [on] a package of critical amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), and made concrete commitments to completing negotiations on a global pandemic agreement within a year, at the latest."

The half-measures compromise amendments to the IHR that will supposedly "strengthen global preparedness, surveillance and responses to public health emergencies, including pandemics."

These include a new definition for "pandemic emergency"; another "equity"-driven international wealth re-distribution mechanism; the creation of a new bureaucracy to oversee the implementation of the other half-measures; and the creation of IHR authorities for member countries to "improve coordination of implementation of the Regulations within and among countries."

"The amendments to the International Health Regulations will bolster countries' ability to detect and respond to future outbreaks and pandemics by strengthening their own national capacities, and coordination between fellow States, on disease surveillance, information sharing and response," said Ghebreyesus. "This is built on commitment to equity, an understanding that health threats do not recognize national borders, and that preparedness is a collective endeavor."

Clampdown on vaccine critics

After negotiators failed to produce a draft deal for approval by the WHO annual assembly, Ghebreyesus gave a speech promoting health initiatives and vaccines.

'I think they use COVID as an opportunity and, you know, all the havoc they're creating.'

Toward the end of his remarks, he noted, "You know, the serious challenge that's posed by anti-vaxxers and I think we need to strategize to really push back because vaccines work, vaccines affect adults, and we have science, evidence on our side."

"I think it's time to be more aggressive in pushing back on anti-vaxxers," continued the WHO director. "I think they use COVID as an opportunity and, you know, all the havoc they're creating. Maybe that's one of the messages I'd also like to include to whatever I have [to] say."

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Head of WHO responds to Elon Musk’s comments on DEI



Elon Musk may be an old school Democrat, but these days, that basically equates to being slightly right of center.

It’s why he speaks out against wokeness, including the DEI initiatives that are just racism with a prettier name.

Just a few days ago, Musk tweeted:

Dave Rubin, who agrees that DEI is toxic, differs slightly from Musk in that he thinks the racism embedded into DEI initiatives was totally intentional.

“The people that put diversity, equity, and inclusion departments in our corporations, in our government, in all of these places — I actually think most of them actually knew exactly what they were doing. They were instilling racism; they were unearthing old things that we had put to bed,” he explains.

Musk also tweeted:

“Quite correct,” says Dave. However, not everyone agrees with him.

One of those people is the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Ghebreyesus retweeted one of Musk’s tweets along with the following statement:

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion, which we know is based on judging people by race,” is entirely incongruent with Ghebreyesus’ claim that DEI ensures “respect for all individuals regardless of their background or identity.”

“Except the whole thing is based on judging people by their background and identity,” says Dave, pointing out the glaring “duplicitous double language.”


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WHO chief: 'Men who have sex with men' should limit sexual partners to curb monkeypox spread



The director general of the World Health Organization said "men who have sex with men" should limit sexual partners in order to protect themselves from and reduce the spread of the monkeypox, CNBC reported.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that gay and bisexual men also should be "reconsidering ... sex with new partners and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow up if needed,” the network noted.

What are the details?

The WHO’s monkeypox expert, Rosamund Lewis, told CNBC that men who have sex with men embody the group with the highest risk of infection at the moment, noting that about 99% of cases are among men, and at least 95% of those patients are men who have sex with men.

Tedros also urged social media platforms, tech companies, and news organizations to battle misinformation about the monkeypox, the network reported.

“The stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus and can fuel the outbreak, as we have seen with Covid-19 misinformation," Tedros added, according to CBNC, noting that misinformation "can spread rapidly online."

In that vein, New York City's health department is demanding the WHO rename the monkeypox virus due to the moniker's "devastating and stigmatizing effects." Tedros announced last month the WHO would rename the monkeypox virus over concerns the label is racist, but the group hasn't yet done so.

What else?

So far, over 18,000 monkeypox cases have been reported across 78 nations, the network said, citing WHO data, adding that five deaths have been reported in Africa. Over the weekend the WHO declared the monkeypox an international global health emergency.

More from CNBC:

Europe is the currently the epicenter of the global outbreak, reporting more than 70% of monkeypox cases. About 25% of monkeypox cases have been reported in the Americas, with the U.S. the center of the outbreak in the Western Hemisphere, according to WHO and CDC data.

The U.S. has reported more than 3,500 cases of monkeypox across 46 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. has the second-highest number of monkeypox cases in the world, after Spain.

Monkeypox is primarily spreading through skin-to-skin contact during sex, WHO and CDC scientists have said. Lewis said the virus will have an opportunity to spread more widely if people do not take precautions by limiting the number of sex partners and anonymous sexual contact.

The network said that while the monkeypox is primarily spreading during sex, anyone can catch the virus through close physical contact — which includes hugging and kissing within a family as well as sharing contaminated towels and bedding. CNBC said women and children have caught the virus during the current outbreak, though those numbers are low.

Monkeypox also can spread through respiratory droplets when infected individuals have lesions in their mouths, the network said, although such scenarios require prolonged face-to-face interaction.

Most infected individuals are recovering in two to four weeks, CNBC said, citing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Monkeypox has been noted to start with flu-like symptoms and then progress to a rash that can spread over the body that can be very painful, the network said.

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WHO declares monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency after 5 deaths worldwide



The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.

"I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Saturday morning during a briefing in Geneva.

Members of an expert committee met on Thursday to decide if the current monkeypox outbreak should be escalated to a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Of the virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, and health experts, nine voted against declaring monkeypox a PHEIC, and six voted in favor, according to Reuters.

The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee were "resolved by consensus to advise the WHO Director-General that at this stage the outbreak should be determined to not constitute a PHEIC."

"However, the Committee unanimously acknowledged the emergency nature of the event and that controlling the further spread of outbreak requires intense response efforts," according to the WHO. "The Committee advised that the event should be closely monitored and reviewed after a few weeks, once more information about the current unknowns becomes available, to determine if significant changes have occurred that may warrant a reconsideration of their advice."

In the end, Ghebreyesus overrode the committee and declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern.

According to The Nation's Health website, "A PHEIC gives WHO authority to make formal recommendations to contain an outbreak. The declaration is intended to raise public awareness and can galvanize funding, expertise, and resources from other member nations, said Lawrence Gostin, JD, an international health law professor at Georgetown University."

ABC News noted that this is the seventh event declared a PHEIC by the WHO since 2007, "The other six include the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009; the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013 to 2015; the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2018 to 2020; the Zika outbreak in 2016; the ongoing spread of poliovirus that started in 2014; and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Library of Medicine."

\u201cNOW - WHO's Tedros: "I have decided that the global #monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern."\u201d
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Tedros stated, "Although I’m declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment, this is an outbreak that’s concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners. That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups."

The World Health Organization director-general added, "Stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been more than 16,000 global cases of monkeypox in 2022 in 74 countries.

There have been nearly 3,000 cases in the United States this year, according to the CDC. As of Wednesday, there were 679 cases of monkeypox in New York – 94% of them in New York City, according to state officials.

There have reportedly been a total of five deaths from monkeypox worldwide.

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported, "Though the outbreak is heavily concentrated in Europe, the five deaths have been reported in African nations."

The Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority (BARDA) – which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – has purchased a total of 6.9 million monkeypox vaccines through mid-2023.

The WHO noted that monkeypox is a "viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe."

"Monkeypox primarily occurs in central and west Africa, often in proximity to tropical rainforests, and has been increasingly appearing in urban areas," the global health agency stated. "Animal hosts include a range of rodents and non-human primates."

WHO director-general privately believes the COVID-19 lab-leak theory: Report



The leader of the World Health Organization reportedly believes that the COVID-19 lab-leak origins theory is the most likely explanation for how the pandemic started in 2019.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently confided to a senior European politician that a "catastrophic accident" at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, is the most likely explanation for the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan in late 2019, according to the Mail, a British newspaper.

Publicly, Tedros has said that "all hypotheses remain on the table" as the WHO continues to investigate the origins of the pandemic.

The Mail quoted an anonymous "government source" in its report on Tedros' private opinion.

Since 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed 18 million people all over the world. Lockdowns in developed countries that were meant to slow the spread of the virus caused widespread economic devastation that has ongoing effects on supply chains and inflation today.

There are two competing hypotheses of the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The first is that the virus has natural origins — that it was carried by an animal host, most likely a bat, and evolved to be contagious among human beings. This is the view widely accepted by most scientists, and it was initially embraced by public health officials as the only legitimate origin theory for the virus.

The second hypothesis is that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that studies coronaviruses, may have genetically manipulated one of their virus samples, creating SARS-CoV-2, and somehow that engineered virus leaked from the lab. This theory was maligned as a crackpot conspiracy theory by most public health officials.

But multiple investigations into the origins of the virus have failed to find clear evidence of an animal host that carried it before it leaped to humans. This lack of evidence to support the natural origins theory, along with public pressure from scientists who want the lab-leak theory thoroughly investigated, has led public health officials and the WHO to state that both theories remain plausible.

A scientific advisory group established by the WHO to investigate the pandemic origins released a preliminary report 10 days ago that said "further investigations" are needed to determine the true origins of COVID-19. While the WHO investigators did not find new evidence that supports the lab-leak theory, their work is "ongoing and not yet complete" and their report represents "work in progress."

In public statements, Tedros has said there is a moral responsibility to those who have suffered and died of COVID-19 to learn how the virus came to be. "All hypotheses must remain on the table until we have evidence that enables us to rule certain hypotheses in or out," he told WHO member states earlier this month.

International investigations into the origins of the virus have been complicated by China's unwillingness to be transparent. Stonewalling from Chinese Communist Party officials has prevented scientists from accessing data that's crucial to learning more about COVID-19. The Chinese have forcefully rejected accusations that the virus came from the Wuhan lab and have instead shifted blame to the U.S. and accused COVID-19 of leaking from U.S. military facilities.

World Health Organization will rename monkeypox to avoid stigma and racism



World Health Organization officials will meet in emergency session next week to evaluate the international outbreak of monkeypox and determine whether the virus should be considered a global health emergency. They will also rename the virus after scientists raised concerns that the name "monkeypox" is racist, officials said.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday the U.N. health agency's emergency committee will meet on June 23 to discuss the outbreak, which he called "unusual and concerning."

"For that reason, I have decided to convene the Emergency Committee under the international Health Regulations next week, to assess whether this outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," Tedros said during a media briefing.

The WHO director-general announced there have been more than 1,600 confirmed cases and nearly 1,500 suspected cases of monkeypox reported this year from 39 countries, including seven countries where the virus has been found before and 32 newly affected countries.

"So far this year, 72 deaths have been reported from previously affected countries. No deaths have been reported so far from the newly affected countries, although WHO is seeking to verify news reports from Brazil of a monkeypox-related death there," Tedros said.

"WHO's goal is to support countries, contain transmission, and stop the outbreak with tried-and-tested public health tools including surveillance, contact tracing, and isolation of infected patients," he added.

To that end, the WHO published interim guidance for public health agencies to follow. The guidance states that mass vaccination is not yet required or recommended for monkeypox and that smallpox or monkeypox vaccines should be used on a case-by-case basis after a full assessment of their potential risks and benefits for each patient.

"While smallpox vaccines are expected to provide some protection against monkeypox, there is limited clinical data and limited supply," Tedros said. "Any decision about whether to use vaccines should be made jointly by individuals who may be at risk and their health care provider, based on an assessment of risks and benefits, on a case-by-case basis."

The director-general added that the WHO is "working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus, its clades and the disease it causes."

More than 30 international scientists wrote an open letter last week stating there was an "urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing" name for monkeypox. They argued that news reports referring to the virus as an "African" virus were discriminatory and stigmatizing. A WHO spokesperson told Bloomberg that the organization's guidelines recommend against using geographic regions and animal names to describe disease-causing pathogens.

Tedros said the name changes will be announced as soon as possible.

There have been 65 confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States as of June 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A recent outbreak in Chicago was linked to the International Mr. Leather conference, a BDSM convention held between May 26 and 30.

International health experts have linked the spread of monkeypox to communities of men who have sex with men, but the virus is not a sexually transmitted disease. It is spread by skin-to-skin contact with someone who has monkeypox sores, as well as by direct contact with materials that have touched body fluids or sores, including clothing.

WHO announces new COVID-19 origins investigative team



The World Health Organization announced on Wednesday the proposed members of a new team to study the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

Of the more than 700 applicants who were considered, 26 scientists were selected to work on the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens with expertise in fields including epidemiology, animal health, ecology, clinical medicine, virology, genomics, molecular epidemiology, molecular biology, biology, food safety, biosafety, biosecurity, and public health.

The WHO touted in its press statement that "the composition of the SAGO reflects geographic and gender diversity."

"The emergence of new viruses with the potential to spark epidemics and pandemics is a fact of nature, and while SARS-CoV-2 is the latest such virus, it will not be the last," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

"Understanding where new pathogens come from is essential for preventing future outbreaks with epidemic and pandemic potential, and requires a broad range of expertise. We are very pleased with the calibre of experts selected for SAGO from around the world, and look forward to working with them to make the world safer," he added.

The SAGO will be the second team put together by the WHO to investigate the origins of COVID-19 after the first team published a widely criticized report earlier this year that determined that natural spillover was the most likely origin of the virus. The report also said an alternative hypothesis that COVID-19 was somehow leaked from a Chinese lab was"very unlikely."

Critics said first team's effort was hampered by interference from the Chinese government and also poisoned by conflicts of interest, notably the inclusion of EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak on the team. Daszak's organization had for years funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology — the lab at the center of the lab-leak theory. He and other prominent public health scientists had also worked behind the scenes to discredit the lab-leak theory, even though scientific evidence suggests both hypotheses remain viable, as a U.S. intelligence report commissioned by President Joe Biden earlier this year found.

The widespread criticism and calls for a new investigation prompted the WHO to establish this new team, which will be a more permanent body meant to avoid politicization in future pandemics, the New York Times reported.

"Especially in light of the politicization of this particular aspect, we want to take this back to the science, take this back to our mandate as an organization to bring together the world's best minds to outline what needs to be done," Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's Covid-19 technical lead, said in an interview with the Times.

However, at least six proposed members of the SAGO were members of the WHO's first criticized investigative team: Marion Koopmans, John Watson, Thea Fischer, Hung Nguyen, Vladimir Dedkov, and Farag El Moubasher.

Additionally, Koopmans and another proposed member, Christian Drosten, were participants on a secretive teleconference held in February 2020 with White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, Daszak, and others involved in efforts to discredit the lab-leak theory. Before this call, some of the world's top virologists who had participated had raised concerns that the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus had features that "(potentially) look engineered."

But after the call, several of those scientists reversed their opinions and publicly condemned the COVID-19 lab-leak theory as a conspiracy theory.

Drosten, who is Germany's leading COVID-19 expert, is noteworthy for sitting on the editorial board of Emerging Microbes and Infections, a scientific journal that on Feb. 26, 2020, published an influential article claiming there was "No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2."

Between the time the article was drafted and the time it was published, the article's authors privately expressed doubts to each other about its conclusions, even as EMI expedited publication of the commentary and waived customary publication fees.

Those concerns were never disclosed before the article was published and only came to light because of records requests from U.S. Right to Know.

The inclusion of Koopmans and Drosten on the new team may undermine the WHO's effort to de-politicize the investigation of COVID-19's origins.

Over the next two weeks, the WHO will consult the public for feedback on the proposed SAGO members before announcing the final membership of the team.

Public comments must be submitted to SAGO@who.int with subject, "Public comments on SAGO members" by October 27, 2021.