OPINION:
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during opening remarks of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on COVID-19’s most recent meeting that “this virus is here to stay and all countries will need to learn to manage it alongside other infectious diseases.”
In other words: COVID may have been taken off the emergency, emergency, emergency list. But it’s still going to be used as a platform for bureaucrats to issue controls.
And it just so happens, WHO just updated its COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan. How handy. How dandy. How top-down controlling.
Here come more global recommendations for “collaborative surveillance, community protection,” and “emergency coordination” among governments, as Ghebreyesus put it.
Here come technology-driven contact tracing and surveillance programs; pompous medical bureaucrats with “I am zee law” powers; fear-driven mandates for untested, unproven shots supposedly aimed at saving lives; panic-inducing shutdowns of businesses, leading to widespread adoption of universal basic income handouts, leading to wider and wider divisions between the haves and have-nots, leading to more angry mobs, more government clamps to calm the mobs, fewer and fewer and ever fewer freedoms for the law-abiding, all leading to the utter loss of American Exceptionalism and the dimming of the lights of liberty.
This, from the updated WHO guidance: “As countries adjust their emergency response, absorbing COVID-19-related actions into integrated respiratory disease management, there is an opportunity to strengthen the public health foundation for future epidemic and pandemic response efforts.”
The WHO is going to pirouette from the COVID pandemic into COVID variances and ultimately, any and all respiratory diseases to bring about a state of total top-heavy health-related regulatory controls loosely banded together under the label “disease management.” After all, why simply respond to future viruses when you can stop them before they spread? Before they break?
“How to prevent the next pandemic,” Bill Gates wrote in his most recent title, published at the tail end of COVID.
Silly human. As if.
“No more pandemics,” Gates wrote in his GatesNotes blog in May, 2022, peppered with such bullet points as, “Vaccinate the world in six months,” and “Meet the GERM team.” Gates wants fast-tracked vaccines for whatever virus and disease his team of merry scientists deem of threat to humanity; he also wants a government-funded rapid response team of scientists who rush to areas of the world where viruses and diseases pop, so as to help contain the viruses and diseases before they break globally.
It all sounds glorious and worthwhile, save for the devilish details: Fast-tracking vaccines that normally take years to develop puts safety as a secondary consideration, at best; sending in the specially selected team of Gates-approved doctors strips localities of their rights to self-rule and self-regulate, while imposing a system of political pressure to obey what the bureaucrats advise — or else.
Gates, a friend to China, a funder of WHO — an enemy to Donald Trump and an enemy to American individualism — was a leading voice of lockdowns, more lockdowns, mo’ lockdowns, during the years of coronavirus crazy. His vision is WHO’s vision; WHO’s vision is Gates’ vision.
WHO’s Strategic Preparedness and Response plan for 2023-2025 “supports countries as they are working to transition their critical emergency response activities to longer-term sustained COVID-19 disease prevention, control and management,” WHO wrote on its website.
So COVID is no longer an emergency.
But COVID is still a concern — in need of prevention, control and management. COVID’s variants are similarly still a concern, in need of the same prevention, control and management. What’s more, future viruses always threaten, bringing with them their own challenges in prevention, control and management.
“The overall goals and objectives for the next two years, April 2023-April 2025, have been slightly adjusted and now include a focus on the longevity of managing and sustaining COVID-19 response efforts in the context of other concurrent health crises,” WHO’s updated COVID emergency response guide read.
Oh, you mean the COVID-19 “response efforts” that were largely failures — largely lies?
This is not the language of people who acknowledge, in humility and regret, that everything they warned about COVID, everything they advised about lockdowns and masks and social distancing, everything they promised about vaccines and boosters and returns to normalcies — that everything they said was wrong.
This is not the language of mea culpa or of lessons learned.
And this is definitely not the language of those who understand the notion of individual rights, individual choice, individual health decisions — of, as we say in America, God-given liberties.
This is the language of bureaucrats who are digging in, preparing for more of the same, only doing so in ways they hope are disguised as “for the good of the people” altruistic acts.
This is the language of tyrants.
They have such faith in their powers to fool the masses they are quite willing to put into print their end game goals, for all to see. They have such scorn for the intelligence of the masses they don’t bother hiding their ultimate intents to control the people of the world. Their playbook is COVID, but by a different name.
It’s up to us to believe what they say they’re going to do.
Fool us once, shame on them. Fool us twice — well, that’s the end of individualism and freedom right there. And at that point, how deserved it would be.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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