Many persons are still scarred by the vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and restriction of movements that were dictated by governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several persons lost their jobs in Jamaica after refusing to accept the vaccines, which the government assured was safe. Despite this declaration, which was backed by the the WHO, AstraZeneca, the maker of the vaccine that was predominantly given to Jamaicans, has since declared that its vaccine was found to cause a rare blood clot in some cases.
According to Article 12 of the International Health Regulations (IHR), the WHO Director-General has the sole authority to determine a public health emergency, even if a country is not in agreement. Other aspects of the document of concern to medical practitioner and president for Doctors for Life Dr. Doreen Brady-West include the fact that the WHO can require mass compliance with vaccines, or what they call relevant health products, even if it is experimental as outlined in Article 13 and Article 18 of the amended document.
Digital surveillance systems can also be built to track a citizen’s health behaviour, and they can also censor misinformation.
“The WHO in my mind and in the minds of many others got an ‘F’ for the way they handled the COVID pandemic on many fronts. It wasn’t a great success the way they handled it. Big Pharma is in bed with the WHO and vice-versa. It is an incestuous relationship that can do no good for humanity. So, the link between WHO and Big Pharma is too close. It is the same people switching between the two entities,” said Dr. Brady-West.
“Now they want to take on these regulations, which give the Director-General all this power over independent and sovereign nation states to decide when there is an emergency in your country and when they are going to act and how they are going to restrict travel, restrict work, lock you down, all of these kinds of things. I think this is very, very concerning,” she said.
The World Health Organisation is 80% financed by private donors and 20% by Member State contributions. The Bill Gates Foundation, one of the largest supporters of genetically-modified organisms in the world, is now one of its main contributors, second in order of importance to the USA. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the WHO upon taking office in January. He believes the UN had mishandled the COVID pandemic and other international health crises. The United States has been by far the WHO’s biggest financial backer, contributing nearly 15% of its overall funding. The WHO has since declared that it is experiencing a funding crisis.
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has insisted that the amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) 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.
“We know that the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if,” he had stated during his opening remarks at the Thirteenth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on a WHO Pandemic Agreement on February 17, 2025.
The IHR (2005), the successors of the 1951 International Sanitary Regulations, were conceived to maximise collective efforts to manage public health events while at the same time minimising their disruption to travel and trade. They have 196 States Parties, comprising all 194 WHO Member States plus Liechtenstein and the Holy See.