If Joe Biden has his way, the American people will soon be committed to abide by the terms of a new international treaty … without any American elected official other than Biden having signed off on the decision. That’s wrong, that’s unconstitutional, and it’s got to be stopped.
Apparently, the thinking among international healthcare bureaucrats and the diplomats who pay attention to them is that the World Health Organization (WHO) did such a good job leading the international healthcare bureaucrats’ response to the COVID-19 outbreak that the organization should be given even more power to prevent and prepare for and – eventually – manage the response to the next global outbreak of a disease.
That’s why diplomats and healthcare bureaucrats have been negotiating what amount to two new international treaties – first, amendments to the already-existing International Health Regulations (IHR), and, second, a new pandemic preparedness treaty – to be finalized at the 77th World Health Assembly, beginning on May 27.
The new international treaty in question, the World Health Organization Pandemic Agreement, will centralize future efforts to prevent, prepare for, and respond to global pandemics in the World Health Organization (WHO).
Worse, the Biden administration will not say if it plans to submit the agreement to the Senate for ratification as the Constitution requires.
This is all outrageous, on multiple levels.
First, the WHO’s performance during the COVID-19 outbreak was horrible. The........