What pandemic? — a call to revise the International Health Regulations and reform WHO

It looks like the mainstream media are finally on WHO’s case, calling for an accounting of what some call a fraudulent pandemic. Bloomberg.com questions whether the whole WHO pandemic was overblown for profit. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086

Others report that the incidence of swine flu has been declining since late November, and one of Canada’s largest news providers, Canwest, is saying that the flu was a bust and is over. http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/H1N1+pandemic+ending+with+whimper+bang/2304630/story.html

Countries are beginning to lament their largely wasted expenditures of billions for vaccines that a majority of their people did not want.

Now there is a growing chorus for the World Health Organization to rescind its pandemic level 6, in view of both the questionable existence of any real pandemic in the first place and the fact that the incidence of H1N1 swine flu is now in sharp decline in the northern hemisphere. But WHO says it is “too early” to decide anything. They need to wait and see.

‘Pandemic’ was redefined

What few seem to have noticed is that shortly before the WHO declared its level-6 pandemic earlier this year, it had quietly redefined the technical meaning of ‘pandemic’ so that it no longer took into account the number of people affected or the severity of the illness, only how widespread it was. This explains how they could declare a pandemic for something that was far less dangerous than ordinary seasonal flu.

That change of definition was done quietly and deceived the world into believing there was a genuine health danger that required emergency protective action. The International Health Regulations explicitly safeguard the autonomy of member states, but WHO violated that autonomy by redefining a basic term of reference. Member countries should demand that WHO restore its definition of pandemic to reflect the traditional meaning of the word.

The power to declare an international health emergency needs to be removed from WHO and globally decentralized so that it is never again possible to fraudulently declare a pandemic where none actually exists. It needs to be made much harder for any small group to arbitrarily declare a global health emergency.

Member countries are in a good position to demand reform of both the International Health Regulations and WHO itself because they subscribed in good faith to a protocol that was subsequently hijacked by the WHO’s fraudulent redefinition of pandemic, upon which the whole system of pandemic planning depends. This alone ought to be sufficient reason to initiate major reform, and possibly to take some WHO administrators to the International Court of Justice for fraud against humanity.

Pandemic plan review

Much of the public outcry about the flu scare was centered around the various powers that governments have quietly given themselves to override basic rights and freedoms in the event of an ‘emergency’ that they themselves determine with little or no public accountability. It is now time for Canada’s pandemic plan, and the pandemic plans of the provinces, to be put up for review in a fully transparent and democratic manner, so that the public remains fully in charge of its own fate in the event of any future health emergency, whether fraudulent or real.

One thing the swine flu scare did was to open the eyes of a lot of ordinary people who used to trust implicitly that government was acting in their best interests. The handling of H1N1 caused many to stop trusting government and mainstream media because of their obvious lies and deception.

And so, let us take the lead now in calling on governments everywhere to revisit their pandemic plans, to conform them to the wishes of the people, to root out undue commercial influence over the health bureaucracies of the world, and to reform the global health protocol.

It is time.

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