It is the Autumnal Equinox today and it appears that we are sliding into fewer minutes of daylight time, lower temperatures, and the arrival of the festive holiday season. We had thought about non-compliance, since the summer was fairly pleasant with the dazzling late-afternoon light flooding Big Pink’s placid Patio.

A fellow named Mike Nevradakis is an actual Doctor, though not of medicine but media studies from the University of Texas and host of Dialogos Radio, a weekly podcast featuring interviews and coverage of current events in Greece. We are not sure how that reflects expertise on international medical issues, but at least he has noticed some things. He published an update a couple days ago on something that concerned all the Salts. Most of us had served the United States government, so please forgive us a little unease with the possibility that the people running this nation are prepared to cede sovereignty of our nation to the people- or at least some of the people at the UN Headquarters in New York City.

Like the mandate to install tracking devices on our automobiles, it was neither publicized nor discussed. It was simply imposed by the bureaucrats to achieve undiscussed social benefits. That is about par for whatever course our government is following at the moment.

We became aware of this strange new program last year when we saw a brief mention that the World Health Organization- the “WHO”- was being empowered to declare health emergencies in member states without input from the states themselves.

You may recall some of the complications involved in such radical steps in abandoning national control. We had been concerned about it since the start of the pandemic. We wondered if the Administration was actually going to cede authority over public health to a group that has close ties to the Chinese Government. That would be the same group whose handling of the pandemic emergency included whether respirators should be forced into the lungs of those suffering from Covid.

One of us had something that looked like the dread disease back when it was fairly new. He refused to have the tubes inserted into him, since there is a well-established medical track record of complications with those medical appliances. They can even cause death, a symptom to which we are generally opposed.

That is the general basis for our apprehension about submitting to WHO guidelines for medical emergencies.

Now, apparently the moment is arriving, and like the auto tracking devices, it is being imposed without discussion. We are simple people, so we will try to keep the discussion straightforward. Mike fills in some of the blanks in what is actually going on.
He puts it this way. “Over the objections of 11 nations, the United Nations General Assembly President today approved a declaration on pandemic prevention that seeks to create a global pandemic authority.”

Considering the recent panic over Covid-19, we have applied lessons-learned from the biggest public health emergency since the Spanish Flu of 1918. The idea that transferring authority in health matters to an institution not associated with our Government is startling. There is an extensive list of malpractice in how the pandemic occurred. That includes the Wuhan lab in China that may have developed some of the more egregious characteristics of the response to that virus: masking, social separation and vaccine development and use.

Mike adds some we had not focused on some of the impact, which includes COVID-19-style restrictions, including “closing schools and disproportionately throwing women out of work and into poverty.”

We have talked about Emergency Rule being the new means of governance here in our beloved nation. It involves identification of problems to which action may- or may not- be required. The new means of coping has been to declare a crisis and institute restrictions that would sadly but necessarily violate Constitutional protections.

We are beyond that now on this first weekend of Fall. The United Nations General Assembly approved the non-binding resolution yesterday. They call it a ‘U.N declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR).” They did it without a full assembly vote, which is similar to the way we do our budget these days.

The rhetoric that went along with the PPPR declaration was heated. Some assert that the declaration creates a “global pandemic authority” which would have the power to enforce lockdowns, mandate vaccination and censor “misinformation” and “hypocrisy” about the emergency that is “unhinged.”

We are normally not in favor of unhinged rhetoric, but this one seems to invite a certain deranged unhinging of national authority. Those who support the PPPR view the declaration as a “key step toward global coordination” in pandemic prevention and public health. We have just seen this play out over two years with all sorts of unintended consequences in social life, economics and education. The economic impact imposed by bureaucrats not subject to our nation’s laws is incalculable, as demonstrated by the United Auto Workers strike currently in progress.

There are other views, of course, shaped around the necessity to take the dramatic action required to defeat emergencies. The people at the UN who crafted the declaration say the declaration “presents an opportunity … to prevent and prepare for pandemics and their consequences, using an approach that involves all government sectors.”

We don’t know about that, since Dr. Fauci personally lectured some of us on the dangers of shut-downs twenty years ago with the SARS-1 virus. That was the origin of the virus whose gain of function research resulted in Covid-19. The WHO members interested in gaining this new power they will also “apply lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic” and “comes as the world faces multiple humanitarian and climate-related crises which are threatening lives and livelihoods around the world.”

Those factors were just played out on a global scale and did nothing but impose additional hardships on the public health. We are opposed therefore in giving up our ability to manage the public heath, particularly for the public that shares our nation. The WHO Director-General is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He expressed his vision by saying “that when health is at risk, everything is at risk.”

We tend to agree, but we are not sure we can support turning American health over to a malaria-researcher from Ethiopia.

He may be the perfect person to be leading a global response to something more dangerous than the flu. ‘Unprecedented’ agreements come at the expense of international sovereignty. We took a Patio Poll and discovered there was no support for turning over emergency management to Eritreans. We concede there might be a basis for it, considering the number of emergencies in that part of Africa, but think it ought to be a matter for public discussion by the people who are going to have to pay for it.

But that is not how things work anymore. The declaration is essentially a treaty but is not being handled in consultation with the Senate, which is supposed to debate treaties. Dr. Joseph Bell is a health physician at the Brownstone Institute. His opinion is that the declaration is unprecedented and will “come at the expense of the sovereignty of the various nations that will subsequently be told that they have an emergency and told what they have to do about it.”

He goes on to summarize that this is a full-court press to have the entirety of the United Nations Organization, an all-in, whole of universal government approach to back up and support their proposed globalist WHO worldwide totalitarian medical and scientific police state.”

We think we are opposed to that, but since we have not been asked our opinion the matter may just slide right by. The UN deliberations included speeches from 158 nations, including the leaders of 34 of them. U.S. SECSTATE Anthony Blinken spoke to support the declaration, which includes Universal vaccination, making permanent some of the restrictions that appeared during Covid response.

• Increased surveillance and digital health documents, such as vaccine passports.

• Potential social media censorship

PPPR also comes with a pricetag of $30 Billion dollars per year, a major portion of which will be born by the American taxpayer.

Just to clarify who may be opposed to the PPPR, the 11 countries alphabetically are Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Eritrea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, the Russian Federation, the Syrian Arab Republic, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
We are pleased to find ourselves in that group of states, demonstrating how the new world order is going to work. The key to this as an action item of concern is to drop a line to your two Senators and say that the United States learned a lesson from Covid, and the UN Declaration is not part of it. Of course, there could be an emergency under PPPR that overwhelms common sense, but that is the first step in learning how things really work these days.

This dramatic shift in the role of the WHO as an action body in global human health has been a long time coming. It will be interesting to see how it plays as it rolls right over us.
Considering some of the other news of the morning, it all fits. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez asked to be removed- temporarily- from the position of Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

He may have some time on his hands, and there must be an emergency to deal with the situation, you know?

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