The Patriot Post® · Who Is the World Health Organization?

By Laurence F. Sanford

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations concerned with international public health. Founded in 1948 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it has 194 member states.

WHO, for the past three years, has been opaquely working on empowering the UN to establish a global pandemic treaty that would require:

• Countries and companies to share in intellectual property and medical supplies.
• Mandatory lockdowns and inoculations.
• Special treatment for developing countries. The UN defines China as a developing country despite having the world’s second-largest economy.
• Declaring “climate change” as a health issue.
• Censorship of misinformation and disinformation as defined by WHO.

The treaty would infringe on U.S. sovereignty and, as usual with the globalist agenda, would have Americans paying billions of dollars to subvert their own civilization. Fortunately, the member nations have not yet agreed on the treaty.

WHO is now seeking an additional $7 billion to its annual $6.7 billion budget to fund global preparedness for future pandemics. Left unsaid is that WHO acted as a shrill for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cover-up and deception on the China Virus (COVID-19). The UN and WHO lied and deceived the world about the CCP’s role in the China Virus. Now, WHO wants to enlarge its powers over sovereign nations to further the CCP’s objectives of world domination.

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected to the post in 2017 with the support of the CCP. He previously served in the Ethiopian Marxist government as health director and then as foreign minister when Ethiopia received millions of aid dollars from Communist China. He holds a doctorate degree in philosophy.

Ghebreyesus repaid the CCP with the WHO cover-up of COVID-19’s origins in China and endorsed the draconian lockdowns imposed in China. He was responsible for the WHO report that absolved China’s Wuhan lab as the source of the virus. The report was shallow at best since the CCP did not allow WHO full access to the Wuhan lab. Furthermore, WHO promoted the CCP policies of lockdowns and face masks that have been proven ineffective. An estimated seven million died, economies were ruined, education suffered, suicides increased, and the social fabric sundered.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) were also complicit in the cover-up of CCP malfeasance in the China Virus pandemic. See my American Security Council Foundation position paper “China & Dr. Fauci — Why?”

President Trump reduced funding to WHO in April 2020 because of its “covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and being “too China-friendly.” President Biden, in one of his first acts as president, retracted Trump’s decision and rejoined WHO with American dollars. Biden also appointed Anthony Fauci to represent the United States on the world body’s executive committee.

The U.S. is the largest funder of the UN and its agencies. In 2022, it contributed over $18 billion, of which $15 billion was voluntary.

Peter Schweizer’s book Blood Money noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under Fauci and CCP influence, reversed the 2017 CDC guidelines for voluntary home quarantine of ill persons during a severe pandemic such as the Spanish flu. The CDC did not call for a forced lockdown, which Western medicine considered ineffective, damaging, and even draconian.

Instead, Fauci and many in the Western world (Sweden is a notable exception) followed China’s historical path of lockdowns and face masks. The West believed the CCP’s lies over its own history and research of pandemics. Even more disturbing, the West was funding China’s research on “gain of function” viruses.

Summary

WHO, founded with the good intention of improving world health, is controlled by the CCP and fellow Marxists who seek to dominate the world at the expense of Western civilization. First, WHO covered up the origins of the China virus to protect the CCP; then, it followed the CCP’s protocols to harm the West’s economies and social fabric. Now, WHO seeks to expand its control over sovereign nations with a pandemic treaty and increased funding.

The United States is no longer the “home of the brave and land of the free,” as witnessed by the people’s ready acceptance of draconian lockdowns, forced inoculations, and mask mandates issued by the federal government and some state governments. Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida led the fight against lockdowns, and he was vilified in the malicious Marxist mainstream media.

The mass hysteria was based on CCP lies. Marxist progressives accepted these lies without question and labeled any opposition as misinformation or disinformation. Who can forget the lone surf paddler being arrested by California police while the California governor dined without a mask at the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley?

Action

1. Eliminate all U.S. voluntary contributions to the UN. The total U.S. contributions should align with the percentage of the U.S. economy to the world economy. Other industrialized countries should be treated the same. China should no longer be considered a “developing country” with its favorable treatment in world affairs. India, Germany, and Japan should be added as permanent Security Council members to reflect their world status.
2. Stop funding Chinese research labs and universities with U.S. tax dollars. China is reportedly working on Ebola gain-of-function research — far more deadly than COVID-19.
3. Recognize that the UN membership is stacked against the United States and Western Civilization. Between Marxist, autocratic, and Islamic countries, Western countries are vastly outnumbered.
4. Terminate all funding to Palestinians who hate the West. Why should America send billions of dollars to them? Money does not buy friendship — only contempt. Why aren’t Muslim Arab nations taking in fellow Muslim refugees from Gaza?

Reciprocity should be the foundation of American foreign policy. If WHO and the UN act against American interests, then the U.S. should reciprocate in actions by restricting funding of these organizations.

If the CCP does not allow American media to operate freely in China, then America should not allow CCP-controlled TikTok to operate freely in America. President Biden and Trump are TikTok users.

Laurence F. Sanford is a senior analyst at the American Security Council Foundation.