The People’s Government Has Turned Into a Foe. The W.H.O. Director-General Wants Authority to Declare a Public Health Emergency Without Consulting With the Appropriate U.S. Government Agencies

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According to Jonathan Alexandre, a senior attorney with the international litigation NGO Liberty Counsel, revisions to the United Nations' 2005 international health standards (IHR) have been made "under the radar" because Americans would protest to the measures' unconstitutionality.

The proposed revisions to the IHR by the Biden administration would increase the World Health Organization's jurisdiction to declare public health crises and overrule U.S. regulatory agencies.

"They've done this undercover because they knew that if you told Americans you're ceding authority to an international body that is unaccountable to the people, if the media echoed that message, certainly Americans would have no regard for this," Alexandre explained in a recent interview with "NTD News Today." "And we should have no respect for this multinational entity [the WHO] that does not answer to us."

The Biden administration proposed 13 revisions to the IHR that, if passed, would change international public health laws, such as strengthening the authority granted to the WHO director-general to declare a public health emergency without consulting U.S. legislative organizations.

Loyce Pace, assistant secretary for global affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, defended the modifications in January during talks on pandemic preparation at the WHO's 150th Executive Board meeting in Geneva.

"We are cognizant that updating and modernizing the IHR are vital to ensuring the world is better prepared for and can react to the next epidemic," Pace added.

HHS authorities did not reply to The Epoch Times' request for more comment before press time.

Alexandre called the administration's 13 modifications "honorable and perilous."

"The horrible aspect is that it comes from our president, Joe Biden, who has suggested these 13 modifications."

"The risk is that it cedes authority to this government entity that is not the United States, and the unconstitutional aspect is that they do not abide by any of our Bill of Rights, any of the liberties that we've pledged ourselves to," he said. The WHO is "an unelected organization that is determined for whatever purpose is required to essentially strangle the globe, have it obey its dictates, depending on what danger or epidemic it judges at the time to be necessary in order to lock down the whole world."

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In previous pronouncements, the Biden administration disputed that the IHR changes would erode US sovereignty.

While Biden administration officials prefer a distinct agreement, dubbed a pandemic treaty by some, they also advocate for revisions to the IHR as a speedier method to address "weaknesses in global health security."

"Immediate steps" could be taken to improve certain areas, "particularly around early warning systems, response coordination, and information sharing," Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra wrote in an opinion piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Aug. 31, 2021.

These revisions, according to Alexandre, allow the WHO, and notably its director-general, the capacity to circumvent "any governmental authority inside the United States,... any responsibility that these persons have to elected citizens, [and] any authority coming from the Constitution."