A former Minnesota congresswoman is calling for an immediate exit from the World Health Organization (WHO) as it inches closer to establishing governance over nations during a declared public health emergency.
“This is very serious, and it’s approaching faster than anyone realized,” Michele Bachmann told The Epoch Times.
Bachmann, now dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was a U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District from 2007 to 2015, as well as a candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
In May, Bachmann attended the WHO’s 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, where national leaders discussed the draft of a pandemic treaty and 307 proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations.
The regulations, first adopted in 1969 and updated in 2005, are described by the WHO as an “overarching legal framework” of international law to which 196 countries are legally bound to regulate the “rights and obligations in handling public health events and emergencies that have the potential to cross borders.”
The assembly made no deciding vote on the amendments or bureau text (pdf), Bachmann said.
What’s unusual, she added, is that it didn’t discuss the WHO’s announcement on June 5 that it would be adopting the European Union’s (EU) digital COVID-19 vaccine passport system, leaving Bachmann to question the WHO’s authority to make final decisions without a discussion or vote.
“Nothing was mentioned at the assembly in Geneva, so that’s extremely strange,” Bachmann said.
The vaccine passport system will not only be used for surveillance, tracking, and tracing of travel but also for the monitoring of an individual’s compliance with decisions and mandates made by the WHO, Bachmann said.
“But that is just the building block,” she said. “They made it clear that they are planning on adding to this digital compliance.”
There are components of the bureau text itself that would create what Bachmann called a “medical dictatorship.”
“The powers that are envisioned will cover areas such as the environment, racism, poverty, and climate change,” she said. “The powers are so broad, and they’re written in such a bureaucratized way, that they essentially arrogate to them unlimited power over all its member states.”
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