The image above is not about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mishandling of the coronavirus. It’s from an article published in 2015, after the WHO botched their response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. 12
You can see how far we’ve come since then. “Reform” of the WHO has a formula: Use failures as a cry for more. If only the WHO had more enforcement power, more laws and agreements, and more money, it won’t happen again, they claim — while they simultaneously fearmonger about the inevitability of “the next pandemic.”
Can the WHO be reformed?
The House Select Subcommittee recently met to discuss whether the WHO could be reformed in the wake of mishandling COVID.3 The answer is no. The WHO has a long and well-known history of mishandling pandemics and outbreaks (even after so-called reforms) including Ebola, H1N1 (swine flu),4 AIDS, 5 SARS, 6 and most recently COVID (the last two of which were tied to lab leaks 78 in China). There’s been mishandling of funds,9 accusations of corruption of the Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus 10, and findings of sexual assault by WHO staff when responding to an outbreak of Ebola in the Congo.11 Regarding the assault: The known perpetrators did leave the WHO, and the victims of assault by WHO employees were given $250 each, but only after they completed training courses on “income generating activities.”12 Is that reform?
The WHO has continued to grow and fail, with deadly results, after each misstep and crime. One of the U.S. delegates to the WHO, Loyce Pace from the Office of Global Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defended what she called past efforts at reform in the subcommittee meeting. But her idea of reform was not conducting investigations, restructuring, or replacing those at fault. Instead, she pointed to new committees formed in response to mistakes and tragedies, calling them “reform.” (Check out the SHF recap of the subcommittee hearing here.) And she continues to call on the U.S. and its people to give even more support to the WHO in the form of tax dollars and authority.
If you still need convincing that the organization has no intention of real reform, look to the recent reelection of Director General Tedros,13 from Marxist Ethiopia, who didn’t even have the vote of his home country. 14 Dr. Tedros — who is not a medical doctor, but a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in community health — gave great deference to China on the COVID outbreak, including delayed declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), and parroting Chinese claims that SARS-CoV-2 would not transmit from human to human.
There’s a global consensus that under his leadership, the WHO mishandled yet another disease outbreak, this time amounting to the most devastating pandemic in a century, both in human lives and in economic terms. In other words, despite previous “reforms” that included new committees, more surveillance, greatly expanded scope through the 2005 amendments to the International Health Organization, and a growing bank account, the failures have only become more catastrophic in return. Is this reform?
There is no reform. The WHO is doing exactly what it was meant to do.
The spiral of history
In 1944, the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, Raymond B. Fosdick, stood before the American Public Health Association at a conference in New York City and declared, “A world health organization must inevitably be attached to any world peace organization.”15 He said this in the context of describing what he called deplorable health conditions in China that were a threat to us here in the United States.
The WHO didn’t exist until 1948. There was no centralized international health organization of any sort until the turn of the 20th century because of the general desire of countries around the globe to keep to themselves and avoid loss of sovereignty. Once regional organizations started to appear, the only actions agreed upon were that countries would notify others if they had outbreaks, and that they would serve as clearinghouses for the exchange of information about epidemics. These offices had no enforcement power and existed only as a place for information exchange and support of governments during outbreaks.
At the time of Fosdick’s comment (who was also not a medical doctor), there was an international organization called the League of Nations, which did have a health organization (LNHO), though other health organizations of the day, including Rockefeller Foundation’s own International Health Division, had more clout.
Shockingly, the U.S. was not a part of the League of Nations. This was a huge blow to President Woodrow Wilson because the league was his idea, proposed in the Treaty of Versailles which ended the first World War. The Senate voted twice not to join because provisions would override American sovereignty.
We refused no assistance that we could possibly render. All the great energy and power of the Republic were put at the service of the good cause. We have not been ungenerous. We have been devoted to the cause of freedom, humanity, and civilization everywhere. Now we are asked, in the making of peace, to sacrifice our sovereignty in important respects, to involve ourselves almost without limit in the affairs of other nations and to yield up policies and rights which we have maintained throughout our history.
We are asked to incur liabilities to an unlimited extent and furnish assets at the same time which no man can measure. I think it is not only our right but our duty to determine how far we shall go. Not only must we look carefully to see where we are being led into endless disputes and entanglements, but we must not forget that we have in this country millions of people of foreign birth and parentage. –Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, congressional speech, August 1919.
Despite lack of Senate support, Wilson continued to send American public health officials to the LNHO to work. (Remember the public health officers, like the CDC now, are under presidential control as an executive agency).
Wilson understood he needed the public on his side for his international interventions. He had campaigned under the slogan, “He kept us out of war,” but then chose to involve the U.S. in the very war he kept America out of. So in 1917, he created the Committee on Public Information, which many knew as the Creel Committee, and some newspapers of the time referred to as the Committee on Misinformation. It was created to convince Americans that getting involved in global affairs was a good idea. One writer described it as an “attempt to mobilize public opinion behind the war effort with every available form of mass communication.”16
There was no social media back then, so the Creel Committee used newspapers and movie theaters. “Creel, a former journalist, particularly targeted newspapers. He later estimated that the news division placed material in 20,000 newspaper columns each week during the war.”17 The Library of Congress tells us there were over 75,000 “engaged patriotic local residents” who were trained to give 4-minute speeches at movie theaters between changes of reels of film.18
To reach the public who couldn’t access newspapers or movies and saturate public consciousness with a “patriotic fervor,” they engaged the art community for paintings, posters, sculptures, exhibitions, and more.19
FDR, who was president after Wilson, learned from Wilson’s mistakes and was able to get Congress on board to create The United Nations to replace the defunct League of Nations. The public health outreach arm, of course, is named the World Health Organization.
In this history, you can clearly see the seeds of things like the Biden administration’s failed Disinformation Governance Board and the commandeering of social media to spread the propaganda of destructive and unwanted coronavirus policy.
No country has ever exited the WHO… yet
The WHO Constitution does not have a provision for withdrawal. Neither does the U.N. Charter. This was intentional because countries left the League of Nations as a method of political blackmail or to avoid their obligations.
The U.S., however, when joining the WHO, put on record our own path for leaving: one-year notice and all dues paid.
Many know that Trump started the process of leaving the WHO, but the Biden administration swiftly reversed course after he took office.
There has been only one other attempt to leave. In 1948, just after joining, Soviet Union countries announced they were leaving the WHO. But Brock Chrisholm from Canada, who was head at the time, very strategically never accepted their resignation and let them back in years later in the 1950s after the death of Stalin.20
Let’s pause for a moment to reflect: The only attempts to leave the WHO in its 75-year history were by Communists who said the U.S. had too much influence, and then by the U.S. who said Communist China had too much influence. What does that tell us about the organization’s leadership, policy, and dynamics? What does it tell us about the ability of the organization to be reformed? The pendulum has swung from left to right over 75 years, but at its core, the organization has been ineffective and corrupted as two cold-warring ideologies have fought for control.
So this plan for global health security through a pandemic treaty and amendments to the IHR isn’t the beginning of a new era, it’s the end of a long game plan that has been in place for decades, at least. It’s not about health, it’s about control.
Blessings. We are Thymus. We are the collective of ascended masters.
We appreciate all of you, especially in your efforts to make a difference on your planet and in this universe. We know that you have good intentions, and we also know that you want to live a good life. You want to enjoy your life experience while also making a difference in the collective of which you are a part. And we want you to know that the two things can co-exist. They can be two simultaneous intentions for you to have. You can live a good life and be of service to others. You do not have to continuously look for ways of denying yourself some creature comfort so that you can be of greater service to another. Sometimes by allowing someone else to do something for you, you are actually giving that other person an opportunity to fulfill an aspect of their mission in this life.
So do not think that you are the only one who should ever be of service to another. Sometimes, of course, it is appropriate for you all to receive, to be on the receiving end of someone else’s act of service. It is completely appropriate for you to enjoy someone else’s work of art, even if that is just a sitcom on television. You are helping all of humanity just by being there and experiencing life as you do. Develop your preferences, your interests, and respond to the things that are calling you to them in an appropriate way. You are not there to be a martyr or a renunciate. You don’t have to give up everything in order to follow one teaching to its utmost.
You are there to be you, and you have your unique preferences and interests. You have the things that bring you the most joy, and in doing them, you are automatically being of service to the collective consciousness of which you are a part. You don’t even have to define one thing as work and another thing as play. You don’t have to see your life as being in these boxes of: ‘This is my work time; this is my free time.’ ‘This is my service time; this is my me time.’ Combine it all. Make your life fun, interesting, full of love and creativity.
Use all of the experiences you have ever had to inform you as to what that life looks like, and then pursue it. Give yourselves permission to do that, and you will be of service to yourself, as well as the rest of the collective. You don’t have to separate yourself from the rest of the human collective. You don’t have to see it as you being separate from the entire universe in any way.
Put out laughter, love, good-feeling thoughts, and you are contributing to the collective. But if all you are doing is denying yourself everything in the hopes that you will be somehow good enough to make a difference, then you are sacrificing yourself. None of you is meant to do that, or supposed to do that. You are supposed to find a way to support yourself and everyone else that you are there to support while also having a good time doing it. If you have more than enough abundance, when you spend that abundance on the things that you love, you are benefitting everyone.
In the state of being that is referred to as ‘love,’ you are automatically of service. Love yourself, love others, love animals, love trees, love Mother Earth, and you are automatically of service. Sometimes when you love someone or something you take an action, but you don’t have to. You don’t have to prove your love to anyone. Do what you feel inspired to do, and you are helping everyone. And never listen to someone else who is telling you that you should be doing this or you should not be doing that. You are not there to follow someone else’s rules. You are there to follow your gut, your heart, your intuition, your spontaneous inspiration in the moment. And you are of service to others when you do those things, because you are setting an example and spreading lots of good vibration of feeling around. Be yourself. Be true to yourself. And watch how life unfolds beautifully in front of you and all around you. You will also notice that you see more people thriving, because you will see a reflection of yourself everywhere you look in this beautiful universe of ours.
