Over four years have passed since the COVID-19 epidemic shook the globe. It’s almost a cliché to use the word “unprecedented”, but it was a time when we didn’t know what to expect. That is why many governments, federal, state, and local, trusted unelected bureaucrats with dictating policy.
The first states to break free from this madness were Republican ones. Georgia lifted COVID restrictions first, followed by Florida. We still see people who live in fear of COVID. They wear masks and close schools in a few isolated cases.
World Health Organization (WHO), a global health organization, has set up a group to work on a pandemic prevention protocol. On its website:
The World Health Assembly, in December 2021 at its second-ever special session, established an intergovernmental negotiation body (INB). This INB will draft and negotiate conventions, agreements, or any other international instruments under the World Health Organization Constitution to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response. The INB is guided by the principles of inclusivity, transparency, efficiency, and Member State leadership.
The Biden-Harris Administration was keen to cede its national authority to globalist bureaucrats. So, it worked with the WHO on drafting an agreement for cooperation in the event of a pandemic. The WHO Pandemic Agreement is now in its second edition and will be in effect by 2023. It not only cedes large parts of U.S. healthcare policy to an international organization, but it also ignores constitutional rights and the 10th Amendment.
The Republican Governors Association has taken a strong stance against this violation of federalism and national sovereignty. In May, 24 GOP Governors signed a statement expressing their disapproval of the idea of a pandemic agreement.
The letter begins:
These instruments have the purpose of empowering the WHO and its uncontrollable director-general with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. Citizens, such as freedoms of speech, privacy, travel choices, informed consent, and choice of medical treatment.
These agreements, if adopted, would elevate the WHO to a global authority on public health. The proposed amendments and the treaty would give the WHO Director-General the unilateral authority to declare “public health emergencies of international concern” in member countries, including pandemics, but also a wide range of perceived emergencies.
The letter concludes: “As Governors, we affirm public health policy as a matter that is reserved for states and not the federal government. And certainly not international organizations like the WHO.” “We will resist any attempt to transfer authority from the federal government to the WHO in public policy that affects our citizens, or any attempts by the WHO asserting such authority over them,” the governors conclude in the letter.
The Republican Governors released a statement on Thursday saying they refused to accept the WHO’s authority over their state. Two more governors signed the letter to bring the total up to 26. That’s over half the states.
The statement states that “the World Health Organization has a new pandemic agreement” which aims to control health policy globally. Twenty-four Republican Governors in a May 2024 joint letter expressed their concern about this development. Simply put, Republican Governors won’t comply.”
Govs. Kay Ivey, Mike Dunleavy, and Sarah Sanders are the governors of Alabama, Alaska, and Arkansas respectively. Ron DeSantis, Brian Kemp, Brad Little, Eric Holcomb, and Kay Ivey (Alaska) are all candidates running for the Florida Senate. Kim Reynolds (Iowa), Jeff Landry, (La. Tate Reeves, Miss. Mike Parson (Mo. ), Greg Gianforte (Mont. ), Jim Pillen (Neb. Kevin Stitt, Henry McMaster, Kristi Noem, and Joe Lombardo are all from Nebraska. Bill Lee (Tenn.), Greg Abbott, (Texas), Spencer Cox, (Utah), Glenn Youngkin, (Va.), Jim Justice, (W.Va.), Mark Gordon, and (Wyo. The statement was signed by many. Residents in these states should thank their governors for being leaders and for insisting that U.S. policy and state policies are sovereign.
