How the current version of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty (aka Bureau Text) encourages rather than prevents pandemics

Traditionally, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) were Chemical, Biological, Radiologic and Nuclear (CBRN).

The people of the world don’t want them used on us—they are cheap ways to kill and maim lots of people at once. And so international treaties were created to try to prevent their development (sometimes) and use. First was the Geneva Protocol of 1925, banning the use of biological and chemical weapons in war. The US and many nations signed it, but it took 50 years for the US to ratify it, so we believed we were not bound by it.

The US used chemical weapons subsequently. The US probably used biological weapons in the Korean War, and perhaps in Vietnam, which experienced an odd outbreak of plague during the war. The use of napalm, white phosphorus, agent orange (with its dioxin excipient causing massive numbers of birth defects and other tragedies) and possibly other chemical weapons led to much pushback, especially since we had signed the Geneva Protocol and we were supposed to be a civilized nation.

In 1968, a young Seymour Hersh wrote a book about the US chemical and biological warfare program. In 1969 Congressman Richard D. McCarthy wrote the book “Ultimate Folly” about the US production and use of chemical and biological weapons. Prof. Matthew Meselson’s review of the book noted,

“They will never stop...”

Weapons that have success never go away. They are always an option for a user to wield when the conflict reaches a certain level of clash. And they won’t disappear until they are no longer workable or everyone, and I mean everyone, decides to get rid of them permanently. Anyone that doesn’t or has them and panics, will use them. Man is still just as stupid yet as vicious as any animal out there. Only they have more toys.

Chemical under certain applications, and definitely biological weapons, can far more easily be used to accomplish the goal of control or threat with the least amount of effort and still keep the prizes in tact. This is what makes bio a tool in peace time to use. And that’s what is happening now. And the world has been using bio weapons since the 14th century as one of the first recorded uses of biological warfare occurred in 1347, when Mongol forces are reported to have catapulted plague-infested bodies over the walls into the Black Sea port of Caffa (now Feodosiya, Ukraine), at that time a Genoese trade center in the Crimean Peninsula. So you might think that after 676 years we might have realized the expanse of this type of tool. And we’re the top of the food chain.

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