With elections coming before next spring it makes sense to ask for the thoughts of our local candidates on important topics. We asked about Gaza here, our second topic is about Global Health and “who” should be in charge.
As I understand it the idea is that sovereign nations hand power to the unelected WHO representatives to decide when we should all be vaccinated.
Apparently this would come with unlimited budget requests on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry enabling them to build more labs and test for things that will probably never happen naturally but we need a vaccination for it, just in case.
Sounds like they would be given access to everyone’s medical records.
What do our candidates feel about this prospect? Will they be standing up for the NHS and pushing back on this or do they see it as essential for the betterment of Windsor residents and mankind as a whole?
WHO International Health Regulations
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Thank you.
Jon Davey
Community Champion
Hi Jon – I don’t support awarding the WHO with sweeping new powers. Public health authority and associated powers should be subject to democratic control in our national Parliament. Naturally, nations should co-operate in the interests of all, but the WHO’s advice should remain advisory.
Empowering the WHO would seem particularly unwise given the politicised way it dealt with Covid-19: I think specifically of the lack of scrutiny it applied to the Chinese Communist Party in regards the origin of the virus and lack of early transparency, and the associated treatment of best practise from Taiwan.
The Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health should remain responsible, held to account by the House of Commons, all of which we can get rid of, should we collectively decide to do so.