This is a world where global elites peddle fear like it's the new black; Professor Ramesh Thakur – former UN Assistant Secretary-General and a voice of unflinching reason – drops a truth bomb on the WHO's Pandemic Accords. His latest piece, published amid the accords' rollout, skewers the flawed foundations, power grabs, and self-serving bureaucracy behind what he calls a "bureaucratic coup" masquerading as global health salvation. As of October 6, 2025, with amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) effective since September 19 and the Pandemic Agreement adopted in May (slated for signatures post a 2026 pathogens deal), Thakur's critique isn't just timely – it's a rallying cry for national sovereignty against the creeping tide of globalism. Trump nailed it in his September 23 UN speech: These accords, like immigration and climate pacts, exemplify elite consensus clashing with populist revolt. Thakur's arguments hold water, backed by data, history, and ethics, and deserve a full-powered defence. Let's break it down.

Busting the Myth: Pandemics Aren't the Bogeyman They're Made Out to Be

Thakur's core jab? The accords rest on sand, the bogus claim that pandemic risks are skyrocketing, driven by zoonotic spill overs. But as he points out, COVID's likely lab-leak origin flips that narrative on its head. More damning: Pandemics are rare, with a puny disease burden compared to everyday killers like infectious and chronic diseases.

Enter the University of Leeds' REPPARE project, a Brownstone Institute-backed initiative that's been dismantling the hype since 2024. Their reports torch WHO, World Bank, and G20 claims of escalating threats, showing pre-2020 data reveals declining mortality and outbreaks. Improved diagnostics inflate "increases," not real surges. Historical pandemics? Tamed by sanitation, hygiene, water, antibiotics, not global treaties. Yellow fever, flu, cholera? On the wane.

Our World in Data seals the deal: Since the 1918 Spanish flu (50M deaths), pandemics claimed just 10-14M lives total, including COVID's 7.1M (2020-24). Compare: 2019 alone saw 8M infectious disease deaths (non-COVID) and 41M from non-communicables. Project 2020-24 trends: 35M infectious, 220M chronic deaths expected, pandemics are a drop in the bucket.

REPPARE's cost breakdowns? Pandemic claims are puffed up; endemic infections' tolls downplayed. Thakur's right: Pouring billions into rare-event prep diverts from real killers. It's lousy policy, fails cost-benefit 101. Why build a fortress for ghosts when the real enemies are at the gates?

Data crushes the panic porn. Thakur's defence: Evidence over elites.

The Power Grab: From Health Advisor to Global Overlord

Thakur warns the accords turbocharge WHO's authority, a solo call by the Director-General declares emergencies, commandeers resources, redirects taxpayer funds across borders. It's sovereignty suicide. "One Health" ropes in animals; expansions could engulf climate, guns, racism as "health emergencies." New bureaucracy? States parties committee, subcommittees, national authorities, focal points, indigenous consultations, a COP (climate change) every five years. Funding hikes, a financial mechanism for developing nations, all while expediting dodgy products like mRNA jabs, ignoring EUA controversies.

And censorship? Clauses on "misinfo" cement WHO's role in the "censorship industrial complex." Thakur echoes Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director, in his September 3, 2025, NatCon keynote: Science thrives on debate, but COVID killed it, First Amendment "a dead letter." Bhattacharya: "You were denied" the debate; free speech guarantees vanished. WHO's "infodemic management"? Managed info erodes trust, mistrust, not misinfo, is the plague.

X reactions to Thakur's piece? Echo chambers of agreement: Brownstone Institute's post racked likes for calling it a "populist revolt" against elite consensus. Daily Sceptic and Toby Young amplify: "Consolidate the power of the Covid clerisy." Thakur's spot-on: This is administrative bloat on steroids, at a time when publics revolt against the nanny state.

History's Verdict: Informed Consent Betrayed, Clerisy Empowered

Thakur's killer close: COVID's "successful bureaucratic coup" displaced elected leaders with experts tasting godlike power, visibility, commands, veneration. Why would they downplay risks? Obscurity awaits. Instead, they hype threats to justify more bucks and clout.

History's lens? Informed consent, medical ethics' bedrock, was trashed. Fear ramped via daily panic porn; age gradients ignored; ARR muddled with RRR for "95% efficacy." No accountability for fear-mongers; critics vilified, vindicated yet sidelined. Thakur: "Those responsible... received... high national honours." Spot the self-interest.

Defending Thakur isn't conspiracy, it's common sense. The accords entrench a flawed, power-hungry system that failed COVID's test. As REPPARE's September 2024 update notes, midway through, it's already exposing the agenda's shaky evidence. Trump's UN call for sovereignty? Echoes Thakur's revolt.

Bottom line: Ditch the accords, reclaim control. Pandemics aren't the existential threat; unchecked globalism is. Thakur's nailed it, time to listen before the next "emergency" locks us down for good.

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/10/02/the-who-pandemic-accords-consolidate-the-power-of-the-covid-clerisy-on-a-global-scale/