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Last month, the World Health Organization quietly announced that it would soon appoint a new chief scientist in 2023, a man named Jeremy Ferrar.

As part of its press release on Ferrar's imminent appointment, the Who, stated that Farrar will be focused on, quote, bringing together the best brains and science and innovation from around the world to develop and deliver high-quality health services to the people who need the most, no matter who they are and where they live.

However, Ferrar's history and his recent role as head of the Welcome Trust suggests

that Farrar's appointment to a top post at the Who bodes poorly for global health and is instead

suggestive of Who ambitions to become a supranational organization that promotes the interests of

big pharma and increasingly big tech to the detriment of public health.

The announcement of Farrar's appointment comes at an interesting time for the HOO, as the organization is currently involved in secret negotiations to amend the international health regulations.

Those amendments, if approved by WHO member states, would give the WHO unprecedented power to declare a

public health emergency and also to dictate to member states what measures they must implement

as a result of that emergency. It would also establish a framework to normalize an entrench vaccine

passports and other biosecurity surveillance practices, while also exempting these

regulations from respecting human rights and the fundamental freedoms of the populations of who

member states. With such unprecedented power, a man like Jeremy Ferrar, who has consistently

supported unscientific biosecurity measures throughout the COVID crisis, would be able to dictate

to most of the world what public health policies must be implemented and win.

Adding to these issues is the recent pandemic simulation hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security,

which previously hosted controversial simulations, including 2001's Dark Winter in 2019's Event 201.

This new simulation called catastrophic contagion focused largely on Africa and on the whose role in shaping global and regional pandemic responses, it of course included considerable

involvement from Bill Gates, whose foundation wields a significant and troubling amount of

influence over

world health organization policy.

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