The idea is that the WHO should be given legally binding powers to implement such measures in the future. This is an attempt to revamp the WHO\u2019s so-called\u00a0international pandemic treaty<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 an effort to give it\u00a0sweeping powers<\/a>\u00a0to dictate public health measures to countries with the full backing of international law, potentially overriding their national sovereignty.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to see how the G20 leaders could describe this as a \u201csuccess\u201d, unless vaccine passports were not just a means to an end \u2014 mass vaccination \u2014 but also, and perhaps even more importantly, an end in and of themselves. It\u2019s no secret that tech companies saw Covid passports as\u00a0the gateway<\/a>\u00a0to all-encompassing digital IDs.<\/p>\n https:\/\/unherd.com\/2022\/11\/a-biostate-wont-cure-the-west\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While each of Beveridge\u2019s \u201cFive Giants\u201d \u2014 want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness \u2014 remains unslain, one in particular retains the power to cripple entire nations with the stroke of a pen. The past three years have revealed many things, … Continue reading