Welcome to the next season of the great health soap opera: PABS – Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing. Filming location: Geneva. Producer: WHO. Starring: Switzerland – in its new favorite role as a lab rat with a certificate of neutrality.
Following the so-called "MERS Day" in Wimmis, where a virus with a 37% lethality rate was ceremoniously stored – as a "contribution to global security," of course – the process continues in Geneva. There, member states are discussing how to make such pathogen transfers automatic and mandatory in the future. In other words, what was a pilot project yesterday will become a mandatory event tomorrow in the name of global health.
The principle is as simple as it is insidious: Switzerland delivers, the WHO manages, and the people get to guess.
In Spiez, the pathogen is received, cataloged, labeled, and declared a "global good." Switzerland provides the laboratory, the electricity, and the credibility; the WHO gets the key to the refrigerator—and keeps the data along with it. Sovereignty? In Geneva, it will henceforth only be on display in a museum, right next to neutrality.
Because according to the new treaty, pathogens and their genetic sequences must be transmitted to the WHO within 48 hours – not to parliament, not to the public, but directly to the global administrative apparatus. The motto is: "Share globally, remain silent nationally." Democracy? A concept from the analog age.
And while the samples are being packaged in Spiez, Bern remains silent. Two weeks later, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) responded to the simple question of who was actually negotiating in Geneva on behalf of Switzerland with a document – completely redacted. The official reason given was personal protection. The unofficial interpretation: obstructing democracy through bureaucratic obfuscation.
Ironically, the WHO has long published the lists of participating countries – unredacted, alphabetically, and in the best bureaucratic English. Only Switzerland seems to treat transparency as a mental exercise: Sudoku for its citizens – guessing allowed, knowing the facts forbidden.
What is being negotiated is nothing less than the quiet transformation of national sovereignty into a global licensing system for biological resources. Anyone who believes this is about protecting public health also believes in the tooth fairy of the Bundesplatz.
Thus the circle is complete:
In Spiez, they call it "responsibility".
In Geneva they call it “governance”.
And in Bern, they call it "trust".
The people, as so often happens, remain the uninvited spectator in a game that has long since been decided over their heads.
Series title: «WHO wants it all – Switzerland in the service of global biosecurity.»
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