There is a complicated story here that speaks to entanglements between states, industry, finance, multinational government structures, and the control of a people over regimes.
The Covid experience revealed all. The response was notably global, nearly all nations locking down in the same way at roughly the same time, enforcing the same protocols and issuing the same remedies (more or less).
The World Health Organization seemed to be calling the shots, with national public health agencies deferring on point after point. The virus itself seems to have emerged from within the structure of multilateral research on both pathogens and possible pharmaceutical countermeasures.
In addition, central banks all over the world cooperated to fund the extreme policy response, printing money like never before to stop full economic collapse under forced closures. Nations like Sweden and Nicaragua that went their own way were demonized by media all over the world in the exact same way.
National legislatures had no role in the initial lockdowns. They were excluded from decision-making. This means that the people who elected them were disenfranchised too. No one voted for six feet of distance, business closures, and shot mandates. They were imposed by administrative edicts, and nowhere did judicial systems stop them.
Democracy as an idea, plus the rule of law, died in those months and years, deferring always to the global institutions and financial systems that assumed de facto control of the planet. It was the most astonishing show of universal power on the historical record.
The author takes us through the failed ITO into GATT and then into WTO which is now, as I write in its final death throes. Globalism has had its chance at the game of ruling the world and COVID was a very good look at what they would do with it. Now we, as in all the people in the world, everywhere, except the motherWEFers and other such globalists, are having our say in how the globe should be run. Not in lockstep, not every country obeying the WHO or UN, but every country for itself as an individual in the world society, not the world hive collective envisioned by the progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers who want to take over the world to depopulate it.