Wasn't Trump concerned the WHO was China run? Cutting funding means China will have an even larger influence.
It's some kind of intense mental gymnastics to think the Trump administration has a thought process behind their policies...........
"China runs it? I want nothing to do with it!"
Stupid, to be sure, but he's not running on rational, but emotional reasoning.
If only the next pandemic could kill off just the Trump voters..
Well, this is what happens when you depend too much on the US. Maybe they'll learn their lesson and rely more on other countries.
In the past, the US was a country that could be depended on. The last 10 years have shown that to no longer be true.
I think the US will be going downhill in terms of international standing over the next few decades.
Just in time for the next pandemic.
Based on the year’s start, we are indeed heading for 2020 vol. 2
On a purely selfish angle, the pandemic was a pretty great time for me. Folks respecting personal space, fewer social obligations to meet, watching the "it's just a flu" people drop like flies in /r/HermanCainAward. I personally wouldn't mind another round :o
Folks respecting personal space
There was a running joke in Finland, where people try to stay as far away from other human beings as possible:
"COVID is terrible: now we have to maintain a 2-meter social distance when it was 6 meters before!
Trump is a ruinous fascist criminally corrupt cunt, who's ineptitude and purposeful sandbagged Federal COVID response cost the lives of over A Million Americans.
The WHO showed themselves not fit for purpose firstly running interference from an obviously restricted Chinese COVID admission and response, then continued to deflect and obfuscate the CCP's culpability in COVID's dissemination and global infection. The Chinese government kept COVID a secret from the world, during which time it could have informed the world as to what was happening, and allowed foreign nations in to Wuhan to investigate and make recommendations to their governments what the response should be. The Chinese government did none of that, Chinese YouTubers broke and covered the COVID outbreak, and they were punished for it. The WHO (funded in great part by China) demurred, followed Chin's lead, and hasn't ever laid the blame for the tens of millions dead from COVID at China's feet. I don't trust the WHO or Ghebreyesus as far as I can throw them, they failed on the grandest scale imaginable, at the exact time all the research and funding and infrastructure which had been paid into, and built up for decades was most needed, instead choosing to be China's bitch. Fuck the WHO, man.
The WHO showed themselves not fit for purpose blah blah blah
The WHO is an international political organization. If you think they don't have to be careful about "biting hands that feed them" then you're deluded. It's not like they have a military they can use to backup demands. That does not mean that the WHO is not an overall "net good" to the world.
"Things are slightly better with this in place" is about as good a result as you will EVER get from an international organization.
tens of millions of people died, bad, because the WHO ran cover for China. "biting the hand that feeds them" absolute buffoonery
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