WHO is a more a US funded social club. "The World Health Organization spent nearly $192 million on travel expenses last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press." (This is from 2019) The current posturing of deflecting the source and mismanagement of the early days of the Chinese Virus by China is beyond belief. The WHO initially impeded the implication of the Chinese Virus as an error on the part of a lab in China and continues to support that China is not culpable in the Chinese Virus matter. There is a growing body of evidence that the Chinese Virus somehow got out of a virus lab in China. The Chinese government closed down internal travel inside of China a week before closing down international travel. For an extra week it allowed people to travel from China to other countries. This is how the Chinese virus was spread to other countries. Close down internal travel but leave international travel alone???? Academia and science are not as unbiased as most would think. Much research in viruses is funded by China. First it was a bat with a virus that was infected and then sold in a wet market and then was eaten by a human. Problem, this virus did not have the spike that is a hall market of the Chinese Virus. Next, in a peer reviewed article in Nature there was a article that suggested that it was not a bat that was eaten by anteater, I kind you not, an anteater. The virus the anteater had, did have the spike but was only 90% indentical to the human Chinese virus. I am also familiar with the argument that the Chinese virus is not neat enough - order of nucleotides - to have been manufactured in a lab. Just because something is not straight forward, does not imply it was not part of some sort of experiment. All of this - They blinded me with science to obscure the obvious. China was messing around with gain of function in a virus and the Chinese Virus escaped from the lab. To this day the World Health Organization has yet to criticize China for not closing foreign travel at the same time that they closed domestic travel. Over 100,000 people left China and flew to other countries before China mentioned a new virus. The Chinese Virus 100% true the virus came from China. 95% true the Chinese virus came from a virus research lab doing gain of function experiments on existing viruses. When in comes to the Chinese virus and China, mums the word with the WHO. Sure other countries are upset. They will no longer get lots of free parties at the US's expense. Trump is the only person with balls enough to say that the World Health Organization is a dysfunctional organization for which the US pays most of the funding and gets the least benefit. The US pays by far the most and gets the least benefits. The US can not afford to pay for all the other countries of the world forever. The virus is a Chinese virus. China needs to be harshly reprimanded, especially by the WHO. Discussion should be taking place on what China will have to pay for callously releasing the Chinese Virus on the rest of the world. I strongly support the defunding of the WHO.
source? WHO says otherwise: https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/funding/AC_Status_Report_2020.pdf
The image has assessed and voluntary contributions for the two-year budget cycle of 2018 and 2019 (https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...-s-give-whats-the-impact-of-a-halt-in-funding). The pdf from your link appears to cover part of 2019 and the first three months of 2020. And if you look at the Total Outstanding column of the pdf, you might notice one country is scheduled to pay about 38% of the total (hint: it's a country you love to hate).
Look at all those voluntary contributions above assessments....plenty of donors to be tapped...Gates can make up the difference between him and the UAE
Bill Gates just donated another 150 million to WHO after Trump's announcement. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/16/bill-gates-coronavirus-contribution-trump-who-189984
There...problem solved Maybe we can pull money out of other organizations and let other peole fund it and use that money for better things haha
Well. U S deceived the world and U N that Iraq has weapon of mass destruction. After so many years, there is no evidence of that. Punish all deceivers. With thousands of people died from covid, I don't think W H O should receive any credit. Its charter and mission should be revealed
The WHO broadly promoted two lies that cost lives in January of 2020: 1. That there was no human-to-human transmission, and 2. That there was no need for travel bans. That is a fact. And into the month of March the WHO parroted to the World whatever misinformation the Chinese Communist Party fed to them.