WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...c-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1
We have some forum members that think the WHO is a pandemic response team, when infact they just issue guidance and advice and do limited support work. Why they think this, I don’t know. The irony here is that Trump is actually spot on with his criticism of WHO. They did a piss poor job of sounding the alarm on this and certainly gave China cover for their horrible response and containment. The WHO was complicit in the Chinese cover up early on and through today. I absolutely agree we should pull our money, demand resignations and changes in policy.
I agree since we have quotes of WHO saying in January that GYNA confirmed no human to human transmission. Either WHO knowingly lied are was too stupid to be easily fooled by China. They look like fuck waffles in either case I support Trump in telling them to go fuck themselves. Also agree that WHO is just a useless global advising body not a medical response team ..
Playing devil's advocate here....would the WHO send inspectors to the US to confirm what we're telling them if the outbreak had started here, or would they take one of their major contributor's word for it? What's the protocol here in any case....send people in to confirm?
Here it is below. The WHO is an organization of medical doctors and professionals. On January 14th. For them to repeat such bullshit means they have been either 1) corrupted or 2) no real medical people work at that facility to say such stupidity after the history of Swine Flu, H1N1, SARS and MERS. Of course there would be human to human transmission even at that stage in January when it was spreading all over Wuhan. It is an insult to all of us they repeated that quote when they should have known better. The World Health Organization (WHO) is now haunted by a tweet it sent earlier this year when it cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the novel coronavirus within the country yet. The Jan. 14 tweet came less than two months before WHO declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China," the organization had said.
Probably they think that because the United States gives them (four times what China gives) massive amounts of dollars to monitor world health issues and developments. You know as in "World Health Organization." So, everyone has lowered their expectations and accepts the fact that they do nothing other than collaborate with other sketchy countries to bitch about the U.S while we pay them to do so. Typical U.N. crapola. But wait.....now we have descended to an even lower notch where we are paying them, and dont expect them to do much for world health, but now are begging them to at least not be the cause of world health problems by colluding with China. Yeh, sure. They just "issue guidance and advice." I would advise them that their fucking gig is up. With friends like them, who needs enemas.
Had the US retained their embedded doctor in the Chinese CDC, this would likely be moot. She was there because the WHO has issues with powerful states.