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USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:
The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.
Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.
[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.
Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO
(Score: -1, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday July 08 2020, @05:33PM (3 children)
Well, the WHO doesn't do that. They just output Chinese propaganda.
The WHO does not and never did have a secret sauce anyway. Some less corrupt organization will focus 100% on Ebola in the Congo instead of 50/50 some ebola work and some chinese propaganda work.
I'm not seeing a problem.
Besides, if the Chinese are throwing money around to promote propaganda, I'm just saying, Reddit has excellent pr0n on /r/gonewild and so forth, whereas the WHO merely pretends to help with Ebola but they never seem to finish the job, probably because finishing the job would eliminate their positive PR story.
I'd rather see a world where an effective organization focuses on and eliminates ebola in the congo, and chi-com money supports and subsidizes naked blondes on Reddit, than the ineffective world we have now.
I'm just not seeing the downside of doing things better. A little re-org once in a while is a good thing. Sucks for the corrupt WHO officials who thought they had a lifetime gravy train of crooked money, but F those people, I'd rather see Ebola cured or more naked chix on Reddit.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @06:13PM (1 child)
"I'm just not seeing the downside of doing things better."
Yet you likely voted for Trump
Yet you don't support universal healthcare
Yet you rant against BLM trying to stop police brutality
You're a dumbass
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @06:38PM
It is redundant to say the VLM is a dumbass. It is a pleonasm. That means "full of it". Trump is taking America out of the World, where we react and try to get our neighbors to pay for the wall, and put up a boarder in Northern Ireland, and let the Koch Bros(remaining) pollute the air and water. VLM is full of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @03:40AM
Maybe you should stick to shitposting as AC.