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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 08 2020, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the everything-is-fine-here dept.

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


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 08 2020, @05:38PM (9 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @05:38PM (#1018293) Journal

    It's supposed to be multilateral, except everything and everyone tied to China in that multilateral organisation was run by China. Do you really believe China's covid numbers?

    And everyone tied to the US was run by the US. That was a limit on China's ability to influence WHO. Good thing we just gave up our ability to constrain China!

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Wednesday July 08 2020, @06:17PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @06:17PM (#1018318) Journal

    Good thing we just gave up our ability to constrain China!

    China China China... Let's try to constrain Washington.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday July 08 2020, @10:10PM (7 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @10:10PM (#1018397) Journal

    >And everyone tied to the US was run by bill gates
    FTFY

    Now, I do think the rabbit hole is deeper than the manicheist division between evil and good (as embodied by trump and the lefties respectively, or vice versa depending on your tastes), but WHO is the organization who issued the guidelines who were followed blindly by governments who killed people instead of saving them from a strange combination of flu/pollution/radiation. They were the ones who say "Cash is dangerous" because of covid, but "packages coming from china" are OK. They advocate whatever removal of freedom to fight an infection but no mention of quarantine for immigrants, who "are at risk of being discriminated" and "need an inclusive policy". With this kind of hypocrisy you need to even ask yourself whom they work for? Trump is acting nationalist and they are acting globalist, the move of Trump is obvious and the counter move, that is, releasing again some corona nasty variant from the labs, is the most likely response. As in any shitty modern wars, your role as a civilian is to be the victim.

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    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 08 2020, @11:10PM (6 children)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @11:10PM (#1018416)

      ssh root@bot

      Password:

      shutdown now -r

      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday July 08 2020, @11:50PM (3 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 08 2020, @11:50PM (#1018426) Journal

        shutdown now -r

        Use -h, that Bot is a waste of energy.

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        • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:15AM (2 children)

          by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:15AM (#1018457)

          I was hoping a reboot might improve things.

          I'm an optimist by nature.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:39AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:39AM (#1018490)

            sudo rm -rf /

            Just sayin' if you have access...

          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 09 2020, @03:10AM

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @03:10AM (#1018510) Journal

            I'm an optimist by nature.

            Well, now the mystery of what other (than zombie) part you are is solved.
            At least partially. (grin)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:45AM (#1018472)

        Not even Jeffery Epstein did that.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:27AM

        by Bot (3902) on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:27AM (#1018580) Journal

        >implying I would leave ssh on the standard port and root access by password
        This is very offensive.

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