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Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US from the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes

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

Booga1 writes:

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: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:13AM (2 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:13AM (#1018455)

    Why are people dismissive of things like 'no blacks' restaurant signs, kicking black people out of their homes and herding them down the street with batons as shown in recent videos? Propaganda broadcasts blaming CV-19 on dirty black people.

    Pics or it didn't happen.

    Why is that the country we should be 'friends' with?

    Let's be quite clear. I don't care one way or the other whether we're "friends" with China or not. The people who run the massive corporation I work for however are quite fond of the billions in profits they get out of the country, so they probably take a different view and they definitely have more influence with your government than I do.

    We are however "friends" with several countries who do much, much worse things to their own people, and you've never even heard of them.

    The CV-19 outbreak started at the end of October, was filling hospitals in November. The CCP restricted internal travel but encouraged international travel. The CCP bought up international PPE supplies while claiming first no outbreak, then no human-to-human transmission. etc etc

    Those things are all lies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:42AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:42AM (#1018470)

    It was all over Twitter. [usatoday.com]

    Those things are all lies.

    Do you not get news in NZ? Literally everything there is true and verifiable.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:46AM (#1018494)

      There is no such thing as "the news" anymore. What used to be called "the news" is now just two sides insulting each other for entertainment and profit.