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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: 2) by etherscythe on Saturday July 11 2020, @11:08AM

    by etherscythe (937) on Saturday July 11 2020, @11:08AM (#1019460) Journal

    Liberals are only good shots when they're paying someone else to hold the guns for them (usually, the police). Note that I don't say "better" shots than conservatives; I'd sooner trust a gun-toting conservative to hold a gun because they're maybe experienced enough with them not to limp-wrist it, or hold it sideways.

    Also, to say that the civil war era is reflective of the modern demographics of society insofar as it can predict a particular skill is laughable.

    That all said, I agree that conservatives are far outnumbered, and growing more so every day. I've been distressed to think that social progress is a function of generational turnover which necessarily depends on the passing of the older people with strong toxic opinions. They're not so numerous, but they have lots of money to contribute to propaganda and they have the time to go through the whole voting process, at every level, every single time. I don't like thinking of them as a burden on society but some of them make it hard to have any other impression.

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