Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Trump has announced threatened the USA will withhold funds from the WHO in the wake of their gross mishandling of the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak.
Trump: U.S. to withhold funds from ‘China-centric’ WHO
Trump threatens to withhold U.S. funding from ‘China-centric’ WHOBy Tom Howell Jr.– The Washington Times – Updated: 6:14 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2020
President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will put a “powerful hold” on U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, saying it struck a “China-centric” tone as the coronavirus virus unfolded and dragged its feet in declaring a pandemic.
“They could have called it much earlier,” Mr. Trump said. “When they call every shot wrong, that’s no good.”
Mr. Trump said the U.S. pays a disproportionate amount to the public health arm of the U.N., so he wants to see if it’s worth committing the money.
“I’m not saying I’m going to do it,” Mr. Trump said.
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Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/7/donald-trump-us-withhold-who-funding/
Even CNN criticised the WHO’s abysmal China centric mishandling of the Coronavirus epidemic.
Despite widespread criticism of their initial missteps, WHO shows no sign of getting their act together and focussing on their core mission; In the middle of a pandemic, a week ago a senior WHO advisor published an article exploring how to insert climate action into the global pandemic response.
The WHO has been worse than useless; in my opinion they helped add credibility to China’s lies and false assurances, which lulled the world’s governments into believing the pandemic was not a major issue until it was too late.
Correction (EW): corrected the web link to the CNN article criticising the WHO.
Correction (EW): Nick points out that Trump only threatened to withhold funds. The Washington Times updated their article since this post was written, the original title was a direct copy of the Washington Times.
UPDATE: h/t Craig – Sky News Australia reports the WHO is refusing to release the names of the doctors who vetoed a pandemic declaration in January.
World health Organisation refuses to name staff who blocked early COVID-19 travel bans
EXCLUSIVE: Digital Editor Jack Houghton
The World Health Organisation has refused to release the names of doctors who blocked an early bid to declare coronavirus a global health emergency.
A Sky News Australia investigation has revealed a group of WHO doctors debated whether to declare the deadly coronavirus global emergency in late January but those who wanted to implement strict travel restrictions were outvoted and instead, the body released a glowing statement praising China, followed by a recommendation for countries not to ban travel to China.
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Read more: https://www.skynews.com.au/details/5e8d196323eec60017f0ee31
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EXACTLY……
Thank you Mr Trump! Finally!
“Trump to Withhold Funds…”
Then after his bluff gets called out: “I’m not saying I’m going to do it,”
Its the WHO, its China, its the Governors, its the Democrats, its Obama, its anyone but Trump.
Most other countries acted early and decisively while Trump said “its a hoax”, “it’ll go away like magic”. This will be his damning legacy.
If you are going to be fair not many of the decisions were his to make and it’s just optics. The travel ban was his to make and when he did so he was called racist by many media and indirectly by Xi thru chineese state media.
There is plenty of blame to go around and most and history will equally portion it. Probably only you good little lefties will fixate on “its a hoax” comment.
You’re right about the optics, the trouble is the optics were all wrong. Trump wasted a crucial month lulling the population into complacency by repeatedly down-playing or even dismissing the threat, underestimating the risk, lying about testing and mischaracterising it as merely the flu. Being the optimistic cheerleader is one thing but he just sleepwalked over a cliff. His gang of shills at Fox were right there with him echoing the disastrous messaging.
March 6th: “Our numbers are just about lower than anybody”.
The US is going to end up with the worst death-toll by far – yesterday alone 33,000 new cases and 2000 dead.
How do you know that the U.S. will have the highest death toll? Estimates from China are quite high. Also please don’t quote CNN and attribute to Trump. You should be able to find enough ammunition from what he actually said. Doing otherwise is just a form of gaslighting, trying to turn discussion from real issues to countering your misquoted – which is why I feel you do it.
2000 dead after 2 months, Loydo? November thru February 12,000 died from the flu. We didn’t shut down the world and you could still buy Toilet Paper. That last one still befuddles me.
But hysteria hypers, like you fixate on 2000 dead? Are you asking why the pneumonia numbers are eradicate as all this is going on? They really bring into question the reporting of COVID 19 deaths. What we know to be true is that, it is almost exclusively old sick people dying. And they would be dying whether the Chinese let COVID loose on the world or not.
Every one of your posts lacks two things: Perspective and Honesty and incorporates one thing: Politics. If you want to know what the problem is in the U.S. stop blaming Trump and look in the mirror.
Loydo,
Deaths are not a good metric per some experts, but since you are quoting them here’s some data:
April 6:
US = 1,255 daily; 10,871 total
EU = 2,894 daily; 46,145 total
April 7:
US = 1,970 daily; 12,841 total
EU = 3,861daily; 49,810 total
Not a good trend for either US or EU. The EU is the largest single market area according to europa.eu:
“The European Union is one of the most outward-oriented economies in the world. It is also the world’s largest single market area. Free trade among its members was one of the EU’s founding principles, and it is committed to opening up world trade as well.”
I acknowledge that comparing the US to the EU has its drawbacks but comparing the US to individual EU-member countries only a fraction of the area and population of the US has it’s greater drawbacks.
Look at this data and tell me again that “Most other countries acted early and decisively”
Actually “merely the flu” is not the same as saying it’s nothing.
The flu can be quite serious for some people.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing Lloydo. The Democrats will still focussed on impeachment proceedings when the first Coronavirus case was first detected in the USA. Perhaps if Trump’s opponents hadn’t maintained their destabilising political circus which distracted everyone’s attention, the US response would have been faster.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/impeachment-a-dire-distraction-from-coronavirus-for-trump-devine/
” Perhaps if Trump’s opponents hadn’t maintained their destabilising political circus which distracted everyone’s attention, the US response would have been faster.”
Not according to himself:
““I don’t think I would have done any better if I had not been impeached,” Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room Tuesday evening. “I don’t think I would have acted any differently, or I don’t think I would have acted any faster.””
Would I have liked action to be taken sooner? Absolutely – WUWT sounded the alarm back in January.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/24/china-corona-virus-horror-video-hospital-corridor-of-dead-and-dying/
But there was a lot of misinformation about the pandemic, from formerly trusted sources like the WHO, so I completely understand people taking a different view. The lockdown is doing enormous economic damage, so I understand good politicians hesitating to introduce such an extreme measure.
“misinformation about the pandemic, from formerly trusted sources like the WHO”
Rubbish. What “misinformation”?
The problem is WHO was dead against doing anything against China
Note the date and this who he is
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-chief-says-widespread-travel-bans-not-needed-to-beat-china-virus-idUSKBN1ZX1H3
He claimed the spread would be “minimal and slow” and then some chinese government puppet gets up and condemns countries. So they are either corrupt or totally incompetent but either way they should probably be sacked.
The WHO didn’t declare the Coronavirus a pandemic until March. Pretty late in the day don’t you think Loydo?
Eric Worrall April 8, 2020 at 12:30 am
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But there was a lot of misinformation about the pandemic, from formerly trusted sources like the WHO, so I completely understand people taking a different view. The lockdown is doing enormous economic damage, so I understand good politicians hesitating to introduce such an extreme measure.
————-
World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
· Jan 30
BREAKING
“For all of these reasons, I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of #2019nCoV.”-@DrTedros
“For all of these reasons, I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of #2019nCoV.”-@DrTedros
So you, ghalfrunt, would argue that a declaration of a PHEIC is the same thing as a pandemic declaration, as Eric specifically stated?
Is that right?
and 5 days after that was article posted the ban from china was enacted. the day after the pandemic task force reported that we needed to.
Why do you repeat lies? “its a hoax”, “it’ll go away like magic”. that is not what he said, it been disprove multiple times.
“disprove multiple times?”
No, all words right out of his mouth since January.
Utter falsehoods.
Typicallies from lolly.
A highly edited compilation of sentence fragments; without context or framework to completely mischaracterize President Trump’s actual actions.
Exactly the type of willfully wrong misinformation published by the fake news media.
Nor does one credit the CDC and NIH who perhaps maliciously misadvised advised the President prior to every news interview.
Now, show a President of any country that acted quicker and more decisively for any threatening epidemic or pandemic!?
Xi Jinping’s early actions were to censure and obfuscate the outgoing news regarding COVID-19.
Actions they followed up with claims that COVID-19 was released by the American Military.
Even today, China prevents any real information about COVID-19 from reaching the world.
So who is this head of the WHO and how did he get the job?
https://youtu.be/XPSlqF5pjrw
Also note that USA is a member of the WHO —
https://www.who.int/choice/demography/by_country/en/
and elsewhere it says —
Maybe it’s time for the non-socialist westernized nation to UNexit!
Loydo: This manufactured piece you posted gets into a lot of issues.
One of them, is that it expects to delivery the message you want to spread, and it eliminates context. People spread mis (and selective) information to alter context and meaning. It is evil to do such things instead of having a discussion based on factual information.
For instance, you actually know that Trump never called Coronavirus a hoax, yet you want to tell people he called it a hoax. Since you know you are spreading lies, it makes you unable to participate in anything of substance.
ATheoK,
NZ has done considerable better than the US in dealing with the outbreak. It
instituted a ban on travel from China at about the same time as the US but since
then has followed a different trajectory including a complete lockdown the moment
community transmission was discovered. As a result there has been only one death
(so far) and numbers are now falling. The US’s response due to Trump consistently
downplaying the seriousness has led to thousands of unneccessary deaths.
Isn’t it funny how very small countries are “doing better than the US”?
“Most other countries acted early and decisively”
LOL. Most countries were still doing nothing at all when Trump closed the borders to China.
Only Asian countries acted faster.
But it is interesting to watch The Narrative rapidly change from ‘Trump is racist for closing the borders’ to ‘Trump should have acted faster even though he was busy dealing with our stupid impeachment scam at the time’.
“Its the WHO, its China, its the Governors, its the Democrats”
WOW,
Loy-doh go something correct……. unintentionally, of course.
And yes, “climate change™” is a hoax…
Climate change is not happening in any un-natural, human forced way
Remember when Trump stopped flights from Europe and everyone went off their tree because it was crazy talk… and then shut their own borders anyway?
Nope, of course you don’t. You have TDS too bad for that.
Also, despite what your heroes in Beijing keep telling you to say, it IS China’s fault. The Wuhan Virus started in WUHAN, not Trump Tower. That is FACT. The truth to be discovered is how much China then deliberately allowed it to spread and how much their vassal WHO assisted them.
“Most other countries acted early and decisively while Trump said “its a hoax”, “it’ll go away like magic”. This will be his damning legacy.”
only a few acted decisively. Singapore, HK, Tiawan, later Korea.
That said, the main reason people argue against travel bans.
1. they are hard to do right, especially since you have to repatriate nationals
2. The can lead to a false sense of security, witness the USA
The USA travel ban was not a travel ban. Flights from Wuhan were banned, so if you had gotten
out of Wuhan before the 23rd ( Millions did), then you could land in the USA and nobody
at the airport would check people or even ask questions.
heck, KAL did more to prevent china travellers ( China to Seoul to US) than the US did.
To board the plane in Seoul for the USA on Feb 12th I had to prove to KAL that I had spent
14 days out of china to Get on the plane. At the USA of course there was no check.
There was no requirement to sign a health declaration punishable by fine and jail time
( as is typical in Korea, Singapore and Taiwan ) TSA, Immigration, aircrews, nobody
asked any questions.
Armed with a false sense of security Trump and other politicians ( Deomcrats & Republicans)
basically told the public there was nothing to worry about. Folks in the US had all of Feb
and half of march to do the basics. Hand washing. how hard was that?
Travel ban for Europeans to USA 3./12/30.
“Armed with a false sense of security Trump and other politicians ( Deomcrats & Republicans)
basically told the public there was nothing to worry about.”
The only reason they were not alarmed is because China’s leadership and the WHO lied to them on January 14, and told the world that the Wuhan virus could not be transmitted human-to-human. As soon as Trump figured out what was going on, he slapped a travel ban on China, two weeks after the Chinese and WHO lied to everyone, on January 31. If the world had had that extra two weeks to prepare, including travel bans from China, then the death count would be much lower today, and the economies of the world would not have had to be shut down.
The people to blame for this attack on humanity are the leaders of China and their flunky the World Health Organization.
The German Robert Koch Institut didn’t see any problems too.
Corona is less dangerous than influenza, so no special action is necesssry.
And so did the gouvernement, who’s consultant RKI is.
Loyso
Trump DID NOT call The Virus a Hoax so withdraw or go away…
Even the Trump hatin’ Snopes will not accept that …
It does rate the verdict as a Mixture but this part is clear cut..
What’s False
Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax….2 March 2020
When not even snopes won’t support your TDS, Loydo, you know you’ve gone over the deep end.
Canada acted decisively by shipping 15-16 tons of medical supplies to China. China ate them up and then spit them back out to Italy — at a profit. WHO’s got China’s back.
““Trump to Withhold Funds…”
Then after his bluff gets called out: “I’m not saying I’m going to do it,””
Loydo, you need to read Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”.
This is classic Trump: If he is dealing with some entity, he always throws out the worst-case scenario to that entity, and eventually he walks the extreme position back to the point where he really wanted to be in the first place, and the entity he is dealing with thinks he got a good deal because he wasn’t subjected to Trump’s extreme position.
Trump was talking to the WHO when he said those things. He was telling them they are in danger of suffering dire economic consequences, and then he says he is going to look into it, giving the WHO a little time to think about their situation and perhap offer some kind of compromise before Trump drops the hammer on them.
The Art of the Deal, Loydo. One major aspect of the Art of the Deal, is you have to be willing to walk away from a bad deal, and you need to let the entity you are dealing with know that in advance.
Lloydo,
On Jan 30 WHO determined Wuhan virus was a public health emergency.
On Feb 2 US State Dept issued a do not travel advisory level 4 for China.
On Feb 4 this news item showed China and WHO denouncing the US policy for acting against WHO recommendations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KJkgaK2NNA
Some 50 other nations followed US leadership in spite of WHO recommendations. China condemned the “excessive restrictions”.
Dang the facts, huh Lloydo. Its easier to just make stuff up like “bluff gets called out”.
Loydo: You continue to say things which are lies. You know very well Trump did not call Covid 19 a hoax. Yet you post this drivel. Knock it off with the pure misinformation.
Great action by the President. I hope others follow suit.
The WHO is largely responsible for the pandemic, by underplaying the seriousness of the spread and telling countries not to close their borders when it would have made a difference.
Countries should sue them for trillions of dollars.
If a country sues an international body that it funds proportionally for it’s outgoings, it is in fact sueing itself, and paying lawyers for the process.
Well done POTUS
re: “Well done POTUS”
Well played Ozonebust – the party which ought be sued is China, who, incidentally, holds billions in US debt.
The U.S. debt to China is $1.07 trillion as of December 2019.
That’s 16% of the $6.7 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. The rest of the $23 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.
Ozonebust
Well, “sue” may be a euphemism.
Let’s go with “significantly reduce funding from US”.
There, you feel better?
Scenario for you.
USA decides to punish WHO and slashes the amount of money given to them.
Other nations – who as far as I understand fund WHO with a lot less of their own money – sue WHO.
WHO either pays up (loss scenario), risks upsetting more countries and having more funding cut (loss scenario) or goes and cries to it’s rice daddy.
Either way WHO gets punished and the Elites that have gotten fat from doing nothing have to find a host.
Call that a Win/Win for us to be honest.
There is already push from the right groups in many countries for China to be asked to pay reparations just do a search. In Australia it is being championed by MP George Christensen who I will refrain from commenting on because I openly admit I don’t like the guy.
Canadian Liberal government medical authorities slavishly followed the WHO and their own politically-correct Liberal BS – saying they didn’t want to encourage “racism” by blocking flights from China. Yes, really! Their job was to protect Canadians and they failed, because of their greater loyalty to their own extreme-left mantras.
It is difficult to believe these Liberal dolts could be so utterly incompetent – maybe corruption is the more probable cause. Fire the lot!
I cancelled my flight to SE Asia via China on 28Jan2020 – yet the imbeciles at the WHO were still recommending no flight cancellations of flights to China two days later on 30Jan2020. I am very fortunate that I was not quarantined in China or elsewhere in SE Asia.
Conclusion: Never believe anything from the WHO – they are dangerously incompetent or worse – corrupt to the core.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION REFUSES TO NAME STAFF WHO BLOCKED EARLY COVID-19 TRAVEL BANS
08/04/2020
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/5e8d196323eec60017f0ee31
[excerpt]
“The Committee does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available,” the WHO wrote on January 30 at a time when confirmed cases had already reached 12,167 in China and the virus had killed 170 people.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/28/the-next-frontier-in-coronavirus-testing-identifying-the-full-scope-of-the-pandemic-not-just-individual-infections/#comment-2949259
[excerpt}
More thoughts on Covid-19 and its timeline – it’s called 19 for a reason – it means 2019.
Start 17Nov2019 – this is a more credible start date to me – but it could be earlier, especially if it was a man-made virus as some allege, deliberately released.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_in_November_2019_%E2%80%93_January_2020
Canadian data is at
https://virihealth.com
These Provincial Trends plots just show when provinces in Canada started testing circa 15Mar2020 – lots of earlier data was missed, including illnesses and deaths.
I cancelled my SE Asia trip on 28Jan2020 – and I consider myself poorly informed at that time in this coronavirus subject. Our useless dolts in Canada did not start testing until three months after the first cases appeared in China and did not quarantine travellers from overseas until 16Mar2020. The USA initiated quarantines from overseas six weeks earlier, on 31Jan2020. All our Canadian dolts had to do was read the newspaper and copy the USA – but they thought they were smarter, or more likely they were just asleep-on-the-job.
To top it off, the Trudeau Liberals shipped 16 tonnes of our reserve protective medical supplies to China and now we are severely short of protective gear and our hospitals are running out. You have to ask the question – are the Trudeau Liberals really this stupid, or are they deliberately putting Canadians at risk and sabotaging Canada?
https://virihealth.com/provincial-trends/
On Jan 23 China welded a city shut.
actions speak louder than words.
ANYONE who waited to hear from the WHO has only themselves to blame.
Steven it’s China !!! All doors are locked and if you believe,,,,,,, then watch CNN
“ANYONE who waited to hear from the WHO has only themselves to blame.”
So according to you – no one should listen to the WHO? What is it’s purpose then? Why is it being funded?
Try that in Australia and you would be fined for the fire hazard and if someone died you would face jail time. Australia banned all arrivals from China on 1st Feb 2020 and we were widely called racist.
Here is what the green/left crazies from our universities said (note the date)
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/stop-travel-ban-healthcare-not-racism
Imagine what it would look like if we did what these educated geniuses wanted.
On Jan 23 China welded a city shut.
Yeah no fracking wonder “Mosher,” they WERE THE EPICENTER. For freaks sake why do you continue to make a fracking moron of yourself???
So farging what? If NYC had been in the same scenario what makes you think Comrades De Blasio and Cuomo wouldn’t have done the same thing?
As it was happening , I thought they were just resisting the press baying for the right to use word pandemic in their breathless headlines. That seemed cautious and appropriate.
I recently read something about some kind of insurance market trading obligations they wanted to mature before they used the P-word since this had legal implications on pay outs and insurance liabilities. Someone probably had stocks. Never dug into it further.
Not convinced the “china centric” rhetoric is more than hot air.
That was covered on Zerohedge and elsewhere. Follow the money. Yes there will be major losses for some as the pandemic was declared before June.
As to the “China-Centric” part. The head of the WHO is a dyed in the wool Marxist out of Ethiopia and his views are extremely Marxist-Centric if you prefer a different term.
Greg even CNN published an article suggesting the WHO messed up their pandemic response. Given the bipartisan support for the view the WHO made big mistakes, I don’t think you’ll find many takers for your POV.
CNN link: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-china-intl-hnk/index.html
Greg:
Your comment “…Not convinced the ‘china centric’ rhetoric is more than hot air…”
1) Does this mean you’re ok with the WHO informing the world that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission of one of the world’s most infectious diseases?
2) Does this mean you’re ok with The Who praising China for it’s transparency, even though China STILL refuses to release critical data required to accurately model the epidemic?
Ad 2)
Looks like the US are not really in need of outside „critical data“ anymore, given the case numbers it was able to accumulate over the last few weeks.
Blame as much as you want and see what good it does you.
Trump‘s reactions were abysmal and how you can make virtually every topic about an us vs. them scenario is beyond me. Frankly, I feel sorry for you guys.
When is Trump going to start rolling out selectively lifting of confinement?
This can not go on for much longer.
Trump isn’t in control of that the shutdown is done by each state, same situation in Australia.
Greg – President Trump can’t lift the confinements.
The confinements of varying degrees were all called by the Governors of the States. That’s their call and it’s known as State’s Rights. It is Federal overreach if he institutes a shutdown on the States.
He controls the borders and immigration to the extent the current laughable laws allow. The travel bans from other countries are in President Trump’s purview. The State of Emergency allows the Feds to take certain action to help the States, like mobilizing the Military to provide additional hospital beds, coordinate needed supplies, and fast-track research on treatments, cures, and vaccines, print money for the politicians to steal, etc.
President Trump can announce that he’s lifting the E.O. on such and such date and that the country should get back to business, albeit probably recommending commonsense precautions.
However, all 50 Governors are free to ignore him and keep their States on lockdown for as long as they want, but then that’s all on them and their political calculations.
It’s up to us to pressure our Governors to lift the confinements and shutdowns as we are under house arrest without due process.*
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The situation on the ground is changing with HCQ + Zpak + Zinc gaining asa preventative and cure if used early on. Oxygen therapy instead of ventilators is showing to be much more promising than the 50%-plus death rate using ventilators; greater success rate with less or no lung damage. Ivermectin is showing promise as well. And they also have rapid tests now – 15 minutes, I seeing? – that confirm whether or not a person has the Wuhan Flu.
It’s hard to believe the mess we are in right now after just a few weeks. But it’s also hard to say where we will be in another to three weeks if these preventatives and cures pan out. There will be no need for shutdowns and confinements.
*I have no problem with forced quarantines of known carriers of say, scarlet fever, or rubella, or Ebola and the like. They are known to be a threat to the public as; ‘guilty’ so to speak. But if you don’t have symptoms, (a problem with this one, I know), you are innocent until proven guilty and should be free to move about as you like, dictated only by your commonsense or lack thereof.
“It’s up to us to pressure our Governors to lift the confinements and shutdowns as we are under house arrest without due process.*”
So far, in Washington State, there is zero enforcement that I have seen. I deliver for Doordash and Uber Eats in northwest Washington, and have not been pulled over asking why I’m out and about. It still seems like traffic gets a little back toward “normal” every day, but that could be my misperception.
So there is no “house arrest” in my state at least.
Remember Jeff, essential businesses are allowed to be open, and people are allowed to go to those businesses, which means there will be some number of cars on the road. Police (at least in most US states, can’t speak for the rest of the world) aren’t going to pull people over willy nilly unless they have a reason (hopefully a good reason) to do so. You, alone, in your car is no more suspicious than all the other essential workers on the roads. A car full of teenagers driving down the street, however, might get a second glance from the police.
Also remember, the police want to social distance as much as everyone else, so they’re not going to want to interact with others any more than necessary. So again, they’ll want to have a reason before pulling someone over. A driver, all alone in his vehicle, isn’t (on it’s own) sufficient reason for most police officers in this country at this time.
re: “When is Trump going to start rolling out selectively lifting of confinement?”
Wrong question is asked; its governors and here in Texas what is called a “Judge”* (in the “Commissioner’s Court”) who have exercised that power.
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* Effectively, the chief or lead county commissioner
You really don’t understand how this constitutional republic thing works, do you Greg. Trump didn’t put the confinement in place and he can’t take it away, that’s in the hands of each individual state’s Governors.
Good posting, Eric. I watched President Trump announce the thought of withholding WHO funds, due to their “China-centric” conduct. Sounded like a no-brainer, and sure enough, several of the no-brain crowd questioned Trump on why he said “China-centric”. The Trump Derangement Syndrome should be declared a mental dysfunction, like a bi-polar condition. Yesterday Trump called out the propaganda reporter, from a station in Hong Kong, who really works for the China Communist Party, and today several news agencies defended her. Wow! Stay safe.
Thanks Ron
$900 million dollars vanishing from their budget will certainly get WHO’s attention!
Now, what *I* am wondering is if China will replace it.
If they don’t, they will demonstrate they are not a reliable patron, in a world where they are trying to build reliable vassals to confirm their “cultural sphere”..
If they *do* replace it, they confirm WHO’s vassalage to them, and make them useless as a catspaw.
The useless EU will be more than happy to spend money on useless WHO…
So if they are funded disprortionately by the US thats bad, and they have been proven to be useless at best. However if another country replaces the US funding thats confirming vassalage? which somehow didnt exist when it was US money?
Yatpos
The problem is no president (or designee) has really ever appropriately managed the US relationship with the WHO.
Paraphrasing an old LBJ expression: grab them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.
What we have now as head of WHO is an Ethiopian communist who isn’t even medical doctor. He receives lots of attention from China, not the US.
Paraphrasing an old LBJ expression: grab them by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.
For Trump should that be grab them by a different anatomical feature? 😉
Kitty cat?
Yarpos, the US doesn’t do vassalage, largely because we demand rule of law, not personal allegiance. When the CCP bought Tedros, by getting him into his WHO position, they bought a vassal. There is no question of his loyalty to the CCP after his behavior over the last 3 months, nor that of the WHO. Their ineffectiveness at their purported job is why US support is bad.
The CCP is a governing body that is reactionary against the freedoms of action that are the core of the continuing industrial revolution.
https://www.who.int/tdr/about/funding/en/
Well, that is the risk; that China will assume full financial and political control of the Worthless Health Organization. Not that they aren’t close already:
“BRUTAL: 5 awful facts about WHO’s Tedros Adhanom”
https://youtu.be/XPSlqF5pjrw
This is step one. The US needs to stop wasting money on worthless NGOs who are more interested in harming the US than informing the world about verifiable facts.
This covid overkill is of a piece with AGW.
It’s great to hear that President Trump is withholding funds from the WHO as it has become worse than useless. The WHO is entirely a servant of the Chinese government which has purchased it lock stock and barrel. At first, the WHO helped the Chines government hide the outbreak of Covid-19, then they aided in downplaying it, then the switched to supporting widespread and hysterical responses that damaged Western economies. Not having the WHO anymore would be a boost to World Health, even in Africa.
“President Trump has announced the USA will withhold funds from the WHO in the wake of their gross mishandling of the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak.”
Well, yes. But if you read down the article, then a few minutes later…
““I’m not saying I’m going to do it,” Mr. Trump said.”
Thanks Nick. The original article was edited I think, the title has definitely been changed. Updating.
“Nick points out that Trump only threatened to withhold funds”
Not really. He did indeed say he was going to do it
“We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the W.H.O., we’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re going to see”
Then, as the NYT put it
“After saying flatly that the United States had decided to “put a hold” on the organization’s money, the president later denied that he had made those remarks and appeared to back down.
“I’m not saying that I’m going to do it. But we’re going to look at it,” he said. When a reporter noted that he had indeed said the funding would end, Mr. Trump insisted, wrongly: “No, I didn’t. I said we’re going to look at it.””
Ever dropped a word by mistake when you were speaking Nick? Trump clarified his position very quickly, everyone amended.
Eric,
“Ever dropped a word by mistake”
More than one word. He asserted twice in one sentence that they were going to do it, and rather emphatically. Your source (Wash Times) and you took it that he was going to do it.
Whatever.
Ever dropped a word by mistake . . .
He doesn’t have to have dropped a word by mistake. This guy thinks out loud, sometimes unfortunately.
Putting a hold on the giving of money temporarily while “we look at it” doesn’t necessarily mean withholding it permanently. Reference the ridiculous debacle produced and directed by progressives regarding Ukraine military aid.
Naturally, this means giving the man the benefit of the doubt, something profligate propagandizing progressives most certainly will not be willing to do. Nor those who always seem to flame their Nickers while Stoking the fires of deliberate disagreement.
Letting people know you are cutting their funding and then walking it back and saying maybe… to me that’s sound policy. Apply pressure, let people think there is a way out.
The art of the deal… We are all getting a lesson on how to win. Some people hate that. I don’t.
Ok, even we grant your premise, now what?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/carter-world-health-organization-funding/index.html
I wish he would consider this for other “world organizations”.
Mac
Good. Any group that would take a single study from anywhere to claim that “human to human transmission is not happening” like the WHO did in mid January deserves to be fired! The fact that the lone claim originated in China does not instill confidence either. Not that China has a corner on corrupt and politicized science.
Here is hoping other less than forthcoming UN agencies, cough IPCC cough, get defunded as well.
He said he’s putting a “powerful hold” on the funds.
Dafuq is that supposed to mean?
That is stronger than soft hold on funds 🙂
Just another Trumpism, it can mean whatever he wants it to mean or nothing if he was just posturing.
Yarpos
Let’s see if I understand this:
o Reporters ask questions knowing Trump has not finalized a decision about WHO (definitely a fair question from reporters)
o Trump responds that he hasn’t yet reached a decision, and gives a range of options he’s considering
o People like you then knowing & willingly misconstrue his answer as trying to have it both ways.
What a childish and non-productive thought process.
Javert. Why are so many no-brainer willing to provide proof of their worth ? Another. Plus for the Donald . Like all successful businessmen for the shareholders he is 100%
Excellent. Now if our worse than useless PM Trudeau were to stopp trying for a UN Security Seat with tax dollars and finding WHO it would be much better
Well it’s not rhinoceros horn, which would be a traditional Chinese medicine and possibly WHO supported, but another new antiviral is working on mice and human cells (in vitro).
https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/59567/eidd-2801-shows-efficacy-against-covid-19-in-human-cells-and-mice/
Yes Mac,
Add the UN IPCC to that withholding of funds due to their promulgation of mankind’s greatest fraud ever – the CO2 causes global warming con.
Just try standing outside on a sunny day and deciding from whence the heat is arriving. It will not be from the open sky above which is supposed to be radiating twice the amount of energy per square metre as that from the Sun according to the UN IPCC ‘Greenhouse Effect’ cartoons. It will all be directly from the Sun.
We have always known that but allowed the authority of the UN to make us into complete fools.
After testing the waters and assessing the reaction he will see that his base and other sensible people are in agreement and he will withhold the funding.
Hell, Tedros, the Beijing Toady is a bloody Marxist who has been accused of covering up 3 cholera outbreaks in Africa before assuming the position at WHO.
I vote Pete Townshend to head the WHO.
Won’t get fooled again.
It’s actually Canada’s fault. If Canada hadn’t allowed Chinese agents to steal pathogens from an ultra secure lab in Winnipeg, we wouldn’t have this problem. Blame Canada!
Probably is our fault, the government can’t do anything without sucking up to the Chinese, practically daily
I am not saying it was aliens … but UFO sightings were up 🙂
I’m happy with the careless lab workers theory, if it was a bioweapon it would be worse.
The following video presents an interesting theory.
We won’t actually know the truth for a few years, if ever.
The guy, Laowhy86, is trying to make some money from YouTube and Patreon. For that reason we have to worry about click bait. On the other hand, he presents evidence that can presumably be checked out.
I watched one of his other videos. He complains that China has recently changed for the worse and makes a bunch of claims. I talked to a couple of the Chinese members of the family about that. They were able to point out easily confirmed factual errors by Laowhy86. His situation has probably deteriorated but they think that’s largely his own fault.
Anyway, the escaped-from-a-lab coronavirus theory is interesting. So are lots of theories about JFK.
In a sense, it really doesn’t matter if the epidemic was started by an infected lab worker or by some critter in the farmer market. The bigger question is about what the authorities did after.
WHO is very expensive diplomacy with globalist agenda (fundraising).
“Trump to Withhold Funds from the “China Centric” UN WHO”
Not just that it’s China Centric but that it takes its orders from Guterres who has an agenda and therefore the WHO can no longer be assumed to have health as its function and role in world affairs.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/18/the-eco-crisis-ambition-of-the-un/
A smart move by Donald Trump to withhold funds to the slack workings of the WHO., evidenced by that body only announcing that the world faced a pandemic on March 9, weeks too late.
Better still the US among other nations should withdraw from the left inclined UN, particularly with regard to its Human Rights Commission.
Thanks.
Horrifying, thanks Raveendran
If WHO is organising Lady Gaga then they can’t be taking the apparent apocalypse seriously.
WHO is China’s vassal and China is currently shameless carrying out economic warfare on the rest of the world.
I am not claiming China deliberately allowed Wuhan Virus to outbreak in the first place, as even I do not believe they are ruthless enough to deliberately allow mass infection within their own borders, but I am suggesting they didn’t care at all if it expanded to the rest of the world, I am suggesting they are now shamelessly milking the situation to try and increase their stranglehold as the major supplier of everything and I am suggesting that their vassal WHO did everything China told them to do to assist.
dont give them to much credit Craig, historically they have been ruthless with their own people