Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says
Source: Reuters
Members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team are laying the groundwork for the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization on the first day of his second term, according to a health law expert familiar with the discussions.
"I have it on good authority that he plans to withdraw, probably on Day One or very early in his administration," said Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health at Georgetown University in Washington and director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law.
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Trump has argued that the agency failed to hold China accountable for the early spread of COVID-19. He has repeatedly called the WHO a puppet of Beijing and vowed to redirect U.S. contributions to domestic health initiatives.
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"The U.S. would lose influence and clout in global health and China would fill the vacuum. I can't imagine a world without a robust WHO. But U.S. withdrawal would severely weaken the agency," Gostin said.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-transition-team-plans-immediate-who-withdrawal-expert-says-2024-12-23/
BoRaGard
(3,151 posts)so the G.O.P.'s greed-driven Billionaire Bros can party on the world wreckage
Mike 03
(17,359 posts)requesting help, maybe physical intervention, by some of the institutions he holds in contempt, like the WHO, the UN, maybe even NATO.
patphil
(7,108 posts)Zorro
(16,465 posts)Upthevibe
(9,247 posts)I know! And we can't get the eff out
ananda
(30,930 posts)Lovely
multigraincracker
(34,286 posts)defacto7
(13,638 posts)They'll just offer us Clorox shots.
johnnyfins
(1,480 posts)Up my ass please?
magicarpet
(16,929 posts)..... and shove a Magnum flashlight up your kiester to kill any germs, bacteria, or viruses in your body.
meow2u3
(24,935 posts)...and shove a UV wand flashlight up your ass. That's the order of operation IIRC.
magicarpet
(16,929 posts)I am up to date on innoculations,... thank you very much.
Have COPD can't take a chance with respiratory infections. Or else it becomes a run to the PCP for a dose of Prednizone.
Attilatheblond
(4,540 posts)ananda
(30,930 posts)What fun this is all going to be.
Grrrr
GreenWave
(9,440 posts)sakabatou
(43,242 posts)johnnyfins
(1,480 posts)bluestarone
(18,392 posts)I say if they do everything they say they are gonna do The RETHUGLICON party will be non-existent. ( I REALLY HOPE)
Scrivener7
(53,179 posts)JoseBalow
(5,630 posts)No surprise here that he doesn't want to answer to anyone but Putin or himself.
Jim__
(14,502 posts)sheshe2
(88,127 posts)Straight to his own pocket, like he did with COVID. He should put Jared in charge again, we all know how well that worked well with bidding wars and selective recipients.
machoneman
(4,128 posts)sheshe2
(88,127 posts)I am so depressed.
WestMichRad
(1,880 posts)Steal as much as possible.
electric_blue68
(18,670 posts)One of my favorite (RIP) uncles worked for WHO. His main work became involved in
Malaria eradification.
First he worked in DC. Then moved to Geneva where It's headquartered. When he retired he, and my aunt moved to a little Swiss village about halfway north near the French border.
My aunt was a masterful wood printmaker. Did ecthings, too, pastels, stained glass. Wrote, and illustrated 6+ children's books.
It was she who invited me to spend 3 weeks in her studio doing art! And she took me, and a granddaughter to Paris: 4 days, 3 nights.
She had gotten Parkinson's, so my uncle became a really good cook.
They were wonderful hosts! I had a fabulous time making art: trying new materials, and techniques, too; visiting Paris, and hanging out with my cousins who came to visit.
Anyway, they're both gone now. But,
woah, he'd have been stunned, and furious at this health tragedy/travesty!
Xipe Totec
(44,107 posts)70sEraVet
(4,233 posts)He's got a CONCEPT of a Health Organization.
Dan
(4,154 posts)Reporting on failing American medical issues - like his threats against the Press. If its not reported, then it is not real or the truth.
So, when Americans start dying in the streets, he can report to his MAGA followers, it aint true and they will believe it.
He will diminish the US in the world in all things - yet proclaim, AMERICA FIRST.
mgardener
(1,911 posts)During pregnancies in states where abortion is restricted.
Their deaths are not being investigated as preventable deaths.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/health/abortion-bans-deaths-research-propublica/index.html
Republicans don't care till it affects them.
Attilatheblond
(4,540 posts)Just read pertussis cases are higher again. Oh goodie. More kids critically ill or dead.
mn9driver
(4,593 posts)The Gaetz report dropped today. Orange boy doesnt want people looking at something that arguably makes him look corrupt and/or criminal and/or incompetent.
So, its time for a new idiocy! I believe it will disappear as soon as it has served its purpose.
waterwatcher123
(276 posts)mahina
(19,036 posts)It has been in the past with legacies institutions, this would be a key step. Now, who would want to do that?
Irish_Dem
(59,640 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(116,457 posts)applegrove
(123,599 posts)Now we know why they want RFK Jr. in charge.
Codifer
(788 posts)It's not a problem of the republican fascist health plan....... it is a feature.
applegrove
(123,599 posts)but bio engineering (who lives and who dies) and efficiency (low cost).
kkmarie
(9 posts)This has been on my mind since I saw the clip of RFK Jr saying heroine use made him top of the class. Maybe they'll legalize heroine plenty of money to be made and think of all the deaths
BeyondTheVeilJack
(3 posts)Better heroine than heroin.
Aviation Pro
(13,568 posts)Eeeebola, Eeeeeebola!
lonely bird
(1,963 posts)I cant write what I want to write.
kimbutgar
(23,591 posts)And no countries will share their intelligence.
Whats coming next is withdrawing from NATO.
Another reason why we are so Fd by dumb ass dumpt voters.
Botany
(72,654 posts)We are dealing with true evil with Trump and company.
hadEnuf
(2,787 posts)Now I'm wondering if it was actually deliberate. You know, thin the hurd and all.
Articles like the OP make me wonder. These maniacs will do anything.
Botany
(72,654 posts)
. Wuhan, China prior to the outbreak of the Novel C-19 Coronavirus but by late Summer/early Autumn
of 2019 he was telling the Israelis of the airborne and highly infectious virus and during that time he and
Kushner invested in their own C-19 test kit and hydroxchloroquine both of which turned out to be useless
in combating the deadly disease. And the shit storm from that virus and its genetic different offspring
burned through the world with the real number of deaths being @ 14 million world wide from C-19.
Russia has filled the internet and airwaves with pure made up bullshit about the virus, new strains of
the virus, the vaccines, and side effects from the vaccine in order to disrupt America and the west on
on multiple levels.
* The Epidemiologists job was to look for things like the C-19 Coronavirus which did come from
the Wet Market in Wuhan. Smart People called evolutionary biologists have traced to there. That
it is really Anthony Faucis fault for using his government funding to pay for the production of the
Coronavirus in some lab in Wuhan is just Russian misinformation.
Trumps people now want to pull us out of the W.H.O? This is madness. Taylor Greenes thoughts
on microbiology are always fresh and different from all those scientists @ the WHO.
Sorry to
raging moderate
(4,517 posts)I will never forget the frightened, shaken look of Trump's face and whole body as he walked out of that sudden secret meeting, or the smug, arrogant look of Putin as he walked out. The next time a meeting is arranged between Putin and Trump, somebody should manage somehow to get secret microphones (and cameras, if possible) set to record the whole thing.
Solly Mack
(93,206 posts)Picaro
(1,844 posts)So far, every policy statement from the Trumpiverse is not proposing a solution to a problem but is a hyperbolic attack on something. The idea is keep the rancor and hatred churning.
Think about it.
Everything that is being said and/or proposed is designed to make people lose their minds with rage or let their hearts fill and overflow with hate.
Aggressively questioning Canadas and now Panamas sovereignty. Talking again about buying Greenland. Talking up mass deportations regardless of the judicial/legal/humanitarian issues.
This is all about sowing chaos. There is no potential positive impact.
Leaving WHO? What problem does that solve? Whats problem does WHO create for the US? Why?
These are people with no ideas. They want have power over everyone and everything, but wont know what to do with it if they get it.
NBachers
(18,194 posts)bmichaelh
(642 posts)Here is a story how avian flu has been found in raw milk
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/bird-flu-virus-has-been-found-in-raw-milk-heres-a-reminder-of-how-pasteurization-improves-safety
Why is that important because RFK Jr, Trump's appointee, is a proponent of raw milk.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,955 posts)Last edited Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:04 PM - Edit history (1)
Pull out of WHO. Appoint as head of Department of Health and Human Services an anti-vax worm-brained nut case who thinks polio vaccines need more study (it shouldn't be a mandatory requirement to attend school, as it is now, but he will allow it if someone asks ), wants to ban drug ads on t.v. and prohibit the sale of many foods that don't fit his personal standards.
T***p has no plans for the next pandemic, which scientists predict will happen.
And he knows -- without evidence -- that the Chinese government is behind COVID. Neither of the two current scientific theories, -- (1) the virus originated with bats, or (2) the virus accidentally leaked from a laboratory, specifically the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where research on coronaviruses was being conducted -- align with his assertions. There is evidence to support the first theory.
No matter the source, the fact is that Trump's mishandling of the pandemic resulted in 40 percent of the nearly 500,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.
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in2herbs
(3,225 posts)moonscape
(5,405 posts)in2herbs
(3,225 posts)barbtries
(29,950 posts)putting us on notice that they will fuck this country up as much as they possibly can as soon as they possibly can. what could go wrong?
SergeStorms
(19,339 posts)it gets the axe.
Look what he did to the USPS. He had some little axe to grind with them, so he sent Louis DeJoy to destroy the USPS. And DeJoy DID IT!
The USPS has always lost money, but you used to be able to get a letter from one side of the country to the other in 3 days.
Since DeJoy took over (and remind me again why Biden didn't replace him?) you can't get a letter a distance of 200 miles in less than 2 weeks! I'm not kidding about that 200 miles, either!
I can't imagine what USPS employees feel like now.
So yeah, Trump will withdraw us from the WHO, the United Nation's, NATO, and any other organization he dislikes merely out of spite. He's that petulant and irresponsible. THIS is what Americans voted for because spoiled rotten Americans think they're paying too much for eggs. 🤬
no_hypocrisy
(49,181 posts)Since Trump cant blame this one on China, then hell blame it on Democrats.
rickford66
(5,696 posts)Owens
(352 posts)He really wants to kill Americans because of his narcissistic big ego.
Irish_Dem
(59,640 posts)This is the goal.
For the US to lose influence and power.
And for China and Russia to fill the vacuum.
Many of Trump's actions will lesson the power of the US.
So China and Russia can rise to sole global super power status.
JHB
(37,467 posts)Turbineguy
(38,495 posts)Gotta start ASAP.