U.S. Exits the World Health Organization
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, told CNN that the Trump administration has informed Congress that the president has officially pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization during the middle of a global pandemic.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/07/u-s-exits-the-world-health-organization/
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So dumb, just like his face paint and hair.
A few years ago I was sitting in a doctors office while accompanying my wife for an appointment. Two men sat across from me and i could tell that they were pharmaceutical reps. One was a researcher with a PhD in vaccine and epidemiological related fields.
I asked him "in the history of homo sapiens which single disease has killed the most humans?"
He thought for a while and said "bubonic plague".
I was not surprised, having asked many people the same question. "No the Black Death had a greater death rate on each of its three outbreaks but probably only killed about 100 million".
"Small Pox killed between 400 and 500 million humans, more than war". He turned red and said "yes of course, we forget about Small Pox because it no longer exists.
It no longer exists because of WHO
1967: The WHO intensified the global smallpox eradication by contributing $2.4 million annually to the effort and adopted a new disease surveillance method.[22][23] The initial problem the WHO team faced was inadequate reporting of smallpox cases. WHO established a network of consultants who assisted countries in setting up surveillance and containment activities.[24] The WHO also helped contain the last European outbreak in Yugoslavia in 1972.[25] After over two decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1979 that the disease had been eradicated – the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.[26
This is what the WHO (under American leadership) accomplished. It can be considered the single greatest achievement of civilization. It required rich developed countries finding ways to cooperate with places like Somalia, Inner China, remote Pakistan and other places without working governments.
Every time it faces a new challenge it has to go through a learning curve and after the fact critics will be able to say that they should have done this or that but that's why learning curves exist, we don't see everything clearly the first time.
The impetus to get this done didn't start in Denmark, Moscow or London. The strategy was created in Atlanta by the CDC. But it needed the WHO to get it done because you needed to get every human community in the world on the same page at the same time. That is what the WHO was able to do.
It is a great organization with great achievements to its credit. The partnership with the CDC and the WHO has had an existential impact on every human being alive today. For thousands of years parents went to sleep at night praying to whatever god they worshiped praying that their children would be spared small pox. Today parents don't even know what it is. Even well educated researchers in the field have begun to forget the most evil terror that affected humans for thousands of years.
Of course the Idiot who called the CV a "democrat hoax for months would want nothing to do with an Org that would help with healing the Planet of the Virus.. specifically the USA in his case.. and Putin's
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