Gates ups pandemic funds to $250 million, says Trump WHO move makes 'no sense'

[phantomfiddler]

3 hours ago, Sujo said:

You think they need to make money? The Gates are positioned to not care about money, they do give quite a lot away and dont look for quid pro quo.

But they definitely are after power ! The missus tried to close down Angeles City bars, but luckily failed miserably ????

[RJRS1301]

7 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

The WHO did nothing to inform the world about the pandemic in the first place. They were wrong in almost every instance from the very beginning and look where we are now. 

 

Im sure the millions and millions that the USA sends to the WHO can be very much repurposed for national benefit. 

Have you read or comprehended any of the bulletins on their site?

[katatonic]

1 hour ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

you don't understand TAX returns

 

he can look good to the world that does not know he love EUGENICS (look it up) and this is tax DEDUCTABLE !!!

I'm quite aware what eugenics is and I understand tax returns. You seem a bit hard of understanding when it comes to common sense though. Look it up and please stop shouting.

Edited April 16, 2020 by katatonic
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[timendres]

1 hour ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

you don't understand TAX returns

 

he can look good to the world that does not know he love EUGENICS (look it up) and this is tax DEDUCTABLE !!!

So right!

I give away 1.000's of dollars every year to get those precious 100 dollar tax breaks.

Soon, it will really start to add up...

 

As for eugenics, I think he only mentioned the TVF population, but I could be remembering it wrong.

 

1 hour ago, Susco said:

He's not giving away anything, he's only getting richer from it.

Sigh... You do understand that it is smart to earn $4B in interest, and only push $2B of it into your charity, right? And I assume that you have heard of "endowments"? You leverage an asset's generated returns to allow charity forever, as opposed to burning it all up and having no more charity.

 

If we are going to call out Bill, let's call him out for his real crimes: Windows, and Basic.

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[oobar]

8 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

  10 hours ago, webfact said:

De-funding the WHO makes absolutely no sense during a pandemic. We need a global coordinated response,"

Has Doofus Donald ever made any sense?

[RJRS1301]

1 minute ago, oobar said:

Has Doofus Donald ever made any sense?

USA is 99 mil in arrears anyway, he probably fails to understand the role, limitations, and "powers" which WHO has, it seems this is also true of many posters here.

Perhaps instead of reinventing the wheel, you make it fit for purpose.

 

[UbonThani]

2 hours ago, katatonic said:

So in your undoubtably expert opinion, as a reaction to your president's diversionary tantrum, the only worldwide organisation set up to eradicate all disease and improve the quality of life of everyone on the planet for the last 72 years should be de-funded by the US and the money redistributed locally. Should just about get a cheeseburger each.

who doesnt do anything

 

 

[daveAustin]

9 hours ago, Tug said:

It’s just trump blame storming instead of brain storming it’s how he rolls

What brain's that then?

[UbonThani]

 3.5 Billion Has Flowed From U.S. Taxpayers To The World Health Organization Since 2010

 

for what? zilch

[stevenl]

4 hours ago, rupert the bear said:

<snip>WHO told us no human to human transmission <snip>

No, that's not what the WHO said.

[thesetat2013]

6 hours ago, finnsk said:

Covid is all over the world.

 

The virus fight is best to be handled on an international level.

 

The who is an working organisation with respect worldwide. 

 

In my opinion the best virus scientist from Russia, China, USA, Japan, UK, France, or where ever, should work together under who to make the needed vaccine, this should not be an option for a company to make money or a national state to promote in the political arena. With all the best world wide scientist working together, we should have the vaccine in the fastest way.

 

You are misguided and misinformed. Perhaps you don't remember the scandal of the WHO REP on Thailand that has his slave forcavly working without pay. Or perhaps you didn't know that evidence showing the covid could not have originated in that market in Wuhan because the first to show symptoms never went there. Instead of following hunches and trails to find learn the seriousness of this virus. The WHO instead followed what Beijing told them to. They even ignored the evidence already showing the virus was passing through from person to person. Told the world to keep their borders opened and not worry when evidence showed this virus could be a pandemic. Many factors have caused distrust in the WHO when they showed their interests lay with following political opinions instead of facts staring them in the nose. 

The WHO may have stood for something good in the past but now have done absolutely nothing except show their willingness to ignore protocol and information that is not released by government and have shown their lack of care or concern for the people of the world. They should also be held accountable for misinformation that led to this virus becoming a pandemic. 

[xylophone]

9 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:

The WHO did nothing to inform the world about the pandemic in the first place. They were wrong in almost every instance from the very beginning and look where we are now. 

You are so wrong with the rubbish you write, so consider this...........

 

“Alert bulletins were circulated through confidential channels around Thanksgiving (November 26) and from then through December, briefings were given to all levels of the US federal government and intelligence agencies.

The news eventually filtered its way through to President Donald Trump's Daily Brief in early January, the ABC reported.

Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn't get him to do anything about it," one official told the Post last month. "The system was blinking red."

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12323882

 

AND....

At a press conference on January 14, Maria Van Kerhkove, the American epidemiologist who heads the WHO's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, told reporters there was "the possibility of human-to-human transmission between people" and "there's also the possibility of super-spreading events" so some countries put their prearranged plans into action……..this whilst the US floundered, with the president calling it a flu, and that it would “miraculously disappear”.

 

Now the US is suffering because of trump’s inaction and he is looking for a scapegoat, as he always does.

 

The strength of WHO is that it is able to bring together public health experts from around the world to exchange information, review scientific evidence, and make evidence based consensus recommendations on disease prevention and control", says Professor David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and himself a WHO adviser.

 

"By bringing experts from all countries together informally and through its independent advisory groups WHO is a trusted source of information about the Covid-19 pandemic".

 

Trump's passivity — even as the WHO and his own advisers warned him of the risks — squandered the chance to acquire more personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses.

 

His likening of Covid-19 to the flu led people to join public gatherings like Mardi Gras and Florida spring break, and that is one reason the United States has had 80 deaths per 1 million inhabitants from Covid-19, compared with 4 in South Korea and fewer than 1 in Taiwan.

[ThailandRyan]

I tried to send him a Philanthropic request once to assist Guide Dogs for the blind, however it was rejected saying because it was a non profit group his foundation could not donate to it.......why would a donation to a non profit not be a good use of his foundations money. Maybe if I sent another request for the assistance of the people of Thailand, and claim my company will be ensuring its donated properly it wont be rejected, oh heck what am I thinking......billionaire do not care about the little people, they donate to things that will get them noticed more, and keep them from going to

HE double toothpicks because of the people they stepped on to get where they are...

[Sujo]

3 hours ago, katatonic said:

So in your undoubtably expert opinion, as a reaction to your president's diversionary tantrum, the only worldwide organisation set up to eradicate all disease and improve the quality of life of everyone on the planet for the last 72 years should be de-funded by the US and the money redistributed locally. Should just about get a cheeseburger each.

And they wont even get fries with it.

[thesetat2013]

Oh please... You are just another Trump hater using this as a reason to jump on more <deleted> about him. I didn't say anything about America or Trump. Nor did I say anything about private letters sent that you seem to be privy to. 

The WHO failed. It's obvious to see. They followed what China told them to. Said what China told them to.. Ignored facts given them so they could repeat what China told them to. They need to be shut down. 

 

[teatime101]

4 hours ago, rupert the bear said:

lets leave trump and gates out of this

Read the thread title.

[RJRS1301]

12 minutes ago, thesetat2013 said:

They followed what China told them to.

They followed the information on infections as given to them, they would not have been directed to publish anything by any nation state, unless you believe unproven innuendo and conspiracy theories, they cannot use anything other than the data given to them, they are not charged with instigating investigations against nation members.

Besides USA is 99 million in arrears, so the threat he is making is like a promise from the wizard. He will just not pay the debt, how unusual.

 

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by RJRS1301

[digger70]

10 hours ago, The Barmbeker said:

which of course it won't be, since a heartless monster is in charge of the USA!

At least he (that monster as you said) is doing something for the country  and its people.

[riclag]

Stick with philanthropy gates, your not a elected official. 

Many countries want to go back to whats left of their economy!

They and the States have advisers ,virus experts, business people and Goveners deciding "how to go forward".  Step by step, starting small!

Edited April 16, 2020 by riclag

[Cryingdick]

That's great. The more the private sector steps up and the less the taxpayer pays is a win-win. If any of the others like Bloomberg chip in the American portion of the  W.H.O. will be fully funded by the private sector. 

[whaleboneman]

6 hours ago, digger70 said:

At least he (that monster as you said) is doing something for the country  and its people.

link?

[bendejo]

12 hours ago, Susco said:

He's not giving away anything, he's only getting richer from it.

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/

 

 

The rate of ascent the green line pretty much tracks the performance of MSFT stock over that period.  If that were their only investment (which it very likely is not) their growth can be accounted for right there.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by bendejo

[RJRS1301]

8 hours ago, digger70 said:

At least he (that monster as you said) is doing something for the country  and its people.

How? Stimulating the funeral industry?

[digger70]

14 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

How? Stimulating the funeral industry?

You must have your Head in the sand if you can't see what the big DT done. 

[digger70]

15 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

link?

Why a Link ? If you can't keep up with the news for the last few years you must have been in a Coma.

[RJRS1301]

4 minutes ago, digger70 said:

You must have your Head in the sand if you can't see what the big DT done. 

Yes I have seen fumbled stumbled and pontificated and bluffed and blustered.

Oh not to mention denial, blame, failing to take responsibility, and allowed several thousand to die.

 

[digger70]

4 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

Yes I have seen fumbled stumbled and pontificated and bluffed and blustered.

Oh not to mention denial, blame, failing to take responsibility, and allowed several thousand to die.

 

Well you better Clean up you Mess than and get Serious .

[frantick]

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

Yes I have seen fumbled stumbled and pontificated and bluffed and blustered.

Oh not to mention denial, blame, failing to take responsibility, and allowed several thousand to die.

 

Well if you're going to blame him for deaths then you have to credit him for lives. 350m still living. (This is where you say "not for long")

[cornishcarlos]

On 4/16/2020 at 12:42 PM, Sujo said:

You think they need to make money? The Gates are positioned to not care about money, they do give quite a lot away and dont look for quid pro quo.

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/

 

Some food for thought... You probably won't read it though !!