Trump’s Transition Team Eyes Swift WHO Exit, Sparking Global Health Concerns

[Tippaporn]

2 hours ago, ricklev said:

They will probably also throw out any USA strategies for dealing with future pandemics and any funding for implementation when a new pandemic occurs.  Why?  Because they are ideologues and sycophants in the service of an uneducated, uncaring and uninterested leader.   

 

One other point about your support of the WHO as the world organisation meant to keep the world safe from pandemics.

 

WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic (1).

 

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7569573/#:~:text=Maurizio Vanelli,-1Editors of&text=Received 2020 Mar 12%3B Accepted,Mar 13%3B Issue date 2020.&text=The World Health Organization (WHO,a global pandemic (1).

 

Seems to me that by the time the WHO finally got around to publicly declaring a pandemic it was already common knowledge globally.  Johnnie come lately and they got paid for what?

 

Also, there's the question of what the WHO did to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic as it was ongoing.  I know what they didn't do.  Which would have been to take the common sense action of assembling health experts from multiple fields with various backgrounds from around the globe to bang heads together to seek remedies and mitigation strategies.  I'd love if someone could point me to any actions that the WHO took during the pandemic to decrease deaths and to find solutions.

 

Seems to me that the WHO is little more than a global bureaucratic body sucking money unto itself from every member nation to enrich the bureaucrats running the place whilst having nothing of real value to offer.  I'm sure some folks will strongly disagree with me but then please show me the real, concrete, evidence based, numbers based benefits that the WHO has produced for the world.  I'm from Missouri, the Show Me State.

[thaibeachlovers]

15 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

Seems to me that the WHO is little more than a global bureaucratic body sucking money unto itself from every member nation to enrich the bureaucrats running the place whilst having nothing of real value to offer. 

Good description of governments as they have become in 2024.

 

Welcome back. I missed your contributions during the election season.

 

The God thread died not long after you departed.

 

 

[Tippaporn]

13 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Good description of governments as they have become in 2024.

 

Welcome back. I missed your contributions during the election season.

 

The God thread died not long after you departed.

 

 

 

Hey TBL.  Interestingly enough SunMaster, Red Phoenix and I just got together for dinner for the first time this past Monday.  It was grand.  In fact your name came up at dinner.

 

I tired of the God thread.  I guess some subject matter is simply best left to oneself.  Very, very few people are willing to even consider different ideas, no matter how sensible they are.  Most are only interested in abuse.

 

I agree with your post except I'd make one edit.  Remove the 2024.  Governments the world over have always been a magnet for the worst that humanity has to offer.  They have their eye on a nation's treasury with designs to skim for themselves, and power which they can use to benefit themselves in multiple ways as well.

 

Good to see you still posting, too.

[thaibeachlovers]

9 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

I guess some subject matter is simply best left to oneself.  Very, very few people are willing to even consider different ideas, no matter how sensible they are.  Most are only interested in abuse.

Ain't that the truth. I miss the God thread. I learned so much, but like everything the end comes eventually and after Sunmaster and the Italian guy ( I'm getting so forgetful as I near the end )- you know who I mean, left I saw no point in regurgitating the same thing over and over, so i left too.

 

10 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

Governments the world over have always been a magnet for the worst that humanity has to offer.  They have their eye on a nation's treasury with designs to skim for themselves, and power which they can use to benefit themselves in multiple ways as well.

Agree on that. Statesmen are nowhere to be found anymore. It's all about power and wealth- how they can get as much of that as possible without being overthrown in a rebellion or going to jail.

 

12 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

Interestingly enough SunMaster, Red Phoenix and I just got together for dinner for the first time this past Monday.  It was grand.  In fact your name came up at dinner.

Not in a bad way I hope.

I am still here, too much so in fact, but it helps to pass the time before time is called for myself.

[Tippaporn]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Not in a bad way I hope.

 

Not at all.  You were a respected poster with a lot to offer.  I'm grateful to you.  Were you in Thailand you would have been invited.

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, atpeace said:

What were liberals doing about obesity and poor health other than promoting pharmaceutical remedies.  My health 101 - get healthy. 

 

I  remember on this forum that if you even hinted that healthy people were rarely having Covid issues, you were chased incessantly by vaccine is the savior crowd.  I just want to be able to have an opinion that isn't popular and not be slammed by internet tyrants.

I remember that very clearly there was no willingness or ability to discuss the possibility that  severe obesity and a very poor diet had any connection to one susceptibility to a virus which is utterly insane. 

[atpeace]

5 hours ago, stevenl said:

Firstly your source has this as its mission. 

"FEE’s mission is to inspire, educate, and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society.

These principles include: individual liberty, free-market economics, entrepreneurship, private property, high moral character, and limited government."

 

Hardly objective is it 

 

Secondly this is not true.

"In March of 2017, the Associated Press reported that the World Health Organization spent more for the travel of 7,000 staffers than it did for countering malaria, tuberculosis, fighting AIDS and hepatitis, and on tackling mental health and substance abuse."

The header of the link to which your source refers says 

"Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS", the text says.

"According to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, the United Nations health agency routinely has spent about $200 million a year on travel expenses, more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health, including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.".

 

I agree the travel expenses are ridiculously high, there is no need to nisinform.

Sorry, read your post twice and not sure what your are you insinuating? In preferably one sentence tell me where I have misinformed.  I'm far from perfect and definitely could have but it wasn't intentional 🙂

[connda]

If the world governments are worried about pandemics, then they should close all of their bio-weapons labs being run under the cover of "gain-of-function" research. 

"We need to be ready for the next pandemic!!!  Grrrrr"

Yeah - by creating the pathogen that will be "accidentally" released from a L4 gain-of-function lab, and surprise, surprise - big pharma just happens to have "vaccines" ready for distribution.  $$$Cha-Ching$$$

The Who!  I liked them as a band.  As a global health organization they suck!

[connda]

8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

WHO has always been a political leftie organization, best not to finance your enemies.

I'd suggest they leave NATO and the UN as well, as they're all a waste of money.

........ and forget Climate Change .........

Amen! Oh - Merry Christmas by the way. 🎄 🎅

[candide]

9 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

 

One other point about your support of the WHO as the world organisation meant to keep the world safe from pandemics.

 

WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic (1).

 

[. . .]

 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7569573/#:~:text=Maurizio Vanelli,-1Editors of&text=Received 2020 Mar 12%3B Accepted,Mar 13%3B Issue date 2020.&text=The World Health Organization (WHO,a global pandemic (1).

 

Seems to me that by the time the WHO finally got around to publicly declaring a pandemic it was already common knowledge globally.  Johnnie come lately and they got paid for what?

 

Also, there's the question of what the WHO did to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic as it was ongoing.  I know what they didn't do.  Which would have been to take the common sense action of assembling health experts from multiple fields with various backgrounds from around the globe to bang heads together to seek remedies and mitigation strategies.  I'd love if someone could point me to any actions that the WHO took during the pandemic to decrease deaths and to find solutions.

 

Seems to me that the WHO is little more than a global bureaucratic body sucking money unto itself from every member nation to enrich the bureaucrats running the place whilst having nothing of real value to offer.  I'm sure some folks will strongly disagree with me but then please show me the real, concrete, evidence based, numbers based benefits that the WHO has produced for the world.  I'm from Missouri, the Show Me State.

You're just showing your ignorance

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/interactive-timeline#!

 

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/situation-reports-archive