Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says

[highplainsdem]

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]

1. repubes are out to kill us all off

so the G.O.P.'s greed-driven Billionaire Bros can party on the world wreckage

[Mike 03]

2. Insanity. I can see a day in the near future when we are

requesting help, maybe physical intervention, by some of the institutions he holds in contempt, like the WHO, the UN, maybe even NATO.

[patphil]

3. I'm sure that will improve the overall health of the people in the US, and around the world.

[Zorro]

4. It's like we're all in a Republican murder/suicide pact

[Upthevibe]

60. Zorro......

I know! And we can't get the eff out

[ananda]

5. And just before a new bird flu pandemic.

Lovely

[multigraincracker]

9. Good timing.

[defacto7]

20. Not to worry.

They'll just offer us Clorox shots.

[johnnyfins]

25. can I just get the ultraviolet lightbulb

Up my ass please?

[magicarpet]

35. No,.. you drink the Chlorox with a Lysol chaser.

..... and shove a Magnum flashlight up your kiester to kill any germs, bacteria, or viruses in your body.

[meow2u3]

53. ...you drink the Clorox, mainline Lysol

...and shove a UV wand flashlight up your ass. That's the order of operation IIRC.

[magicarpet]

55. Okay,... i think you have the proper sequence.

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]

27. and with monkey pox peeking in to see if now's a good time

[ananda]

34. And Dengue Fever maybe.

What fun this is all going to be.

Grrrr

[GreenWave]

6. A-holes gonna a-hole

[sakabatou]

7. Dump really loves pouring gasoline on fires.

[johnnyfins]

26. He's just a dick

[GiqueCee]

72. WHY?!!?

And just what the everlasting fuck does he think this will accomplish? Apart, of course, from eliciting a blood-curdling shriek of venomous glee from his Lord and Master, Vladimir Putin.

[bluestarone]

8. TFG stated we will never have to vote (worry) again.

I say if they do everything they say they are gonna do The RETHUGLICON party will be non-existent. ( I REALLY HOPE)

[Scrivener7]

10. Asshole.

[JoseBalow]

11. The usual aversion to accountability

No surprise here that he doesn't want to answer to anyone but Putin or himself.

[Jim__]

12. Elections have consequences. If you elect an idiot, expect idiocy.

[sheshe2]

13. Redirect Contributions

vowed to redirect U.S. contributions to domestic health initiatives.

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]

23. Yes! Any redirect will go to FatBoys pockets!

[sheshe2]

28. He plans to steal us blind.

I am so depressed.

[WestMichRad]

40. And here we have the fundamental operating principle for the incoming administration.

Steal as much as possible.

[electric_blue68]

14. @%:!%!::@;##!##$/$@;; GAH!

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]

15. Can't wait to hear the news that we're withdrawing from the human race. nt

[70sEraVet]

16. Don't worry.

He's got a CONCEPT of a Health Organization.

[Dan]

17. Maybe the planned withdrawal in just because he doesn't want

Reporting on failing American medical issues - like his threats against the Press. If it’s 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 ain’t true and they will believe it.

He will diminish the US in the world in all things - yet proclaim, AMERICA FIRST.

[mgardener]

21. Woman are dying

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]

30. Kinda taking a page from DeSantis anti-information tactic and going big with it

Just read pertussis cases are higher again. Oh goodie. More kids critically ill or dead.

[mn9driver]

18. Standard distraction nonsense.

The Gaetz report dropped today. Orange boy doesn’t want people looking at something that arguably makes him look corrupt and/or criminal and/or incompetent.

So, it’s time for a new idiocy! I believe it will disappear as soon as it has served its purpose.

[waterwatcher123]

19. Wow - what a brain trust. I am sure Trump's CDC will save us when the bird flu becomes a pandemic.

[mahina]

22. If someone wanted to diminish the role of the United States

It has been in the past with legacies institutions, this would be a key step. Now, who would want to do that?

[Irish_Dem]

62. Russian and China will run to fill the void Trump is creating.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Make pandemics great again

[applegrove]

29. They sure want viruses and disease to flourish around the world. LIHOP.

Now we know why they want RFK Jr. in charge.

[Codifer]

32. The deaths of millions.

It's not a problem of the republican fascist health plan....... it is a feature.

[applegrove]

33. The goal of healthcare is not good health outcomes

but bio engineering (who lives and who dies) and efficiency (low cost).

[kkmarie]

47. RFK Jr in charge

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]

64. Ha

Better heroine than heroin.

[Aviation Pro]

31. Ebola

Eeeebola, Eeeeeebola!

[lonely bird]

36. Fuckers

I can’t write what I want to write.

[kimbutgar]

37. This is so awful and we now will endure more horrendous pandemics and outbreaks

And no countries will share their intelligence.

What’s coming next is withdrawing from NATO.

Another reason why we are so F’d by dumb ass dumpt voters.

[Botany]

38. I wonder if Vlad has told Donny about The Holodomor aka The Ukrainian famine

We are dealing with true evil with Trump and company.

[hadEnuf]

39. I used to think that Trump's response to Covid was the ultimate incompetence.

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]

43. Trump disbanded Obama/Fauci's, Global Pandemic Task Force and fired the CDC's Epidemiologist* in ...

…. 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 it’s 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 Epidemiologist’s 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 Fauci’s fault for using his government funding to pay for the production of the
Coronavirus in some lab in Wuhan is just Russian misinformation.


Trump’s people now want to pull us out of the W.H.O? This is madness. Taylor Greene’s thoughts
on microbiology are always fresh and different from all those scientists @ the WHO.

Sorry to

[raging moderate]

49. We all remember Putin's sudden order for a secret meeting with Trump.

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]

41. Malignant imbecile

[Picaro]

42. Utter stupidity

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 Canada’s and now Panama’s 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? What’s problem does WHO create for the US? Why?

These are people with no ideas. They want have power over everyone and everything, but won’t know what to do with it if they get it.

[NBachers]

44. I plan to keep myself healthy and watch the Great Puke Die-off

[bmichaelh]

45. Avian flu found in raw milk

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]

46. Make America Sick Again

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.

[marmar]

50. It just gets worse, and worse, and worse, and .................

[in2herbs]

51. Can 45 withdraw? Here's a link: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10489 nt

[moonscape]

65. Not clickable in the title

[in2herbs]

66. Try this: https://crsreports.congress.gov/LSB10489. It's a pdf so can't paste and copy. nt

[barbtries]

54. fucking disastrous.

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]

56. Whatever the Big Orange Pig dislikes.....

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]

57. Just in time for the Bird Flu!

Since Trump can’t blame this one on China, then he’ll blame it on Democrats.

[rickford66]

58. Savings redirected to prayers and evangelists' private jets.

[Captain Zero]

70. faith healers windfall

[Owens]

59. Translation: Trump refuses to take responsibility for his poor leadership (which he has none)

He really wants to kill Americans because of his narcissistic big ego.

[Irish_Dem]

61. "U.S. would lose influence and clout in global health and China would fill the vacuum."

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]

63. They're in the "Lysenko" phase of the ongoing Sovietization of the GOP

[Turbineguy]

67. He has a lot of people to kill.

Gotta start ASAP.

[cstanleytech]

68. President Musk trying to see if he can surpass What'sHisNames death sentence he gave to millions with COVID?

[Captain Zero]

69. "redirect U.S. contributions to domestic health initiatives"

code for "line my donors' pockets with a commission to one of my LLCs."

[GiqueCee]

71. How many times must it be screamed from the rooftops...

... that everything Trump says or does is in service to Putin's do-it-or-die command to destroy this country from within?
The corporate media are loathe to address the issue; they smell blood in the water, and have even less compunction than sharks about gorging on the fallen for a few more pennies of profit, and to endear themselves to the Orange Monster that traitors and fools put back in the Oval Office.
For God's sake, his 34 financial felonies are the least of the crimes that should have excluded him from even running for another term. But corrupt, power-mad Republicans, and their corporate "donors", didn't just let it happen; they made it happen.
This what you get when you put party before country. And they haven't even hit second gear yet. Thelma and Louise, we're right behind you.

Oh, yeah... Merry Christmas.