US withdraws from WHO

[Sunburn74]

Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization – The White House

WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the

www.whitehouse.gov

Little talked about story but the US is withdrawing from the WHO (an arm of the UN). Trump is citing "unfair" US costs and criticisms of the WHO's response to COVID. Seems evidence of a clear movement towards US isolationism. The china criticism is pretty shallow as really GDP should guide contribution, not population (the WHO budget is around 10 billion and the US contributes about 12 percent). Germany is much smaller than the US and contributes as much as the US for example. You can't just cite china as undercontributing when there are other countries that overcontribute relative to the US.

“The WHO continues to serve as a very critical air traffic control and public health response organization for the world,” says Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “We in the U.S. don’t experience many of the infectious diseases we see around the world in large part because they are stopped in these countries, oftentimes through the support and coordination of the WHO. Funding the WHO is about investing in our own health here in this country.”

What Leaving the WHO Means for the U.S and the World

Experts are worried about the potential public-health implications.

time.com

Seems like withdrawing may be a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, though this sort of thing seems quite common with republican policies these days.

 

[BoomerD]

We need to change if from the Republican Party to the Trumpublican Party, because they're NOTHING like the GOP of days gone by.

 

[uallas5]

Republicans have always had a hardon for leaving/confronting the UN, they only like it when they can use the UN to further their goals i.e. the invasion of Iraq.

Remember when they voted against joining the UN's policy agenda for disabled people? Not only was it almost word for word based on the ACA but senior Republicans with physical disabilities like McCain and Bob Dole were also pushing for acceptance.