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Petition to remove Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of W.H.O member of TPLF, guilty of crimes against humanity
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We the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea and Ethio-Ertirean descent along with international allies present you objective facts about Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus proving that he is unfit to be the Director General of the WHO.
Dr. Ghebreyesus lacks the competence, impartiality, accountability and transparency that we feel is required for a position of this magnitude, he is also an embarrassment to the core values of WHO. One of the core principles in the constitution of WHO reads: “Informed opinion and active co-operation on the part of the public are of the utmost importance in the improvement of the health of the people”.
Firstly, Dr. Ghebreyesus is an active and current member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and is a part of a consorted and coordinate effort to smear and over throw the current democratically elected government of Ethiopia. His efforts have destabilized the Horn of Africa during a global pandemic. The TPLF has ransacked thousands of hospitals which has exacerbated the condition of health care in Ethiopia, increased the number of internally displaced people within Ethiopia and put millions of individuals at risks of death and disease due to the lack of proper care centers and access to medicine and medical equipment.
Dr. Ghebreyesus should be also judged based on his role as Minister of Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), Minister of Foreign Affairs and as a politburo currently active member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a political party that is the most powerful within the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) led government of Ethiopia.
Human Rights Watch and many other National and International Organizations have widely criticized TPLF/ EPRDF led government for crimes against Humanity and atrocities towards the Ethiopian people.
We at share the following statement about Dr. Ghebreyesus’s leadership and position and have attached a paper that exhibits the candidate’s overall record at the helm of the Ministry of Health and Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia in more than a decade. The document highlights the following:
• The candidate has failed to be transparent by forcing the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to not report and cover up a Cholera epidemic throughout his tenure by simply renaming a deadly epidemic as an Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) even after the diagnosis of Vibrio Cholerae was confirmed. His priority in deciding so was to conceal the impact a public admission of Cholera epidemic might have on Tourism and image of his Party rather than protecting the international community and attempting to reach out to the affected areas. Such a sad error due to lack of judgment resulted in a nationwide epidemic.
• The candidate has treated his own citizens differently based on their ethnicity contrary to WHO’s goal of building a better, healthier future for all people throughout the world. While WHO strives to better the lives of underserved and marginalized communities, Dr. Ghebreyesus who descends from Tigre ethnic group disfavored the “Amhara Regional State” along with other regional states through poor health care. For instance, disproportionately high mortality coupled with selective application of contraceptives use has led to a selective reduction of the growth rate of the Amhara people. Such disparities were created and gaps increased across all measures of health in his leadership tenure. Of particular importance is the unexplained 2.5 million decrease in the Amhara population under his healthcare leadership. The Amharas were victimized and punished due to their ethnic background.
We understand that accountability, integrity, transparency and honesty are among WHO’s core ethical principles. Sadly, Dr. Ghebreyesus has failed to meet all these standards while he assumed his role in the aforementioned posts. Therefore we believe that it would be a travesty of justice if WHO awards its highest position to a person who violated WHO’s core principles and whose deliberate actions and inactions have claimed the lives of millions of Amhara people as well as other Ethiopians.
We urge WHO members to look at the attached review of the data that have been published by the Ethiopian FMOH, and learn how Dr. Ghebreyesus and his associates systematically discriminated against the Amhara people in Ethiopia while preferentially treating others with a high level of open partiality. We at the APU thank you in advance for the attention you give to the attached document entitled “International Organizations Leadership Recruitment Policies: the Failed Experiment of Dr. Tedros A. Ghebreyesus Candidacy for WHO Director General position”.
If you have any questions or need further explanations, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.
The information is partially courtesy of APU from 2017 and still holds true.
Monkeypox affects mostly gay or bisexual men, no need for WHO declaration
From Alison Ryan
On Saturday, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the unprecedented global outbreak of monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the highest alert before declaring the outbreak a pandemic. In doing so, he overruled the decision of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee (EC) which had reconvened on July 21 to address the continued “unexpected” spread of the disease in non-endemic regions across the globe.
When they first met a month ago, on June 23, the EC decided against declaring monkeypox a PHEIC by a vote of 11 to three. The cumulative case count at the time was 3,621 infections, and the seven-day rolling average was just 225 per day.
And again, after several hours of deliberations last Thursday the EC reached a vote of nine to six that there were still insufficient grounds to declare monkeypox a PHEIC. Dr. Ghebreyesus’ decision to overrule this vote is the first such overruling in the history of the WHO.
On the same day, the Pharma-controlled CDC expressed support for the fake WHO declaration.
On Friday, the Pharma-controlled European Medicines Agency approved the harmful-to-health Imvanex smallpox vaccine for monkeypox mass-jabbing.
Fact: No monkeypox “public health emergency” exists.
Fact: Ghebreyesus’ claim otherwise is a bald-faced Big Lie — in support of Pharma profiteers, wanting to cash in by pushing more health destroying jabs than already.
Compared to heart disease, cancer, stroke and other major illnesses, monkeypox is a nonissue — reinvented as a scary one in similar fashion to renaming garden variety flu, covid.
Eminent physician, Dr. Vernon Coleman, called monkeypox hype a “lot of nonsense…a hypochondriac’s disease…more popular (at the moment) than (fake) long covid,” adding: Given how Pharma profiteers are likely to cash in on the scam, the illness “should be renamed moneypox.”
Inventor of mRNA technology used in Pfizer and Moderna kill shots, Dr. Robert Malone, said the same thing.
Coleman stressed that Western MSM are “having a field day (by) spreading lorry loads of lies and misinformation” about the minor health issue. The monkeypox scam is the latest example of “fearporn…”
“Scare everyone to death so that they continue to” follow health destroying policies over the other way around.
The Pharma-controlled WHO and US/Western anti-public health agencies promote what serves diabolical state and business interests at the expense of the general welfare.
To date worldwide in around 75 countries, about 15,000 monkeypox cases were reported — less than 3,000 in the US. With a scandalous level of flu/covid misreporting in mind, over-hyping monkeypox appears to be following a similar mass deception pattern.
The vast majority of reported cases occur in homosexual males. Ghebreyesus admitted it, saying that “outbreak(s) (are) concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners.” And monkeypox expert, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, explained that 99% of outbreaks outside Africa were reported in males, 98% of cases among homosexuals. New England Journal of Medicine study results, reported on July 21, said “98% of persons (infected with monkeypox) were gay or bisexual men.”
In falsely declaring a monkeypox “public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC),” Ghebreyesus acted unilaterally by overruling the WHO’s review panel on this issue — to push toxic mass-jabbing. If widely administered, they’ll increase monkeypox outbreaks instead of protecting against contraction of the illness. Jabbed individuals, especially multi-jabbed ones, comprise the vast majority of flu/covid outbreaks. Unjabbed individuals are profoundly safer.
The same reality applies to mass-jabbing for all diseases.
It surely will apply to monkeypox.
Malone said the following about Ghebreyesus’ unilateral action: It “raise(s) concerns that (he acted) in response to pressure from (Pharma-connected) special interest advocacy groups.” And because monkeypox outbreaks overwhelmingly occur in homosexual males, the risk of contraction among children is virtually nil, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene saying: “If monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids” earmarked to be jabbed?
Malone stressed that Ghebreyesus’ unilateral action was “the first time a leader of a UN health agency” acted in this fashion, adding: “The designation of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern is the WHO’s highest alert level.”
“It is based on international health regulations established in 2005, to define countries’ rights and obligations in handling cross-border public health occurrences.”
“The WHO defines a PHEIC as ‘an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other states through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response.’”
“The WHO further explains how this definition implies a situation that is serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected; carries implications for public health beyond an affected country’s border and may require immediate international action.”
Acting on his own, “rais(es questions of (Ghebreyesus’) objectivity, commitment to process and protocol, and whether he has been unduly influenced by” his ties to Pharma.
It’s no coincidence that monkeypox fear-mongering began at a time of waning flu/covid mass-jabbing.
So, another kill shot campaign is likely coming, MSM surely enlisted to push it.
In its latest fake news edition, the NYT’s Pharma-linked, toxic mass-jabbing pusher, Apoorva Mandavilli, was at it again, saying: “(M)onkeypox…spread in just a few weeks to dozens of countries and infected tens of thousands of people (sic).” A total of about 15,000 worldwide, less than 3,000 in the US, is worlds apart from Mandavilli’s bald-faced Big Lie — typical of her fake news misreporting. Pushing toxic mass-jabbing once again, she hyperventilated the following, saying: “The (international public emergency) designation can lead member countries to invest significant resources in controlling an outbreak, draw more funding to the response, and encourage nations to share vaccines, treatments and other key resources for containing the outbreak (sic).”
Nothing remotely justified a flu/covid PHEIC declaration in January 2020.
The same reality check applies to monkeypox.
Fear-mongering already begun, the din is likely to grow much louder ahead as MSM press agents for US Western dark forces and Pharma profiteers push mass-jabbing that’s crucial to shun.
A Final Comment
On July 1, the Biden regime’s HHS reported the following: The Pharma-linked agency “ordered an additional 2.5 million doses of Bavarian Nordic’s JYNNEOS…smallpox…vaccine(s) for…monkeypox” mass-jabbing.
Everyone with concern about protecting and preserving their health should shun them.
They won’t protect, and if gotten, will increase the risk of contracting the disease over the other way around.
News from: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/25/bcgm-j25.html
Like Klaus Schwab, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is a transvestite. Cairns News has seen photos allegedly, of both men in drag which were just too ghastly to publish. This more than likely, is the reason for Tedros to falsely declare a monkeypox public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). (for gay men)
How the WHO has wielded previous pandemic instruments
by Alison Ryan
To give us an idea of how the WHO might end up misusing this new proposed international “instrument” on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, we can look at the International Health Regulations (IHR), (13) which the U.S. signed on to in 2005.
The IHR is what empowered the WHO to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). (14) This is a special legal category that allows the WHO to initiate certain contracts and procedures, including drug and vaccine contracts.
The IHR allows the un-elected director-general of the WHO to simply declare a PHEIC and, suddenly, all member states have to dance to his tune. It basically grants the WHO dictatorial powers over health policy.
PHEICs have included the phony H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009, the inconsequential Zika outbreak in 2016, the over-hyped Ebola outbreak in 2019, and, of course, the massively exaggerated COVID pandemic in 2020. All of these PHEICs were poorly handled and the WHO was criticized as inept and corrupt (15) in their wake.
So, to summarize, through the IHR, the WHO has already been significantly empowered to dictate global health policy with regard to pandemics, and they used that power to bamboozle the nations of the world into spending billions of dollars on countermeasures, especially drugs and vaccines, that didn’t work very well.
In that sense, the WHO is really just another wealth-transfer instrument. The WHO’s Big Pharma collaborators make billions on the taxpayers’ dime, while the people of the world are left to suffer the consequences of fast-tracked vaccines. Its handling of the COVID pandemic in particular has been unprecedentedly bad, as they were behind the withholding of early treatment with safe medicines worldwide.
As noted by ivermectin advocate, world-class researcher and consultant to the World Health Organization, Dr. Tess Lawrie, (16) the WHO has also claimed the mRNA shots as safe as conventional vaccines, which is nowhere near the truth. Most all available data prove they are the most dangerous drugs ever created. Why would anyone expect the WHO to become less corrupt if given even more power and control?
in January 2022, the U.S. also submitted regulatory amendments (17) that will give the WHO even more power to restrict your rights and freedoms.
May 22 through 28, 2022, the World Health Assembly will gather and vote on these amendments to the IHR and, if passed, they will be enacted into international law. These submitted amendments are in addition to the WHO pandemic treaty currently under discussion.
As reported by Health Policy Watch, February 23, 2022: (18)
“Washington wants to fast track a series of nitty-gritty, but far-reaching changes in the existing International Health Regulations that govern WHO and member state emergency alert and response — for consideration at this year’s World Health Assembly, 22-28 May.
The U.S. proposal (19) for major IHR rule changes, obtained by Health Policy Watch, has been a topic of discussion in a series of closed-door meetings of WHO member states, which are considering ways to reform the existing IHR, as well as advancing a whole new WHO convention or other international instrument (20) on pandemic prevention and response …
The U.S. is expected to lead a parallel track of tightly-paced ‘informal’ member state negotiations to reach consensus on an IHR reform resolution for approval at this year’s 75th WHA [World Health Assembly] …”
Bill Gates Builds GERM Team for the WHO
Another clue about what the WHO intends to do with more power comes from its primary funder, Bill Gates. Gates recently announced he’s building a pandemic response team for the WHO, which he would like to be called the “Global Epidemic Response & Mobilization” or GERM Team.
This team will be made up of thousands of disease experts under WHO’s purview, and will monitor nations and “decide when they need to suspend civil liberties, force populations to wear masks and close borders”, The Counter Signal reports. (23)
Of course, Gates is also the largest funder of the WHO (when you combine the donations from both his foundation and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance). This and other relationships speak volumes about the corruption still ruling the WHO. At the end of the day, Gates is basically paying the WHO to dictate to the world what they must do to make Gates a ton of money. As noted by The Counter Signal: (24)
“Gates’ announcement of the GERM team coincides with the World Health Organization’s drafting of a global pandemic treaty … In the future, the pandemic treaty will not only ensure that member states abide by International Health Regulations but will also put the WHO in the driver’s seat, so to speak. Member states, including the US and Canada, will take their orders directly from the organization.
As Canadian Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis explains:
‘The treaty includes 190 countries and would be legally binding. The treaty defines and classifies what is considered a pandemic, and this could consist of broad classifications, including an increase in cancers, heart conditions, strokes, etc. If a pandemic is declared, the WHO takes over the global health management of the pandemic.
Of even more concern, if this treaty is enshrined, the WHO would be in full control over what gets called a pandemic. They could dictate how our doctors can respond, which drugs can and can’t be used, or which vaccines are approved. We would end up with a one-size-fits-all approach for the entire world … A one-size-fits-all response to a health crisis doesn’t even work across Canada, let alone the entire globe’ …
The next question, then, is how the WHO and Bill Gates would be able to monitor every individual in every country to determine whether enough people are sick to justify locking a region down.
Can We Stop the International Pandemic Treaty?
The World Council for Health (WCH) was among the few that acted quickly enough to submit a comment in opposition of the treaty. Lawrie delivered the WCH’s submission. (29)
Lawrie wrote: (30)
“Despite the lack of notice, many grassroots organizations did what they could to spread the word and the World Council for Health’s #stopthetreaty campaign reached an astonishing 415 million people. Many of you made written submissions expressing your concerns. So many of you in fact, that I hear the WHO’s website crashed on the last day.”
Professor Robert Clancy, a leading clinical immunologist in Canada sent his comment to Lawrie, who included it in her post: (31)
“The proposal to take control of pandemics at a central WHO level is untenable and threatens a global society. I am in receipt of the World Council for Health response, and the superbly summarized view by Dr. Tess Lawrie. These concerns reflect the ‘across the board’ view of most Australian doctors …
The failure to understand the restrictions of systemic vaccination for mucosal infection and the dangers of accumulated suppression that follows mindless booster programs, and failure to interrogate the massive databases regarding adverse events of genetic vaccines are but two of the serious mistakes perpetuated by the WHO …
It is foolhardy to even suggest that a ‘one size fits all’ response to a pandemic crisis across geographic zones characterized by hugely different parameters, could possibly be covered by a central bureaucratic process — the need for local decision making is of prime importance.
The rule of science and the rule of the doctor-patient relationship must determine any response to a pandemic, and current experience where the rule of the narrative has so distorted disease outcomes — supported by the WHO — must make very clear the foolishness of rewarding incompetence and corruption with even greater powers.
I write this as the most experienced Clinical Immunologist in Australia, and a leading research scientist in Mucosal Immunology with a focus on ‘host-parasite relationship.’ Professor Robert Clancy AM FRS(N) MB BS BSc(Med) PhD DSc FRACP FRCP(A) FRCP(C)”
13, 14 CDC International Health Regulations
15 Corbett Report April 13, 2010
16, 28, 29 Tess Lawrie Substack April 13, 2022
17, 18 Health Policy Watch February 23, 2022
19 WHO Proposal for Amendments to the International Health Regulations January 20, 2022
20, 21 WHO Proposed Method of Work February 21, 202222 INB of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
23, 24 The Counter Signal May 2, 2022
25, 27 Western Standard March 2, 2022
30, 31, 32 Tess Lawrie Substack April 26, 2022
Source: What You Need to Know About the WHO Pandemic Treaty (mercola.com)
From Kev Moore
” MAY 22, 2022 IS THE DATE DESIGNATED TO END OUR NATIONS AND SOVEREIGNTY – OR NOT
ON MAY 22, 2022 – GATES’ EXECUTIVE W.H.O. BOARD WILL CLAIM EMERGENCY POWERS OVER 194 NATION MEMBERS – AND THEN CREATE ONE.”JUST REMEMBER THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS COINCIDENCE THAT MORRISON CALLED THE ELECTION FOR MAY 21.”
THE PLAN – The WHO plans for 10 years of pandemics from 2020 to 2030
THE PLAN shows the official agenda of the World Health Organization to have ten years of ongoing pandemics, from 2020 to 2030. This is revealed by a WHO virologist, Marion Koopmans. You will also see shocking evidence that the first pandemic was planned and abundantly announced right before it happened. Make sure to watch, and share this everywhere.
More information, and to see all the documents featured in THE PLAN, go to: https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/proof
PM Morrison wins Gold Logie for best snake oil salesman
by Robert J Lee
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is worthy of a Gold Logie for being the best snake oil TV salesman in Australia since sniveling little Bob Hawke.
Morrison has convinced two million dopey Australians to put a tracing app on their phones laughably to help track other phone users in case they have been in the vicinity of a Coronavirus carrier.
Scott Morrison should win a Gold Logie award for the best snake oil salesman since Hawke
Then they gave the data to US megastore Amazon to hold. Australian tech experts say Amazon data banks leak like a rusty rain water tank.
Such an outstanding achievement deserves merit because there have only been 6,720 confirmed cases in Australia, 83 have died and 5,586 have been reported as recovered. More than 517,000 tests have been conducted.
Out of a population of 25,445,020 that leaves 1134 with the flu and getting close to one of them with Bluetooth will be akin to finding a virgin in Sydney’s biggest high school.
Assistant salesman is Dr Brendan Murphy, an Irishman who reckons only his native leprechauns will fly Qantas now because he mortally wounded our airline and tourist industries leaving frightened tourists with viral aviophobia.
Dr Murphy wins the Walkley Award for best deception in TV journalism
Dr Murphy says ‘social distancing’ is here to stay and for this jaw-dropping dictate he deserves a Walkley Award for deceiving viewers with creative and courageous acts of television journalism that seek out the truth and give new insight to an issue. They reward excellence, independence, innovation and originality in storytelling.
Murphy’s economic destruction as Chief Medical officer drumming up a fake Australian virus pandemic is unequaled in Australian history. He is creating more destruction than WW1 and WW2 combined allegedly to combat a Coronavirus bogeyman that has dropped off the pop charts and is less lethal than the common flu.
And all the complicit politicians sit idly by, except perhaps Barnaby Joyce and Bob Katter.
Murphy has neglected to inform the public that facial recognition technology adopted by the LNP/ALP duopoly 18 months ago and being rolled out with 5G cameras does not perform accurately unless individuals in crowds are spaced at his social distancing of 1.5 metres or more apart.
Then there is the fake news media led by the usual ABC, News Ltd and television networks. Their adherence to this psy-op script is like a Noogoora burr stuck to a saddle cloth giving the public the wildest ride of their petty lives since TV hit the lounge rooms 60 years ago.
The fake news media is a willing accomplice in this deception, beating the virus drum but neglecting to admit the abundant medical evidence that this virus doesn’t kill until it is enlivened by 60GHz wavelengths favoured by Telstra’s 5G network coincidentally found in most hospitals.
Murphy, Morrison, Minister Hunt, et al, and it seems wittingly, are doing the work of WHO led by Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He is a former senior officer of Ethiopia’s Tigre People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a Communist revolutionary party listed as a terrorist organisation.
These qualifications fit well with the Australian media which predictably, has never mentioned the DG’s antecedents.
When the UN and Ghebreyesus say jump, Morrison and Murphy ask “how high?”
Australia should dump disastrous WHO and UN now
by staff writers
Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to support and finance the communist-led World Health Organisation to the detriment of the Australian people.
Trump has dumped the notorious WHO and it is expected he soon will dump US support and membership of the United Nations.
The LNP/ALP/Greens triumvirate will stick like glue to the communist China dominated UN whose policies have done immense damage to the Australian economy.
Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus, Director General of the WHO is a senior member of Ethiopia’s Tigre People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a Communist revolutionary party listed as a terrorist organisation
UN agreements such as Agenda 21 now Agenda 30 destroyed Australian agriculture and gave us horrendous, unworkable environmental laws which have more than doubled the cost of housing, electricity, manufacturing, construction and agriculture since Australia adopted this overt de-population program in 1992.
Much of Australia’s industrial and manufacturing policies are dominated by UN dictates like Workplace, Health and Safety laws which have crippled industry for no worthwhile outcome. More miners and tradesmen are being killed in industrial accidents since the advent of WHS laws than before their introduction.
Trump has been threatening to get out of this third-world, black dictator’s club since 2016 and now it seems he will abandon this Chinese-infused miscreant.
Unfortunately the LNP/ALP duopoly has agreed to so many international trade, defence, economic and other treaties tying this once prosperous nation into globalist knots that it appears almost impossible to withdraw.
Surely the Chinese-centric WHO led by communist terrorist Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization and its disastrous handling of the Coronavirus epidemic would be reason for Australia to get out.
“The WHO failed to investigate credible reports in Wuhan that conflicted directly with the Chinese government’s official accounts,” Trump said.
“There was credible information to suspect human-to-human transmission in December 2019, which should have spurred the WHO to investigate immediately. Through the middle of January, it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human contact despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary.
“The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet, and share information in a timely and transparent fashion,” Trump said from the Rose Garden during a daily press briefing.
“The world depends on the WHO to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health threats is shared in a timely manner. If it’s not, to independently tell the world the truth about what is happening.”
The LNP government has no credibility among the majority of Australians while it sticks to the UN communists and their militant policies.
Trump dumps communist-run WHO
from The White House
President Donald Trump made it official Tuesday that the administration was halting money to the World Health Organization, the international body that said in January that COVID-19 could not be spread by human-to-human contact, and praised China’s response to the virus.
“Our countries are now experiencing—look all over the world—tremendous death and economic devastation because those tasked with protecting us by being truthful and transparent failed to do so,” Trump said. “It would have been so easy to be truthful. And so much death has been caused by their mistakes. We will continue to engage with the WHO to see if it can make meaningful reforms.”
Trump said funding will be stopped during a review of the organization.
“American taxpayers provide between $400 million and $500 million per year to the WHO. In contrast, China contributes roughly $40 million per year, and even less,” Trump said. “As the organization’s leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability.”
US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
“One of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHO was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from China and other nations,” Trump continued, adding, “The WHO’s attack on travel restrictions put political correctness above lifesaving measures.”
The United States contributes 14.7% of the World Health Organization’s $38 billion budget, while China contributes only 0.21%, according to WHO’s numbers.
According to WHO, contributions from the U.S. government, American citizens, and U.S.-based charities make up 76% of all voluntary contributions to the organization. That amounted to $945.6 million from 2016 to 2017.
Congress authorized about $123 million in taxpayer funding for WHO in the last fiscal year, and Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget request proposed to reduce funding to about $58 million.
The announced review by the administration also comes as the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has begun an investigation into the WHO.
“The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet, and share information in a timely and transparent fashion,” Trump said from the Rose Garden during the daily press briefing. “The world depends on the WHO to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health threats is shared in a timely manner. If it’s not, to independently tell the world the truth about what is happening.”
Trump also faulted the WHO for delays in declaring a public health emergency that he said “cost valuable time, tremendous amounts of time.”
On Jan. 14, WHO unquestioningly circulated China’s official talking points in a tweet, saying, “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.”
“The WHO failed to investigate credible reports in Wuhan that conflicted directly with the Chinese government’s official accounts,” Trump said. “There was credible information to suspect human-to-human transmission in December 2019, which should have spurred the WHO to investigate immediately. Through the middle of January, it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human contact despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary.”
Brett D. Schaefer, a fellow in international regulatory affairs at The Heritage Foundation, contends this may not be the best time to cut funding for the WHO, and worse yet, could make it more difficult to hold the organization accountable.
“Instead of ending funding during the current crisis, the U.S. should condition future funding to specific actions by the World Health Organization,” Schaefer wrote in an op-ed for The Daily Signal.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said Jan. 30 that “China is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response.”
China backed Tedros in May 2017 when he ran for the top job at the World Health Organization.
During the press conference, Trump also announced the formation of Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups, which would involve bringing together leaders from different sectors of the economy and American life.
“We have a list of people that I’ll be speaking to over the next very short period of time, in many cases, tomorrow,” Trump said.
Kay C. James, president of The Heritage Foundation, is among those in the thought leaders group, which also includes former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and John Allison, former president and CEO of the Cato Institute. Others involved include top executives from health care, retail, sports, tech, and agriculture, among other sectors.
Cairns News 