China will offcourse make up the difference, and appropriately gain more influence. As it rightly should.
https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152
The WHO also isn't really doing anything on the ground (besides finger waving countries into giving them billions of dollars).
Their legacy is delay, confusion, misinformation, outright lies and incompetence.
I'm curious, how are you so certain about this?
The WHO had developed a test kit, was distributing it and was helping countries ramp up production at a time when the US was making a complete mess of testing. Many third world countries are heavily dependent on WHO expertise and support. This move is a knife in their backs.
Honestly, who has the best track record of tackling this issue and taking it seriously. The WHO, or a man who was calling it a hoax 6 weeks after the WHO had alerted of possible international transmission?
Taiwan, who the WHO regularly denies exists.
South Korea, whose success and strategies have been ignored.
This crisis has shown us the true face of the WHO: a primarily political organization with occasional work in medicine.
The WHO published summaries and support for the South Korean approach to the virus on 21 January, particularly highlighting their approach to testing and contact tracing and recommending similar approaches elsewhere. The WHO then started providing technical expertise to help countries set up testing and contact tracing systems, especially in poorer countries without that knowhow.
What was Trump doing, was he setting up a G20 summits to co-ordinate the global response like George Bush did during the financial crisis in 2008? Taking a role of global leadership? Nope, more than 5 weeks later while the WHO was leading efforts to track and contain the virus, Trump was still calling the whole thing a hoax at a mass rally in the US.
Trump can throw blame wherever he likes, you can pick nits in the activities of organisations that have been at the forefront of actually tackling this crisis. Whatever. But de-funding the WHO right now is a disgusting and reprehensible attack on the world's ability to tackle this crisis, from a country that was instrumental is setting up and running the WHO and it's predecessors for more than 100 years.
[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful...
you should read the guidelines because i find your newly created username to be disturbing.
Easier to ignore the WHO if you don't give them any money.
Swapping in Trump and Kushner for WHO is not an improvement.
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/30/275959/the-china...
"Tedros, as he is called, said the WHO does not recommend limiting either trade or travel to China at this time. “In fact, we oppose it,” he said. The health organization said it would question border closures, quarantining of airplane passengers who aren’t ill, and similar steps."
This organization is either totally incompetent or complicit with spreading CCP propaganda. In fact, they reacted significantly slower than the US government.
South Korea never issued a travel ban.
In order for a travel ban to be effective, it has to be for all incoming travelers. Not just for a specific country.
This is not true. A ban on a specific country cannot eliminate the risk but it can still slow the spread just like any mitigation.
there are plenty of models that quarantining the source only does not work. china even proved this. the initial quarantine of wuhan only was not working, so they had to expand it to everywhere. south korea showed testing and tracking worked better than shutting down travel.
the u.s. travel ban against china was ineffective. however, it will now continue indefinitely because the u.s. is in the middle of a shit show, and this will continue to harm people and businesses affected by the travel ban. it will add months if not years of delays to visa processing everywhere.
Either thing not happening (along with countless others) would have been best.
That's not all experts, though, many of them still wear their mask in front of the camera.