Trump booting out the World Health Organisation.

Posted by Pointman on April 17, 2020 · 16 Comments 

We all have areas of expertise. In terms of making a living and bringing in a steady income for your family, that expertise might vary from the most exotic to the very prosaic. Waitressing food to a table, office work, repairing a broken loo’s flush mechanism, administration, pumping gas, accountancy, running a good steady household ship with the kids aboard while the other half is out making some money in some employment you know he finds utterly joyless but yet he keeps on turning up every morning, knowing how to use a saw and a plane to make a pleasing wooden staircase, pole dancing to support that child the father did a runner on the both of you before he was born without accepting being treated as a slag, helping people who really need help filling in a form to get the aid they need because they’re barely literate and don’t know how to work the system like all the clued up sharpies of the welfare class.

Most people have lives that function because they’ve learnt some way to make a crust. Where it gets difficult is where you need something and have to trust someone with knowledge outside your area of expertise. You’ll end up going to them, usually because of an unquestioned assumption about their competence or a recommendation by someone about their expertise. If you’ve bumped around a bit in the world, your experiences tell you to make some quick and accurate judgements of them.

If you get a bad feeling, you tell them you’ll get back to them, which in real speak means never on a month of Sundays. You get a good impression, you start giving them some business. In the beginning, fairly modest, but as they deliver, trust grows and you pull them in for bigger jobs, but the downside is you start to take your eye off them, and that’s when the problems can gradually arise without you knowing.

You notice something, perhaps something small, so you start to keep a more careful eye on them, and slowly realise they’ve got their own agenda and it isn’t aligned with your own best interest, but theirs. Trust is lost, and once lost, it’s never regained.

The performance of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the run up and through the current coronavirus emergency has been absolutely dismal. It’s been around for some seventy plus years and has chalked up some big wins, but in the last few decades it appears to have done nothing but get involved in fashionable politics and smarmy up to some despicable regimes, most noticeably China.

It runs an annual budget of $4.2 billion, employs 8.500 people in about 147 countries, and is generously funded by most countries attached to the United Nations (UN), whose child it is, with the biggest contributor being America which for decades has kicked in approximately $400 million each year. Trump has suspended all US contributions to it until an investigation into their failure to give appropriate advice and prompt recommendations about the virus.

They delayed for weeks warning the world about what was happening in Wuhan, repeated the Chinese propaganda that it wasn’t human-to-human contractible and criticised Trump for imposing flight bans from China, but by that time, it was too late. The thing had already spread around the globe causing thousands of preventable deaths, throwing people out of work because of their employers being directed to shutter a business and I think crashing more than a few economies. It’s estimated that if they’d come clean even a week sooner about the true situation in China, then the flight bans would have been put in place earlier and 60,000 lives might have been saved. Even then, when the travel bans had been put in place unilaterally, they attacked them.

You can put that sort of lethality down to several things. Sheer incompetence, being gullible enough to believe a notoriously dishonest Chinese communist regime, or most probably, being paid off by a country famous for its corruption. My money is on the latter. After all, in an age when phones and teleconferencing are commonplace, the WHO spends in the region of $200 million in airplane flights a year. These lazy bozos are very well adjusted to an all expenses paid lifestyle and from there a plain bulging envelope containing dollars is the next door neighbour.

Whether Trump will ever authorise a resumption of payments after the investigation is doubtful. There are elements of Congress setting up their own investigation into the WHO’s performance and there’s been rumblings from other countries of questioning the point of the WHO when the first world-wide viral pandemic they’ve had to handle was so badly mismanaged. In response, the WHO said they will launch their own investigation but some time next year, which probably means never. In a similar vein, suspending payments to a failing organisation is the half way house to terminating them forever.

The big fear of those useless well-paid individuals who’ve been on the virtuous gravy train for years and will eventually reach the fat pension terminus, is that it’s Trump moving to defund the UN as well. It only ever supports any US resolution about 30% of the time, and as America is its biggest donor, that’s not a lot of bang per buck. A position there is widely seen as a plush sinecure for life with joke but well-paid committees like the Human Rights panel mainly composed of the worst offending countries in the world.

Well, the gravy train has just come off the rails and dropped into the ravine.

With the virus killing thousands of Americans because of the WHO’s incompetence or corruption, he’s going to close them down and any connection to them permanently. Anybody who hurts his beloved country or people will find out that despite his nice words, what biblical level vengeance looks like.

©Pointman

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