In what can only be seen as yet another expression of Malthusian genocidal intent, the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization on Jan. 22. As the largest funder of the WHO, this will put further pressure on the poorest countries. The official announcement says that the withdrawal is “due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.” It goes on to say the “WHO leadership echoed and praised China’s response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Secretary of Human Services Robert F Kennedy in issuing a statement.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the termination one year ago, as required by the Congressional resolution which first declared the U.S. as the first member of the WHO, although the resolution also requires that the country be up to date with its dues, which it is not, since it stopped paying dues over the past year and withdrew all U.S. personnel, while claiming that it was “pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations.”
In classic Trump fashion, the announcement claims that “The U.S. is the world’s leading force in protecting public health, saving lives, and responding rapidly to infectious disease outbreaks,” insisting that the U.S. would “continue its global health leadership through existing and new engagements directly with other countries, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based entities,” while prioritizing “health innovation to protect America first while delivering benefits to partners around the world.” Citizens of non-partner states, it must be assumed, are better off dead.
“This is one of the most penny-wise and billion-dollar-foolish moves,” says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Judd Walson, chair of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Time: “A lot of countries rely on technical expertise from WHO, and as the workforce shrinks, that becomes less available. As countries experience worse health—more mortality and morbidity—economic conditions worsen as sick populations can’t work, and the economic situation of already poor countries deteriorates further. Political instability follows, with mass migration, war, and conflict, and now things start spilling over borders.”
