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Summary
The World Health Organization (WHO) is freezing recruitment, restricting travel, and cutting expenses following the U.S. withdrawal, its largest funding source.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned staff of worsening financial pressures and announced measures such as limiting technical missions, virtual-only meetings, renegotiating contracts, and halting office refurbishments.
Critics, like global health consultant Fifa Rahman, say the U.S. move harms global health preparedness.
Italy’s Deputy PM Matteo Salvini has also proposed withdrawing from the WHO, though Italy’s Prime Minister has not taken a stance.
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Err… why weren’t they doing virtual meeting already?
That’s not near as fun as traveling the world for free!
Except for when they’re conducting viral research and stopping global pandemics.
Bad take for the people who keep us from killing ourselves.
Great point.
Wasn’t Trump concerned the WHO was China run? Cutting funding means China will have an even larger influence.
“China runs it? I want nothing to do with it!”
Stupid, to be sure, but he’s not running on rational, but emotional reasoning.
It’s some kind of intense mental gymnastics to think the Trump administration has a thought process behind their policies…
Just in time for the next pandemic.
On a purely selfish angle, the pandemic was a pretty great time for me. Folks respecting personal space, fewer social obligations to meet, watching the “it’s just a flu” people drop like flies in /r/HermanCainAward. I personally wouldn’t mind another round :o
Folks respecting personal space
There was a running joke in Finland, where people try to stay as far away from other human beings as possible:
"COVID is terrible: now we have to maintain a 2-meter social distance when it was 6 meters before!
Based on the year’s start, we are indeed heading for 2020 vol. 2
At least they squeezed the remaining disposable income generated by wfh so nobody kids themselves with creature comfort
Just in time for an avian flu :)
Tweet becomes X. (because the bird died.)
If only the next pandemic could kill off just the Trump voters…
Well, this is what happens when you depend too much on the US. Maybe they’ll learn their lesson and rely more on other countries.
In the past, the US was a country that could be depended on. The last 10 years have shown that to no longer be true.
I think the US will be going downhill in terms of international standing over the next few decades.
For sure, a less reliable partner is a less valuable partner. That’s one way to lose your geopolitical influence.
Any organization or company losing their by far largest member / customer will be severely affected. Not all to much to learn from that, if they weren’t - they’d be running the organization like morons.
Trump was elected in 2016 and it was a crazy time. WHO should have been on notice then. Don’t rely on the US. Have contingency plans because the American people voted for this guy. Now he’s back.
It sounds like they are exercising their contingency plan
You don’t understand how this things work, clearly
Why don’t you educate me.
