In a parody of self-destructive nationalism, Donald Trump yesterday decided that an unprecedented global health emergency was the perfect time to withdraw American funding from the organization whose job it is to fight global health emergencies. His decision to suspend contributions to the World Health Organization is an extraordinary act of moral abdication and international vandalism at a time when the world desperately needs to find means of working together to combat an unprecedented global threat.
Global problems require global solutions. Covid-19 does not respect borders – even closed ones – and its continued transmission anywhere poses a threat to health everywhere. We are still in phase one of the crisis, in which countries are mostly focused on containing the initial wave of domestic outbreaks. If these efforts are not to be in vain, then intensive international cooperation will be needed to get expertise and resources to where they are needed most – especially as the disease takes root in impoverished countries in the Global South.
The WHO is the only organization in the world with the network and expertise to effectively perform this task. And there is ample precedent of the organization delivering results even amid geopolitical conflict and tension between the world’s leading countries. In the 1960s and 70s, the United States and the Soviet Union worked together to provide the WHO with the resources it needed to eradicate smallpox, a disease which afflicted about 50 million people a year in the early 1950s and no longer threatened humankind at all by 1977.
In a moment somebody is going to say that WHO are the lapdog of the Chinese communist party, dancing to their tune for coin.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
The World Health Organization's (WHO) reputation became irrefutably damaged during the Ebola outbreak, with a general consensus in the global health community that it fell short of its leadership responsibilities.
This PHEIC occurred five months after the WHO first received information about the Ebola threat, by which point there had already been 1711 cases and 932 deaths [23]. Such delay undoubtedly contributed to the unprecedented scale of the outbreak. It has been suggested that the delay in declaring a PHEIC was due in part to placating delicate political and economic situations in West Africa [24, p. 1307], highlighting the tenuous position the WHO occupies in the global health mosaic.
In a moment somebody is going to say that WHO are the lapdog of the Chinese communist party, dancing to their tune for coin.
You forgot the NBA. The NBA will be mentioned as well.
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In a moment somebody is going to say that WHO are the lapdog of the Chinese communist party, dancing to their tune for coin.
You forgot the NBA. The NBA will be mentioned as well.
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There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Work doesn't need to be done. We only need farmers, builders and truck drivers and trains. The stuff will come to Wal Mart for months.
But anyway, if you got laid off, no reason to go back for some 20 weeks. If not, you have to go back. Fired is different, you get nothing.
The federal government has allowed states to change their unemployment benefits laws. It lets them provide unemployment benefits for situations related to the coronavirus (COVID-19).
And, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has expanded benefits further. It authorizes:
Self-employed workers and gig workers to receive unemployment benefits
All unemployed workers to receive an extra $600 a week for up to six months
Unemployed workers to get an extra 13 weeks of benefits beyond the number a state currently provides
Contact your state's unemployment insurance program for more information and to apply for benefits.
Looking at the signature: if that was an ECG trace you'd need to get the paddles charged up stat.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
The doctor would soon be charged with a federal crime.
According to federal authorities, comments by the Southern California doctor about the drug's remarkable capabilities were recorded during a phone call with a concerned father of three, who contacted Staley inquiring how he could protect his family from contracting Covid-19.
Cuomo said the federal help he requested has been based on White House projections for the state’s medical needs and suggested Trump hasn’t read any of the reports his administration has issued through the Centers for Disease Control and the White House coronavirus task force.
“If you want to point fingers — we built more beds than we needed — our only mistake was believing your numbers, believing your projections,” Cuomo said, suggesting Trump use his reality TV catchphrase "You're fired" to can CDC and coronavirus task force officials for botching their own projections.
US officials are 100 percent confident China went to great lengths to cover up after the virus was out, the sources said.
Additionally, the sources believe that the World Health Organization -- which the president paused funding to this week over its role in the crisis -- was either complicit in the coverup, or looked the other way.
If he wasn't funding the Wuhan bio weapons lab, there MUST be some other way to blame him anyway, right?
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