{"id":2391553,"date":"2025-01-17T07:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-best-way-for-trump-to-stick-it-to-who-is-to-stick-with-it\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:56:32","slug":"the-best-way-for-trump-to-stick-it-to-who-is-to-stick-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-best-way-for-trump-to-stick-it-to-who-is-to-stick-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way For Trump To Stick It To WHO Is To Stick With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-best-way-for-trump-to-stick-it-to-who-is-to-stick-with-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2391553&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President-elect trump has threatened to withdraw the United States from the World Health\u200b Association (WHO), \u2062a \u2064move that coudl forfeit \u2064U.S. influence and opportunities \u2064for reform. Recently, the WHO \u2062has\u2062 faced criticism for\u200c its handling\u2062 of the \u2062COVID-19 pandemic, including \u2063alleged collusion with China regarding \u200dthe virus\u2019s origins and \u2062the promotion of \u2064ineffective\u2063 lockdown measures.\u200d The organization has been accused of exacerbating\u2063 global inequality and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-we-have-to-consider-rising-inflation-rates-when-doing-stimulus-package\/\" title=\"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: \u2018We Have To Consider\u2019 Rising Inflation Rates When Doing Stimulus Package\">public health issues<\/a> through its \u2063policies,notably in its COVAX vaccination\u200d campaign aimed at populations that already had immunity. Critics \u200cquestion the value of WHO amidst these failures \u2062and suggest that defunding could prompt organizational reform. Though,other entities,such as the Bill and Melinda Gates\u200b Foundation and the European Union,may easily fill \u2063the financial void left by the \u200bUnited States,<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">potentially perpetuating existing agendas<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President-elect Trump has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/liz_churchill10\/status\/1855098136613494857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened<\/a>&nbsp;to pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO). But a rapid exit would cede influence and miss an opportunity to fundamentally reform the agency.<\/p>\n<p>WHO has gained attention in recent years for all the wrong reasons. As the U.S. Congress &ldquo;After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/12.04.2024-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently concluded<\/a>, the organization colluded with China and those behind the gain-of-function research that probably spawned Covid-19 to hide its origins. It then promoted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/iae\/files\/2022\/01\/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf?_hsmi=202695972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seriously flawed<\/a>&nbsp;lockdown policies contrary to its own guidelines. These policies will increase global inequality and ill-health for generations. It ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/covax-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$12 billion&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/initiatives\/act-accelerator\/covax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVAX<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-sees-biggest-anti-government-protests-in-decades\/\" title=\"Cuba Sees Biggest Anti-Government Protests in Decades\">mass vaccination campaign<\/a>, targeting young African and Asian populations it knew were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/7\/8\/e008793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already immune<\/a>&nbsp;and carried little risk of severe disease.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than reflect on these failures, WHO is now consistently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/essl.leeds.ac.uk\/downloads\/download\/228\/rational-policy-over-panic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misleading countries<\/a>&nbsp;on the risk of future naturally occurring pandemics. So why not just dump this organization?<\/p>\n<p>As WHO&rsquo;s largest funder, the United States provides&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.who.int\/2022-23\/contributors\/contributor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about 15<\/a> percent&nbsp;of WHO&rsquo;s annual budget of nearly $4 billion. Defunding could give WHO pause for thought. However, plenty of others can step in. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the second largest funder after the U.S. and a chief proponent of the disastrous Covid pandemic policies, has strong incentive and capacity to fill the gap. So does Germany with its large pharma sector invested in mRNA vaccines. So could the European Union and several other funders looking to counter Trump&rsquo;s lack of enthusiasm for global institutions. <\/p>\n<p>The money involved is a fraction of what some of these&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/united-states-america\/eu-assistance-ukraine-us-dollars_en?s=253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">actors send to Ukraine<\/a> or have pledged to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/covax-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other pandemic-agenda investments<\/a>. In this case, WHO would continue, with the U.S. simply losing influence.<\/p>\n<p>In four years&rsquo; time, the United States will have a new president. He or she may be a Democrat and want to rejoin the WHO for no reason other than to reverse Republican policy. The U.S. will likely then rejoin and re-fund an organization even more beholden to corrupting private and geopolitical interests than it is today.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the pandemic industrial complex will also be left in place: the big public-private partnerships like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/covax-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gavi<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cepi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CEPI<\/a>, the health arm of the World Bank, and the entire complex of investment houses and multinational corporations gorging themselves at the pandemic trough. Having found ways to lock in profits by making America sick, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">global public health<\/a> is ripe for pillage.<\/p>\n<p>The wealth concentration during Covid would have looked much the same had WHO not been there, a fact that is critical to understanding WHO&rsquo;s role. When those whose research and outputs have made people sick, the companies who manufacture drugs and vaccines to address these illnesses, and government agencies intended to police them all speak with one voice, they don&rsquo;t need WHO to get their message across.&nbsp;WHO was the useful tool they fund it to be, but not an essential one and not the root of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>But WHO is the only entity among the big global health agencies that is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/gb\/bd\/PDF\/bd47\/EN\/constitution-en.pdf?ua=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">constitutionally governed<\/a>&nbsp;by countries alone. While corrupted by vested interests and the inevitable rot that afflicts large, poorly accountable bureaucracies, a deeply reformed WHO would be an opportunity we would be foolish to lose. <\/p>\n<p>WHO would need to be a fraction of its current size, concentrated on what it can do well, and free from private influence. It can go back to shaping the coordination standards for the management of diseases like tuberculosis and malaria and exposing the deadly criminal industry of fake drugs in low-income countries. Focused on building technical capacity within countries that request such help, it could remove the need for such aid (and therefore WHO itself) in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>It was the current U.S. administration that imitated and promoted the pandemic power-grab through reforms to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/gb\/wgihr\/pdf_files\/wgihr1\/WGIHR_Compilation-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Health Regulations<\/a>&nbsp;and the proposed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/inb.who.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pandemic treaty<\/a>. This same influence can improve health and expand freedoms, effectively fighting tyranny with soft power. WHO is uniquely structured to do this, rolling back the self-serving overreach of the ever-expanding global health industry.<\/p>\n<p>WHO may prove unreformable. It is big, ossified, corrupted, and staffed with people living comfortable lives and dedicated to expanding it further. But this is much like the federal bureaucracy that the incoming U.S. administration plans to reform. <\/p>\n<p>If reform proves impossible, then WHO should be replaced with something fit for purpose, fully accountable to member states, and designed with a use-by date. In attempting reform, alliances will build. Whether it&rsquo;s WHO or a replacement, we can then have an organization designed to serve countries and their populations, not profit &mdash; an organization in which the reforms made in this term will stick.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      David Bell is a public health physician and former scientist and medical officer at the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s exit from WHO risks losing influence and reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3621,"featured_media":2391554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-01-15T161025.246.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8994,4606,5894,4158,3634],"class_list":["post-2391553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-who","tag-healthcare","tag-politics","tag-strategy","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-01-15T161025.246.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391557,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391553\/revisions\/2391557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}