Dec 2019: Coronavirus in China
14 Jan 2020: WHO says NO human to human spread (despite Taiwan warning)
31 Jan 2020: Trump bans travel from China
3 Feb 2020: WHO Chief criticises travel bans from China

Today, almost 2 million cases and 126,000 people dead.

WHO failed the world.

The outbreak started as far back in China in December 2019

China suppressed and silenced whistleblowers. China made journalists disappear.

The WHO in collusion with China misled the world that there was no human spread and travel bans were unnecessary.

China lied. WHO cheered.

Today, President @realDonaldTrump has announced USA will stop the funding of the World Health Organization while an investigation is conducted to assess the WHO's role in possible deliberate mismanaging of the Coronavirus outbreak around the world.

I completely agree with this.

This is not the first time China will lie.

China denied for months in 2003 that it had a serious outbreak of lethal respiratory disease in its southern cities. That outbreak is known as SARS, for severe acute respiratory syndrome.

There was over 8,000 cases and 774 people died.

It might interest you to know that the current WHO chief has been accused of covering up Cholera epidemics in his home country of Ethiopia while he was health minister. This issues remain contentious but they are out there in public space with evidence. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/health/candidate-who-director-general-ethiopia-cholera-outbreaks.html

And you know what would shock you even further: despite all those controversies about his role in Ethiopia, Tedros won the WHO top job ahead of British challenger Dr David Nabarro, because China worked tirelessly to make it happen.

So to a large extent, the WHO chief owes China.

Now when you consider all the above,
How China suppressed whistleblowers,
How China and WHO lied there was no human to human spread despite evidence from Taiwan,
How WHO deceived the world into thinking Chinese travel bans are unnecessary,

Then you know WHO has failed the world.

And on USA decision to stop funding the WHO for now,

Look at it this way
USA gives the biggest funds to WHO,
USA feels WHO has been incompetent on handling of the Covid19 outbreak,
USA has over 600,000 cases and over 26,000 deaths now,

If you were USA, will you still fund WHO?

All the people crying about the USA not funding WHO are only concerned about themselves.

The moment you put yourself in the shoes of USA- you will understand why that decision was a tough but a necessary one.

Hopefully WHO gets it’s actually together and learns its lessons.

Anyway, it’s not really my business how USA or any country chooses to deal with WHO- its up to the country.

But again as I put in this thread,
The moment you think of the many late and silly decisions the WHO took on this outbreak- you know they have been grossly incompetent.