The WHO tells leaders to stop politicizing the coronavirus pandemic 'if you don't want more body bag

[babylonsister]

The WHO tells leaders to stop politicizing the coronavirus pandemic 'if you don't want more body bags' after Trump threatened to freeze funds to the agency
Hilary Brueck Apr 8, 2020, 2:16 PM

After US President Donald Trump threatened to cut US funding to the World Health Organization on Tuesday, the agency responded with a plea for leaders around the world to "quarantine COVID politics" during this outbreak.
The US provides the largest share of the WHO's budget.
Trump had accused the agency of a pro-China stance, but in unusually impassioned remarks, the agency's director-general made a plea for more unity during the COVID-19 outbreak.
"The United States and China should come together and fight this dangerous enemy," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "Anything that starts in one place affects the whole world. We can not live in our nation-state boundaries."

After US President Donald Trump threatened to cut US funding to the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing the agency of being too "China-centric," the agency's director-general responded with an impassioned plea for leaders around the world to "quarantine COVID politics" during this outbreak.

"No need to use COVID to score political points, no need," WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a question-and-answer session with reporters on Wednesday. "You have many other ways to prove yourselves. This is not the one to use for politics. It's like playing with fire."

The coronavirus has killed more than 85,000 people worldwide so far, including more than 12,000 in the US, where experts expect this week may be one of the deadliest, and most devastating nationwide.

"The focus of all political parties should be to save their people," Tedros said. "If you don't want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it."

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[customerserviceguy]

1. Well, talk about "bedside manner"

I'm starting to think that worldwide agencies should be led by competent people who have received first-class educations, and not simply handed out as participation prizes for third world countries who vote "correctly" in the UN.

[jberryhill]

2. The WHO - which cannot discuss the coronavirus situation in Taiwan