In Massive Blame Shift, Trump Undermines World Health Organization, Dooms Uncountable Numbers of Innocents

From The Guardian:

Leading health experts have labelled Donald Trump’s decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “crime against humanity” and a “damnable” act that will cost lives. The move also drew a rebuke from the head of the United Nations, who said the WHO was “absolutely critical to the world’s efforts to win the war against Covid-19”. 

Late on Tuesday Trump declared US funding would be put on hold for 60-90 days pending a review “to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”. The US is the single largest contributor to the WHO.  Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, wrote that Trump’s decision was “a crime against humanity … Every scientist, every health worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity.”

What makes this so horrific is that the WHO is responsible for convening the world’s top medical experts, and ensuring that their instructions are coordinated on a global basis.  Carrying out an assault on this organization means disrupting this vital function, causing chaos, cross-talk, inefficiency and costly errors at one of humankind’s most critical moments.

And why?  Simply to shift blame from Trump’s own ineptitude and criminality.