'Blaming won't help': Germany slams Trump's WHO payment freeze

In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine last week, he said the United States had "played down the virus for a very long time".<br /><br />"There really isn't any dispute, even in the USA, that many of the measures were taken too late," he told Spiegel. How about the REALITY that Tedros Adhanom downplayed the virus? Oh, you forgot to mention that did ya? Without China’s deceit and WHO’s solicitude for Beijing, the outbreak might have been more limited, and the world at the very least would have had more time to react to the virus. China committed unforgivable sins of commission, affirmatively lying about the outbreak and punishing doctors and disappearing journalists who told the truth, whereas the WHO committed sins of omission—it lacked independence and courage at a moment of great consequence.<br /><br />In effect, China and the WHO worked together to expose the rest of the world to the virus, at the same time they downplayed its dangers. On Jan. 14, WHO tweeted that “preliminary investigations” by Chinese authorities had found no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus. Several days later, it reported “limited” human-to-human transmission, although it downplayed the finding as typical of respiratory illnesses. So, the WHO endorsed China’s narrative during the crucial early days of its cover-up.<br /><br />Then, the WHO declined to call the outbreak in China a public health emergency of international concern on Jan. 22, at the same time there were confirmed cases in Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Thailand, and South Korea. After the WHO finally declared the emergency, it proceeded to drag its feet on declaring a pandemic, waiting until March 12. As a headline in Reuters put it in early February, “WHO chief says widespread travel bans not needed to beat China virus.” Incredibly enough, in late January, Tedros was praising Chinese officials for “the transparency they have demonstrated.” Ah but let's see if any of this is discoverable in Der Spiegel? I doubt it!

The utter hypocrisy of Heiko Maas and the Germans in general. Here we have the WHO, led by an inept and perhaps corrupt Tedros Adhanom who downplayed the Chinese virus outbreak while covering for the Chinese. If the WHO had done their job perhaps thousands of lives could have been saved. But what do the Germans and other Trump-hating socialist do but blame the US? The reality is the UN and its various organizations like WHO are bloated, inefficient, and corrupt. They are no more efficient and effective in combating famine, war or pandemic as the EU is at controlling its borders and probably worse. If the Germans don't like the cut then step up to the plate and pay to make up the difference! Since WW2 the US taxpayer has spent trillions of US dollars in Germany and NATO while the Germans have never paid their fair share as it relates to NATO. The US does not need a lecture from the Germans and fortunately, we have a president who cares even less about what the Europeans think and more about his own citizens, unlike the arrogant pandering incompetnet blowhard Obama.