"Attack on Science": Trump's Exit from WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely, More Deadly

[Uncle Joe]

In one of his first executive orders after taking office, President Trump ordered the United States to withdraw from the U.N.'s World Health Organization, putting numerous WHO programs at risk, including efforts to tackle tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University, says the move is a "grave mistake for American national interests and our national security," as well as "an attack on science, public health and public health institutions." He warns that the U.S. will likely fall behind on public health innovation and disease prevention, putting the country and the world at greater risk to "the next pandemic."

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[GreenWave]

1. Exactly what Fred Trump wanted according to Woody Guthrie.

[Moostache]

2. Keep ALL the receipts people...

When Trump is dead and gone, his fucking asshat sons and daughters have designs on familial power transfer...hang every single one of these dumbass ideas and orders around THEIR necks. Fuckwad Donnie 2 scoops will be worm food when the real bill of fare comes due for his asshattery, but this needs to stain the name "Trump" for the next 5 generations.

[Daleuhlmann]

3. The "Flat Earth" Society

This is the most anti-science generation I have ever seen in my 67 years, and the current GOP is the most anti-science and anti-learning party in the history of the U. S. Incredibly, Republicans still stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the indisputable evidence of human-driven climate change and its direct impact on the recent wildfires in my state. CA. Why? Because they are indebted to their wealthy fossil fuel company donors, whose policies are the main cause of climate change, to protect their enterprises.

[dutch777]

4. At least we know who to blame!

[The Wizard]

5. The Trump program to cut Social Security

recipients from the rolls through attrition.