Taiwan made it clear the World Health Organization sat on information about human-to-human transmission at the same time China was denying it.. This should have severe repercussions.
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All further support for WHO, from the United States and the entire civilized world standing together, should be conditioned on several non-negotiable demands, beginning with the resignation of WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus and any staffers who colluded with China.
A full investigation of Chinese influence over WHO should be conducted immediately by a top-shelf team of outside international investigators. All Chinese influence over the organization MUST be purged quickly, or all support from every civilized nation will end.
China should immediately be relegated to observer status only. No further influence on the deliberations or workings of WHO will be permitted. Taiwan, whose response to the coronavirus was exemplary, should be made a full member instead.
The strictest standards of transparency and cooperation must be implemented for all data compiled by WHO. No report from nations that restrict outside access and have a history of false reports, like China, should be explicitly or implicitly endorsed as fully credible by WHO.
Humanitarian assistance to bad actors like China, Iran, and others should be conducted with the understanding that those governments will have no input or control. The level of assistance provided MUST be directly linked to transparency and full cooperation.
Failing the implementation of these reforms, all civilized nations should withdraw from and defund WHO as quickly as possible. An alternative organization can be established under the leadership of responsible nations.
WHO's dismal, arguably counterproductive performance as the coronavirus was unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party makes it painfully clear we can do without them while an alternative is established. If WHO can't be fixed, we have time to replace it. /end
