11 days into the 30 day deadline from his letter, Trump hasn't yet bothered to specify his reform demands but is furiously angry that WHO has failed to implemented them.
Utter nonsense.
Utter nonsense.
No question WHO needs further reform. I've spent 5 years working on it.
If that's your real goal, you do the ****ing work. You lay out a vision. You make the case. You do the shoe-leather diplomacy with other member states. You build support. And you pass real reforms.
If that's your real goal, you do the ****ing work. You lay out a vision. You make the case. You do the shoe-leather diplomacy with other member states. You build support. And you pass real reforms.
That's what the US did after Ebola. And it led to the biggest and most effective set of WHO reforms in years.
This is the opposite of that. It's not a reform agenda, it's a ransom note. And Trump just shot the hostage halfway through the countdown.
This is the opposite of that. It's not a reform agenda, it's a ransom note. And Trump just shot the hostage halfway through the countdown.
You know who thought WHO was doing a great job during the period when Trump now alleges they catastrophically failed?
The bottom line is that none of this is about WHO's performance. It's purely about deflecting accountability for 100k dead Americans, and counting, on Trump's watch. I dove into the merits along with @TomBollyky here: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
And here's a deep dive on why WHO's Director General can't unilaterally make the changes Trump might want to see - the member states have to do that.
And an in-depth overview here of why this is basically BS. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
This right here has always been the bottom line. We knew everything we needed to know by late January. It's why countries like Vietnam, South Korea, etc took action then - because they were listening. We weren't.
