Too Fast To Keep Up

Trump is getting things done so quickly, that it is difficult to keep up. The latest is how the left has its panties in a bunch because the President has ordered the CDC to cease all collaborative work with the WHO, effective immediately.

The left is pointing to possible set backs to work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and monkeypox in Africa. They also point out that health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock.

1. Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever that is not seen outside of Africa. It isn’t our problem- so let the WHO solve it. The only outbreak of Marburg that wasn’t in Africa occurred in Germany in 1967 and was due to lab workers being exposed to African monkeys.
2. We don’t give a crap about monkeypox. Stop having gay sex. Solved.
3. The CDC’s job is literally to monitor the US livestock infections. If they can’t handle that without the assistance of the WHO, then maybe we should disband the CDC and the $10 billion a year they get in funding can be better used elsewhere.

Those who oppose withdrawing from the WHO claim that it requires Congressional approval. OK, but that doesn’t require the US continue to provide them with information, workers, and contractors. Find the loopholes. That’s what they did to us for the past four years, so now Trump is using the left’s own tactics against them.

The WHO has an annual budget of 2 to 3 Billion, with nearly half of it coming from the US. Why does the United States, who already has the CDC and USAMRIID, need to fund the World Health Organization? Let the rest of the freeloading countries of the world stop sucking at Uncle Sam’s teat.

It’s time that we spend our money for us, and stop looking at taxpayer dollars as some charity fund for the rest of the world, or as a free money program for useless government employees. Do your job, or learn to code.

I would go one step further- let’s also withdraw from the UN, or at the very least, fund it on a more equitable level and let them establish their headquarters somewhere else.