All bad news man. They are shredding international institutions that might criticize our elites when they do whatever they want, consequences be damned. It's probably true the Democrats wouldn't have done exactly this move, but they aren't going to roll it back either.
They are currently eating our biotech lunch. Between cuts to NIH, chaos at FDA and CDC, and China’s intensive investment and buildout of their biomedical infrastructure the US is going to be getting lapped soon. Ask a biotech VC about it.
But who knows, maybe if we keep the tariffs for another 10 years we can host the chemical manufacturing facilities that produce the drugs their biotechs sell to us after ours are no longer competitive.
I don't comment very often on political posts and this is borderline off topic but if Trump had handled the pandemic by following the science we were putting to work and championed doing the best we could for saving lives he would have won his second term.
Instead we have been sold to someone(s) that only want to see us divided internally and externally expanding our isolationist stances.
It just feels like everything is taking polarization to the extreme.
I feel really terrible imagining what my daughter will inherit from all of this.
One of the worst parts of the Trump presidencies has been the absolute non-stop onslaught of bad news. Every single day. Day after day. Absolute terrible news.
The bar is so low, but god I cannot wait until we have another president that I don't think about more than a few times a year.
If we just didn't have a president at all for a term it would be an improvement.
I think the WHO have a lot to answer for over the Covid debacle, international health cooperation is important but i don't care if WHO dies so another body can be built on it's ashes.
This has been a long time in concept. Republican opposition to contraception, women's reproductive health issues, AIDS and like were Reagan era concerns and this coincided with uncovering decades long systematic waste and corrupt behaviour across UN agencies.
I do not like this outcome but surely nobody is surprised? The specific act took a year to enact. They had to announce the intent to withdraw back in 24/25.
This is politics. The impact on worldwide health will take a while to emerge but the impact on soft power will be clear if and when other WHO members pick up the slack.
WHO like many other ngos is politicized and subverted by rogue states. It's about time to reject it. There is no alternative for now but keeping with current status quo is counter productive.
The US government has introduced a whole new stance for a developed country: disrupt and poison allied relations, retract from established cooperation and take a hostile position. And all that not because of any MAGA bs but to keep and increase the benefits of his billionaire patrons.
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 36.9 ms ] threadBut who knows, maybe if we keep the tariffs for another 10 years we can host the chemical manufacturing facilities that produce the drugs their biotechs sell to us after ours are no longer competitive.
Instead we have been sold to someone(s) that only want to see us divided internally and externally expanding our isolationist stances.
It just feels like everything is taking polarization to the extreme.
I feel really terrible imagining what my daughter will inherit from all of this.
The bar is so low, but god I cannot wait until we have another president that I don't think about more than a few times a year.
If we just didn't have a president at all for a term it would be an improvement.
I do not like this outcome but surely nobody is surprised? The specific act took a year to enact. They had to announce the intent to withdraw back in 24/25.
This is politics. The impact on worldwide health will take a while to emerge but the impact on soft power will be clear if and when other WHO members pick up the slack.
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption...
- why did the Trump administration decide to leave the WHO?
- what impact will this have?
- is this at all beneficial to other countries that aren't the US?