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WHO worker aims to raise $1 bil to cover U.S. pullout

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By Agnès PEDRERO

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When the World Health Organization's top donor the United States announced its withdrawal, one employee launched an online fundraiser to plug the gap -- and her efforts have already raised more than $100,000.

Any fool who wants to give money to the corrupt WHO is free to do so. Taxes collected by governments should not be abused like that.

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The CCP will likely make more "donations" to the WHO in exchange for silence.

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Any fool who wants to give money to the corrupt WHO is free to do so. Taxes collected by governments should not be abused like that.

It is naive to think countries give money by pure love for humanity. One very powerful reason is to have something working against outbreaks of infectious diseases before it involves their country. Another extremely powerful reason is to buy influence and international power, the US clearly said this was a luxury it could not afford anymore, other countries are very much interested in demonstrating they can do much more than that, and get one above the US also in this way.

The CCP will likely make more "donations" to the WHO in exchange for silence.

The CCP was already the government that gave the most to the WHO, it did not stop the public health global authority from heavily criticizing how it acted in the beginnings of the pandemic.

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I wish my government would stop giving money to WHO along with stopping all foreign aid other than disaster relief. We give money to India and in return they give us scam call centres.

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The CCP will likely make more "donations" to the WHO in exchange for silence.

The CCP was already the government that gave the most to the WHO, it did not stop the public health global authority from heavily criticizing how it acted in the beginnings of the pandemic.

You should check again the operative meaning of the word "more".

And you mean the WHO was collaborating with China.

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Of course, worried about her cozy job. Shovelling paper from in to outbox.

who must be disbanded. It is corrupt and useless

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You should check again the operative meaning of the word "more".

If you refuse to accept the repeated criticism the WHO did about the CCP and how it dealt with the pandemic that is on you, but for the rest of the world this has been very clear.

Criticizing how it let the original outbreak grow, how it failed its population with the criminal way it finished its policy against spread without vaccinating properly first or how it impedes necessary research on its soil is something widely reported, it makes your claim of "collaboration" completely wrong.

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who must be disbanded. It is corrupt and useless

So useless that many public health systems in many countries of the world depend importantly on it to do their functions properly. Either nameless people on the internet are wrong or those public health systems, I know who I can trust more.

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