World Health Organization’s [WHO] 55-year-old Ethiopian Director-General Tedros Adhanom destroyed the prestigious U.N. watchdog’s credibility, failing to report China’s spiraling coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 global pandemic. Tedros did everything possible to keep the deadly virus outbreak secret, refusing to inform U.N. member-states of the growing deadly pandemic. Tedros knew about the coronavirus outbreak in Dec. 2019 but waited until March 11 before declaring the SARS CoV-2 outbreak a global pandemic. Tedros held the information given to him by 66-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping in confidence to protect China’s business ties with the rest of the world. Xi was afraid that any viral pandemic would drive away global businesses, potentially plunging China into recession. As it turns out, China dragged the rest of the world into a global recession..
Tedros could have informed the U.S. and EU in December, preventing millions of infected Chinese tourists from vacationing in Europe, United States and elsewhere. But no, Tedros kept Xi,’s dirty little secret from getting out of the bag. Xi reassured Tedros that the epidemic was confined to Wuhan, where the government was cracking down, would keep the SARS CoV-2 epidemic under control in China. When Chinese tourists traveled to the United State and Europe carrying their plague, Tedros let China infect the globe with the most deadly viral outbreak since the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, infecting 500 million, killing up to 100 million. Tedros kept Xi’s secret to protect China’s economy from taking the biggest hit since the 1949 Maoist Revolution. Trump stunned his Tuesday, April 6 coronavirus press briefing that he’d consider suspending WHO’s U.S. funding.
Trump told the White House briefing that he would potentially yank WHO’s $500 million in annual funding, prompting calls from WHO officials to not rock the boat during a global crisis. Tedros and Xi were equally culpable, keeping the deadly SARS CoV-2 epidemic from hitting the airwaves. Xi feared adverse consequences to China’s fragile economy, already reeling from a global slowdown. Once the conoravirus spiraled out-of-control, Tedros should have notified every U.N. member-state to close their borders, preventing the spread that’s brought the world community to its knees. “We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very hold on it, and we’re going to see,” Trump said at his Tuesday evening briefing. “WHO really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric,” Trump tweeted earlier Tuesday.
Tedros went into full damage control mode Wednesday, acting like a victim, lecturing the world about the dangers of cutting WHO’s funding. Trump was especially irked Feb. 8 when Tedros spoke in Geneva about Trump’s Jan. 31 decision to ban all flights to and from China. “There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade,” Tedros said, obliquely slapping Trump. “Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping out borders open to China early on,” Trump said. “Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?” questioning how WHO can keep Tedros as Director-General. “Please don’t play politics with the virus,” Tedros said, knowing that he’s the one playing politics, derelict in his duty to inform the world that China was dealing wing a dangerous viral epidemic that could jump borders creating a deadly global pandemic.
Sensing the gravity, WHO officials closed ranks, defending Tedros from inevitable calls for his ouster. “We’re still in the acute phase of a pandemic so now is not the time to cut back on funding,” said Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO’s Europe Director said today. Kluge’s another WHO official that failed the European Union, letting China send hoards of infected tourists over the holidays to spread its plague to the most coveted spots in Europe. Kluge knows that Italy has lost 17,669 citizens, Spain 14,792, Germany 2,349 and the U.S. 14,795. What more proof does he need to know that WHO breached its duty to notify U.N. member-states of China’s deadly coronavirus epidemic. “It was absolutely critical in the early part of this outbreak to have full access to everything possible, to get on the ground and world with the Chinese to understand this,” said WHO senior adviser Dr. Bruce Aylward.
WHO officials won’t admit that Tedros had all the information about China’s spiraling coronavirus epidemic but chose to keep it quiet as a favor to Xi while he promised to get it under control. Tedros had all the information needed to notify U.N. member-states about the urgent dangers of a global pandemic from China’s outbreak. But no, Tedros decided to wait until it was too late, giving Xi nearly three months before declaring a global pandemic March 11. Tedros finally sent his WHO crew to Wuhan Feb. 10, eight days after Trump banned China’s flights to the United States. Tedros had his friend Xi’s back, destroying WHO’s credibility, all to protect China’s business interests. Paying 14% of WHO’s annual budget, Trump has every right to demand that Tedros step down for dereliction of duty, letting China unleash the most deadly plague on the world since the 1918 H1N1 Spanish Flu pandemic.
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