By Austin Maho P.h.D
In 64 AD Emperor Nero raised down the city of Rome in order to calm his problem of unpopularity and to rebuild the city according to his wishes.
History records that Nero merrily played his fiddle while Rome burned. To deflect attention from himself, Nero accused the Christians of having set the city on fire. As punishment, he mercilessly crucified them and feed them to lions, during gladiator matches.
President Donald Trump of the United States is Nero’s historical double; mean calculating and only concerned about himself, he would burn down the World in a wimp to satisfy his personal ambition and shift blame from himself to others. He wants absolute power but absolutely no responsibility. It’s always someone else’s fault.
It is the World Health Organisation’s fault that Americans are dying in their numbers and that the United States has become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
It is China’s fault and refusal to make full disclosure about the virus that has allowed its uncontrollable spread, in fact the WHO is inbed with China to deceive the world.
On April 24, 2020, President Donald Trump eventually carried out his treat to pull out of the World Health Organisation and stop funding it in the middle of a global pandemic.
A statement on the Twitter handle announced the withdrawal thus:
President @realDonaldTrump is halting funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess WHO’s role in mismanaging the Coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/jTrEf4WWj0
According to him at a White press conference “WHO failed in its basic duty and must be held accountable,” he said that “The outbreak could have been contained at its source” if the organization had correctly responded early on, he added. He accuses the WHO of being in bed with China and covering up the gravity of the coronavirus thereby allowing it to spread around the world when it could have been contained if WHO had shown more transparency in giving out information.
Expectedly this has drew the ire of the international community and shows the double speak that has characterised Trumps administration and dealings.
The same Trump who has now made a sudden vault face had a different position barely three months earlier at the beginning of the outbreak.
Then he twitted:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi”
Trump applauded China for its “transparency” and “thanked President Xi” for working hard to contain the virus
What has changed in the last three months for Trump to now accuse the WHO of hiding the facts in concert with China?
Evidently what has changed is that the coronavirus as at January 2020 was considered by Trump as a Chinese problem even when China was calling for a global effort to contain the virus and had to take unprecedented measures in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak totally locking down a city of over 11 million people.
While the Chinese government was doing all it could to contain the outbreak in Wuhan and prevent it from spreading to the rest of the world, Trump ordered an air embargo on China and evacuated US citizens from the beleaguered city.
With the sudden spike in coronavirus cases in America and the rest of the Western world as a result of carelessness and indiscipline and a laisser-faire attitude, Trump is looking for who to take the fall.
In the confusing world of Trump, it is Chinese communist government and their puppet the WHO that lied to the people deliberately allow sick people from Wuhan to fly across the world & spread the disease.
Trump is a master of name calling, and labelling to divert attention from himself and the real issue. While Trump is whining and blaming others he should know that other countries responded quickly & aggressively to combat the spread of COVID-19. He failed to do the same, he made it a campaign issue calling it a hoax! He has had open disagreement with the head of his CDC, Anthony Fauci on containment measures. Now the US has topped the records in death figures and cases.
The rest of the World had the same information from W.H.O. and China. While they acted on it to protect their citizens Trump Choose to play Russian roulette with American lives.
In January Trump withdrew I America’s CDC officials from China, according to some of his security aids as at then he already had all information patterning to covid-19 but did not do the needful. All through February when he could have put containment measures in place he was on the political trail stumping and calling the coronavirus a hoax, “not much worse than the common flu”. He golfed and his eyes were on the stock markets and the November elections.
The US decision to suspend funding for the WHO at this material time is unfortunate and dangerous. Not at this time when it is the rallying point against the deadly pandemic. Trump is looking for a fall guy. WHO is not omniscient and all knowing. The US which prides itself and its intelligence network of knowing everything should have known if there was a cover up between China and WHO.
They should have seen through whatever false data that was being put out by WHO under the alleged prompting of China.
The excuse that W.H.O caused a delay in countries taking action because it advised that preliminary research didn’t indicate human to human transmission is too weak to hold W.H.O complicit in a cover up. At the initial stage they had to solely rely on data coming from affected countries especially as this had to do with a novel strain of the coronavirus.
The W.H.O had been on this path before. In 1988 the U.S withheld its subvention and every other payment to the United Nations for five years when another African, Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the Secretary-General of the World body all because he refused to be pushed around by the U.S government at the time.
The US waged an atrocious war against him and did everything to undermine him. After the expiration of his first term (January 1992 to December 1996), they blocked his re-election and pushed for Kofi Annan, another African, to gain African sympathy.
What was the Egyptian’s offence? He was the first UN scribe who refused to be the puppet of America. He won’t just bow to America’s interest whenever, wherever. He refused to fight America’s wars nor inherit America’s enemies. The man openly asked US to block his re-election and told them he cared less.
That America is the largest contributor to the W.H.O does it means the body must kowtow to America’s bidding always. It is called a “World Health” Organisation for a reason not “American Health” Organisation. Its primary purpose is to serve all countries of the World when it comes to global health issues.
By taking the extreme measure of cutting W.H.O funding at this crucial time, Trump may simply be passing the buck of his own failings.
However in the prevailing circumstances the rest of the world especially China, must step in and show greater commitment by bridging the funding gap occasioned by the U.S withdrawal.
