Trumps pink slip for WHO was a good first step toward keeping Americans healthy

Good riddance to the World Health Organization, or more accurately, the Woke Health Oligarchy — since it’s a network of self-styled, anti-American scientists and diplomats determined to use the United States as its piggybank. On Day 1, when President Trump announced he was withdrawing the country from WHO, scientists from universities and think tanks sounded the alarm, falsely claiming Trump’s move will isolate the United States from worldwide efforts to detect and limit deadly diseases.Trump must be feeling the pressure.He suggested on Saturday that he might reconsider and try to clean up WHO instead.Stick to you guns, Mr.

President.WHO’s record is a disgrace. WHO was founded to create an international method of sharing data and fighting disease.But when it faced its biggest test — the virus emanating from China in the winter of 2019-2020 — it proved to be a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party. WHO pandered to Beijing, colluding to keep the disease a secret and likely increasing the death toll by millions.

 As Elise Stefanik, Trump’s nominee for UN ambassador, told Congress Tuesday, “We cannot tolerate entities that are taken over by CCP propaganda.”Roll the tape.Lie No.1: In December 2019 and January and February 2020, while Chinese officials were arresting locals for discussing the Wuhan virus and censoring information flowing out of the country, WHO’s director general, Dr.

Tedros Ghebreyesus, heaped praise on the Chinese for their “openness to sharing information” and falsely claimed that “China has bought the world time.”Lie No.2: Ghebreyesus kowtowed to China and delayed declaring COVID-19 an international health emergency until February 2020, after it had spread to 18 countries.Lie No.

3: The WHO promised an investigation into the virus’ origins but let China block WHO investigators from talking to Chinese scientists or disease victims or even examining patient data. The initial report of this charade investiga...