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With W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ dreams of world domination dashed during the covid time as well as the US pulling our funding, I’d bet his latest wet dream is that Ebola hits the big time.

He’s presently wanting to repeat an abysmal policy of NOT instituting travel bans from the DRC, the Sudan, and Uganda and instead is wanting to use ‘screening’ at points of entry into other countries.

As we found out the last time, that methodology is completely ineffective.

“Blanket travel restrictions imposed by some countries are disrupting supply chains and hindering the response,” Tedros said in early June. “WHO recommends exit screening at airports, ports and border crossings to prevent the exportation of cases and contacts.”

“We ask countries that have imposed blanket travel restrictions to lift them,” he added.

Tedros similarly resisted travel restrictions on China prior to the onset of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Reports indicated in 2020 that his leadership at the U.N. agency stopped medical experts from recommending travel restrictions.

“The official meeting records say there was a divergence of views but they won’t actually go into detail about who was trying to block it. But there were doctors there who wanted to issue travel bans and the World Health Organization blocked it,” Sky News digital editor Jack Houghton reported in 2020, referring to early W.H.O. meetings on the novel coronavirus spreading in Wuhan, China.

European nations, not content with the slower destruction of their culture and populace, have not implemented travel restrictions like the US, Canada, India, Thailand, and the Bahamas now have in place.

President Trump has “also issued a formal statement encouraging the European Union to consider travel limitations on those from affected regions in Africa.

“Other countries must do their part to ensure this outbreak ‌does not ⁠spread further. Action is required now. That includes financial contributions and implementing commonsense restrictions on travel from the affected area,” an anonymous U.S. official told Reuters.

Because we don’t want folks from the affected areas to come in with the World Cup travelers. Right now, we have a 21 day quarantine on travelers from the above mentioned areas.

It’s easier for the EU folks to whine and moan about the US discontinuing funding of the proven ineffective WHO than for them to actually take any action to protect their citizens and the citizens of other countries.