California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.

Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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    Why did the US want to leave WHO in the first place? Is there anything to gain from leaving?

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      The current administration is dismantling all of the global things the US has been a part of under the guise of the US being “ripped off” and it’s actively making shit worse.

      Feels intentional to me but I don’t know the end goal.

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        Praxis. Thiel and other oligarchs want to divvy up the United States into fiefdoms, where they personally set laws and have the king’s right to your family’s bedrooms.

        Such is the times, that I am not sure if this is an exaggeration. 😒