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I rooted for Trump precisely for things like this.

Why?

Disclosure: I don’t believe in individual rights, I think we should hold people down and vaccinate them for the good of the community. But the UN sucks. My dad worked for a USAID contractor his whole career doing international development, and he says the UN is the most bureaucratic and ineffective organization in the world. It’s giant bureaucracy dragged down by all the third world countries that couldn’t efficiently run a popsicle stand.

There’s nothing the US needs to do in the area of health that it needs to do within the context of the WHO.

You don't believe in individual rights and think we should hold people down vaccinate them? That's pretty disgusting.

If the population of a nation trusts each other, shares goals, has a common base knowledge grounded in shared reality, enjoys a standard of living that doesn't make them suffer, etc, you don't need to hold people down to forcefully make them do anything.

A population like that wants to help each other, not outdo each other, not compete with each other over who is more divisive, and so on.

Agreed, if he is damaging enough maybe some folks will finally get the message.

What message?

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