Yesterday’s WPost, page A13 news article titled,
"Study: Aid cuts may lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030: Pullbacks by US
and other nations could undo decades of health gains." The same “study also assesses a more sever scenario
of aid budget cuts, in which the world would see 22.6 million additional deaths.” You read that right. Additional!!!
Rotary, by urgently uniting other large globally minded service
organizations into a Movement of Movements - to quickly achieve the 17
Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 -- could reverse this modern holocaust that
may take ten times the number of lives Hitler’s reign of insane ideology did.
Unfortunately, Rotary's Legislative Council must move faster
than the US Congress to make this Rotary's – and the world’s - highest
priority. Meanwhile, Rotary clubs and
other progressive organizations continue to minimize their power by competing
with thousands of progressive organizations, each with various priorities (like
Rotary’s seven pillars) - for active members, money, media attention, timely
access to policy makers. And with Rotary
a fear of non-partisan political advocacy.
FYI: The US is over a billion dollars in arrears of our UN
dues. Plus, days ago, the US withdrew
from dozens of UN agencies including WHO. These US policies are a crime against humanity,
and few Americans are speaking out. More
troubling is even fewer aware of the SDGs - humankind’s global need for a comprehensive,
holistic, and synergistic global plan - needed to reverse this current insanity
of humanity.
And reported in today’s WPost - last month’s HHS announced overhaul
of its vaccine schedule on one or more of the “leading causes of
vaccine-preventable hospitalizations and death.” Even our nation’s own Vaccine
campaigns are now making childhood Polio and Measles vaccinations optional. All of this will lead to thousands of deaths
and tens of thousands suffering needlessly in the US.
The Truth? I’m ashamed
of my country...and particularly Americans believing that putting America First
will not have catastrophic consequences both here...abroad. They obviously don’t understand Darwin’s ‘survival
of the fittest’. Such leaders and followers aren’t fit
to run a sand box.
