Globalist Senators Want UN Security Council Mandates on Coronavirus Crisis

President Trump is mobilizing an unprecedented all hands-on-deck response to the novel coronavirus 2019. He is using all available instruments of the federal government in order to save American lives, while not destroying the American economy in the process. Meanwhile, several Democrat senators, including Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, decided to waste their time writing a letter to President Trump urging him to turn to the United Nations Security Council for help. They asked him to introduce a “resolution to declare pandemics a threat to international peace and security, and require action by member nations to address that threat as soon as the Security Council reconvenes.”

The Security Council is essentially in hiding, doing nothing constructive

The Security Council is essentially in hiding, doing nothing constructive, while the Trump administration is working 24x7 to address the crisis on behalf of the American people. But these senators think that President Trump should look to the Security Council to mobilize the world against the virus and “establish binding commitments for UN member nations to align their health preparedness frameworks with best international practices.” Given its failed record on a host of issues squarely within its jurisdiction, don’t hold your breath. Besides, we have to wait until “the Security Council reconvenes.” The resolution, the letter said, “should affirm the responsibility of all UN Member States to protect refugees and asylum seekers, international displaced persons (IDPs), and the food insecure — all of whose circumstances leave them especially vulnerable to pandemics.” Markey, Warren and their fellow Democrat senators want the Security Council to “mandate a global giving campaign to approved UN aid organizations or host governments whose people or hosted populations are already suffering from acute need.” These senators’ job is to get as much relief as is needed as soon as possible to the American people who are suffering the effects of the virus through no fault of their own. We don’t need any UN resolutions to “establish binding commitments." The World Health Organization (WHO) is the specialized agency of the United Nations that is supposed to be responsible for international public health. It got off to a very bad start dealing with the novel coronavirus 2019 outbreak. Taking information from China, the origin of the outbreak, at face value, WHO went along with China’s initial refusal to even admit human to human contamination. WHO delayed declaring the coronavirus a “public health emergency of international concern” until January 30 – waiting a full month after the first case of the virus was reported on December 31.

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World Health Organization (WHO) got off to a very bad start dealing with the novel coronavirus 2019 outbreak

An Emergency Committee was convened by the WHO Director-General to address the crisis. It stated on January 30 that it “welcomed the leadership and political commitment of the very highest levels of Chinese government, their commitment to transparency, and the efforts made to investigate and contain the current outbreak.” The Chinese Communist Party might as well have written such propaganda. We know that China’s delay in coming clean about the virus and refusing to accept help from foreign government specialists contributed greatly to the spread of the virus. Relying on advice from the Emergency Committee, WHO’s Director-General issued his set of “Temporary Recommendations” on January 30th, which “does not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available.” Fortunately, President Trump did not listen to that portion of WHO’s advice. He instituted very tight restrictions on travel from China into the United States on January 31. Joe Biden condemned the decision as "hysterical xenophobia." A few days later, the president expanded the travel restrictions to six additional countries. Elizabeth Warren, one of the signatories to the letter to President Trump urging him to get the Security Council involved, accused President Trump of expanding “his racist, xenophobic Muslim Ban.” She added, “Congress must pass the NO BAN Act.” Of course, President Trump did not listen to such nonsense. He later extended the restrictions to travel from Europe, including the United Kingdom and Ireland. Contrary to WHO’s initial warnings and the Democrats’ carping, Dr. Anthony Fauci praised President Trump’s travel restrictions. "One of the things we did right was very early cut off travel from China to the United States," he said. He called President Trump’s action "the right public health call."

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UN’s dismal failure to deal with an international crisis that has geopolitical implications

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s current Director-General, has gone out of his way not to offend China. “Tedros’ permanent and forceful endorsement of Chinese actions throughout the crisis has, of course, created a counter-reaction: the organization itself is now accused of having missed the opportunity to forestall a global pandemic,” AFP reported. This illustrates the UN’s dismal failure to deal with an international crisis that has geopolitical implications, even by a specialized agency with relevant expertise. The Security Council would be completely useless in having anything to say about the pandemic except perhaps to express best wishes for everyone’s health. President Trump should disregard the Democrat senators’ foolish letter urging the president to turn to the Security Council for a solution. His job as president of the United States is to first take care of the well-being of the American people.