Juan Cole, Jimmy Carter and WHO

University of Michigan comedian Juan Cole has predictably gone hysterical over the Corona virus issue. Naturally, it is all Trump's fault even though the President put a travel ban  against China in place on January 31, ten days after the first reported case in the US. (That was racist, you know.)

Now that Trump has cut off funding for the corrupt World Health Organization, whose main concern has been shielding China from criticism, Cole has gone of the rails once again. In his latest blurb in his curiously-named blog, Informed Comment, he contrasts Trump's actions with that of one of our truly great presidents-Jimmy Carter!

                                                                                                         Who???
                                                                     
 It goes something like this:

"Carter, an actual human being, was appalled. He asked what could be done to fight the guinea worm. He was told that it is a relatively large parasite in drinking water, and if people would just pour the water through cloth first, they’d filter it out. The main issue was educating villagers and especially mothers in the simple filtering technique.

Carter, being a former US president and very persuasive and energetic, went to the health departments of all the countries with a guinea worm infestation (mostly in Africa, but it was even in Pakistan), and over the past three decades has made it a priority of the Carter Center to eradicate the damn thing the way the world got rid of smallpox.

Guess what? Carter enlisted the World Health Organization and UNICEF in this effort."

https://www.juancole.com/2020/04/kneecapped-organization-pandemic.html

Cole, of course, does not go into specifics as to how Carter "enlisted" the W.H.O. in his efforts to eradicate the guinea worm, but here's my question: If the cure is simply to spread the word to villagers in Africa to run the water through a cloth, how much time and money does that take? How many billions of dollars does the W.H.O. have to spend of its multi-billion dollar budget to accomplish that?


"A tale of two presidents. One, narcissistic, self-absorbed, incompetent, greedy garbage. The other, the closest thing we’ve had to a president-saint."

I will excuse Cole for his St James reference, but I certainly hope he isn't using that kind of verbiage (regarding Trump) in his classes at the University of Michigan. It would be unbecoming, unprofessional, and hardly worth all the thousands of dollars in tuition that parents spend to send their kids to Ann Arbor.