President Trump announced that the United States is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization. My only question is why it took this long.

There are cynical but ultimately effective utilitarian arguments for why we stay in corrupt international organizations such as the United Nations. There are outright correct ones for why we remain in the World Trade Organization, ones that don’t require a modicum of ideological bent. But the coronavirus pandemic has made clear that our return on investment for funding the WHO was hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and more than 100,000 lives.