Introducing the Solidarity Award — A 100% contribution to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/fub7xo/introducing_the_solidarity_award_a_100/

created by plgrmonedge on 03/04/2020 at 16:14 UTC

19230 upvotes, 284 top-level comments (showing 25)

It’s been incredible to witness the ways in which the Reddit community has come together to raise awareness, share information and resources, and support each other during a time of universal need. Across the platform, existing communities like r/science[1], r/askscience[2], and r/worldnews[3] have joined newly established communities like r/Coronavirus[4] and r/COVID19[5] to share authoritative content and welcome important discussion every day.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/

At Reddit Inc., we’ve also been working[6] to curate expert discussions and surface the most reliable information for you. And today, we’re excited to launch the Solidarity Award, which seeks to raise funds for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic via the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund[7] for the World Health Organization (WHO)[8]. The fund -- which is powered by the United Nations Foundation[9] and the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation[10] -- supports WHO’s[11] work to track and understand the spread of COVID-19, ensure patients get the care they need, frontline workers get essential supplies and information, and accelerate efforts to develop vaccines, tests, and treatments for the pandemic.

6: https://redditblog.com/2020/03/02/expert-conversation-on-coronavirus/

7: https://covid19responsefund.org/

8: https://www.who.int/

9: https://unfoundation.org/

10: https://www.swissphilanthropy.ch/en/

11: https://www.who.int/

Starting today, you can purchase the Solidarity Award directly on Reddit desktop and mobile web (via PayPal or Stripe), and **100% of the proceeds** will benefit the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund[12] for WHO.*

12: https://covid19responsefund.org/

• *Here are a few details on the Solidarity Award**:

• How to find the Award: The Solidarity Award can only be given on Reddit desktop and mobile web (not currently available to give on Mobile apps). You'll find the award towards the bottom of the Medals section in our Award dialog.
• The full price of the Award ($3.99) will be donated by Reddit to the United Nation Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization[13]. More information on the fund is available at www.covid19responsefund.org[14]
• Donors will receive a special Reddit Trophy, which will be added to users’ trophy cases on their profile page (on or before 4/30/20)
• Awards given are visible across all platforms

See the award here:

13: https://www.who.int/

14: http://www.covid19responsefund.org/

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Solidarity Award

• *Why are we doing this?**

We’ve never felt more urgency or responsibility to fulfill our mission of bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world. The Solidarity Award is meant to complement the efforts of our users, moderators, and employees at Reddit by enabling community-wide charitable giving during a time of great need.

• *A Heads Up:**

The team at Reddit worked quickly to enable the Solidarity Award. As with all new things at this scale, we are keeping an eye out for any bugs and issues that may arise, and will update the experience accordingly.

• *From Reddit to all of our users:** Stay safe, be vigilant, and take care of one another.

• *Reddit is covering the transaction fees associated with the purchase of the Solidarity Award*

Comments

Comment by ReasonOverwatch at 05/04/2020 at 06:05 UTC*

405 upvotes, 9 direct replies

Here are investigated allegations against the WHO:

(Other ways to help: protein folding (free!)[1], UNICEF[2], Red Cross Blood Donations[3], CDP[4])

1: https://foldingathome.org/

2: https://www.unicef.ca/en/ways-to-donate

3: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus--covid-19--and-blood-donation.html

4: https://disasterphilanthropy.org/donate-to-the-cdp-covid-19-response-fund/

Actions

• *Downplaying severity, manipulating public perception of Chinese government at the cost of global health:**

• *Downplaying the severity:* WHO parroted information put out by Chinese authorities saying that *coronavirus is not transmissible* - despite these authorities lying in the past, such as with SARS[5], as well as during this outbreak when they arrested at least 8 *doctors* warning of coronavirus[6] under charges of *"spreading rumours"*. (Rudimentary Infographic[7] showing the WHO downplaying the virus multiple other times.) This is extremely irresponsible behaviour from an agency which health workers look to for factual information as it misleads them[8], causing worse patient outcomes. Even if the WHO weren't working for the Chinese government, they should have at least said *they don't know* how dangerous the virus is instead of providing false reassurance.

5: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92479/

6: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/china-is-arresting-people-for-spreading-rumors-online-about

7: https://twitter.com/shiroihamusan/status/1240890144732753920/photo/1

8: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-officials-note-serious-problems-in-coronavirus-response-the-world-health-organization-keeps-praising-them/2020/02/08/b663dd7c-4834-11ea-91ab-ce439aa5c7c1_story.html

• *Urging to not close borders:* WHO falsely claimed that closing borders to China would *worsen* the outbreak[9]. They argued it was too extreme of a measure, ignoring information coming from whistleblowers and Taiwan. This appears to have been to protect Chinese economy over human lives and to further downplay the severity to save Chinese government face. The common counter-argument is that the WHO has to behave this way so that they have the chance to work with the Chinese government (lesser of two evils argument). The problem with this is that for the WHO to be an effective organization which aids humanity, they need to have credibility. Spreading disinformation is highly destructive to that credibility as it makes them accomplices in crimes against humanity. And after all this kowtowing, net world health has still clearly suffered rather than improved from the disinformation. This is inexcusable and counter to the WHO's claimed mission.

9: https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/who-chief-urges-countries-not-close-borders-foreigners-china

• *Spreading propaganda:* The WHO have consistently praised the Chinese government for its response to coronavirus and treated its statistics as factual despite evidence coming out and many whistleblowers saying the statistics are forged[10] specifically to allow the party to save face. Bruce Aylward, the team leader of WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19, has even gone as far as to make persuasive arguments such as "if I had covid-19 I would want to be treated in China."[11]

10: https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/23/why-on-earth-should-anyone-believe-communist-chinas-coronavirus-statistics/

11: https://youtu.be/m-lfD9Oajec?t=39

• *Spreading misinformation about masks:* The WHO argue on their website[12] *against* wearing masks because:

12: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks

A) medical staff and sick people need priority for masks. If everyone wants masks there may be hoarding. However this is not a reason to spread misinformation saying masks are *ineffective*. Hoarding can be mitigated through legal enforcement and education/societal responsibility.

B) wearing a mask may cause people to have a false sense of security. However we can be educated to continue washing our hands and recognize that we aren't fully protected[13].

C) they increase face touching from wearers adjusting their masks. However we can be educated to not touch our faces.

What the WHO website doesn't mention here is that:

A) you can be asymptomatic and spreading coronavirus unknowingly.

B) primary mode of transmission may be viruses in water droplets in the air[14].

Wearing a mask, even a poorly made one, would mitigate both of these issues.

These poor recommendations may have ulterior motives (perhaps trying to downplay the severity of the virus further) or it may simply be incompetence.

13: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/fqrvy9/this_gives_you_an_idea_how_many_layers_of

14: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/25/coronavirus-survives-on-metal-plastic-cardboard-common-objects/2866340001/

• *Ignoring concerns from Taiwan at the cost of global health in order to push the Chinese government's agenda:**

• WHO ignored Taiwanese health officials[15] when they sent an email warning of the *possibility of* human-to-human transmission in late December 2019. Again, while this is under the table, it is clear that this is caused by the Chinese government bullying organizations such as the WHO because it damages Taiwan's political legitimacy, increasing the Chinese government's power over them. Because the WHO failed to have a spine here, world health has worsened as caution would have drastically reduced the impact of the pandemic.

15: https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/20/who-taiwan-coronavirus-warning/

• A WHO representative pretended not to hear a question about Taiwan[16] and abruptly hung up.

16: https://twitter.com/HKWORLDCITY/status/1243865641448169474

• WHO excluded Taiwan from emergency meetings[17].

17: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/28/taiwan-who-coronavirus-china-international-organizations/

• *Corruption and ineffectiveness:**

• The WHO consistently spends more donations on travel expenses than on relief from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined[18].

18: https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/world-health-organization-corrupt-wasteful/

• Former WHO consultant Charles Clift reported in 2014[19] that the WHO was ineffective as an organization due to its politicization.

19: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-china-intl-hnk/index.html

• A senior employee was accused of legendary corruption including racism, sexism, and using Ebola donations to pay for their girlfriend's flight[20]. It's unknown if anything ever came of this or if the unnamed official got away with this behaviour.

20: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/18/senior-world-health-organization-official-accused-of-using-ebola-cash-to-pay-for-girlfriends-flight-corruption-racism-sexism

• The list goes on and on. There are 15 distinct controversies[21] the WHO has been involved in listed on Wikipedia alone.

21: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#Controversies

Motivations

• *Inability to be neutral; ability to be bribed:**

• The WHO has an inherent conflict of interest: in order to be recognized as a world health authority, the WHO are dependent on recognition from world governments. Therefore, if they want to maintain their power, they must do as requested if by a sufficiently powerful government - such as the Chinese government (a dictatorship superpower at the epicentre of a pandemic that it wants to cover up to save face). Therefore ability to be objective is compromised. It would appear that this establishment is built upon social politics rather than science.

• The WHO was originally supposed to receive funds only from governments that were United Nations members but recently set up "private partnership"[22] which allows it to receive financial support from any private industry *off the record*. This sets up easy routes for bribery.

22: https://www.globalresearch.ca/politics-corruption-who/5702045

• *Reputation of WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:**

• 726,318 people have now called for Tedros's resignation[23]. The WHO have so far ignored this.

23: https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-call-for-the-resignation-of-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-who-director-general

• Tedros named a tyrant a WHO "goodwill ambassador"[24]. Even top WHO staff condemned this decision which was later rescinded after backlash. The fact that Tedros attempted this at all speaks to his character. The fact that someone with such poor character is the leader of the WHO discredits the organization.

24: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/10/25/another-week-another-scandal-at-the-united-nations/

• Tedros served in the EPRDF which has committed human rights abuses including torture, repression, and electoral fraud[25]. (2nd Amnesty link[26]). This too speaks to his character and the reputation of the WHO to elect him their leader.

25: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/03/a-license-to-torture/

26: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr25/4178/2016/en/

• Tedros may have a conflict of interest[27] as he *was* a politician in Ethiopia (his home country) which is currently receiving massive infrastructure investments (such as a $3.4 billion railway project) from China, its largest trading partner. However, Tedros is no longer a politician there so it's hard to pinpoint for certain if this would be a conflict of interest or not.

27: https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/03/20/803121/

• Tedros has been involved in 3 cover ups[28] of Cholera (2nd source[29]), leading to less aid. This has been argued as being a smear campaign. Inconclusive.

28: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/18/ethiopias-candidate-for-the-world-health-organization-doesnt-like-mentioning-a-certain-disease/

29: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom#Criticism_and_scandal

Comment by thefish2344 at 03/04/2020 at 16:22 UTC*

2281 upvotes, 8 direct replies

Fun fact! WHO spends more money on travel and luxury hotels than mental health, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria research combined!

https://apnews.com/1cf4791dc5c14b9299e0f532c75f63b2/AP-Exclusive:-Health-agency-spends-more-on-travel-than-AIDS

Edit: Thanks for my first awards! (Although they are counterproductive to the point I was trying to make). I’m finishing up my degree in Public Health this semester and I always hate to see the praise WHO receives in the field. The health care worker award means a lot to me as I once aspired to be a Nurse Practitioner. The F award perfectly conveys the money I’ve lost in the stock market being bored and working/attending school from home.

Comment by prettylieswillperish at 03/04/2020 at 19:39 UTC

214 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Sometimes i think the community falters, then i see moments like this where the community all gets together to unite and blow the fuck out of reddit for supporting a scummy organisation that hasn't helped reduce spread of the virus at all. and it makes me feel happy, that there are still some sane people left on this site

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 18:35 UTC

592 upvotes, 1 direct replies

As of 2018, it has a budget of over $4.2 billion, most of which comes from voluntary contributions from member states

In May 2018, the WHO denied access to its annual assembly by Taiwanese media reportedly due to demands from China.

In a 2020 interview assistant director-general Bruce Aylward first pretended he did not hear a question about Taiwan and then exited the interview when the question was repeated. When the video chat was restarted and he was asked another question about Taiwan he claimed to have already answered the question and formally ended the interview.

I’m good thanks. It’s bad enough that some of my tax money goes to further Xi Xinping’s authoritarianism and imperialism, I don’t feel the need to donate more on top.

Have you considered asking Tencent for donations?

Comment by Kirchosaurus at 03/04/2020 at 16:27 UTC

660 upvotes, 5 direct replies

If you're going to donate. Do it locally for your community, not an entity like the WHO. They're not going to care or help if your neighbor is starving

Comment by kingbane2 at 03/04/2020 at 22:37 UTC

36 upvotes, 0 direct replies

why would we donate to the WHO when they basically sold all of us out to china? they gave shit advice for how countries should deal with because they wouldn't listen to taiwan, or investigate china. fuck that.

Comment by daveime at 03/04/2020 at 17:23 UTC

1136 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Am I the only one who finds it just a tad cynical that Reddit (who were recently given a $150 million cash injection from Tencent) are doing a fundraiser for the WHO, whose stance on China could at best be described as laughable, and at worst downright disgusting for a supposedly apolitical organisation?

The full price of the Award ($3.99) will be donated by Reddit

How very magnimous of you. No comment about matching the amount donated out of your slush fund, just "we won't take a percentage off the top". Are we supposed to be congratulating you for that?

Comment by Jeb03 at 03/04/2020 at 19:50 UTC

314 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I would be more inclined to support the WHO if they did not parrot the Chinese Communist Parties native and misinformation about the Corona virus. It appears that China was conducting research on batt viruses and knew about the severity of the virus before anyone became infected.

The WHO repeated China's narrative to the parel of the entire world. The WHO should conduct their own studies and be a reliable source of information independent of the claims and assertions of any individual country or political entity.

Most of the American media should be ashamed of the way they blindly reported the misinformation coming out of China.

Just look at how the Corona virus numbers reported by China are completely skued from the numbers reported by the rest of the world. If you believe China's reporting that there are no new cases and everyone that didn't die has recovered.

Why didn't the WHO informe anyone about How China knew immediately to quarintine everyone for 30 days to allow the virus's 15 day incubation period to run its course. And where is the WHO's information on how China's Covid19 test kits had a less than 30% reliability.

No, while the WHO is doing alot to help, they should have done their due diligence and reported their finding and not relied on China's narrative of disinformation.

Comment by Valutones at 04/04/2020 at 08:59 UTC*

169 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It's absurd to donate to the organization that has:

• Consistently protected the Chinese government and repeated their lies
• Consistently made false claims about how dangerous the virus was, and how it spreads
• Completely dropped the ball, when it comes to it's supposed #1 purpose
• Consistently made the effects and spread much worse, by downplaying the severity, discouraging mask-usage, covering up how bad it was in China

A couple months ago, when I looked into it to see if I should be concerned, I (and many others) believed the WHO and CDC who said there was little to worry about and spread was limited. Yes, I saw other sources of information claiming it was widespread, being covered up, very dangerous, and not under control but I wrote those off, trusting the WHO.

When the virus arrived, everyone was caught with their pants down BECAUSE of the WHO. The virus would have showed up eventually, but we could have gotten much further ahead of this **reducing international travel, monitoring spread, funding tests and treatment, supporting research, preparing medical supply manufacturing, reducing large gatherings, educating about symptoms & spread, educating about prevention**. All of that could have bought us an extra couple months, without even instituting any stay-home orders or shutting down businesses.

The WHO has about a 4.5-billion dollar annual budget, and what little they've done to help is massively out-classed by what they've done to make it worse. Meanwhile, we're having to rely on charitable contributions of private individuals and organizations to get reources where they actually need to go, and Reddit would have us direct them to the WHO, rather than the thousands of other organizations that need those resources more and would use them better.

Also, The official subreddit r/Coronavirus[1] reddit keeps promoting "**KEEP YOURSELF SAFE AND INFORMED**" is garbage that gets people riled up; it's nothing but fear, anxiety, sensationalism, politics, and emotional stories. There is almost zero facts, "authoritative content", or informed content there about the virus, symptoms, spread, treatments, prevention, etc.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/

edit: I appreciate the thoughtfulness, but please stop giving gold and other paid rewards to people like me speaking out against the WHO. It's contradictory to our message.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 16:45 UTC

2393 upvotes, 9 direct replies

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Comment by GoodTimesWeakMen at 03/04/2020 at 18:25 UTC

29 upvotes, 0 direct replies

How about you fucks give your own money, cheap bastards.

Comment by LordFantastic at 04/04/2020 at 00:54 UTC*

1113 upvotes, 8 direct replies

I can't believe you guys are donating to W.H.O. This makes sense to me as a large portion of Reddit is owned by the Chinese Government. Basically you are asking us to donate to a Chinese Owned Health Organization that doesn't care. They are the reason for this. If you want to donate to help the Covid19 Response, please consider donating to:

Red Cross Blood Donations https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus--covid-19--and-blood-donation.html[1]

1: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus--covid-19--and-blood-donation.html

My personal favorite, they did my Cleft Palate surgery for free when I was born;

John Hopkins https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus/giving.html

CDP (not CDC)-Fixed By U/Sluuuurp https://disasterphilanthropy.org/donate-to-the-cdp-covid-19-response-fund/

When I was homeless they took care of me. (I did get my stuff stolen every night, but they also fed me)

Salvation Army: https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/covid19/

Donating to these would help way more than donating to Chinese Health Organization. For those who don't know what I'm talking about;

New York Post: https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/chinas-deadly-coronavirus-lie-co-conspirator-the-world-health-organization/

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/china-steps-up-western-media-campaign-over-coronavirus-crisis

Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/02/china-coronavirus-who-health-soft-power/

Also while I'm at it, Reddit is owned by China too;

The Times talking about China's Censorship on Reddit: https://time.com/5526128/china-reddit-tencent-censorship/

The Verge: They talk about China buying into Reddit; https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-investment-deal-memes-amount-winnie-the-pooh-tank-man-china

• *Edit**

It's been brought to my attention that John Hopkins might not be the best place to donate too because of this https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3894963

Link Provided by u/MikeyCito22

John Hopkins is a personal one for me that I have a bias about because of me being born with cleft palate and them helping my mom out financially.

• *Edit 2**

I figured since this comment is getting upvoted so much that I should link more proof of corruption in W.H.O and Reddit.

• *Recent Viral Video, keep in mind this isn't some low level employee in W.H.O.**

They are refusing to let Taiwan join W.H.O. because of Chinese censorship. https://streamable.com/9zpqr

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 16:22 UTC

1210 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Uh can people not fund an organization that down played the current situation until they had no choice? Can people not fund an organization that has essentially failed its job? Can people fund an investigation into why the WHO lied about human to human transmission and took 3 months to declare a global pandemic?

Fuck the WHO. We need a new WHO.

Comment by riptide747 at 03/04/2020 at 17:38 UTC*

487 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Why are we doing this?

"We’ve never felt more urgency or responsibility to fulfill our mission of bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world. The Solidarity Award is meant to complement the efforts of our users, moderators, and employees at Reddit by enabling community-wide charitable giving during a time of great need."

Or you know, because Reddit and the WHO are owned by China and are greedy fucks looking for an easy payday from people already suffering.

Go fuck yourself.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 18:57 UTC

104 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yeah I'm going to pass on any funding or more of my money going to WHO. They can straight up go fuck themselves. If you have money in any crisis it's best to give it directly to individuals in need.

I'm giving 500 to my favorite pizza place so they can stay open and buying my elderly neighbor groceries for the next two weeks.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 17:10 UTC*

636 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Who the fuck in their right mind would give money to the WHO right now? After all of the shit they have pulled over this virus including refusing to acknowledge the existence of Taiwan, clearly placing them in the pocket of China. Flushing my money down the toilet would be just as beneficial.

You should at least try and make it a little less obvious who really pulls the strings here.

Edit: Yeah whoever gave me the award go fuck yourself. This shit isn't a fucking joke. Thousands of people have died because of misinformation and coverups.

Comment by JustWoozy at 03/04/2020 at 21:56 UTC

54 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The same WHO that said to not worry about it at first? The WHO Is bullshit and doesn't deserve your money.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-china-intl-hnk/index.html

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/this-is-not-a-time-for-fear-who-downplays-criticism-china-hushed-up-coronavirus-in-early-days

https://www.sciencealert.com/who-tries-to-correct-wuhan-coronavirus-risk-level

blah blah blah...

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 17:42 UTC

983 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Ah, Chinese-owned Reddit funneling money into Chinese propaganda machine, WHO! Lovely!

Great work guys! Please contribute to this blatant money laundering scheme with your foreign dollars.

How great is the WHO? I mean, on January 14th, they assured us that COVID-19 wasn’t transferable to humans. Thanks!

They also suppressed evidence of the virus origin.

They cautioned populations AGAINST wearing life-saving masks.

They don’t acknowledge Taiwan.

The WHO has blood on their hands. It’s a Chinese propaganda mouth piece and given the tremendous percentage of Reddit’s ownership to the Chinese, this is a pretty pathetic attempt to mask a kickback.

Fuck the WHO

Fuck China

And Fuck Reddit

Comment by vio212 at 03/04/2020 at 20:14 UTC

53 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The WHO who says none of this is Chinas fault.... of course. Not obvious at all.

With the ownership of this company now lying in China’s hands this is basically laundering money right back to pro-communist China organization.

Yay for reddit!

Comment by PoniesPlayingPoker at 03/04/2020 at 16:20 UTC*

4152 upvotes, 11 direct replies

My sister was crying last night in bed, singing a song she had made up about how she missed going to school, and how she missed her friends. Mom had to quit her job as a nurse because she was immuno compromised and her hospital would not provide basic face masks. I lost my job because the whole business shut down a week before mandatory quarantine. My dad is barely holding things together as a web developer. I'm fortunate that I have a home, a car, and no debt, but even so we're struggling with anxiety, depression, and worse. To everyone out there who is suffering, in better or worse conditions than I am, we can do this, if we all band together. I've seen too many people take the motto "every man for themselves." I haven't been able to buy TP in a month because of people like this. Please, be considerate, stay inside, and stay calm. We'll get through this.

Edit: And to Reddit staff, shame. Don't donate to the WHO. They have mony. Donate to the independent labs across the world developing vaccines and test kits because governments aren't doing enough on their own. Donate to people who have lost their family members, their homes, their cars. I understand the sentiment you're trying to make but it's pointed at the wrong people.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 16:45 UTC

1405 upvotes, 5 direct replies

Don't forget that WHO withheld this virus' potential for several weeks and ignored Taiwan when they tried to warn the rest of the world. The WHO is an incompetent bunch. They're liars and dishonest. Their entire establishment is built on social politics and not on science. There fear of discriminating was one of the reasons why this virus got to spread as much. They knew the Chinese were struggling with it, they knew it will leak from China, but God forbid they advise stopping Chinese flights for until things settle.

The entire UN is a farce. They have caused more problems than good. Good luck keeping the European Union together after all this. One by one we'll be leaving. Ciao.

Comment by Trout22 at 03/04/2020 at 19:45 UTC

121 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Y'all at Reddit are dumbasses, how did you think this would go? Like literally. Do you even read your own website? Why should I give my money to WHO after they failed to do their job? Why would I give money to a organization that spends more on keeping it's employees comfortable rather than actually preventing disease. Actually such a dumb move I'm shocked.

Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 16:22 UTC*

1024 upvotes, 11 direct replies

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Comment by Baalwulf06 at 03/04/2020 at 16:32 UTC

131 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The WHO as of 2018 has an operational budget of 4.2 billion and receives 30% of it's funding from China. They absolutely do not need any more. You'd do far more to spend your money locally purchasing food for someone who is now jobless.

Comment by SmokeWeedAlldayErrda at 03/04/2020 at 16:23 UTC

305 upvotes, 3 direct replies

I stand in solidarity with Taiwan, which the WHO refuses to admit exists.