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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 baconn at 03/04/2020 at 18:01 UTC
68 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Even as evidence mounted that Chinese officials had silenced whistleblowers[1] and undercounted cases, Tedros took a moment to extol the leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Now — more than a month into an escalating global health crisis[2] — there are questions about whether the WHO’s praise in the early weeks created a false sense of security that potentially spurred the virus’s spread.
“We were deceived,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University who also provides technical assistance to the WHO.
“Myself and other public health experts, based on what the World Health Organization and China were saying, reassured the public that this was not serious, that we could bring this under control,” he continued.
1: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/
Comment by [deleted] at 03/04/2020 at 21:06 UTC
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Lol, you had me until you started in on an isolationist spiel, ala Brexit style, somehow extrapolating WHO problems to the UN and then to the EU. Maybe the WHO has some problems here and shouldn't be relied upon without question. That's one conversation to have. The UN and the EU are not part of that conversation; they are separate conversations to have in and of themselves, and have to be addressed with separate levels of detail and analysis. Lumping it together in the way that you have is dishonest as hell.
Comment by MarsLumograph at 03/04/2020 at 20:11 UTC
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You will be happy if the European Union falls apart? Why?
Comment by Potential_You at 03/04/2020 at 18:35 UTC
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The WHO is an incompetent bunch.
You got that right.
Comment by TMagnumPi at 03/04/2020 at 21:14 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You're getting your stories a bit mixed up. Taiwan stopped flights from Wuhan the day it was put on lockdown just as China did. They took early precautions which is very good compared to other countries but they never "tried to warn the rest of the world".
Comment by curiouz_mole at 03/04/2020 at 22:12 UTC
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What has the EU to do with the UN dumbfuck. Gilded yourself with a second acc I guess
Comment by coolaidwonder at 03/04/2020 at 17:53 UTC
12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Yeah honestly fuck a donation to the WHO probably better to just set the money on 🔥
Comment by Wernersteinberger at 03/04/2020 at 22:05 UTC
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Ok, I was with you until second paragraph...
Comment by NineteenEighty9 at 04/04/2020 at 16:27 UTC
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The entire UN is a farce. They have caused more problems than good.
I very much agree. It’s a shame what the UN has become. I don’t know how it happened but it appears that almost every body of the organization is dominated by dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. They’ve hijacked it’s legitimacy and are using it to further their own objectives like make the organization less transparent. Many of the members human rights council for example are some of the word offenders. Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, are you kidding me?
Comment by Volsunga at 03/04/2020 at 18:01 UTC*
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While the Taiwan thing is a legitimate problem (but you clearly don't understand what the actual issue is, they didn't "warn" anyone, they just had important data that the WHO ignored because China is petty enough to leave the WHO over recognizing Taiwan and China's data is more important, even if it's not as reliable), the rest of this comment is uninformed utter conspiracy horse shit that doesn't understand what the organization is or does. The WHO is the most important organization in stopping the spread of the disease right now.
Comment by [deleted] at 04/04/2020 at 03:49 UTC
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If this was Plague Inc, the easiest mode is the most accurate.
Comment by prettylieswillperish at 03/04/2020 at 19:35 UTC
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they're still lying about the fucking masks
Comment by Exist50 at 03/04/2020 at 18:19 UTC
-5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
but God forbid they advise stopping Chinese flights for until things settle
And how did that work for the US and Italy, which *did* ban flights? Compare to Korea, which did not.
Comment by joazito at 03/04/2020 at 19:30 UTC
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Plus they're still saying wearing masks doesn't help or even makes things worse.
Comment by guenni3000 at 04/04/2020 at 10:53 UTC
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Wait, how did a comment that openly advocates the downfall of the EU and multilateralism get so many upvotes? Have people here gone completely mad?
Comment by its_stick at 03/04/2020 at 17:56 UTC
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https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/18/flashback-who-china-coronavirus-contagious/