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Do you remember the uproar and all the anti-vaccine sentiment after WHO was seen to "cry wolf" during the last H1N1 outbreak in 2014 or so? That's probably the
by gnud 7y ago
Do you remember the uproar and all the anti-vaccine sentiment after WHO was seen to "cry wolf" during the last H1N1 outbreak in 2014 or so?
That's probably the reason they were more careful this time. It's hard to know early on exactly how a disease will spread, and how dangerous it will turn out to be.
- raducu 7y agoThen let's just fuck WHO, we can play tit for tat just as easily.
- hurricanetc 7y agoIf the WHO is scared to be aggressive in their recommendations because of blowback six years ago then they are even more incompetent than I thought. It’s not as if outbreaks like this happen often. It would be difficult for the WHO to be labeled as overreacting when they only get an opportunity to react once or twice a decade. The fact that it’s hard to know how dangerous a disease will be is a reason to be extra careful, not the other way around. Not knowing how dangerous something is doesn’t mean we should blunder forward and hope for the best.