It's just sad that when we point out the obvious, the pro-dictatorship camp just dismisses it by saying "don't politicize science". But this data is in fact the

It's just sad that when we point out the obvious, the pro-dictatorship camp just dismisses it by saying "don't politicize science". But this data is in fact the result of politicized science. By bootlicking China, WHO is just expensing her own credibility. Many no longer follow the authority of WHO. For example, many countries started restricting travel from China[0] to give themselves more time to prepare when WHO opposed it[1]. Experts had long questioned WHO's decision to refuse to declare it a pandemic[2], before WHO's late announcement yesterday. There are some efforts to stop the ripple of this China political power play, particularly by Taiwanese and Hong Kongers[3]. We should all be more alert. [0] https://fortune.com/2020/02/06/countries-china-travel-restrictions-coronavirus https://fortune.com/2020/02/06/countries-china-travel-restri... [1] page 5 of https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcripts/ihr-emergency-committee-for-pneumonia-due-to-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-press-briefing-transcript-30012020.pdf https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcr... [2] https://time.com/5798797/un-who-coronavirus-outbreak-classification https://time.com/5798797/un-who-coronavirus-outbreak-classif... [3] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/pull/418 https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/pull/418