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It's hard to prepare when the WHO [0] was still telling that the virus probably doesn't spread between humans as little as 2 months ago. Of course the western g

It's hard to prepare when the WHO [0] was still telling that the virus probably doesn't spread between humans as little as 2 months ago. Of course the western governments should've reacted earlier, but the margin wasn't that big. The WHO were the observers on the ground and they chose to play down the whole thing to ease china. [0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20 https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20

lonelappde 7y ago
2 months ago China had already announced human to human transmission. WHO isn't a an omniscient god. They don't have any information that regional authorities don't give them. If Chinese government lies, that's the Chinese government's crime. People got sick at a fish market in December. It was reported up to government as a potentially novel illness by Dec 31. A mere 2 weeks later on Jan 14 there was no clear evidence of transmission yet, because viruses take time to transmit and incubate and sicken and get reported to authorities. On Jan 20 Chinese authorities announced human transmission. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/timeline-china-coronavirus-spread-200126061554884.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/timeline-china-corona...