God, I was so annoyed reading WHO statements and people quoting them as an authority when this first started to blow up in China. The numbers quickly went from

God, I was so annoyed reading WHO statements and people quoting them as an authority when this first started to blow up in China. The numbers quickly went from dozens to hundreds, and they still tried saying there was no chance of human-to-human transmission (pretty unlikely that they all ate the same food and that a virus with the main symptom being coughing isn't transmitted by coughing) and that it'd all be contained and there was no need to worry. In this crisis, the WHO has been bending over so far backwards that it's spinning donuts to serve as a political mouthpiece for certain governments. There was panic over people being under-supplied and under-prepared, and one of the main supplies in short supply was masks. Masks aren't perfect, but even if they're reducing transmission by 10% and keeping people from touching their mouth, that's a decent effect.