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During Swine Flu outbreak in 2009 china closed it's borders to Mexico, but turns around and says it's unfair when people close their borders to china. Then proc
by philliphaydon 7y ago
During Swine Flu outbreak in 2009 china closed it's borders to Mexico, but turns around and says it's unfair when people close their borders to china. Then proceeded to close their borders AGAIN. facepalm
- Medicalidiot 7y agoSARS happened in 2002-2004, no?
- philliphaydon 7y agoYou're right, I'm thinking Swine Flu. Thanks.
- ftvy 7y agoSARS was closer to 1999-2000.
- Medicalidiot 7y agoNo, it wasn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome#Outbreak_in_South_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
- ftvy 7y agoI remembered incorrectly. Thanks for the link.
- sct202 7y agoNo one has to listen to the CCP. The CCP acts offended by everything.
- surge 7y agoThe problem is, the WHO does, they even said this thing wasn't transmitted person to person. And they're supposed to be the authority everyone was saying to listen to.
- henearkr 7y agoI think that the WHO communication was proportionate to the current knowledge at the time of each of their interventions. First of all they said, when it was clear there was a problem "We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test." (and then Trump and almost everybody else did not want to hear that) And moreover they said more exactly, some time before the previous item, that "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission". So your position is a deformation of their words.
- blub 7y agoNo. The WHO constantly downplayed this pandemic and kowtowed to China to the point of disgracefully delaying calling it a pandemic and then playing catch-up when individual countries started ignoring the WHO and implemented their own measures. Then the WHO switched gears and complained that the countries were doing too little too late. They've been almost completely worthless in this crisis.
- reaperducer 7y agoThe WHO constantly downplayed this pandemic and kowtowed to China See also: The whole WHO/Taiwan debacle, which is still ongoing. The WHO is OK risking the lives of people in Taiwan in order to keep the mainland happy. You would think that the WHO would put the health of people, regardless of where they live, ahead of politics.
- FooBarWidget 7y agoWHO does not officially recognize Taiwan because the UN does not officially recognize Taiwan, and the WHO is a UN organization. It is as simple as that.if you disagree then you gotta take it to the UN.
- ForHackernews 7y agoEveryone has to listen to the CCP. They control access to the world's second-largest economy.
- yibg 7y agoSeems like a pretty common thing from major powers doesn't it. Maybe it's just human nature? e.g. US banning exports of respirators but throwing a tantrum when India tries to ban the export of hydroxychloroquine. Not sure what the solution here is, but it certainly does seem it's everyone for themselves in these situations.