> Why is it reckless? The WHO has arguably made the problem worse. Ah, this is a typical conservative response. "The government responded ineffectively!" they

> Why is it reckless? The WHO has arguably made the problem worse. Ah, this is a typical conservative response. "The government responded ineffectively!" they will say, to which the only possible response is to simply start dismantling government institutions and replace them with their corporate friends. Then, when the next crisis occurs, and the even further weakened public institutions struggle to respond, they can remind us that they were right all along - it is the institutions that have failed us! Etc etc, into the downward spiral. "Starve the beast" is not a strategy that can possibly result in reform, and I have trouble believing that anybody advocating it believes it in good faith.