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It's a good example of how much good the USA does in the world. The reason why the funding cut has happened is obvious. But this "Just-world hypothesis" by ev
by aaron695 7y ago
It's a good example of how much good the USA does in the world.
The reason why the funding cut has happened is obvious.
But this "Just-world hypothesis" by everyone else is just annoying.
WHO did pretty good considering. They are simply not going to be fast moving with unknowns.
We all had the info, we didn't need them to hold our hand and call it a pandemic. We didn't need them to tell us to wear masks. If we wanted to complain about WHO and Taiwan we should have done it last year, now is not the time.
We failed ourselves. And we still are failing ourselves. Simple things we should be doing are still not happening.
- Chris2048 7y ago> we didn't need them to.. fast moving with unknowns.. They weren't just slow, WHO helped spread false and misleading information, and one of their main reasons for existence is to combat this. If WHO can't be trusted as a source of information, what are they good for? > If we wanted to complain about WHO and Taiwan I only just found out about this, now the spotlight is on them. Now is exactly the time, as the main complaint is that the WHO has political motivations that interfere with its main objectives, and this is evidence of that - doubly relevant because if Taiwan weren't being ignored, other countries might handled it as well as they did.
- loopz 7y agoPlease provide links to back up your allegations with facts then.
- keanzu 7y agoTaiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Tuesday (March 24) confirmed that it had warned the World Health Organization (WHO) about the human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) in December of last year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22874243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22874243
- loopz 7y agoThanks! The links shows a "Chernobyl-moment", bad consequences and chilling effects from censorship.
- keanzu 7y agoBruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has disappeared among the list of leaders on the organization's website a day after awkwardly refusing to answer a question about Taiwan's exclusion from the UN agency. During a video interview with Radio Television Hong Kong journalist Yvonne Tong (唐若韞) on Saturday (March 28), Aylward claimed not to have heard her question about whether the WHO would consider Taiwan’s membership. When the journalist tried to repeat the question, the WHO official asked her to "move on to another one." After Tong insisted on getting Aylward’s comment on the Taiwan issue, the advisor appears to have ended the call without notice. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3906962 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3906962
- jeroenhd 7y agoWelcome to politics, where the WHO would rather estrange a disputed island nation than one if the biggest world powers. If we get the governments of the world to acknowledge Taiwan then yes, the WHO should follow suit. However, barely any countries acknowledge Taiwan as a nation and the WHO is part of the UN. The person being interviewed handled the situation very badly, but it's stupid to expect Taiwan to be part of the WHO until at least the United States, the EU and Russia officially acknowledge it as well.
- keanzu 7y ago^ This is the correct answer. Too difficult for the WHO to come up with apparently, their rep thought the smart move was to hang up.