> I don't believe you're referring to the same statement as the prior person. I am the same person. > that statement is very precise, very correct, and ultima

> I don't believe you're referring to the same statement as the prior person. I am the same person. > that statement is very precise, very correct, and ultimately uninteresting if you're wondering how dangerous COVID is Indeed, but they've compared that figure to the CFR of the common flu. IMO when saying X% have died, they should rather say "between X and Y" and add that this figure is much more uncertain than the CFR of the common flu under normal circumstances. That's my entire point of critique. I know they need to dumb things down to be consumable by the media, but still. https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---3-march-2020 https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-... > Yes, if you do so before the thing spreads. Well, of course. The earlier the better, the smaller the impact on the economy. The WHO and most countries reacted way too late. > I'm not sure what the point of linking to a random youtube channel is. I've linked to the YouTube channel because it's by an epidemiologist who covered the early outbreak in detail and repeatedly he called out the WHO not being proactive enough. It was obvious it was going to spread and stopping global travel for a couple of weeks would have saved us presumably trillions of USD if one could predict most countries would indeed do a full lockdown later. > Which of those three statements do you feel the WHO got wrong? Please give cited evidence for your disagreement. Those three statements are detached from the part I quoted, which is "a medical mask is not required, as no evidence is available on its usefulness to protect non-sick persons". This sentence is a lie at worst and overconfident at best. Other coronaviruses have similar transmission characteristics and molecule sizes and there was literature that even simple DIY masks help reduce the spread of e.g. SARS-CoV-1. The reason being that the highest viral loads are suspended in droplets which are large enough to be caught by simple fabric or a face shield. AFAIK the evidence that people tend to misapply masks is rather slim by comparison. https://masks4all.co/the-science-masks4all/ https://masks4all.co/the-science-masks4all/