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WHO said for weeks it wasn't transmittable between humans, that countries should not impose travel restrictions, and insisting late into the pandemic that you d

WHO said for weeks it wasn't transmittable between humans, that countries should not impose travel restrictions, and insisting late into the pandemic that you don't need to wear masks unless you're infected. Arguably the WHO has blood on its hands for allowing the virus to spread. They unquestionably are influenced by China and CCP's politics, not just denying Taiwan's existence, but the many statements praising China throughout the entire pandemic, on virtually all talking points, while being critical of western nations handling of the virus. If ever there was a time to take action, point fingers, and restore some dignity to supposedly independent health organizations, it is now, by creating a new organization.

bkor 6y ago
This seems to be a "look over there" response. China had a big issue. In Netherlands not much was done. Italy had big issues. Netherlands ignored it. It spread to Netherlands, suddenly extreme measures had to be taken. Meanwhile, not much was done in USA, aside from things like "meh, everything will probably be fine". Now instead of acknowledging that things went wrong, it's because of someone else, say WHO. And China! UK had a report saying that a pandemic was the biggest threat. They recommended a tactical amount of ventilators to be kept, plus various other actions. Nothing was done. > If ever there was a time to take action, point fingers Blaming doesn't really help anything IMO. Figure out the various causes and take action on them. Blaming, too easy.
thdrdt 6y ago
> WHO said for weeks it wasn't transmittable between humans This is not true. They posted: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China," I agree this was not very wise from the WHO to post this, but China refused any other investigations so the WHO had to rely on information from China.
saiya-jin 6y ago
At that time, they relied only on chinese info, which turned out false. They didn't have much more. Do they still claim it? By your logic, we should dissolve US government too - they knew very well what's coming, the scale of it, and focused more on attacking and blaming anything external rather than working on preparation and minimizing the spread. Do you remember top of US government claiming covid is hoax? Trump's mis-handling of this created by far the biggest epicentre of covid - this concerns whole world, not US only. And US had quite a bit of time to prepare.
aorth 6y ago
On January 20th the Chinese Health Commission confirmed human-to-human transmission. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-sp... You act like the world didn't know until April, but by then China, Iran, Italy, and Spain were ablaze and people were saying by the thousands. Your government had the same information everyone else had. why did South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Jordan fare so well? Blame your own government for not responding fast enough and for not listening to their advisors. The blood is on their hands.

bkor 6y ago

This seems to be a "look over there" response. China had a big issue. In Netherlands not much was done. Italy had big issues. Netherlands ignored it. It spread to Netherlands, suddenly extreme measures had to be taken. Meanwhile, not much was done in USA, aside from things like "meh, everything will probably be fine". Now instead of acknowledging that things went wrong, it's because of someone else, say WHO. And China! UK had a report saying that a pandemic was the biggest threat. They recommended a tactical amount of ventilators to be kept, plus various other actions. Nothing was done. > If ever there was a time to take action, point fingers Blaming doesn't really help anything IMO. Figure out the various causes and take action on them. Blaming, too easy.

thdrdt 6y ago

> WHO said for weeks it wasn't transmittable between humans This is not true. They posted: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China," I agree this was not very wise from the WHO to post this, but China refused any other investigations so the WHO had to rely on information from China.

saiya-jin 6y ago

At that time, they relied only on chinese info, which turned out false. They didn't have much more. Do they still claim it? By your logic, we should dissolve US government too - they knew very well what's coming, the scale of it, and focused more on attacking and blaming anything external rather than working on preparation and minimizing the spread. Do you remember top of US government claiming covid is hoax? Trump's mis-handling of this created by far the biggest epicentre of covid - this concerns whole world, not US only. And US had quite a bit of time to prepare.

aorth 6y ago

On January 20th the Chinese Health Commission confirmed human-to-human transmission. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-sp... You act like the world didn't know until April, but by then China, Iran, Italy, and Spain were ablaze and people were saying by the thousands. Your government had the same information everyone else had. why did South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Jordan fare so well? Blame your own government for not responding fast enough and for not listening to their advisors. The blood is on their hands.