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by pengaru 2199 days ago
Well now that they've been severely defunded by the USA everything coming out of them is especially suspect as propaganda resulting from that leverage.

The American president wants scapegoats for his failings, and despite completely ignoring the WHO recommendations at the start of the pandemic, he's turned the WHO into one.
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SomeoneFromCA 2199 days ago
Every recommendation coming out of WHO was bad so far. Especially to not close borders with China.
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pengaru 2199 days ago
Every? B.S.

On Jan. 30 the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. That announcement is a trigger for the agency’s member governments to follow its recommendations. These include establishing a comprehensive programme of testing, quarantining people suspected to be infected, and tracing their contacts.

The US completely ignored it, while Germany, Signapore, South Korea, didn't.

Nobody is claiming the WHO is perfect, but come on, this is such political hogwash.

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SomeoneFromCA 2199 days ago
Really how about this: https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/...
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_-david-_ 2199 days ago
The US cannot do a lot of things. The individual states in the US can do things. Trump closed the borders at the end of January which is basically all he could do.
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malloryerik 2199 days ago
An incorrect statement with no evidence given.

And since when is test, trace and isolate a bad recommendation? Just because the US and many other countries failed to heed this advice doesn't mean it wasn't given.

There were some big mistakes, yes, maybe especially not recommending face masks. Should the head of the organization have better moderated his comments about the Chinese response? Sure. But for one thing, once China stopped pretending there was no problem their response was very effective, and second, such statements should be considered unimportant especially compared to the real work done by the WHO's scientists and doctors. A polite word to a large donor by the political head of a medical and scientific international organization matters more than the actual work they do?

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/27-04-2020-who-timeline...

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ta17711771 2199 days ago
Yet ten years ago, people would look at you like three heads if you said the WHO was a globalist entourage...
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