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by spankyspangler 1866 days ago
What do you mean rationale? Entities have authority according to who and what they can influence and affect. It is false to say a state has absolute authority and the WHO has no authority.

Those who listen to, act on advice from, censor and attack opposition to the WHO give it authority. This seems to be very upsetting to you for some reason.
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_y5hn 1866 days ago
On the contrary, and no need for hostile comments attempting to belittle other posters.
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spankyspangler 1866 days ago
No need for badgering, asking pointless questions nitpicking and adding nothing to the discussion. Which itself is a form of bullying and belittling.

There is nothing wrong with my initial comment about the WHO's authority, it absolutely has a measure of authority. Why you would try to make up some definition of the word "authority" that nobody else uses, and then try to attack my comment with it is beyond me.

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_y5hn 1866 days ago
Without any pretext you came up with this projection: "This seems to be very upsetting to you for some reason."

This is trying to play a psychological game with other posters. No point continuing any argument after that, as evidently you have no good intention of having a respectful and balanced discussion, as later posts clearly indicate.

Just because we have different opinions, there's no need for such cheap tricks.

Anyways, to finish my point of view: I have no crocodile tears to shed for authorities trying to scapegoat one of many NGO they are member of. Each country have their own experts, many of who serve for WHO from time to time, so have ample means to come up with new findings at any point in time. Such findings can of course always be shared with the international community, and with WHO. Collaboration is about what you contribute, not what you try to take away from it.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but I don't find it coherent in any other regard than authorities not taking responsibility for their own decisions, actions, indecisions and inaction.

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spankyspangler 1866 days ago
> Just because we have different opinions, there's no need for such cheap tricks.

You shouldn't have been the one to start using them then.

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_y5hn 1866 days ago
No need to argue about that. Readers can just follow the thread to decide for themselves.

Anyhow, have a good day!

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