Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

It's not that bizarre. Taiwan isn't a sovereign country and by the UN standards, which effectively the WHO is agency of, only sovereign states can 'enjoy' membership in the UN; you have to be internationally recognised as an independent country to get membership and as China doesn't recognise Taiwan, the UN doesn't, so neither does the WHO and the reporting on behalf of Taiwan was done by PRC.

This isn't about politics and he isn't a politician though.

And to blatantly lie in the interview too.

It's not right. They're meant to be about saving lives, not playing a political game.

 

[Jebus_lives]

This isn't about politics and he isn't a politician though.

And to blatantly lie in the interview too.

It's not right. They're meant to be about saving lives, not playing a political game.

Again, I fully agree.

 

[peteblue]

Or through constraints of the system he operates under.

What would they be....bearing in mind the clue of his role is in the title of the organisation......

 

[peteblue]

It's not that bizarre. Taiwan isn't a sovereign country and by the UN standards, which effectively the WHO is agency of, only sovereign states can 'enjoy' membership in the UN; you have to be internationally recognised as an independent country to get membership and as China doesn't recognise Taiwan, the UN doesn't, so neither does the WHO and the reporting on behalf of Taiwan was done by PRC.

When I went to Taiwan I don’t remember asking China if I could do so. I also don’t remember meeting any Chinese officials on the way in or the way out......Just because China refuses to recognise Taiwan does not mean it is not a sovereign country. China also refuses to accept the Judgement decisions of a UN tribunal in respect of the South China Sea, but it doesn’t mean they are right.....

 

[Neiler]

Coronavirus: More ‘striking’ evidence BCG vaccine might protect against Covid-19

Study shows countries with vaccination programmes have far fewer cases

www.irishtimes.com

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Coronavirus: More ‘striking’ evidence BCG vaccine might protect against Covid-19

Study shows countries with vaccination programmes have far fewer cases

www.irishtimes.com

That the one we all had in school that knackered and leaves a horrible lumpy scar?

 

[Toast]

A video doing the rounds of a London hospital and the amount of body bags they have stacked up.

If that's genuine.. that's just shocking.

 

[ClausThomsen]

When I went to Taiwan I don’t remember asking China if I could do so. I also don’t remember meeting any Chinese officials on the way in or the way out......Just because China refuses to recognise Taiwan does not mean it is not a sovereign country. China also refuses to accept the Judgement decisions of a UN tribunal in respect of the South China Sea, but it doesn’t mean they are right.....

Just because China do not actively govern Taiwan that doesn't mean it's recognised as a sovereign nation. Very few countries recognise Taiwan as a de jure sovereign nation.

 

[orchard]

A video doing the rounds of a London hospital and the amount of body bags they have stacked up.

If that's genuine.. that's just shocking.

Link?

 

[Toast]

Link?

I got it on what's app.
No idea how to post it on here mate ?

 

[orly]

I got it on what's app.
No idea how to post it on here mate ?

No thanks mate, if poss

 

[ClausThomsen]

That the one we all had in school that knackered and leaves a horrible lumpy scar?

School day memories....The days after the jab were a constant merry-go-round of punching others and being punched in the arm.

 

[Toast]

No thanks mate, if poss

It should be put on the 10 o'clock news.
It would stop people going out for no real reason that's for sure.

 

[peteblue]

Just because China do not actively govern Taiwan that doesn't mean it's recognised as a sovereign nation. Very few countries recognise Taiwan as a de jure sovereign nation.

I agree, but as you say, a few actually do, as do the Taiwanese people....all 24,000,000 of them, in fact a bigger Population than 24 Individual EU countries.....They will be recognised again one day.....

 

[orly]

It should be put on the 10 o'clock news.
It would stop people going out for no real reason that's for sure.

To be honest, Spanish news is particularly ghoulish for this sort of thing but has never really had any behavioural influence