Does anyone have confidence in this organisation?
It seems like a Chinese propaganda mouthpiece to me deserving of its own thread separate from the China and Covid19 ones. I hadn't actually heard of it until this pandemic started, but so many of the decisions and advice that its given have been political that it deserves some serious questions asked of it.
Funding: How have we allowed a situation whereby people like Bill Gates are allowed to be major funders of this organisation? This is no way to have an independent health organisation if that's what it's supposed to be since people like Gates can easily be pressured by countries like China over his Microsoft business and regulation etc. He's just a patsy.
Health expertise: The WHO failed to warn the world about the pandemic, so that we couldn't prepare adequately. They gave us wrong information saying there was no human to human transmission, so that we didn't put in place mechanisms to defend ourselves against travellers, social distancing, mass spectator events etc. In fact they condemned countries that did close their borders. We still don't know where the virus came from in China and how - WHO failing. Nor do we have samples from the start that we can now compare our samples to which would show how the virus has changed. The WHO seems hugely culpable in all of this. Maybe you could pass that off as just incredible incompetence, but then there is the stuff about Taiwan... It's not a coincidence in my opinion.
Leadership: There is a petition signed by over a million people asking for the chief of the WHO to resign. Apparently, the WHO refuses to allow Taiwan membership, so that Taiwanese people cannot participate in discussions about health of its citizens or give the world data about how its handled the crisis etc etc. One wonders why the WHO would refuse Taiwan's money? Then I saw this interview with a Taiwanese journalist asking a WHO senior official some pretty reasonable questions.
Fox News gives it the outrage it truly deserves...
It seems like a Chinese propaganda mouthpiece to me deserving of its own thread separate from the China and Covid19 ones. I hadn't actually heard of it until this pandemic started, but so many of the decisions and advice that its given have been political that it deserves some serious questions asked of it.
Funding: How have we allowed a situation whereby people like Bill Gates are allowed to be major funders of this organisation? This is no way to have an independent health organisation if that's what it's supposed to be since people like Gates can easily be pressured by countries like China over his Microsoft business and regulation etc. He's just a patsy.
Health expertise: The WHO failed to warn the world about the pandemic, so that we couldn't prepare adequately. They gave us wrong information saying there was no human to human transmission, so that we didn't put in place mechanisms to defend ourselves against travellers, social distancing, mass spectator events etc. In fact they condemned countries that did close their borders. We still don't know where the virus came from in China and how - WHO failing. Nor do we have samples from the start that we can now compare our samples to which would show how the virus has changed. The WHO seems hugely culpable in all of this. Maybe you could pass that off as just incredible incompetence, but then there is the stuff about Taiwan... It's not a coincidence in my opinion.
Leadership: There is a petition signed by over a million people asking for the chief of the WHO to resign. Apparently, the WHO refuses to allow Taiwan membership, so that Taiwanese people cannot participate in discussions about health of its citizens or give the world data about how its handled the crisis etc etc. One wonders why the WHO would refuse Taiwan's money? Then I saw this interview with a Taiwanese journalist asking a WHO senior official some pretty reasonable questions.
Fox News gives it the outrage it truly deserves...
