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Originally Posted by Ferret
Net result was that by WHO pandering to China we lost weeks that could've been used to limit the spread of the virus.
We're lucky that the Australian experts decided to ignore WHO and close borders and declare a pandemic.
Yes, here in NZ we too are thankful we closed when we did and ignored the advice to remain open.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arapiles
The condemnation of the WHO for their approach is going to be long lived but if it was the west's only source of info then it can be rightly stuck on them alone. However, various 'watchers' for the organization with the all-seeing eyes (five in fact) were sending in reports as early as November. The fact that there was a failure of the listening governments to act on this information alone is also damnable in my view. It was not as if there was no warning apparently. It is this failure to listen and act adequately that concerns me more than the sluggishness of the WHO.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Intelligence shows US was warned in November - report - NZ Herald
Report: U.S. Intelligence Officials Warned About Coronavirus In Wuhan In Late November
Canadian military intelligence unit issued warning about Wuhan outbreak back in January | CBC News
...and many other outlets with the same story... we will only know what they want us to know i guess.
The WHO called an international emergency back in January, so the world had plenty of warning and many countries reacted quickly, including ours. And China did release the genetic code after a brief bureaucratic delay, so this is just another anri-China beatup, I think.
Did China release THE genetic code or the genetic code they wanted the world to see?Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Our cool scientists cracked the code. We did give it to the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChookD2
Hidden bits come out regardless of silly political types.
just remember what the WHO said in Jan
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World Health Organization (WHO)
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Jan 14
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🇨🇳.
This was the same day internal documents show China ordered the country to prepare for a pandemic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
It may have been perfectly true that at the time they had found no clear evidence that it was happening. It may be that it was happening but they had not yet found clear evidence.
As for dismissing anything the WHO says because they got something wrong in the past, don't forget that there is a lot about this virus that is new. At first it was not well understood, but as time passes and the virus is better understood, the advice becomes more accurate.
After all, there was a time when doctors thought disease was caused by bad smells. Dies that mean that just because they were wrong then that we should not believe then when they say it is caused by germs?
Each statement about the virus has some chance of being more accurate than previous statements because more data has been gathered.
no, it was a load of hog wash.Quote:
Originally Posted by vnx205
China wasnt forthcoming with information untill it was clear that their attempts to cover up the outbreak had failed.
This added weeks to the response from other countries that in the meantime had been infected by this virus.