Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by baq on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:58AM
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the WHO has taken some not entirely transparent actions during handling of this epidemic and there are allegations that it's boss has a conflict of interest (his country apparently takes a lot of investments from China) and also that there are some pandemic-related financial instruments from which certain parties stand to benefit June 2020 if pandemic isn't declared. these are all hearsay but would explain trying to appease China and their choice of words in their press conferences. both are of course consistent with trying to not spread panic and make sure WHO has access to China, so I'm inclined to think that this is half politics, half good high level medicine work.
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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by netsharc on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:29AM
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WHO politicking can be explained with other than an (IMO semi-bigoted) "China has a lot of investments in Ethiopia", it's got to do with trying to deal with an authoritarian country that doesn't like losing face. If WHO said something that can be taken as an insult, China can tell them to GTFO, and the WHO would lose first hand experience of what's going on there, which might make things more catastrophic..