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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by enitihas on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:40PM (#22713303)
Is the WHO even relevant? The WHO is not a sovereign authority, and has proven to not be independent too. They have been lying the entire time. Their statements

1. No evidence of human to human transmission

2. No need to ban travel from China. Ineffective

3. It is not a pandemic

4. Some twitter threads who WHO adding traditional chinese medicine in their list of medicines for COVID-19 in their chinese language posts.

5. Masks do not work.

If the WHO can't be independent, can't say things truly, and they never had any sovereign authority to begin with, what good exactly are they?

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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by haltingproblem on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:46PM (#22713358)
The WHO is relevant because every national, state and local medical authority and doctor has been trained and conditioned to trust them over the past decades. Even now you will find, infectious disease doctors citing WHO guidance in articles and on twitter. There is a level of faith in WHO which seems no longer warranted.
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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by xlak on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:02PM (#22714311)
These organizations are useless and full of functionaries.

RKI (Robert Koch Institut) in Germany is the same. Incompetent, unable to produce proper graphs or measurements, but great at making press conferences televised by the state television bureaucrats.

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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by siv- on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:42PM (#22713785)
Could you provide links for those statements?
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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by artwr on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:12PM (#22714370)
1. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-idUSKBN1...

3. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/health/who-coronavirus-not-pa...

Can't comment on 4.

5. it's a little bit complicated as I believe they are just not recommending masks unless you are sick or caring for the sick.

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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by LatteLazy on Saturday March 28, 2020 @06:36PM (#22714818)
1 is a Chinese statement, who are just re-reporting...
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Re:Taiwan says WHO failed to act on coronavirus transmission... by lonelappde on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:51PM (#22715479)
#2 does not support original commenter's claim.

#3 obviously every pandemic was not always a pandemic.

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