Re:Trump Halts U.S. Funding of World Health Organization
by IfIEverCatchYou on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:23AM
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> He has several tweets that contributed to 25K deaths..
Cut his funding!
Cut his funding!
> While the WHO was obliged to report on the latest findings of a member state at the source of the outbreak, its officials told their counterparts in technical briefings on 10 and 11 January, and briefed the press on 14 January, that human-to-human transmission was still a strong possibility given the experience of past coronavirus epidemics and urged suitable precautions.
> [Gavin Yamey, the director of Duke University’s center for policy impact in global health] said it was ridiculous to point to a single tweet early in the pandemic as the fixed position of the WHO. “The whole point of science is that we have initial hypotheses and initial ideas, and we update those ideas as more and more data emerges,” he said.
(From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/15/trump-turns-...)
If orgs/people are punishable due to single tweets, how do you rate Trump's performance? He has several tweets that contributed to 25K deaths..