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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by anigbrowl on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:53AM (#22964774)
You could surely find recommendations (should they exist) for unilateral imposition of rules in relation to recent epidemics like Ebola. After all your argument above was:

If this virus had come in some African country, they would have no problem in closing everything out - as anyone that understands tail risks would. But because it's China, then the recommendations for actions come after the evidence can not be hidden anymore. It is immoral.

Now I agree the coronavirus situation is without precedent, but if you're going to make assertions that they would have done X here while only doing Y there, you need to back it up with some evidence for your claims about X.

Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by rglullis on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:35AM (#22966549)
So your objection to what I am saying is that I claim some double standard when there is no instance where they applied one of these standards? Is that it?

Ok, fine. Never mind the fact that this is also a mistake of conflating absence of evidence for evidence of absence. Your objection does not invalidate what I am saying regarding the biggest problem with the WHO: their failure in defending early action and in showing themselves to be a political-bureaucratic organization more preoccupied with its own existence than in achieving the goals it was supposed to.