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Re:The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics by garmaine on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:22AM (#29376698)
The WHO did measurable damage throughout the pandemic, but particularly in the beginning. They played down covid, were against travel bans, was anti-mask, and have hindered investigation into the origins of covid.

They also did good, like getting PCR testing available worldwide on a compressed timescale. But let’s not pretend that the good didn’t come with a healthy helping of truly terrible decisions along the way. Enough to make some healthy skepticism seem prudent.

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Re:The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics by topkai22 on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:58AM (#29376884)
I agree we should be skeptical of the WHO, but they are valuable as a coordination mechanism. I don’t see a scenario where we can restart a truly global health agency from scratch, and I don’t think a series of bilateral or multi-lateral arrangements will work as well.
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Re:The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics by garmaine on Monday November 29, 2021 @05:35AM (#29378252)
But counterpoint: TFA is about the WHO asking for more authority, the power through treaties to control what governments do or don’t do. However the countries which handled COVID correctly (Taiwan, New Zealand) did so by outright ignoring WHO and telling them to shove it.
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