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5 hours ago, simple1 said:

WHO carried out on the ground research in China into Covid, including specialists from the US, in mid February. The report was published by WHO late February. Have you read the report? If so please advise what in your opinion is 'Chicom' propaganda.

 

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

 

There are numerous reports the most effective manner to manage Covid spread is to test, track , quarantine. At this stage how far has the trump administration progressed on a per capita basis (true measure of effectiveness) with the advise? It appears the USA is still way behind the eight ball with sufficient resources to implement.

How do you dare to show facts to contradict Trump's tweets?

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  • There is no doubt that the WHO completely dropped the ball on this one and that Tedros should either resign or be fired.
  • The fact is they peddled the dangerous lies of the CCP up until it was no longer just their problem.
  • Whoever rejected the findings of Taiwan ought to be fired into the sun.  
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1 hour ago, muzley said:

This falls squarely at the feet of China and WHO and hopefully they will be made to pay for the all the deaths and economic damage they have inflicted on the world.

 

 

Some benefited from WHO guidelines to prepare, test, trace and social distancing while some didn’t. The former have less infections and deaths and better control of their economy. The latter falls into the lackadaisical group who didn’t follow the guidelines and suffered the consequences. 

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11 hours ago, candide said:

Obviously, he didn't listen to the WHO on Feb. 11

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization asked countries to be “as aggressive as possible” in fighting the newly named COVID-19 coronavirus on Tuesday.

“If the world doesn’t want to wake up and consider the virus as public enemy number one, I don’t think we will learn from our lessons,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-health-who-containment/world-must-consider-coronavirus-public-enemy-number-one-who-idUKKBN205218

 

Apparently Dr. Fauci wasn't listening, either. Here's what he said about the virus on February 29:

 

"No. Right now, at this moment, there’s no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day by day basis. Right now the risk is still low, but this could change. I’ve said that many times even on this program. You’ve got to watch out because although the risk is low now, you don’t need to change anything you’re doing. When you start to see community spread, this could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread."

 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/13/deanna-lorraine/tweet-amplified-trump-misleads-faucis-late-februar/

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6 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

Apparently Dr. Fauci wasn't listening, either. Here's what he said about the virus on February 29:

 

"No. Right now, at this moment, there’s no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day by day basis. Right now the risk is still low, but this could change. I’ve said that many times even on this program. You’ve got to watch out because although the risk is low now, you don’t need to change anything you’re doing. When you start to see community spread, this could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread."

 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/13/deanna-lorraine/tweet-amplified-trump-misleads-faucis-late-februar/

Also from exactly the same page you have quoted for your own confirmation bias it says:

 

• A Trump supporter’s tweet misleadingly portrays advice that Dr. Anthony Fauci gave publicly on Feb. 29.

• On that date, Fauci said rules Americans would come to know as social distancing were not yet warranted. 

• However, just about every other sentence of his remarks was filled with caveats indicating that the situation could change. He did not suggest that there was “nothing to worry about” or that the virus “posed no threat to the public.”

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/13/deanna-lorraine/tweet-amplified-trump-misleads-faucis-late-februar/

 

Nice try

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3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus  " 

 

is NOT at all the same as "coronovirus can't be spread by humans"

 

They accurately quoted what Chinese authorities were saying at the time, without taking a position on its accuracy

 

And even the Chinese at that point were not saying "can't be spread by humans".  Not in the least.

Point taken and the WHO have admitted this mistake but at that time they only had information from China (not particularly known for their honesty). But by 22 January 2020 after 
a mission to China, the WHO issued a statement saying that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission. By 30th January they had issued a statement that Covid-19 was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/08-04-2020-who-timeline---covid-19

In other words there was a quick response to the initial mistake (1 week) and literally 2 weeks later they declared an international warning. It still took Trump until the 13th March to declare a national emergency, wasting vital weeks of preperation. 
However, he wasn't alone in taking his sweet time with the Uk, Japan, Australia and several other countries dragging thier heels, but the major difference is they didn't ignore it, deny it, minimised it, call it a Democratic hoax, spread false information, back false cures and generally flew in the face of all scientific and W.H.O. advice like Trump did.

That's where the blame lies.

 

 

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44 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Point taken and the WHO have admitted this mistake but at that time they only had information from China (not particularly known for their honesty). But by 22 January 2020 after 
a mission to China, the WHO issued a statement saying that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission. By 30th January they had issued a statement that Covid-19 was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/08-04-2020-who-timeline---covid-19

In other words there was a quick response to the initial mistake (1 week) and literally 2 weeks later they declared an international warning. It still took Trump until the 13th March to declare a national emergency, wasting vital weeks of preperation. 
However, he wasn't alone in taking his sweet time with the Uk, Japan, Australia and several other countries dragging thier heels, but the major difference is they didn't ignore it, deny it, minimised it, call it a Democratic hoax, spread false information, back false cures and generally flew in the face of all scientific and W.H.O. advice like Trump did.

That's where the blame lies.

 

 

Perhaps instead of replying to my posts with a derogatory laughing emoji, the likes of Issan sailor and Crazy Alex could venture their version of these events? I'm more than happy to stand corrected IF you both can provide facts that say diffirent to what I am posting.

Facts though please.

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