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Curtailed Christmas could be safest bet: WHO

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Then why have the WHO at all? Just let a tech company like google aggregate the data and have the national expertise decide.

Because aggregating the data is very different from analyzing it and producing valid conjectures, for that you need scientists. Since the role of the WHO is not only to read many reports and give an opinion about it but to organize and administrate many different international public health enterprises and projects it is obvious that a tech company cannot replace it.

Also, why did the WHO went about advocating for 'OPEN' international borders?

Because at the time the evidence was that the damage of the economy was bigger than the risk from the pandemic.

Why all the delays with declarations that ONLY pro-China factions in the WHO advocated?

False, the WHO has not made any declaration against any country since 2009 for reasons obvious to everybody that follows the history of the organization.

Why did tge WHO setup a vaccine club?

Because putting forward efforts for equal access to safe and effective health measures are part of the role of the organization. Its the same reason why it works towards cheap antiviral therapy for AIDS or for increasing the identification of children with malnutrition for example.

Why did tge WHO isolate Taiwan?

Because a coalition of countries moved by economic interests, made sure that the organization would become politically powerless against the interests of any country, including China.

IMHO, certain staff of the WHO is beyond unbelievable...verging on criminal (against humanity), along with the CCP.

Sure, that is why in general public health organizations around the world have not criticized the organization, right?

If the people that know the most about the situation fail to do what you think would be natural about them it is either because every single organization that has to do with public health is in the conspiracy or because they all know what the WHO can or not do, so they don't have fantasy based expectations.

But for other people is much easier to be manipulated into diluting the huge responsibility that China has on the pandemic by blaming a politically powerless organization for not acting politically.

 It downplayed the role of asymptomatic spread in the pandemic and later claimed it was a 'misunderstanding'. 

A reference is needed for that, in reality the scientific evidence for all previous respiratory diseases indicated that asymptomatic spreading was not a leading factor for the pandemic. No misunderstanding at all, it was the best science available at the moment. When that changed (and evidence appeared about how this disease is different from the others in that aspect) the recommendations changed also to reflect it. That is what a scientific organization do.

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I see, we should curtail Christmas, a one day event not exactly celebrated globally, but we can proceed with the Tokyo Olympics, Paralympics, a multi-week event that will no doubt involve close congregation of masses of people? Again, money and public health concerns at loggerheads.

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Sh1mon. I fully agree with your analysis. WHO should stop lecturing countries about the Covid pandemic and how to deal with it. It downplayed the role of asymptomatic spread in the pandemic and later claimed it was a 'misunderstanding'. Then a delayed update about the use of face masks despite the scientific evidence. A complicit of the CCP and an inept organization.

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Nobody has to "believe" in any institution, look to the data that is the basis for the recommendation

Then why have the WHO at all? Just let a tech company like google aggregate the data and have the national expertise decide.

Also, why did the WHO went about advocating for 'OPEN' international borders?

Why all the delays with declarations that ONLY pro-China factions in the WHO advocated?

Why did tge WHO setup a vaccine club?

Why did tge WHO isolate Taiwan?

IMHO, certain staff of the WHO is beyond unbelievable...verging on criminal (against humanity), along with the CCP.

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NWO has to remove Xmas as its incompatible with other faiths.

With the help of pandemic this is a reality

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Seriously does anyone believe the WHO? Just check who their biggest benefactors are and you’ll see why they say the things they do.

Nobody has to "believe" in any institution, look to the data that is the basis for the recommendation. What incongruencies did you find? or is it that you just don't like the conclusions? How come every scientific and professional association that has to deal with public health issues do not say something different?

Even if the worst institution you can imagine repeats scientific data that does not mean it becomes less true.

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Seriously does anyone believe the WHO? Just check who their biggest benefactors are and you’ll see why they say the things they do.

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