Fuck the World Health Organization for enabling the spread of Coronavirus

I am not a Trump fan but = please believe the bullshit I’m about to spew on you

It’s right up there with “I’m not a racist, but”

Fucking hell did the WHO really write this?!!!??????

OP here, R3. That's from Politico.

Wealthy WHITE visitors to those places brought the disease back into their communities. Not random Asian Americans.

Members of the EU are screaming about Trump not consulting with them on the travel ban. Are they completely insane? In fact if you are going to do a lockdown or travel ban if it's going to be effective it has to go into effect immediately, you can't give people a chance to scatter before it's put in place. It kind of defeats the purpose.

How did COVID make it to the States, OP?

Was our patient X a Chinese citizen who was visiting the US or was it an American citizen who traveled back from China?

Whoever wrote it is a fucking idiot.

R6, why would European people scatter and get on a plane to the States immediately? They have a much better healthcare system in most cases. What would be the point?

I don't know, R8. Remember, WHO praised China for its response to coronavirus.

In other words, WHO praised China for cracking down on travel but accused the west of being bad for doing it.

Also, R7, I don't know about that. But the first person to person transmission in the US was of someone back from China to her Illinois husband.

R6 they are saying he failed to ask their permission? Are they listening to themselves?

Fuck I've had it up to here with the fucking self important EU mandarins, and I didn't even vote for Brexit.

It was the guy in china who ate a bat.

Go back to the troll farm.

R11, the article is about China travel bans - not Europe.

Though, I think in Europe, they are instituting cross-country bans too.

So for how long was the WHO advising against travel bans and calling them racist? Or are they still taking that ludicrous position now?

R13 is a member of WHO. I wish they'd stay off of DL.

R13, I'm not a troll (OP here). I just could not believe the dumb-assery of the WHO in this article. And I don't blame the person who wrote it at all.

If WHO = "public health institutions", we are fucked.

And I guess we are.

OP ignore troll R13.

Well as of 3 days ago, a whole bunch of health experts were advising against border closures

China already antagonizes us. And what the fuck does any of this have do with Asian Americans? Interesting they lump the Chinese with all Asians. Stupidity knows no bounds.

More from the January 30 Politico article:

"World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that widespread travel bans and restrictions weren’t needed to stop the outbreak and could "have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit."

Instead of criticizing the administration on things they can do better they focus on shit like this.

[quote]In fact if you are going to do a lockdown or travel ban if it's going to be effective it has to go into effect immediately

Uh, R6, "immediately" in this case was a month or more ago, not today, and prompt testing along with quarantines would have been a more effective response then than prohibiting travel.

Also, what R9 said.

Well I'm stuck in a place that has no travel bans at all, and the idiot Boris wants to keep all the schools open, so I'm envious of people whose governments are at least doing something

R23 The virus is easier to contain if fewer people are infected. How would letting in potentially thousands of new infected not make a difference?

It's amazing that people will condemn travel restrictions as racist even after multiple reports of people entering this country without proper screening and no self quarantine.

Exactly, r26. I have no idea how they can still think this way in the face of a disease which has shown itself only to be slowed by restricting movement.

Why is anyone traveling to shithole China anyway. I hate them ALL.

Hate them all, r28? I'm reasonably certain that average Chinese people are not themselves exactly huge fans of the Coronavirus, either, r28. Hate their government, definitely, but the normal people are victims of this as much as anyone else is

Well GOSH!?!

It's almost like the WHO's a corrupt piece of shit, or something. Who woulda thought?! A UN organization, totally fucking corrupt?!

NOOOOO WAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

'It's amazing that people will condemn travel restrictions as racist even after multiple reports of people entering this country without proper screening and no self quarantine.'

It isn't racist, it's ineffective.

R31 It won't stop the virus but will make it easier to contain. How is that ineffective?

So, people not travelling out on the town is recommended, but it's a-ok to travel across borders because restriction of movement is "ineffective", r31?

Either restriction of movement works to stem the tide or it doesn't, r31, and that is as true on a macro level as it is on a micro level. You can't have it both ways.

So r31 is one of those who treasure open borders over people's actual lives?

Good to know.

They need to build a wall around China.

Kumali Nanjiani posted this idiotic tweet

[quote] Trying to fight the coronavirus by limiting travel between Europe and the US is like trying to clean a coffee spill by washing the coffee cup.

I'm sure DL could think of a more apt metaphor.

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The WHO needs to stay out of politics and concentrate solely on health issues. And Taiwan should be allowed to become a member.

[quote]I am not a Trump fan, but....

I don't read any threads or comments starting with that much maligned sentence.

Then get off the thread, r39. OP's point, and it's a good point, is about W.H.O.. Stop trying to derail the thread by making it about something it's not.

February 3: "World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday there was no need for measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” in trying to halt the spread of a coronavirus that has killed 361 people in China."

I wasn't equating human life with open borders, dimwit R34

I was saying that any measure taken at that point in time was too late and therefore ineffective. Even your hillbilly Charlottesville version of health care.

Why are people conflating Chinese citizens with their government? The Chinese government is corrupt and horrible but that doesn't make regular people there at fault, unlike Americans who actually and willingly voted for Trump.