03-28-2020, 01:13 AM
(03-28-2020, 12:44 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: A cluster of cases was first reported on 12/31/19. On 1/12/2020, or 2 days before the tweet you posted from Fox News, there were a total of 41 cases and one death.
On the same day the WHO also tweeted . . .
So . . .
1. Always a concern
2. Needs further investigation
So 15 days and approximately 40 cases into the coronavirus timeline the WHO tweeted what China told them. With the caveat human to human transmission is always a concern and further study is needed to confirm. Especially when we know coronavirus caused SARs and MERs.
Now, understand Fox News and Lou Dobbs are just trying to blame the WHO for Trump’s lack of action. After the WHO declared this was a pandemic Trump was still claiming they were wrong based upon a hunch.
In conclusion, that was a f’n tweet.
This . . .
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/112656/9789241507134_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
is a 156 page WHO guidebook on how to prepare and respond to an epidemic or pandemic respiratory illness.
Now if you were a public health official tasked with preparing for a potential epidemic or a pandemic, would you base your preparation on one tweet?
OF COURSE YOU ***** WOULDN’T BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE ***** STUPID!
If you had even the tiniest bit of common sense you would follow a guidebook on how to prepare for an pandemic and not a tweet based upon 15 days and 41 cases on information.
If someone believes countries didn’t prepare for a pandemic based upon that tweet then they’re probably the same people panic buying toilet paper.
Well now if that tweet was from a guy whose hunches were "mostly right" in his own estimation, I'd have to consider that. LOL.
Jus' kiddn' Breech.
Actually, I want to publicly thank you for sorting out all this WHO disinformation.
Clearly WHO didn't just pass on Chicom propaganda. They provided a cautious and professional (if shorthand) assessment, perfectly correct at the time, and they were alertly "considering the source" as they did.
I think you also make an important distinction between people actually tasked with public health policy in every country and some average joe following twitter. Public health officials are not going to look at a tweet say--"Yo--ok. Safe for now." They were everyone of them all already up to their necks in protocol by Dec. 31, communicating with doctors, monitoring maps, checking capacity.
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