03-31-2020, 08:09 PM
(03-31-2020, 07:39 PM)6andcounting Wrote: No one is saying public health official make public policy decisions based on Tweets. I said WHO now vs two months ago were saying two very different things, but have the audacity to criticize how others acted two months ago.
It’s not the WHO two months vs now. It’s the WHO Jan 14th vs the WHO Jan 24th. Or 15 days after discovering a novel coronavirus they informed the world there was evidence of human to human transmission.
To restate, the WHO said they had evidence of human to human transmission over 2 months ago.
(03-27-2020, 07:02 PM)6andcounting Wrote: If there's no evidence it can be spread human-to-human, then of course countries will be ill prepared when it turns out it's highly contagious. The problem is - as GMD pointed out - there was ample evidence at that point in time it was contagious. WHO - a highly credible institution in this situation - announced Chinese propaganda that misled the world.
But now it WHO is complain countries didn't prepare quick enough.
(03-30-2020, 07:14 PM)6andcounting Wrote: If they had evidence it can be spread person-to-person and didn't put it out there so that countries can make their own decision about preparing for the worst, I would say they screwed up.
In those two posts, it seemed to me you were suggesting the WHO mislead countries on how to prepare for a pandemic. But, now you seem to be saying that tweet didn’t affect how countries prepared. So which is it? That tweet affected how countries prepared? Or that tweet didn’t affect how countries prepared? If it didn’t affect how countries prepared then why are people like Lou Dobbs and Florida Rebulican Senator Rick Scott complaining about the WHO informing the world that Covid-19 was spread via human to human transmission over 2 months ago?