Notably (from NPR):

>However WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a statement it "does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency" and advised countries against closing their borders.

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dkga 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I suspect this is to mitigate perverse incentives for countries to avoid reporting outbreaks and collaborating with the WHO for fear of tanking their economy

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rob_c 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> "no evidence of human to human transmission"

Directly contradicted by the WHO: "...spreads from person to person through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated surfaces" [1].

[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...

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dpark 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s a reference to the early Covid 19 investigations/reporting.

https://x.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ooooh, got it.

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mindslight an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

People always bring this up as if there is some collective responsibility for they themselves having believed an obviously politically motivated narrative. Like personally I'd just take some responsibility, admit I was suckered, and try to do better in the future. But rather with the context of how it's brought up, it's clear they're just still at it buying into new nonsense political narratives. "Can't get fooled again"

	▲	dpark 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You could interpret this kind of statement as a hardline “never trust anything the government says” stance. You could also interpret it as espousing healthy skepticism. You can’t tell which it is from a one line comment, so it’s not at all clear the person who said this is buying into any particular political narrative.

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