Ah yes, WHO, the very trustworthy totally non political global public health authority that did such a great unbiased job before and during COVID. Definitely trustworthy, reputable, competent, and unbiased.

Snark aside, there may be an Ebola outbreak and no doubt it's affecting certain African countries but calling it a global health emergency is laughable and I'd trust TMZ's analysis on reporting orders of magnitude more than I'd ever trust anything the WHO has to say.

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry, your takeaway from Covid is to ignore public-health experts when they warn that something is breaking containment and could turn into a pandemic if it isn't controlled?

	▲	avazhi 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		WHO tried to cover up the virus at the beginning; they also aided China in masking its origins. The CDC did fine, but not WHO. I wouldn't even call WHO public health experts at this point - it's just a political racket that's pretty analogous to the UN generally in terms of how objective and useful they are. I've had 12+ COVID vaccines and one of my degrees is a BSc so it isn't like I'm some antivaxxing conspiratorial anti-science hillbilly. WHO isn't really about science though, they're about funding and pushing particular agendas which is... antithetical to actual science.

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majormajor 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> calling it a global health emergency is laughable

Your complaint is with the NYT's re-phrasing, not the WHO.

WHO declaration is: "determined a public health emergency of international concern" https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-d...

Obviously it's a local public health emergency, and some international concern seems warranted anytime an ebola strain pops up...