Maybe people should stop focusing on the things the WHO did wrong and instead acknowledge all the things it did exactly right. I mean it's not like there is any alternative to it and it certainly did what it was supposed to do. It's not like there are systemic problems either. Going after the WHO for a few mistakes is like suspending a whole government after one politician made a mistake. Or instantly firing a good employee for making one mistake.
What, there is still war? Better defund the UN. What, children are still dying? Defund Unicef! What, there is a recession coming to the EU? Let's close the ECB.
The WHO did everything in their power and always in good faith and based on current data. It had to handle a global health crisis that never existed like this before and it had to work with stubborn governments to achieve it. If anything we should praise and thank the WHO for doing its job, because nobody can count on individual governments to do the right thing. Yes, we might have fewer deaths, if the WHO did some things differently, but it's absolutely certain that without the WHO we would have at least double the deaths right now.
But it's certainly in character for Trump to go after people and organizations who make him look bad by doing a better job.
Last edited by vivster - on 15 April 2020If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.
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