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newwil7l on 16 April 2020
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crissindahouse said:
Quartz said:
This might upset a few people in this thread. The relation of the W.H.O to China and the Director General of the W.H.O not even having a medical degree. Even the Guardian had to admit (despite the title they used in the article) that China held off information relating to the virus for at least 6 days which could have saved lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykTrxXT_FKg

I would have expected the W.H.O to be a organisation that isn't influenced by politics...now I see why people are edgy about funding it altogether, even though it is supposed to help everyone.

I don't think the director needs a medical degree. Many politicians also never studied what their position in a government is. It's just important that these people understand the information they get from those who really do the work.

Most here also know that China and the WHO did a lot of shit. That doesn't change that without the WHO, the situation around the world would be much worse now and that we might have heard about this virus and how bad it really is much later as we did. 

There is a lot which can be done to improve the WHO but not having the WHO or a similar world wide operating organization would be stupid. 

Sorry but this is ridiculous. WHO should not be equated to politics. WHO is an organization inherently rooted in science and should absolutely have people of scientific qualifications running it. This is one of the key reasons we are in this mess.