Posted on 03/21/2020 7:55:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to Taiwan, the World Health Organization could have prevented the Wuhan coronavirus from becoming a pandemic had the organization listened to their early warnings. Taiwanese officials said WHO's failure to act early on has to do with its close ties to Chinese leadership, the Daily Caller reported.
Taiwanese health officials alerted WHO about the Wuhan coronavirus' transmission between humans back in December but the organization failed to alert countries around the world.
One of Taiwan's chief complaints is centered around the International Health Regulations (IHR)'s reporting website, which was established so countries around the world could share data about pandemics.
“While the IHR’s internal website provides a platform for all countries to share information on the epidemic and their response, none of the information shared by our country’s [Centers for Disease Control] is being put up there,” Taiwanese Vice President Chen Chien-Jen told the Financial Times. “The WHO could not obtain first-hand information to study and judge whether there was human-to-human transmission of COVID-10. This led it to announce human-to-human transmission with a delay, and an opportunity to raise the alert level both in China and the wider world was lost."
Despite knowing what they did, the WHO continued to push communist China's talking points, including the blatantly false claim that the virus is not spread through human-to-human transmission. This is something we know is the case, which is why the CDC has suggested people practice "social distancing" as much as possible. A few weeks later the WHO said it was unnecessary to restrict international air travel, which is what turned the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic into a pandemic.
Even though Taiwan tried to prevent the spread to other countries by warning the WHO, the country is being punished because they question China and their tactics. In fact, Taiwan hasn't had a place at the international table since 2016, particularly at the World Health Assembly, because of Chinese pressure.
As Matt pointed out, Tawain isn't that far from China yet the country has sustained very few cases. As of now, the country has 153 cases and all of them are occurring because of international travel, Reuters reported.
Should have tried harder. They’re scared the Chicoms might invade.
Fear and stupidity.
Here in America, "they" are milking the fear factor for all it's worth .... and it's worth a LOT.
The apparently incurable stupid takes off from there and wipes out the toilet paper for something that has to do with breathing, not pooping.
Anything associated with “world” groups (UN, etc) is inherently not trustworthy.
Yes, as with stopped clocks, they will occasionally prove correct. However, prudence requires that one regards their output to be as untrue as that of our media.
China’s dirty politics are everywhere, especially at the international-organization level.
They got their lackey in charge of the WHO, so of course the WHO is gonna stiff Taiwan.
Now the whole world has to suffer because of insecure China’s petty behavior.
Want a solution to the WHO? Kick the damn corrupt criminal UN the hell out of the US. Stop all payments to that filthy organization no where this pile of shi! lands. Can I say this any clearer?
Taiwan unmasked the WHO as a irrelevant organization and not worthy of respect.
(Commie China is WHO's #2 source of funding, where does Taiwan rank, hmmm?)
I’m not sure what you mean here?
For later.
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How many in WHO has been bought off by China? How many in the UN Agencies have been bought off by China, Iran, and Russia?
WHO is virtually owned by China
Taiwan bump for later....
The WHO and CDC.. Looking out for you?
Sad. So many dead, so many dreams crushed, a future shattered.. and the media says nothing.. said nothing.. did nothing exist.. IMPEACH!!!!!
Thank goodness NGOs & nonpartisan orgs like the media exist, huh?
During the Bush43 years, I vaguely remember somebody complaining about the revolving door between the CDC and WHO.
The globalists in WHO corrupting the mission and personnel of the CDC.
The WHO has blood on its hands.
Well Keith Moon did accidently kill his driver.
We really need to drop China as a ‘most favored nation’. Maybe even give that status to Taiwan for a couple days, just to piss off the reds.
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