The World Health Organization thinks China might not be telling the truth after all
Zachary Faria
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You would be hard-pressed to find an organization more useless than the United Nations, and there may be no U.N. institution that is more embarrassing than the World Health Organization.
The WHO has recently accused China of “under-representing” its COVID deaths. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
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It has been clear to everyone since the pandemic spread across the world in 2020 that China was lying about its COVID numbers, but “no worries,” everyone: The WHO is finally “asking” China to stop acting like China and actually give the world truthful information.
Believe it or not, this is actually progress for the WHO during the pandemic. When COVID first began spreading, the organization took the Chinese Communist Party at its word, declaring that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.” Of course, China did have that evidence. The WHO even praised China’s pandemic response publicly while privately complaining about a lack of transparency.
It only took the organization three years to begin getting upset about a lack of Chinese transparency over COVID. One might think pandemics don’t require timely responses from health officials or something.
Calling people who work for the WHO health officials may be a stretch, though. The organization is inherently political, just like the rest of the U.N. Taiwan even attempted to warn the organization that the virus was more lethal and more transmissive than China had led it to believe. Instead, WHO leaders ignored Taiwan and barred it from any and all important health discussions.
Oh yeah, and all of this has been paid for by billions in U.S. taxpayer funding since 2010.
Nearly every pocket of the U.N. is corrupt and beholden to authoritarian regimes, but none failed at the moment they were needed most more so than the WHO. In a pandemic full of failures, the WHO was the biggest, and yet the United States will continue to funnel taxpayer money to it anyway.
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