EXPOSED: The WHO's Bungled Covid Response

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EXPOSED: The WHO's Bungled Covid Response

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

This video shows that Leftist media LIES about Trump's response as well as the WHO's response.

1. In fact BOTH Trump and the WHO announced the Seriousnous of the virus the SAME DAY.
2. Trump banned China Travel while the WHO said it wasn't necessary to ban Travel, and Leftist Media was calling Trump a "Racist" for doing so.
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This radio guy makes the same error all the Trump apologists are making. If the WHO is really that bad, a bunch of dumb liberals, and China is evil and self-serving, then the presidency's error is significantly greater. The WHO being dumb liberals isn't anything new, right? Did you just recently figure out WHO were a bunch of liberals, faqs? China isn't only self-serving, but a top candidate for starting pandemics, right? So the correct response would have been to significantly increase preparedness at home knowing that you can't trust China to be honest, and you can't trust the WHO to cover the problem. And it's worse, because Obama's pandemic preparedness was about a C+, but Trump comes in and in his "down with Obama" campaign promise to you nut jobs, he destroys the beginnings of the little we had going for us.

We've had nearly 4 years of prosperity to prepare, but medical stockpiles were left to dwindle and organizational 'fat' was cut within the CDC to give the ultra-rich who don't care about faqs or Ajax tax cuts. But it's not just about saving money, a bigger issue is the administration's anti-Science bent. Presidential medal of honor winner, Rush Limbaugh, the last I checked doesn't believe this is anything serious, hospital reports are exaggerated and the "models" that forecast viruses stem from the lie of climate science. So we know exactly where Trump was right up until he simply couldn't hold out any longer.

South Korea kicked ass because they had dealt with MERS the hard way, created a pandemic response team, and actually had a plan. We dealt with Ebola the hard way, created a pandemic response team, and then said, "screw it" and hoped that growing bank accounts of the Rich would fix all our problems in a trickle-down.

And so what play Trump made last Tuesday or the day before is all kind of moot, as he's flying totally by the seat of his pants and just guessing. Some guesses have been okay considering, others have sucked, and his mantra of daily lying has made it very difficult for state governments and probably outweighs any decent calls.

What's incredible, although not surprising, is that when Trump said during elections that he could walk into the street and shoot somebody, and his base would love him all the more, he didn't realize that each of his base were desperate to glorify themselves by being the guy in the street getting shot.
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Re: EXPOSED: The WHO's Bungled Covid Response

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Fantastic response Gad, LDSFAQS won't be able to grasp it, but we already knew that.
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Besides the China travel ban turning out to be a poorly implemented sieve, the fact that Europe was a substantial source of corona virus transmission to the US, and the fact that there was community spread in the US before the travel ban* was announced and took effect - besides all that - if you're gonna hang your hat on that, doesn't it bother you in the slightest bit that it clearly didn't work?

While your busy bragging that no one but Trump would've taken such decisive, bold action to stop the virus, doesn't it occur to you for like a second that it didn't work?

It's tempting to try to explain in painful detail all the actions the executive branch could've been doing that they didn't, despite numerous warnings to do so no less, or run down all the counter-productive things Donald Trump himself was (and is) doing that were massive news within the memory of a goldfish. But, even on your own terms, have you looked outside lately? Would you say the quasi-travel ban specifically on China was effective in preventing a deadly epidemic in the US? Yes or no?

[size=85]*Not so much a ban as a poorly enforced suggestion as it turns out, but use the term if you'd like. [/size]
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President Xi of China made deadly errors.
The World Health Organization made deadly errors.
The Center for Disease control made deadly errors.
President Donald Trump made deadly errors.

It's okay to point out the mistakes someone else has made. But Xi, WHO, CDC and Trump each has the power to change their behavior. That begins with facing up to the mistakes you've made. And because Trump has a 3rd degree black belt in narcissism, he never acknowledges his own mistakes, which are the only mistakes that he can directly control.

Jesus said "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Donald Trump's vision is always blinded by the beams of hubris and narcissism that he refuses to remove from his own eye. That is a far greater danger to American's health and safety than the World Health Organization.
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Our most urgent crisis is still global warming.
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You're being sarcastic, Ajax, but it is indeed still the case that global warming remains a pressing issue with an alarmingly short amount of time to act. This fiasco of a response to coronavirus is like a sped-up version of what's been happening with global warming, only the consequences for global warming not being adequately addressed are ultimately more severe.
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Maybe Doc can help me get past this little nugget from WHO on March 3rd:
To summarize, COVID-19 spreads less efficiently than flu, transmission does not appear to be driven by people who are not sick, it causes more severe illness than flu, there are not yet any vaccines or therapeutics, and it can be contained
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/ ... naC93_HGtc

and then this one little stumble


The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States came at the end of January, when a man in Washington state developed symptoms after returning from a trip to Wuhan.

One month later, federal health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was inevitable that the U.S. would experience a spread of the virus and urged people to take precautions.

In these early days of the virus, tests were not widely distributed to local and state laboratories. Instead, testing for the new coronavirus was conducted almost entirely by the CDC — samples collected at the local level were sent to the agency.

Initial test kits developed by the CDC for use in local and state labs were flawed and produced inaccurate results in some labs, meaning they couldn’t be distributed. As the agency worked to correct the tests, health officials turned to the FDA.

The U.S. Association of Public Health Laboratories submitted a letter asking the agency to use "enforcement discretion" and authorize local and state labs to develop and use their own tests.

During a public health emergency, labs and drug manufacturers must seek an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA to use diagnostic tests and medical treatments that have not gone through the typical clearance process — to share them faster in the emergency.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... 3-i78od9ec

and then the tripwires start to appear....please help!
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