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The latest TDS talking point is that the @WHO is actually the good guy in all this.
A quick trip down memory lane for how @WHO has pushed Chinese propaganda about #coronavirus for months. https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1247645379354677252
A quick trip down memory lane for how @WHO has pushed Chinese propaganda about #coronavirus for months. https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1247645379354677252
We’ll start with the classic: they deliberately pushed the fabrication that there was no evidence of human to human transmission. (Debunked here by @NRO: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/amp/)
The pushes the nonsense lie that China helped decrease the worldwide cases (debunked here by @axios: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html)
@WHO claims that China has been transparent about the disease, which is laughable, and that they shared the genomic information quickly for the virus. Both of those are false. As @WSJ reports here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932
@WHO has been more than willing to cover for China’s extralegal efforts to curb the virus’s spread. More on that here from @hrw: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/12/human-toll-chinas-coronavirus-control-efforts
@WHO publicly opposed a travel ban, despite intimidate knowledge of local spread and other consequences. (The ban has helped mitigate spread, per @USATODAY, and would’ve been more beneficial if enacted earlier...while @WHO was urging against it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2908799001)
As has been debunked repeatedly, China was anything but transparent and forthcoming, despite @WHO claims. This, from @TheAtlantic, is very good.
And, of course, @WHO is the authority cited for why it’s “racist” to call it Wuhan or Chinese coronavirus.
I’m sure that decision and all these lies are unconnected.
I’m sure that decision and all these lies are unconnected.
Also unconnected, surely, is @WHO’s support for China’s Belt and Road initiative, which helped accelerate the spread of the disease. More on that here from @CFR_org: https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-covid-19-pandemic-may-mean-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative
So...yeah. We should #DefundTheWHO
