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I think the WHO did a fine job of writing it up. The US motive for proving China is at fault is largely political diversion from the US' mishandling, which would be mishandling no matter what origin.

That China blocked the Who's efforts and the WHO disclosed this is more relevant to future health policy than where this particular outbreak started. (Do we really want the public health system to tune to this specific scenario?)




> The US motive for proving China is at fault is largely political diversion from the US' mishandling, which would be mishandling no matter what origin.

Whether this is motivation is true or not has nothing to do with whether the WHO report reflects reality.


The WHO disclosed they were blocked. You can infer a bayesian for a lab release of this specific virus. Now what does that change about the next pandemic?


The lab leak is not the only hypothesis the CCP may be seeking to avoid.

What they knew and how early they knew it is at least as significant.


So the fact that China didn't cooperate should affect future health policy?

edit- make China/cooperate more explicit.


Of course - if China knew more, earlier, wouldn’t you say knowing this should affect policy in future?


Yes that's what I said:

> That China blocked the Who's efforts and the WHO disclosed this is more relevant to future health policy than where this particular outbreak started.

(Obviously the WHO, like any part of the UN can do nothing but document anything a superpower refuses to do.)

Now how does that build a case that the WHO is a problem instead of allowing superpowers to have super power is a problem?

It seems to me like people down voting my original comment are members of superpower states with hypocritical stances.


> allowing superpowers to have super power is a problem?

What has this got do to do with anything we are discussing here? Who is ‘allowing this’. What does it mean to not ‘allow’ it?

> It seems to me like people down voting my original comment are members of superpower states with hypocritical stances.

What state are you a member of? Does something make you think it has no hypocritical stances?


Let's assume the US and China are the only states the WHO, a UN Org could extract useful information from based on this write up of the lab theory:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...

Note, these nations are listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

Note Lord Acton (also from a state listed there) states the meaning of that list in the context of the UN system:

“All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Now, what has the WHO done wrong vs what is outside the abilities of any part of the UN to address?

I will summarize my very simple position again:

The WHO did a good write-up, if you want to look beyond what a UN organization is allowed to do then do your own inference.

You seem to be implying the WHO should do something else that is consistent with its position and the fact that choices by China and the US are beyond its control. Maybe you can elaborate on what that is?

If you are suggesting a reform to allow a UN organization to force these nations to not be a global threat in every area, including health, then I'm happy to hear it.




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