A problem that preceded (and made possible) Trump is a lack of recognition how things were *already* broken. That's why nostalgia or restoration attempts will not get us out of here. We must understand past failures but also resist attempts to make things even worse. It's hard.
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So, yes defunding the WHO is a terrible idea—it's the US wanting to be the bigger bully. But it's also not a coincidence that the countries with success against COVID like Hong Kong and Taiwan have consistently defied WHO's official positions and advice. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/ …pic.twitter.com/r4Xg6ZvzKP
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Very few like this message.Many in the US are rightfully focused on how the US government failed, and don't want to let Trump scapegoat. But, look, it's groundhog day in a swamp. Everything we don't correctly diagnose and try to fix, including the WHO, just means we keep sinking.
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This isn't an uncommon response. People don't want to hear the messy, full truth because it seems like it's helping Trump. But the failings we did not fix before *are* one big reason 2016 happened in the first place. Denial or nostalgia isn't a way out.https://twitter.com/spanna65/status/1250812187830112258 …
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So, many people are saying if the WHO really failed this time, why try to save it? Because a world without a functioning WHO is at much greater risk—including for future pandemics. There's no comparable organization with the infrastructure and accumulated know-how in 194 nations.
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That's a bit too late, I think. Influence will be covered another time. This time containment is the real issue, and getting back to work.
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Good direction of thinking, but without researching deeply myself I'm tempted to ask: did the WHO have enough authority in the first place? (To be able to effectively prevent pandemic?)
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They had the authority to recommend all air travel out of China be stopped. Instead of doing that, they announced on 2/2 that banning air travel was unnecessary.
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WHO were duped by the Chinese government in the first weeks of January, but they figured it out quickly. They had a COVID-19 emergency meeting on Jan 22. On Jan 23 the WHO announced danger for global epidemic, person-to-person transmission and need for aggressive containment.
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And then they started manufacturing COVID-19 tests (the ones that actually work) at large scale. I wish our government had "failed" like the WHO...
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