Trump makes a malevolent attack on the WHO, and then people like you launder it. Of course, they could improve, they're a blundering institution. You can look closely at any institution and see that, especially during a novel pandemic.
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Replying to @indica
That is a serious and absolutely false charge. People who would rather not talk about the obvious failures of WHO and thus refuse to try to fix the reasons they happened will be the ones "laundering" everything that will destroy kind of WHO that could carry out its mission.
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That is the effect of what you do. The US has defunded the WHO. Zeynep publishes articles saying why it's a mess. All of your intentions aside, what effect do you think your work has?
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Replying to @indica
The opposite effect of your stance: try to fix things so that the world doesn't suffer from pandemics like this. Again, you choose your stance.
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Zeynep, read this letter by Trump. Your piece makes the exact same points - delays, travel bans, Taiwan. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1262577580718395393 …
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You make them better, but I wouldn't call you a defender of the WHO. And we need defenders. Again, they're helping us. China is helping us. America is not. And you're not.
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One, this is how you defend the WHO. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-world-health-organization-failed/610063/ … Two, Trump's letter is incoherent and but of course he picks up on whatever he finds, especially if sane people won't make the sane argument. Three, Trump argued military contractors were too powerful, for example.
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As for China helping. Yeah, sure the new hegemon who would like to dominate the world, instead of the United States order, also the one whose early cover-up led to the pandemic. If you would rather not criticize China, go ahead. It's one authoritarian model for the world.
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If you'd like a world where we gloss over WHO's major failures instead of trying to fix them and don't say anything about one kind of authoritarianism (not the only one! but one kind) whose failures have cost the world so much because of another kind... That's your stance.
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I criticize China all the time. Where are the major failures in the world? The US, Sweden, UK. These are places that DIDN'T follow WHO guidance, not the places that did. You are truly missing the point.
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I have criticized the US response to no end! I criticized US global acts for decades. (I don't disagree at all about UK or Sweden either). Our disagreement is that I think withholding efforts to fix WHO or staying silent about them will not help defend WHO. You think otherwise.
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