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Dec 31: Taiwan public health officials warn WHO of potential human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus: amp.ft.com/content/2a70a0…. Taiwan mobilizes its national health emergency office.
Jan 14: WHO helps PRC's cover-up of the rapidly spreading pandemic by denying human-to-human transmission:
Jan 29: WHO (incl Bruce Aylward) lavishes praise on PRC’s belated but draconian response, saying that Xi Jinping "helped prevent the spread of the virus to other countries".
They refuse to declare a public health emergency since it hadn’t spread to other countries. statnews.com/2020/01/29/who… [Narrator: it had. nytimes.com/interactive/20…]
Read this short article to understand how WHO is currently catering to PRC’s demands to not only deny Taiwan official membership, but even ban Taiwan’s health experts from *being in the room* while WHO members discuss such topics as emerging diseases:
time.com/5805629/corona…
Mar 28: Bruce Aylward from WHO is asked by a journalist from the public broadcaster of Hong Kong whether WHO will reconsider including Taiwan. His response is… I can’t even. You just have to watch it: HT @ebfull
As of today, Taiwan has only a few covid-19 cases and only two deaths, despite being only a few miles from China and having hundreds of thousands of citizens who travel back and forth to China regularly.
This story, combined with their bizarre campaign against masks, which they are still pushing (), will hopefully cause people to stop assuming it is safe to rely on the WHO for health information.
Ask me after the covid-19 pandemic has passed about WHO’s pseudoscience campaign falsely claiming that eating meat causes cancer. ☺️
Wonder if I'm going to get banned from Twitter now for violating their new policy against "denial of global health authority recommendations"... blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c…
If I get banned somebody please screenshot this tweet
If you have trouble loading that video or if it starts at the beginning of the 20 minute show instead of at the right place 19 minutes in, then try this copy hosted on IPFS: ipfs.globalupload.io/QmXTaZn9CkQgnP… (pls retweet cause there are a lot of people who’ve said they could see the vid)
My accompanying thread () is an attempt to provide contextual facts so that you'll see this not as just harmless awkwardness, but as an example of the authoritarian thought-control that allowed the virus to infect the world and that makes WHO untrustworthy.
*couldn’t
Here's my prediction: WHO, PRC, Trump, and other authority figures will be the winners. We few who participate in this thread and conversations like this during the crisis will have increased skepticism, but for most the authority figures will successfully come out of this with…
…a dominant narrative says that they saved us all, and that they must be entrusted with even greater power, money, and the ability to silence dissent. I hope I'm wrong. Shall we check back in, say, 6 months and talk about if we think this prediction is looking right or wrong?
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