[b] ... a communist ex-terrorist unelected politician with zero medical qualifications setting himself up to control every citizen of the world... ... yet it's well on track[/b]
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Seems the WHO is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't then.
I am not too worried about the CV of its leader especially, as long as he is good at running the WHO; but if the WHO failed to act against any pandemic at all it would be attacked just as harshly if not more so, than for whatever it does to try to control it.
Perhaps pandemics tell us two things:
1) We are animals no more safe intrinsically from disease than any other - BUT with two crucial differences from all other species.
2) That pathogens, and biology generally, are non-sentient and non-political. Apart from natural terrain and climate constraints on species but which we humans ignore or overcome, they do not know or respect human-made boundaries and dogmas.
Those two differences?
a) We have it in our gift to try to protect ourselves and our fellows from the worst effects of disease, even if the protection is itself needs sometimes to be very unpleasant.
Organisations like the UN and WHO are there to help that, irrespective of some of their methods. I do not accuse them of conspiracies but I don't like lock-downs either... Yet neither did I want to fall prey to something that might have left me ill for months, or even although less likely, killed me.
b) Also in our gift, we can be our own enemies or allies in this. "Global Pandemic" is a tautology, but shows they can exist around very many countries, even world-wide. That is largely due to our ability to exist almost anywhere, and to our need or mere wish to travel so widely.
The so-called "Spanish Influenza" of 1918-19 affected but did not originate in Spain at all, but was carried around much of the world mainly by all those WW1 soldiers. The word 'quarantine' was coined in 15 or 16C Italy to describe that very precaution to try to limit the spread of the Black Death (Bubonic Plague); possibly of mid-Asian origin. Perhaps SARS-Covid-19 was already on its world tour before anyone realised what was happening; and we may never know its real source.
' You might not trust the World Health Organisation, and like the United Nations generally it might need radical overhauling - I cannot judge that - but can you suggest a practical alternative? I know I can't, beyond that overhaul where necessary.
