The UN has been acting like a mistress for the US for decades. I'd want them to cut the political crap as well, but in my opinion it's never going to happen. Much of the current blame, whoever, is manufactured. The blame people are levelling at WHO currently is based on Breitbart conspiracies that they helped China cover up stuff. What's true is that both WHO and China could have done better job in the first two weeks of January. But the UK and US had months to prepare for this, and now they are quite clearly trying to divert attention from their mistakes. I'm amazed the extent to which these countries are able to divert blame.
They criticized the US for banning flights to China (how on Earth this comes from an organization that is supposed to be about the health).
Only three days before China locked Wuhan, WHO said that the virus is not transmitting human to human, which was laughable. Yeah, hundreds of people ate infected bats or something.
They didn't declare this a pandemic until the situation became manageable in China.
And then the disgraceful treatment for Taiwan, just check the interview with that Canadian vice-chair of WHO.
They are totally corrupted and the entire top hierarchy needs to be fired. They would find a good job in China anyway, so it is all fine for them.
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Now, don't get me wrong, President Twat is doing this mostly to shift the blame for himself. And while he was right on banning the flights to China et al., he did feck all in between to prepare for the inevitable pandemic. So, in some level, I agree that the discussion is a bit academical, probably nothing would have changed if WHO acted faster and weren't essentially doing a PR job for China. But at the same time, it needs to be the World Health Organisation, not a propaganda machine for one of the superpowers. China is very good at hiding information, no need for the other countries to pay money to some organization that then does that for China.