Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says
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#2The entire commissioned report can be read here: https://theindependentpanel.org/mainreport/
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#3“‘Global political leadership was absent,’ the independent experts said.”
When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”? These are experts?
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#4“‘Global political leadership was absent,’ the independent experts said.” When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”? These are experts?
I think generally US has carried that role in past until 2016. Either by partnerships or by holding a gun to other people’s head, US has exercised a self preservation strategy which had some effect on remaining world. For eg. Obama admin had narrowed down Ebola and contained it[1]. That indirectly was beneficial for rest of the world. Unfortunately the last administration deserted from these responsibilities thereby creating a sudden void and hence chaos.
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#5“‘Global political leadership was absent,’ the independent experts said.” When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”? These are experts?
I think generally US has carried that role in past until 2016. Either by partnerships or by holding a gun to other people’s head, US has exercised a self preservation strategy which had some effect on remaining world. For eg. Obama admin had narrowed down Ebola and contained it[1]. That indirectly was beneficial for rest of the world. Unfortunately the last administration deserted from these responsibilities thereby…
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#6“‘Global political leadership was absent,’ the independent experts said.” When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”? These are experts?
I think generally US has carried that role in past until 2016. Either by partnerships or by holding a gun to other people’s head, US has exercised a self preservation strategy which had some effect on remaining world. For eg. Obama admin had narrowed down Ebola and contained it[1]. That indirectly was beneficial for rest of the world. Unfortunately the last administration deserted from these responsibilities thereby…
I think this is bit charitable, to say the least. Long before Obama the "US-led international order" was also screwing up on Global Warming.
Only Hitler could unite most the rest of the world, and only then because that was near the peak of colonialism so world power had never been so concentrated.
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#7“‘Global political leadership was absent,’ the independent experts said.” When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”? These are experts?
I think generally US has carried that role in past until 2016. Either by partnerships or by holding a gun to other people’s head, US has exercised a self preservation strategy which had some effect on remaining world. For eg. Obama admin had narrowed down Ebola and contained it[1]. That indirectly was beneficial for rest of the world. Unfortunately the last administration deserted from these responsibilities thereby…
Currently, there is an arms race in the Indo-Pacific region because of Obama's abandonment of defense treaties in the South China Sea, starting with the Philippines Scarborough Shoals. This week, a CCP official threatened to launch ballistic missiles at Australia.
Trump was the first leader to stop air travel in 2020, and denounced as a racist for it by US Dem/Marxist leaders. Of course, not it's standard practise to restrict air travel.
Trump funded the vaccines in 2020 that we're using in 2021.
If you want to criticize the CDC and NIH, great. But don't lie about "the previous administration."
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think generally US has carried that role in past until 2016. Either by partnerships or by holding a gun to other people’s head, US has exercised a self preservation strategy which had some effect on remaining world. For eg. Obama admin had narrowed down Ebola and contained it[1]. That indirectly was beneficial for rest of the world. Unfortunately the last administration deserted from these responsibilities thereby…
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> We also basically abandoned the EU to deal with the migrant crisis we caused.
How did the US cause economic migration from Africa to the EU? Why should the US do anything about that? Supposedly 1/3 of Africans hope to migrate to the EU to take advantage of generous welfare programs there.
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#9“‘Global political leadership was absent,’ the independent experts said.” When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”? These are experts?
> When has global political leadership ever not been “absent”
Plenty of times in history. Consider the 20th century. Almost all of it was defined by global political leadership.
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#10Yes and it would have caused even less damage if the WHO hadn't taken a whole year to reverse their stance on transmission methods, but instead kept parroting the "short range droplets"/fomites theory, which was good for security theatre but not much more.
I mean: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1390738628528201735