The piece on Taiwan is factually incorrect . The 2nd one would require really lengthy discussion . The 3d: Is it not something that can be applauded if China does scrutinize their response, and finds mistakes were made, in an effort to make things better ? Nevertheless, is it not that the extreme measures having been implemented in Wuhan/Hubei really were helpfull in slowing the spread ? Name me ONE other country that did respond with comparably drastic measures to contain spread ?
Hence, spindoctors . Media . Chomsky has a thing or 2 to say about them, it is all very interesting...
The piece on Taiwan is factually incorrect.
Although the burden of proof is on you given I already provided a source and you haven't I'll post some other reports of poor communication by the WHO in this instace.
The WHO has been charged with praising China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic despite accusations of an initial cover up, which included threatening whistleblowers with arrest on account of talking about the pandemic that has since then infected around 250,000 people and killed at least...
www.hindustantimes.com
According to FT [Finantial Times], Taiwan vice-president Chen Chien-jen said its doctors had heard from mainland colleagues about medical staff getting ill, which is a sign of human-to-human transmission, and Taipei officials reported this on December 31 to both China and International Health Regulations (IHR), a WHO framework for exchange of epidemic prevention and response data between 196 countries.
The alert was ignored. China’s health ministry confirmed human-to-human transmission of Covid-19 on January 20.
The actual article of the Finantial Times is behind a paywall in case you wonder why I didn't cite the original source.
The 2nd one would require really lengthy discussion.
I don't know what is there to discuss, human to human transmition had already been confirmed, there were thousands of confirmed cases in China and it was clear by the speed of spread that this was a pandemic in the doing.
The 3d: Is it not something that can be applauded if China does scrutinize their response, and finds mistakes were made, in an effort to make things better ?
This is the strawman, the WHO can praise China for that (however vague or true that may or may not be) but it's misleading to call China's response transparent (that's Tedros's description) because of the simple fact that they (either top or local officials, it really doesn't matter) supressed information on COVID-19 early on and also prevented the CDC and WHO health officials to come and assist although eventually they did let some WHO officials to come in.
Nevertheless, is it not that the extreme measures having been implemented in Wuhan/Hubei really were helpfull in slowing the spread?
Yes,
national spread that is given the COVID-19 had already spread out to many other countries by that time.
Name me ONE other country that did respond with comparably drastic measures to contain spread?
I certainly don't know of one, it's not relevant in either case, what you want to have are
effective measures not
drastic. To illustrate my point take the example of Taiwan, it certainly didn't have measures as drastic as China but it certainly was more effective given they have 438 cases as of today 4th of may 2020.
Hence, spindoctors . Media . Chomsky has a thing or 2 to say about them, it is all very interesting...
The pot calling the kettle.
