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I think this is just a special case of "online communication". It's illegal for the phone company to arbitrarily suspend your service for what (legal things) you say over the phone.It's legal for Twit...
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> They then go on to essentially say that it won't work (and spoilers: It didn't work, they were 100% correct).How didn't it work?All of the really successful countries at handling this pandemic conti...
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> The WHO advised against the public wearing masksNope. Your article is actually about the UK's government's advice and lumps in the WHO. Here's a WHO publication from 30th of January 2020 [0] that ad...
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Yeah, so how would YouTube help when the WHO release things like:
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152Buy all means add a disclaimer advert akin to the old DVD FBI or other pirate warnin...
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> Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that "The flu is worse"That wasn't their position, in fact they instructed other nations to prepare. The R0 and mortality rate they...
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How do we know what is best for us? What and who should we believe? It kinds of remind me how Copernicus was banned centuries ago despite now we know he was closer to truth than anyone else. If we liv...
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From "AP Exclusive: Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS" [1]:> Senior officials have complained internally that U.N. staffers break new rules that were introduced to try to curb it...
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> Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically?A lot of deaths:https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supple...> The inspection reports p...
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Agree. They are a monopoly, and cannot be allowed to function like any old hosting platform.The WHO was wrong on many occasions during this pandemic. They said it couldn't or was hard to transmit be...
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I agree that they're generally have good advice. But, I looked at their mask guidance, and they're still recommending that healthy people do not need to wear masks.This ignores the possibility that pe...
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Did the WHO explicitly deny human transmission? Their earliest reports I saw said "we have no confirmed evidence of human transmission, but we are likely to find it". It's the second half of the sente...
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His actual speech (that Reuter's reported on).https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...The key sentence that Tedros is being criticised for is:"First, there is no reason for meas...
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What do you suggest as an alternative? What would you have done in the situation where Facebook was used as a platform to incite pogroms against Muslims in Myanmar[1]? If we have a better solution in ...
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So has Newfoundland's response to the pandemic been extremely effective [0]. Where is Newfoundland's data being published by the WHO site? Here is what I was able to find as far as case statistics: ...
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Taiwan data was being counted with China's. This means that many of the early safeguards Taiwan was taking to protect their country was overlooked as it's effectiveness didn't show up in the global tr...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breas...> American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to "protect, promote and support...
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https://twitter.com/wilfredchan/status/1243887606569590784?s...Fine, things like this "happen". That is, incredibly cowardly and dishonest persons can play roles in otherwise not completely ...
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> [2] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared...
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> a very smart bloke with an honest-to-goodness PhD in a virus-related fieldHow do I embolden text on HN? When a person with a PhD is talking about something related to their PhD it is imprudent polic...
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How you read them is irrelevant. What's relevant is that hundreds of thousands of people read the first one, took it at face value, and decided that the coronavirus is not a threat. The WHO definitely...
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