Generational Dynamics World View

[David Horn]

(02-11-2020, 11:44 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 11-Feb-2020 World View: Coronavirus Covid-19

Guest Wrote:I find it more quite telling that the WHO goes out of its to explain that it won't call this virus the 'Chinese flu' or the 'Wuhan virus' (which is what Taiwanese call it) and yet MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) is alright with them.  I'm calling BS on this. China once again flexes its muscles and the UN jumps, just like it did in 2003 when the CCP criminally hid the SARS epidemic for 3 or 4 months.

And yes, this could easily bring down Beijing. Barring that, regional civil war. This crisis has confirmed what we have always known: THE CCP DOESN"T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES.

#Free China!

You're right that the WHO has been sucking up to the Chinese.  The American CDC doesn't suck up to the Chinese, so they weren't allowed to go to Wuhan, but WHO has been allowed, probably under strict supervision by Chinese "minders."  (The WHO delegation supposed will contain some CDC scientists.)

And you make a good point that it was OK to use the name MERS for the Middle Eastern virus, but not OK to use Wuhan in the name of the Wuhan virus, which is now officially called Coronavirus Covid-19.

News reports on Tuesday have been extremely schizophrenic, flipping back and forth between calling it a major international crisis on the one hand versus a peaking crisis on the other hand.  Nobody really knows.

WHO has a mandate to address potential global pandemics, so anything they can do is better than nothing.  But yes, the Chinese are unwilling to look bad, so what can be done is less than what should be done.  More to the point, the global panic is starting to get serious. There is a Holland-America cruise ship (The Westerdam) bobbing around in the Pacific with zero infected passengers and no authorized port to dock until Cambodia finally agreed to let them in.  It was their thirdfourth try.  Japan said no, Guam said no and so did Thailand. Guam is particularly bad, since the US State Department gave a waver and asked them to let the ship dock.