The physicians employed by the WHO are political appointments. It is not likely they will have dispassionate and honest views about the origin of the Covid epidemic.

Good expose. Now could Ian Birrell do the same for the Chinese coverup of its bio-scientists’ discoveries in Wuhan? You just need to duck duck go the 2013 paper in Nature showing how the Wuhan team sought, found, and isolated coronaviruses from Horseshoe bats as long ago as 2012. They only sought those pathogens transmissible to humans. A new paper by other Chinese scientists in Nature 26/3/20 makes zero mention of the earlier findings and says ‘Malayan’ pangolins in wet markets ‘may’ have transmitted to humans. Such ignorance is impossible in a tiny expert community. Obvious disinformation now taken up by our naive MSM

If in these year and age we still have people of this attitude in very sensitive positions like WHO, I think it’s high time we all show more love, the officials are definitely politicised the way they response to incidents

The chances of getting a “body free of politics” under our current forms of government and while there are still at least 2 people alive on this planet are not good. Our populations are soaked in politics and social media seems to be nothing but political. Even discussions of serious events like this pandemic are corrupted by politics blaming leftist bullies or Trump.

WHO was sluggish to provide guidance. But most governments were even more sluggist to implement.

The WHO has joined Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, and China is a target for righteous American wrath. Why?

Could it be because the WHO is an independent body of international public health experts who refuse to allow their opinions to be politicized?

Could it be that the thousands of Western writers who are subsidized to demean non-capitalist targets have been alerted to the threat and told to attack it?

In any case, statements like this are demonstrably false and serve only to discredit media that publish them: “China’s leaders .. run a very repressive autocracy that banned families from having more than one child, controls citizens with the world’s most sophisticated state surveillance system, jails critics and locks up Muslim minorities in horrific prison camps… they merit criticism also for their failure to clamp down on the wild animal markets that almost certainly sparked our current dystopian nightmare ” despite the seemingly similar emergence of SARS in 2002.” Let’s take those one at a time.

1. China’s leaders run a very repressive autocracy. Not nearly as repressive as America’s, which regularly practices
“¢ warrantless surveillance of private phone and email conversations.
“¢ SWAT teams raiding homes;
“¢ thousands of shootings of unarmed citizens by police annually
“¢ harsh punishment of schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance
“¢ endless unpopular wars
“¢ secret bans on 50,000 people from flying and refusing explanations
“¢ imprisoning 2,000,000 people witout trial
“¢ executing 2,000 people each year without trial.
“¢ out-of-control government spending with little benefit to citizens
“¢ heavily armed, militarized police;
“¢ roadside strip searches;
“¢ roving border sweeps that imprison citizens and non-citizens alike
“¢ privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing citizens;
“¢ fusion centers that collect and disseminate data on citizens’ private transactions
“¢ militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition.

banned families from having more than one child, Nonsense. Rural families could have two and ethnic minorities as many as they wished. Urban families were asked to space children three years apart.

controls citizens with the world’s most sophisticated state surveillance system. If it controls its citizens at all it is by doing what they promise and practicing what they preach. Face recognition is wildly popular.

jails critics…Despite the reports in our media, China doesn’t jail critics. Says Harvard’s Gary King[1], “Contrary to much research and commentary, the purpose of the censorship program is not to suppress criticism of the State or the Communist Party. Indeed, despite widespread censorship of social critics, we find that when Chinese people write scathing criticisms of their government and its leaders the probability that their post will be censored does not increase. Instead, censored tweets were equally likely to be against the state, for the state, irrelevant, or factual reports about events. Negative, even vitriolic criticism of the state, its leaders and its policies are not more likely to be censored.”

locks up Muslim minorities in horrific prison camps Nonsense. The World Muslim Council sent inspectors from 12 muslim nations to Xinjiang. Their collective judgement was that they were ‘envious’ of the way China treats its radicalized, illiterate muslim youth.

they merit criticism also for their failure to clamp down on the wild animal markets that almost certainly sparked our current dystopian nightmare.” The wild animal markets had nothing to do with it, as researchers have demonstrated. The outbreak most likely began in Virginia, USA but we won’t know until the CDC releases it Patient Zero data”“which it refuses to do.

[1] “Reverse-Engineering Chinese Censorship”. Harvard Magazine, Gary King, September 12, 2013