Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

Are you not in danger of blaming the WHO for China's unwillingness to share the true scale of their pandemic?

 

Bob here from the LGBT Arkansas Backwoods Branch (Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump). I wholeheartedly back the thoughts and actions of our Great President and Saviour, Donald J. Trump, who has rightly and justifiably withdrawn funding from WHO for their inconsistency and desultory stance in handling this crisis. Our President's great, stupendous even, straight as an arrow approach from Day One is an inspiration to all right thinking freedom lovers in our great nation and throughout the World.

 

Yeah I was coming back on to say the same

All quotes as you say

You could probably put a list of quotes that show them making statements we should have followed too mind you

 

Oh yeah Cheltenham, wtf were they thinking of? Seems like **** ups all round to me.

 

That's fine but we should never lose sight of the fact that "experts" may not be apolitical.

 

Very true, and sometimes their expertise is not in the field they are commenting on. Add in the desperation for funding and citations to keep tenure, and the habit of policy advisers to use selective interpretations of the scientists reports when informing the policy makers and you realise you need to dig deep to find what the experts are actually saying, and it's often that they recommend they get funded for further research.

In most fields, for every expert that gets cited, there are often an equivalent number if not more pushed into the wilderness for having an alternative position. The so called '97% consensus' being a case in point. Consensus is not science, and politics has certainly pressed its influence in key areas.

 

Take the time to look at the situation reports, very interesting how different to the news reports they are.

WHO - SITUATION REPORT - 3 - 23 JANUARY 2020

The initial source of 2019-nCoV still remains unknown. However, it is clear the growing outbreak is no longer due to ongoing exposures at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan; as in the last one week, less than 15% of new cases reported having visited Huanan market.
There is now more evidence that 2019-nCoV spreads from human- to- human and also across generations of cases.
There have been very few reports of hospital outbreaks or infections of health care workers, which is a prominent feature of MERS and SARS.
WHO assesses the risk of this event to be very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level.

 

Not quite a Porn Star, but a Stripper. Bring on the puns re Bus Conductress etc.

 

Interesting comments implying just this from the editor of the Lancet today.

"Medical advisers have been accused of lying to the British public about the coronavirus pandemic to prop up the government.

Richard Horton, the editor of medical journal The Lancet, criticised the government’s advisers, accused them of telling “manifest untruths”.

In a tweet posted on Sunday evening, he wrote: “When you see supposedly independent medical advisors to government tell what are manifest untruths to shore up a political regime whose credibility is rapidly collapsing, you have to say that those advisors have lost their integrity and our trust.”"

 

One of the dangers is that if left unchecked, the nonsense gets taught in schools and colleges. There's a political element to that too, so it's not for here.

 

Yup.

 

Might be a lot of parents tuning in to watch BBC's Bite Size education classes for kids..... including Sergio Aguero teaching Spanish, Danny Dyer doing history, David Attenborough on Geography, Brian Cox on Science... Rachel Riley and lots of others... well done the Beeb..!!

 

Good to see Bob get a mention

 

With friends like those who needs enemies.

 

Rachel Riley you say...interesting!