The WHO is complicit in China’s Winter Olympics smokescreen

rationaloptimist.com:

My article for the Telegraph:The news that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, is to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing is baffling on a number of levels.

Has he not got a day job to do? There is a pandemic on.“Sources close to” him say it would be a “political statement to turn down the invitation”, which indicates ludicrous delusions of grandeur: he is a bureaucrat, not a head of state, let alone a “dignitary”.But if Adhanom Ghebreyesus does want to play the politician, with most Western governments boycotting the games, his attendance shows an alarming complacency about the persecution of the Uyghurs, the crushing of freedom in Hong Kong and the lack of transparency in finding the source of Covid-19.It is worth listing the ways in which the Chinese authorities have failed to help the WHO do its job over the past two years.

They did not tell it, as they are duty bound to do, about the initial outbreak. The WHO says it learned about the virus on 31 December 2019 from media reports and a statement on the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission’s website, having been tipped off by an email from Taiwan, a country the WHO refuses to recognise exists - at China’s insistence.On 14 January 2020, the WHO tweeted that China had seen no new cases in 10 days and that “there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission”, a disastrous error that resulted from gullibly accepting what the Chinese government was saying.