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| My spreadsheet from figures at Worldometer |
The ‘blame China’ bandwagon. While China tests vaccine
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| Hong Kong. Really thought to squeeze that number down to zero As 250,000 have returned. From Worldometer |
US highest daily deaths, mainly New York
Changing consumer behaviour
Hammering the WHO (my own view of WHO in this: they’ve had some unfair criticism — they’re not in China’s pay— but there are questions to answer — not reporting early enough in human-to-human transmission, conflicting advice on closing of borders. Then again, everyone has got things wrong this pandemic. A proper reckoning won’t happen for years. And meantime America scapegoating the WHO and China is not on).
WHO: uncertainty about airborne transmission
Changing consumer behaviour
Hammering the WHO (my own view of WHO in this: they’ve had some unfair criticism — they’re not in China’s pay— but there are questions to answer — not reporting early enough in human-to-human transmission, conflicting advice on closing of borders. Then again, everyone has got things wrong this pandemic. A proper reckoning won’t happen for years. And meantime America scapegoating the WHO and China is not on).
WHO: uncertainty about airborne transmission
ADDED (2 November 2022): my view of the WHO has grown much more jaundiced since I wrote the above. They failed in many areas, especially early on. And they were (and remain) too deferential to China.
