I'm not taking it personally I am trying to point out that you are wrong. I know 2 people at the WHO, neither of whom work in this space directly but are incredibly concerned about what funding cuts will do to their work, especially in Africa.
I have never said the WHO didn't make mistakes but if you believe there was a cover up cooked up between the WHO and the Chinese , or that the virus was created in a lab run by the WHO or that the reason we have hundreds of thousands dead is because of the WHO then you are wrong.
The WHO was under resourced for this, gun shy because of criticism they have had in the past about being too quick to be alarmist, too slow to declare a pandemic and all of that may have made a difference but at the margins only.
i have said over and over again that if we want to do better provide more resources not less. I read an article about live animal markets in Indonesia yesterday which is truly alarming but the WHO has nowhere near the resources to work on that especially with 15% + of their funding ripped away.
This whole pandemic shows that we may be nation states but our borders mean nothing to a virus, to me it's a call to arms for global cooperation and coordination not the opposite.
