@jeffcliff That's a lie. No one forced the WHO to pretend Taiwan, which was suffering from covid as bad as anyone, didn't exist, or give deferential treatment to China early on. No one forced public health experts to take months of advice they had given and add an asterisk that covid doesn't spread during race riots. No one forced them to say "masks don't work so be sure to save them for hospital staff until we can ramp up production." Some waffling on the issues is excusable but a lot of their behavior was obvious gaslighting with a heavy dose of authoritarianism.