What Canada’s Top Health Official Said A Year Ago
Theresa Tam repeatedly said the risk was low & COVID cases would be rare. She naively trusted China & relied on the WHO. 20,000 Canadians are now dead.
UN on Disasters: Those Who Can’t Do, Scold
The United Nations, which failed to stop the coronavirus from spreading everywhere, and which introduced cholera to earthquake-devastated Haiti, releases a report on disaster management.
Pandemic Bungling Undercuts UN Goals
German study calls public transit ‘the big loser.’
Davos and COVID-19
While our ‘thought leaders’ worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.
WHO: Disinformation from the Top
The head of the WHO isn’t annoyed his organization learned about the coronavirus from third parties. He isn’t angry it had to ask China for info more than once. In fact, he’s been covering for China.
WHO Now Says China Didn’t Report Coronavirus – Corrects Timeline
After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.
Secrecy & Stonewalling: China and SARS 1.0
China gave the WHO permission to send in investigators, but wouldn’t allow them near the affected area after they’d arrived. They departed empty-handed, two weeks later.
Racism, Magical Thinking & the Coronavirus
Rather than quarantining travelers, our leaders chose a course of action that led to entire countries being locked down.
This Blog Will Return May 20th
In the interim, I recommend this brilliant essay on what the coronavirus has taught us.
Coronavirus Math: The Number I’m Watching
How are different countries coping? What is the case fatality rate?
When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic?
The World Health Organization is playing games.
Ramming the ‘Great Food Transformation’ Down Our Throats
You’ll eat those vegetables – or else.
Flagrant Climate PR from the Australian Associated Press
A polar explorer is falsely described as a climate scientist in a news story; his activist connections aren’t reported.