WHO official warns against calling it 'Chinese virus,' says 'there is no blame in this'

[mystery-ak]

WHO official warns against calling it 'Chinese virus,' says 'there is no blame in this'
By Morgan Gstalter - 03/19/20 02:19 PM EDT

An official with the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned against referring to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus,” saying that it could lead to racial profiling against Asians when “there is no blame in this.”

Mike Ryan, the executive director of WHO’s Emergencies Program, at a news conference urged people to be “careful” with the language they use when referring to the ongoing pandemic.

“Viruses know no borders and they don’t care about your ethnicity, the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank,” Ryan said.


He warned against characterizing the virus in a way that could encourage xenophobic behavior, saying he was sure “anyone would regret profiling a virus along those lines.”

Ryan noted that a pandemic of influenza in 2009 originated in North America but “we don’t call it the North American flu.”

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[Smokin Joe]

Ohhhhh Kay. WHO never had much credibility with me, but that broke it.

[EdinVA]

Just more United Nations pc bs...

[truth_seeker]

This currently believed to mainly be from Wuhan, Communist Red China-PRC.

There is nothing anti-Asian, since Asian are many varieties, including Taiwanese, possibly the single most Anti-PRC of them all.

TRhe story of Italy, found elsewhere, relates this virus catastrophe, to China-PRC delay in actiine.

Thoousands worldwide will likely die, on account of their needless dely.

[mystery-ak]

Photo of Trump's notes shows 'Chinese virus' written over 'coronavirus'



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[EdinVA]

Photo of Trump's notes shows 'Chinese virus' written over 'coronavirus'



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lol... it is kinda nice having a bulldozer for a president..

[XenaLee]

No blame???    How convenient for the globalist elitist deep staters in and out of the UN.

There's blame all right.   And I'm betting that some day justice 'will' be served.   We just may not live long enough to witness it 1st hand.     

[PeteS in CA]

Mike Ryan of WHO, your organization, parroting China, assured the world on 1/14/2020 that there was no evidence of human-human transmission of the coronavirus. Your organization has blood on its hands!

[truth_seeker]

No blame???    How convenient for the globalist elitist deep staters in and out of the UN.

There's blame all right.   And I'm betting that some day justice 'will' be served.   We just may not live long enough to witness it 1st hand.   

What the US can do, is reduce our vulnerability to China. Make our own stuff.

Use comparable options, closer to home; our own hemisphere, for example.

[DB]

What the US can do, is reduce our vulnerability to China. Make our own stuff.

Use comparable options, closer to home; our own hemisphere, for example.

I really hope this forces a new alignment between China and the rest of the world. They need to pay a heavy price and hopefully break the communist grip over the country in the process.

[bigheadfred]

uh huh

FFS

A little visit over to the WHO website.

LASSA FEVER

This next little factoid is NOT from the WHO link above. My point is they named it Lassa. They still call it Lassa.

The virus was first described in 1969 from a case in the town of Lassa, in Borno State, Nigeria.

[txradioguy]

WHO official warns against calling it 'Chinese virus,' says 'there is no blame in this'

[sneakypete]

Can you say "Chinese chemical warfare experiment that got out of control"?

[mountaineer]

There's plenty of blame, and it starts in Beijing. WHO has lost all credibility.

[GrouchoTex]

WHO official warns against calling it 'Chinese virus,' says 'there is no blame in this

OH, YES THERE IS!
Plenty of blame in this, and it starts with China.

[musiclady]

WHO official warns against calling it 'Chinese virus,' says 'there is no blame in this

OH, YES THERE IS!
Plenty of blame in this, and it starts with China.

That is EXACTLY what I was going to post.

Word. For.  Word.

[musiclady]

There's plenty of blame, and it starts in Beijing. WHO has lost all credibility.

I wonder how much they had to begin with...... 

[GrouchoTex]

That is EXACTLY what I was going to post.

Word. For.  Word.

@musiclady

@mountaineer

Looks like we were all on the same page.

[musiclady]

@musiclady

@mountaineer

Looks like we were all on the same page.

 

[mountaineer]

I wonder how much they had to begin with......

At this point, if WHO told me to put calamine lotion on a poison ivy rash, I'd look for a second opinion.

[musiclady]

At this point, if WHO told me to put calamine lotion on a poison ivy rash, I'd look for a second opinion.

Seriously!

[Smokin Joe]

That is EXACTLY what I was going to post.

Word. For.  Word.

Well, that's something we agree on.

[Smokin Joe]

At this point, if WHO told me to put calamine lotion on a poison ivy rash, I'd look for a second opinion.

It never did me any good, anyway, but I get your point and agree.

[LadyLiberty]

At this point, if WHO told me to put calamine lotion on a poison ivy rash, I'd look for a second opinion.

Here is your second opinion:  Use otc Zanfel.  Works like a charm.

[musiclady]

Well, that's something we agree on.

Sheesh! We agree on practically EVERYTHING.

Just like we always have.   

I’m one of those strange conservatives who can disagree with good folks and not have a fit.

I thought you were too.....

[truth_seeker]

I really hope this forces a new alignment between China and the rest of the world. They need to pay a heavy price and hopefully break the communist grip over the country in the process.

Listen for the phrase "decouple" from China.

[Smokin Joe]

Sheesh! We agree on practically EVERYTHING.

Just like we always have.   

I’m one of those strange conservatives who can disagree with good folks and not have a fit.

I thought you were too.....

I am.  I just need to step away from the keyboard a little more often. I don't hold grudges, either, but I will argue my point when I am right until the cows come home.

It comes from occasions when I was the only one in the room who was right and people ignored that, costing clients millions and wasting resources which could have been developed if they hadn't been messed up.

[DB]

I am.  I just need to step away from the keyboard a little more often. I don't hold grudges, either, but I will argue my point when I am right until the cows come home.

It comes from occasions when I was the only one in the room who was right and people ignored that, costing clients millions and wasting resources which could have been developed if they hadn't been messed up.

And that is a good trait to have. Comes with a lot of friction from time to time...

[Smokin Joe]

And that is a good trait to have. Comes with a lot of friction from time to time...

Yep, that' the truth. But it is a safe place to be when others are bailing out from the position they took in error, as long as you went on record being right.

[musiclady]

I am.  I just need to step away from the keyboard a little more often. I don't hold grudges, either, but I will argue my point when I am right until the cows come home.

It comes from occasions when I was the only one in the room who was right and people ignored that, costing clients millions and wasting resources which could have been developed if they hadn't been messed up.

I sure understand the need to step away.  I was born with both a temper and the gift of sarcasm, so I do it a lot!

As I said, we agree on practically everything, and definitely everything that matters.

Still friends?   

[Smokin Joe]

I sure understand the need to step away.  I was born with both a temper and the gift of sarcasm, so I do it a lot!

As I said, we agree on practically everything, and definitely everything that matters.

Still friends?   

Absolutely still friends! 

I speak three languages fluently, English, Sarcasm, and Profanity.
Some days I have a shorter fuse than others.
I do my best to concentrate on the former, lapse into the second all too easily, and do my best to keep the third pretty much off the screen and out of the air about me. (Little pictures have big ears, and all that). 
There is much I wish to teach the great-grandkids, but for that, they'll have to read the bathroom walls, same as  I did.

[DB]

A lot of the friction in these conversation could be resolved if we were just face to face with direct immediate interaction. This format is challenging to communicate accurately with untetherd chunks of words with long gaps and misinterpretations that go uncorrected that a few additional interactive words would straighten out quickly.

[DB]

Absolutely still friends! 

I speak three languages fluently, English, Sarcasm, and Profanity.
Some days I have a shorter fuse than others.
I do my best to concentrate on the former, lapse into the second all too easily, and do my best to keep the third pretty much off the screen and out of the air about me. (Little pictures have big ears, and all that). 
There is much I wish to teach the great-grandkids, but for that, they'll have to read the bathroom walls, same as  I did.

LOL!

[Smokin Joe]

A lot of the friction in these conversation could be resolved if we were just face to face with direct immediate interaction. This format is challenging to communicate accurately with untetherd chunks of words with long gaps and misinterpretations that go uncorrected that a few additional interactive words would straighten out quickly.

True enough, @DB . In the end, we're going to find out what's what (in retrospect), and while we may doggedly argue our points of view, there is really no sense in getting hostile over it. 

[DB]

True enough, @DB . In the end, we're going to find out what's what (in retrospect), and while we may doggedly argue our points of view, there is really no sense in getting hostile over it.

[musiclady]

Absolutely still friends! 

I speak three languages fluently, English, Sarcasm, and Profanity.
Some days I have a shorter fuse than others.
I do my best to concentrate on the former, lapse into the second all too easily, and do my best to keep the third pretty much off the screen and out of the air about me. (Little pictures have big ears, and all that). 
There is much I wish to teach the great-grandkids, but for that, they'll have to read the bathroom walls, same as  I did.

 

[musiclady]

A lot of the friction in these conversation could be resolved if we were just face to face with direct immediate interaction. This format is challenging to communicate accurately with untetherd chunks of words with long gaps and misinterpretations that go uncorrected that a few additional interactive words would straighten out quickly.

Absolutely!

It’s been said here before, but I’ll bet we’d all be good friends if we saw each other face to face and could talk things out.

At least those of us who’ve been here together for a while...

[corbe]

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[bigheadfred]

Yer avatar is hilarious. I hope you have some of those paper rolls for all the quarters yer saving.

[Sighlass]

Perhaps the WHO wouldn't mind if I called it the China Harvard Virus... named after the origin and the professor that helped it be formulated...

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/harvard-professor-chinese-nationals-arrest-espionage/index.html?fbclid=IwAR08xGKC1qW0FdWfEcpXNDrY6GZTyoDmWi1oc9mx2DDixHJSm8iohuyt6vc

[Gefn]

Perhaps the WHO wouldn't mind if I called it the China Harvard Virus... named after the origin and the professor that helped it be formulated...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/harvard-professor-chinese-nationals-arrest-espionage/index.html?fbclid=IwAR08xGKC1qW0FdWfEcpXNDrY6GZTyoDmWi1oc9mx2DDixHJSm8iohuyt6vc

Princeton and Yale wouldn’t mind, I’m sure.
@Sighlass

[PeteS in CA]

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I didn't watch the video, one of my idiotsyncrasies, but IMO, WHO pooed the screwch when they assured the world on 1/14 that there was no evidence of human-human transmission. WHO has blood on their hands.