I get the sense that all of humanity is getting a crash course in probability and statistics ... but without knowing it.
I'm pretty sure you didn't watch the whole video, but i don't need a video or an article to realize after this crisis that the WHO is useless, be it because of its failing internal culture or effectiveness in influencing others.
Nah. I watched the whole video. Truth be told, I am a bit of a skeptic anyway. I've been known to say "documentaries are the new fake news", because I always presume a bias by the storyteller.
But really, did any of us expect that the WHO would make a declaration and then governments would mobilize in response? Ever? It's kind of a ludicrous premise, really. Maybe this just makes the conspiracy theorists who distrust the Pope and the UN as part of the illuminati, but I'm not sure what the WHO can provide other than in an advisory capacity.
Of course we can vilify what the Chinese eat. They created a friggin' pandemic, supposedly. Last time I checked Perdue isn't creating coronaviruses that kill 2% of the population.
That is true. But the American food supply is rife with stories of how it's killing people and spreading disease too. The CDC has its hands busy with more than just Steven Soderbergh movie plots:
https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/multistate-outbreaks/outbreaks-list.html
Monocrops. animal waste covering hillsides and filling rivers, chicken processing plant workers losing fingers and getting exposed to avian bird flus. It's not a question of it, it's a question of when.
I think a big misconception here is this is not a cure, it is a way to deal with the infection at its onset. He explained the lack of control group as unnecessary since they can measure the virus load and unethical since might condemning some to die.
People who are getting crystalized bronchial tubes because of their immune system responses are clearly in a facing-death situation, so I get where you would want to be far more experimental because your outcome is likely death anyway. But I am sure that probabilities and situational awareness of hydroxychloroquine is the last thing that is in Trump's brain when he spouts off about it.