Quote from: eaLiTy on Today at 12:09:42 AM

Quote from: figmentofmyass on April 16, 2020, 10:53:18 PM

have you ever stopped for a moment and thought about why the conservative media is so concerned about finding someone else to blame?

Everyone liked the blame game, the WHO is responsible for majority of the issue as they were not addressing the situation and even when there were calls for shutting down airports when the spread started WHO gave a briefing that it is not that serious and it is not necessary to shut the airports.

dude, the WHO is a chronically underfunded UN agency!

since when do governments (especially superpowers) get to blame external organizations like that for basic national concerns like disaster preparedness and public health? Huh

even if you ignore the trump administration's complete inaction for 1+ month, their failure to bar european travel until mid-march, their complete lack of preparedness prior to the epidemic, and their deliberate spread of misinformation re epidemic risks and mask efficacy until april.......even if you somehow believe the trump administration's narrative about delayed knowledge of human-to-human transmission, then riddle me this:

why would the USA's public health response ever be dependent on the WHO? Huh

people forget that 10-15 years ago, the USA was well equipped to respond to a pandemic: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandemic-late-prepare/story?id=69979013

obama and trump successively dismantled the entire infrastructure for pandemic response and slashed CDC spending repeatedly. is it a surprise the CDC just became a mouthpiece for the WHO? lol, whose fault is that?

but no, nobody wants to hold their public officials accountable anymore because they are so fucking partisan. they just want to point fingers at people they hate and go to war. this wartime mentality is exactly how the USA started becoming a police state post-9/11, and it's why they were able to justify popular support for invading iraq and afghanistan.

the next thing you know, we'll be dropping bombs on beijing. just wait and see where this "ignore reality and blame china at all costs" mentality goes. and watch as these stories become increasingly urgent over time:
China may be conducting secret nuclear tests, State Department warns

sadly i have noticed most bitcoiners today are not libertarians like early adopters, but populists who channel their economic anger into whatever their news media and politicians tell them to.