Toyeebh:
May Allaah ease our affairs in this country this not the best time to ease the lock down, I really feel sorry to our wrong thinking,


FG need to think twice before easing this lockdown.


I pray we won't regret this our action

My fellow nairalanders pls try and lock urself and family down, ur health is within ur hand ooo.

A ni se oribu ooooo, ireee o.

SeverusSnape:
Being a leader is not easy i swear.

Who would have thought this pandemic would snowball into this catastrophic extent?

sidieladaniel:
look at fools following Trump & Republicans talking point, the WHO may not be perfect becoz China lied in November but calling for the director to resign be is just stupid...Trump too should resign too becoz his intelligence agency briefed him & he ignored it & even called it a hoax he even praised China for their so called "transparency "

TheGoodJoe:
The WHO DG is in the best position to know that in scenarios like this, you prepare for the worst while hoping for the best.

Extreme measures should have been taking to give time to understand what we are dealing with.

blowjohn:
Have u been following the timeline of events? I mean concerning this man?
If u have u will even say that the man needs to be arrested and investigated.
Even CNN that is anti trump had to display a timeline of suspicious directives and submissions frm WHO

Bukasint:


He should be sacked with immediate effect. He is not a Medical Doctor but a bloody Microbiologist. He never know what it's like to take Hippocratic Oath. He should be fired before he uses Africa for vaccine testing...

9jaRealist:


Despite all the crude politics and semantic sophistry about declarations...
WHO duly warned the WORLD of the emergence of Covid in December of LAST YEAR!

Meanwhile, NOBODY has that they know “what we are dealing with”...
Covid is an ENTIRELY NEW pathogen and EVERYONE is learning and making it up as they go along.
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SeverusSnape:
Being a leader is not easy i swear.

Who would have thought this pandemic would snowball into this catastrophic extent?

TheGoodJoe:


I repeat. The DG was in the best position to make the right choices. Prepare for the worst case scenario. Alert all nations to be on stand still on this matter until clearance comes.

Even after it was spreading, this same man refused to act. He made nations keep their airports open until it spreads. I do not believe he intentionally did these things but his incompetency is alarming.

Just like NCDC and the Ministry of Health not pushing for the Government to channel resources into aggressive mass testing for Covid-19. It shows their incompetency. As they started aggressive testing in Lagos, see the amount of spread.

What about other States?

infini771:
That guy sold W.H.O. to China. Taiwan raised an alarm early enough but they countered it.

TheGoodJoe:
What about when the breakout started, this man refused to declare the Covid-19 spread a pandemic until it was too late.

The same man was the one issuing the self isolation theory instead of compulsory quarantine for returnees that is now being adopted by lots of Nations.

Toyeebh:
May Allaah ease our affairs in this country this not the best time to ease the lock down, I really feel sorry to our wrong thinking,


FG need to think twice before easing this lockdown.


I pray we won't regret this our action

My fellow nairalanders pls try and lock urself and family down, ur health is within ur hand ooo.

A ni se oribu ooooo, ireee o.

Bahdsypha:


WHO acted on the information by the Chinese government
not their fault
the covid-19 is a new virus, nobody knew anything it

You should not blame them because of that man that recommends drinking disinfectants says so

TOPCRUISE:
Typical post of a wailer. Why calling for his head as if na him spread the virus. We are good at looking for who to blame in any unfortunate occurrence

Urchman200:
so the incompetent man should be allowed to continue with his position? The mentality an average Nigerian man.

Focusmind:
That's why most western countries usually object to appointing people from Africa and developing world into sensitive UN positions.

They are not usually strong and could easily be manipulated for lack of confidence and sometimes low self esteem.

I feel pity for the man. He must have been arm twisted by China. For one, he failed to call the virus "Wuhan Virus" against known previous ways of coding virus names.

Spanish flu - Spain
Ebola Virus - Ebola in Congo
Lassa Fever - Lassa town in Borno State
Korean swine flu - South Korea
Newcastle cow disease - Newcastle in England

Even Siamese twins came from a town named siamese in South East Asia.

Tsunami is also a town Indonesia.

Focusmind:
That's why most western countries usually object to appointing people from Africa and developing world into sensitive UN positions.

They are not usually strong and could easily be manipulated for lack of confidence and sometimes low self esteem.

I feel pity for the man. He must have been arm twisted by China. For one, he failed to call the virus "Wuhan Virus" against known previous ways of coding virus names.

Spanish flu - Spain
Ebola Virus - Ebola in Congo
Lassa Fever - Lassa town in Borno State
Korean swine flu - South Korea
Newcastle cow disease - Newcastle in England

Even Siamese twins came from a town named siamese in South East Asia.

Tsunami is also a town Indonesia.

Urchman200:
so the incompetent man should be allowed to continue with his position? The mentality an average Nigerian man.

Bahdsypha:
This man did not cover up anything

He acted based on findings of Chinese scientists

he even declared covid-19 a global pandemic when the number of cases was below 100 and they were no deaths outside mainland China
bur some people want him to resign because the USA mismanaged the situation

He should not pay for Trump's ineptitude...it's not fair

Bukasint:


He should be sacked with immediate effect. He is not a Medical Doctor but a bloody Microbiologist. He never know what it's like to take Hippocratic Oath. He should be fired before he uses Africa for vaccine testing...

bilulu:

Trump failed, he played politics with it at the initial stage that's why we re here today. Also the team Obama set up he disbanded them. That guy to me is responsible for all this nonsense not even WHO. He ignored all the indices

9jaRealist:


WHO is NOT one-person...

It said that it had NO evidence when it had no evidence...
And as do as it had evidence of asymptomatic transmission, it published it.

That’s how SCIENCE (not crude politics) works!
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AMINDA:


Pandemic: (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
He didn't declare it a pandemic because as at then, it wasn't a pandemic. Kindly google the meaning of pandemic, epidemic and endemic. The WHO works based on its guidelines, which the DG followed to the letter.
How did he issue the self isolation theory when China itself adopted forceful quarantine? The Chinese shutdown an entire city, forcefully welding people in their homes atimes and built a 1000 bed hospital in weeks. We all watched them do that, some of us even blamed them for being authoritarian.
Fun Fact: The US has no isolation center till date not to talk about enforcing quarantine. Their supposed lockdown was a joke. Less than one month, they were already protesting, while being encouraged by Trump. In China, Wuhan was locked down for 3 months. In the US, you are only admitted to the hospital when you are terribly sick irrespective of your covid 19 status.
Fun Fact: Covid 19 test and treatment is not free in the US. You've got to pay for that shit! God bless you if you have no health insurance, you'll be paying back for the rest of your life. Yet ignoramuses always shout what a wonderful healthcare system America has.

How is all these the fault of WHO or China?

Investnow2017:
I think I agree with you. Remember China was a major key member of the Security Council that voted for his victory as the WHO president. So his loyalty may have been swayed.

It is not so much that he did not declare the virus as a pandemic on time, WHO's initial involvement was skeletal and China got him to treat the whole issue more as an in-house affair. Not so good for a global body. That is the anger if Trump.

And now here we are counting human losses every day. If everyone has under estimated the lethality and extensiveness of this virus, WHO as a watchdog should have operated at a much higher tempo, not taking chances, but that did not quite happen.
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