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This level of credibility loss applies outside of regulators. The FBI has decades of reputation in tatters, Bill Kristol etc. are an embarssment, and I’m sure you can name more cases.
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Good post. I agree with everything except your comment about WHO. I have not last faith in THE WHO. As for the other institutions, I won’t get fooled again.
The CDC spent years obsessing about “gun violence” and neglected infectious diseases. The FDA failed to monitor and enforce standards on Chinese pharmaceutical plants. The inspectors did not speak or read Chinese language and could not read records that were often falsified. The FDA also inhibited the development of testing kits to monitor the epidemic.
Speaking of the CDC, did they ever get the green light from the ChiComs to send a team into Wuhan/Hubei?
Media reports the other week claimed that although the regime in the PRC was ironing out the approval specifics, at least in principle the door was/is open for the CDC to investigate virus origins, contribute expertise to Chinese efforts to combat/contain the epidemic (based on clearer, ground-truth-derived understanding of the virus obtained via this proposed direct investigation), etc.
Then… No further updates on that front — at least so far as I’m aware.
Has such a visit gotten underway already, albeit in a media blackout? Or is it at least imminent, per an agreed and publicized schedule?
Or — as I can’t help suspecting — has it been either resolutely shut down or given the endless-delays treatment by the PRC regime?
Some core credibility at stake here — and not strictly that of PRC institutions only, for that matter: If something has been going on with the coronavirus in China that the US government and the governments of its allies *should* be confronting the PRC about, and they deliberately shy away from that duty to confront, there should be hell to pay.