I saw the horrors of this disease in Liberia at the height of that outbreak. WHO officials slapped down warnings from the charity Médecins Sans Frontières, even refusing to help fix visas for experts. Shamefully, they never learned. With Covid-19, they stayed silent on China’s early cover-ups that led to such disastrous consequences. They also helped propagate false claims that denied human transmission and were painfully slow to declare a global health emergency. … [Read more...] about It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if the world lets China bury the truth, says IAN BIRRELL
Dictatorship
Streets of Paris stand empty as police enforce a nationwide curfew amid rising Covid cases – only hours after demonstrators marched in protests across France
Thousands marched in Paris and cities across France, many of them angry about they say was the 'disproportionate' response by police when they broke up an illegal New Year's rave in Brittany that attracted some 2,400 people … [Read more...] about Streets of Paris stand empty as police enforce a nationwide curfew amid rising Covid cases – only hours after demonstrators marched in protests across France
America points finger at Chinese lab: US claims researchers at Chinese institute in Wuhan fell ill WEEKS before the world knew of Covid
Yet the WHO’s inquiry will merely build on reports by scientists working under this repressive and deceitful Communist dictatorship rather than carry out their own investigations. The WHO even allowed Beijing to vet its experts – with disquiet over the role of Peter Daszak, a controversial British scientist who is a long-term scientific collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and who led efforts to dismiss talk of a possible lab leak as conspiracy theory. … [Read more...] about America points finger at Chinese lab: US claims researchers at Chinese institute in Wuhan fell ill WEEKS before the world knew of Covid
‘For me, there’s no hero or villain’
"Every creator wants to say something through characters and stories. It's not necessary they give you a solution, sometimes they want to raise questions. If you really go into the depth, the question often is 'why are we the way we are?' in politics, love or betrayal. If 'the message' overrides, it is an injustice to craft and storytelling." … [Read more...] about ‘For me, there’s no hero or villain’