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>>lazycr+(OP)
The WHO is a useless organization. For political reasons, it will be necessary to engage, but hopefully US authorities will not treat it as an information source.

The US should use its own primary sources in future to evaluate disease spread. China will lie to the WHO and the WHO will protect it.

But to know the truth, we should use our modern equivalents of Key Hole. There is no truth but that which you have examined yourself.

>>renewi+17
Sure, if data from US would be enough to understand and fight disease. Otherwise, you need to create some sort of world health organization to share meaningful data and investigate inside all country participant without the appearance of [or actual] invasion of sovereignty.

Thus, we have the WHO. You wanna replace it, it's gonna take a decade to get to another agreement if one even is made. Then it will have its own set of issues. During a pandemic, seems better to me to work with and hold accountable the one we have... kinda like the WH is doing today.

>>method+Fb
We don't need it for this. Intelligence organizations know that biological threats like this are intelligence problems. They just didn't think them likely or that the sick guy would be our enemy.

However, now we know the adversary is truly an adversary. China will suppress information on pandemics started within its borders.

The game has changed. You don't listen to China about whether China is sick. You listen to Keyhole and your guys on the ground.