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WHO?

*sigh*

Me when 'Fro and anyone else get into it...

Just have to do a little research. It's not hard.

perhaps China should owe the rest of the world hundreds of trillions

That’s one of those things that sounds good, and then the mechanics would be just a nightmare. 

Yeah, like I said, I don't believe in some vindictive reaction to China's actions.

But I also don't think taking punitive action is wrong.  I actually believe there's a moral and ethical obligation to do so.

I just don't know how it would actually work in real life.  I don't know what realistic actions could be taken by the rest of the global community that could be effective in actually dissuading such careless and/or deliberately dangerous activity in the future.

But that doesn't mean it isn't worthy of exploring and enacting.

A certain international organization tasked with informing the public on health threats such as pandemics was insistent on Covid's inability to transit human to human. Funding was later cut.

That isn't really accurate - members of WHO were talking it being transmissable and a big threat, and what the "insistence" was really one tweet saying the evidence wasn't clear and was designed to placate China (who is also a major donor to WHO). WHO has no power in itself, so pissing off China is a good way to have no ability to do anything whatsoever. That ended up pissing off America, though our response was sort of snivelling more than any sort of major policy.