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| "We Sent Them Samples Of A Goat, A Papaya & A Pheasant": Tanzanian President Catches WHO In Epic Lie | |
| 2020-05-10 | |
| [ZeroHedge] As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases explodes across Africa, the creeping involvement of the WHO has made some leaders suspicious of the NGO. Tanzanian President John Magufuli was growing suspicious of the organization, so he reportedly decided to investigate whether the organization was as trustworthy and reliable as it claimed to be. He played what the local press described as "a trick" on the organization: He sent the WHO samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing.
That would suggest one of two conclusions: either the strain of SARS-CoV-2 running amok in Tanzania is much, much more infectious than scientists understand, or the WHO has been reporting incorrect results either on purpose (as an attempt to bolster its credibility in the face of President Trump's attacks) or via error (yet another indication that the WHO truly is "badly brokem" - as Vox described it back in 2015). Most rational people would probably accept the latter scenario as the most accurate one. Of course, Magufuli has garnered plenty of controversy himself over the past few weeks. He recently requested stockpiles of an 'herbal tea' that has been falsely branded as a COVID-19 cure, and has launched investigations impacting domestic labs and even frontline medical workers as he's claimed the number of positive tests in his country is too high. The reality is that Tanzania doesn't have much of a outbreak: It has recorded only 503 cases and 21 deaths. Though its mortality rate of 4% would suggest that the true number of cases likely numbers in the thousands... al-Jazeera report here The unreliability of COVID-19 tests manufactured in China has been a major problem for the US, and for Europe, as countries and states have been forced to discard PPE purchased in China - often after purchasing it at inflated prices - because only one-third of the masks actually work, and many of the tests have been found to produce positive and negative results more or less at random. But we'd love to hear Bill Gates regale us with "data-based arguments" about why the WHO is indispensable to the international effort to combat the coronavirus. Related: John Magufuli: 2020-04-25 TANZANIA cancels $10 billion loan from China and says terms would have only been accepted by a drunkard John Magufuli: 2019-10-05 Tanzanian president backs official who caned school pupils John Magufuli: 2018-10-20 Tanzanian 'criminals' seeking base in Mozambique: police | |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #4 Sounds like Papaya King's continuing to expand |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-10 14:47 |
| #3 I'm pretty sure he's fabulating. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 14:43 |
| #2 They were being "childish." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-10 13:08 |
| #1 A goat, a papaya, and a pheasant go into the CHO, and the CHO says, "wait, this isn't food!" Bravo President Magufuli, Bravo. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-10 12:30 |