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ISSCARTOON World Health Organization YOU DOWNPLAYED THE SERIOUSNESS OF COVID-19 ISSCARTOON World Health Organization WHAT?! YOU DOWNPLAYED IT TO0 ussCARTOON OH, SURE, BLAME EVERYONE BUT YOURSELF ISSCARTOON World Health Organization -PULLS FUNDING-

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Sam Harris Q D A Gift a subscription 3. Elon and I didn't converge on a common view of epidemiology over the course of those two hours, but we hit upon a fun compromise: A wager. Elon bet me $1 million dollars (to be given to charity) against a bottle of fancy tequila ($1000) that we wouldn't see as many as 35,000 cases of Covid in the United States (cases, not deaths). The terms of the bet reflected what was, in his estimation, the near certainty (1000 to 1) that he was right. Having already heard credible estimates that there could be 1 million deaths from Covid in the U.S. over the next 12-18 months (these estimates proved fairly accurate), I thought the terms of the bet ridiculous and quite unfair to Elon. I offered to spot him two orders of magnitude: I was confident that we'd soon have 3.5 million cases of Covid in the U.S. Elon accused me of having lost my mind and insisted that we stick with a ceiling of 35,000. 4. We communicated sporadically by text over the next couple of weeks, while the number of reported cases grew. Ominously, Elon dismissed the next batch of data reported by the CDC as merely presumptive while confirmed cases of Covid, on his account, remained elusive. 5. A few weeks later, when the CDC website finally reported 35,000 deaths from Covid in the U.S. and 600,000 cases, I sent Elon the following text: Is (35,000 deaths + 600,000 cases) > 35,000 cases? 6. This text appears to have ended our friendship. Elon never responded, and it was not long before he began maligning me on Twitter for a variety of imaginary offenses. For my part, I eventually started complaining about the startling erosion of his integrity on my podcast, without providing any detail about what had transpired between us.
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Tio God of Soda
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Ok this is bullshit, if you think all the anger against them boils down to downplaying the virus, then you don't understand what is going on. They have been accused of holding info from the public about the virus, letting China lie about it, being their puppet. Trump relied on this info originally but closed down before the Dems wanted it, Pelosi even said go to China town it's fine (not exact quote) early on in this. If the economy crashes you could make the claim about it's Trump fault, but the death toll is not. Not to mention they actively avoid questions about Taiwan's situation in all of this as if Winnie the Pooh is right behind their back. This isn't just Trump. Japan's not happy either. And I'm sure more will consider soon.

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But they did not downplay it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/who-declares-coronavirus-a-global-health-emergency

Now is the WHO a saint no, but is kind of hypocritical to basically blame them for things he has done himself:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-coronavirus-timeline-dismissed-969381/

From downplaying it, to announced is cured, to claim it is a democratic hoax, etc. and yes he even said China did a good job at containing it, basically everything he is blaming others he has done himself

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