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Friday, April 04, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:20 AM:
China Sorry About SARS Cover-UpGovernment officials admit world should have been warned sooner
Meanwhile, another country is dealing with its own problems with SARS and lack of information. There was a letter to the editor in the San Jose Mercury News a few days ago from an official from Taiwan's consulate in San Francisco, lamenting that his country doesn't have access to WHO support. Why doesn't the World Health Organization help Taiwan? Duh. Taiwan is an outlaw nation. It doesn't belong to the United Nations. Which means, I guess, it has no place in world health.
So, why doesn't Taiwan belong to the United Nations? Its entry has been successfully blocked by... that very same China that covered up this disease, an action that threatens, among others, Taiwan.
Remember that when you hear about the sanctity of the UN in the debate over who should organize Iraq's rebuilding. The United Nations is not a world organization, speaking for the world community; it's an agglomeration of nations who together practice the sort of politics that denies the world's best epidemic management to Taiwan because China doesn't like it.
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