The WHO is corrupt. Now the rest of the world is paying the price.
I am not in any position to judge that. I don't have facts at my disposal about WHO, at least not from sources that I can trust. I wouldn't surprise me.
But while you are all in a lather about the "globalists" keep a few other things in mind, which are based on facts that we have at hand. In the US authorities wasted a couple of months doing very little to prepare for this when it was obvious that this was going to spread. Even now, testing in the US is done less than almost everywhere else in the developed world (because the CDC insisted they should do all the testing using a kit with only 70% sensitivity). The scientists who actually know what they are talking about have been muzzled because the administration wants you to think they have things under control. The kinds of pandemic early warning public health efforts that had been put in place after SARS and MERS were mostly dismantled two years ago. (Trump apparently couldn't understand why you would want to do something to help other countries with that, failing to recognize that these things can spread, as we see now, so helping others is actually helping yourself, and boots on the ground where these things often start is the best way to get a leg up on preparations in your own country). The guy in charge of the CDC, a political appointee, chosen because of a history of documented "Christian" homophobia in the context of HIV, is a clinical virologist but he has never been previously in charge of any large public health agency, and he has a history of PERSONALLY being at best very careless with his reporting of scientific data (or worse). And on and on. People even now can enter the country from Italy without being screened for a fever or symptoms! How do I know this? People I know did it and told me! They are self-quarantining now. Even now there a bunch of people on a cruise ship off the coast of California, and nobody seems to have a clue what to do with them.
Oh, and Mike Pence is the guy in charge. A guy who doesn't believe in evolution. When someone like Anthony Fauci was available (or lots of other people who actually know things about this). Problem is Dr. Fauci would tell things like they are. That would be unacceptable to the White House who see this is simply a political problem they can blame on Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton.
None of that has anything to do with the WHO.
This is going to get worse before it gets better.
OK, some more info. Probably the best data in existence on this thing now comes from Korea because they have a lot of cases and have tested THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of people (which is what we should be doing in the US but aren't). This provides the single best estimate of the case fatality rate in a country with modern medical infrastructure, which there seems to be 0.6%. By comparison, this is ~ 6-fold higher than last year's influenza strain. However, the number of people who get seriously ill is scary high.
This is going to require some of the same measures here that we see in other places at some point to keep people from congregating in groups.
For me, this means lots of solitary road cycling and no table tennis, no gym. The university where I am teaching is making plans for how to deliver all of our course content online in case we have to cancel classes. I am betting that will happen, just like other places.
