Bob: "Nah, it's just that these West Africans have compromised immune systems."
Betty: "Yeah, Bob's totally right. Look at us—we've been around this virus for a while now, and we're not dead."
Voice of Reason: "Yet."
Leaked WHO Report Reveals That Organization Failed to Eradicate Ebola When It Had the Chance (oops)
But let's not be haters on the WHO. Look at its concerned and transparent response:
WHO response to internal Ebola document leaked to media
A WHO internal document recently obtained by some media outlets was the first draft of a small team documenting the chronology of the Ebola outbreak events for future review. This document has not yet been fact-checked or reviewed by WHO staff involved in the initial response to Ebola, and is part of an on-going analysis of our response.
WHO will not do interviews or explain details on this document until it is completed. WHO believes in transparency and accountability and will release this review when it is fact-checked. For now, WHO's focus is to obtain the resources needed to successfully fight this Ebola outbreak.
A full review and analysis of global responses to this, the largest-ever Ebola outbreak in history, will be completed and made public once the outbreak is under control. We are a public health organization and our focus right now must be to stop this outbreak and save lives. We cannot divert our limited resources from the urgent response to do a detailed analysis of the past response. That review will come, but only after this outbreak is over.
That makes sense. You've done such a great job so far.
P.S. WHO, you might want to add "that was" after the word "document" in your news release title so that people know what the hell you are trying to say. Or maybe your response was leaked. Who knows?
Cheers.
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