
Episode 2: WHO let the bats out?
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China Didn't Act in Breach of the International Health Regulations
The legal basis is a constitution of w dand in this particular case, you know, ther's been a lot of an argument about whether china actually acted in breach of its obligations under the international health regulations. The first is that it seems by now fairly accepted by everybody except china, that china knew at least the local level of the spread of a typical pneumonia much earlier than they notify wco. So in that sense, china can be considered in breach of the other regulations. At the same time, let's be very frank, china is very busy controlling and rewriting the narrative. There's nothing too small for china to intervene. And so in a matter of
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