SOP? Standard Operating Procedure - something every bureaucrat learns at the cradle.
When you screw up (not if - when - remember, we are talking about bureaucrats here), you Cover Your Ass and minimize and contain the damage to your position and your organization. Something the World Health Organization is doing right now - from PJ Media:
WHO Washes Its Hands of Any Responsibility for the Coronavirus Pandemic
The World Health Organization, which worked hand in hand with China to spread disinformation about the coronavirus, says that it’s not its fault if a million people will die because the WHO gave the world “enough time to intervene.”
The WHO’s logic is impeccable. Apparently, its leaders think because they declared a “Global Health Emergency” on January 30 that nations should have locked down, shut down, and sheltered in place immediately.
Meanwhile, the WHO had people on the ground in Wuhan who knew how bad it was in China and how bad it was likely to get once people exposed to the virus left China to go home.
The agency declared Covid-19 a global health emergency on Jan. 30 when there were only 82 cases outside of China and zero deaths, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference on Friday. “Meaning, the world had enough time to intervene.”
“Me and my colleagues believe that,” he added. “To declare a global emergency in that situation I think it says it all. It says it all.”
What it says is, “I’m a bureaucrat and I’m covering my behind.”
President Trump is on the right path. The WHO needs to be defunded. It serves absolutely zero tangible purpose except to employ otherwise unemployable bureaucrats and to send them to exotic locales for do-nothing conferences and $1,000/plate fancy dinners. Oh so important...
Their office building would make a nice Trump Tower.
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