# Will the WHO survive the reckoning?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-who-survive-the-reckoning/850688 "2020-03-30T19:49:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-who-survive-the-reckoning/850688/58 "2020-04-02T09:35:12Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> And im still waiting for the cite where I claimed that China unleashed the virus onto the world.

Well, there’s these;

> [@Racism and "Wuhan virus" - only because Wuhan is a fairly well known large city?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racism-and-wuhan-virus-only-because-wuhan-is-a-fairly-well-known-large-city/849807/21):
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> How does it help to blame a buffoon like Trump more than Xi and the CCP when it was policy for the Chinese government to hide and deny the truth? Maybe calling it the CCP virus would assign blame where it rightly belongs without tarring an entire nation?

> [@Racism and "Wuhan virus" - only because Wuhan is a fairly well known large city?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racism-and-wuhan-virus-only-because-wuhan-is-a-fairly-well-known-large-city/849807/13):
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> This ignores the responsibility of the Chinese government for lying about its origins and spread. It also ignores the fact that this same government lied its way to tens of millions of Chinese deaths during the Great Leap Forward. Maybe we should call it the CCP virus?

> [@madsircool](#):
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> Are you claiming that the Trump administration is responsible for this global pandemic?

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