I don't think the WHO's messaging can really be trusted

E4 Reddit (hantavirus search) · 2026-05-13 · China

I am not trying to fear monger or anything, I think that most likely hantavirus will fizzle out in a few weeks and that we should not panic. Hantavirus isn't covid, but there are similarities in the WHO's messaging. After covid, seeing how organizations like the WHO handled it, I really don't think they can be completely trusted with their public messaging. In January 2020 they were saying things like, covid doesn't appear to spread between humans and only animal to human. Then they said it's only close contact human to human transmission, and that the risk to the public was extremely low. During this messaging, China was already in complete chaos and there was 100k cases of covid. It was pretty obvious at that point that it wasn't spreading from only bats, and that it was highly contagious. At that point I feel most people understood we were in for a ride, even experts were warning us. But the WHO kept up their messaging that everything is fine. To me it seems the WHO has a public playbook for how they handle these situations, and it's to minimize it as much as possible. I don't think this is a helpful playbook, when dealing with potentially deadly viruses. The opposite should be true, the most extreme measures should be taken early so that it doesn't become a worldwide thing. Anyway that's just my two cents, again not at all saying hantavirus is going to be a global pandemic or anything, just that the WHO definetly seems to have a playbook when it comes to viruses and their communication with the public that isn't exactly trustworthy. submitted by /u/Sudden_Wind_8636 to r/hantavirus [link] [comments]

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