Absolute must-read of the day: The "fake pandemic" charge goes mainstream and WHO's credibility nosedives. This is by risk-communication experts Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard, and it's the best analysis so far of the pandemic's aftermath. Excerpt:
The extremely long assessment that follows advances an argument we can summarize in a single sentence:
The absurd charge that the World Health Organization (WHO) hyped a fake pandemic in order to enrich Big Pharma has gained undeserved mainstream credibility mostly because WHO has badly mishandled its risk communication about three issues: (a) the mildness of the pandemic (so far); (b) the debatable meaning of the term “influenza pandemic”; and (c) the inevitable – but not culpable – structural conflicts of interest of WHO advisors.
