WHO dunnit too

The World Health Organization put us in a minor funk on Saturday with a tweet, promoted by the media in a most inflammatory way, that said “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from #COVID19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.” Of course, no antibodies means no vaccine, which means our road back to happiness and prosperity gets ever more treacherous.

Then our wife pointed out that “the WHO is usually wrong and, anyway, it is controlled by the Chinese,” and that cheered us right back up again.

And, sure enough, the WHO has backed off, having learned for itself that a tweet is just about the worst way to communicate a complicated point on which literally the entire world has pinned its hopes: “WHO Deletes Misleading Tweet That Spread Paranoia About COVID-19 Reinfection.”

So, yeah, “the experts” can be as dangerously misleading as Donald Trump. They may not do it as often or involve as much orange, but for better or worse more or less the entire world has learned to check with, say, the WHO when Donald Trump says something a little bit crazed off. Who do we check with when “the experts” tweet “you may as well kill yourself now, because this is as good as it gets”?