That's from Global Times' 'Coronavirus updates'
It's been 32 days since the Chinese started coming clean on the coronavirus, eight weeks since the first warnings that something was up and just now the World Health Organization is getting ready to go to Wuhan?
I am reminded of this report immediately following the killer tsunami in 2004:
...WFP (World Food Program) has "arrived" in the capital with an "assessment and coordination team." The following is no joke; no Diplomad attempt to be funny or clever: The team has spent the day and will likely spend a few more setting up their "coordination and opcenter" at a local five-star hotel. And their number one concern, even before phones, fax and copy machines? Arranging for the hotel to provide 24hr catering service. USAID folks already are cracking jokes about "The UN Sheraton." Meanwhile, our military and civilians, working with the super Aussies, continue to keep the C-130 air bridge of supplies flowing and the choppers flying, and keep on saving lives -- and without 24hr catering services from any five-star hotel . . . . The contrast grows more stark every minute.
—Diplomad via Volokh Conspiracy, link rotted
Alternative sourceAs noted at the time:
The American and Royal Australian Navies were actually saving lives:
[don't forget the Singaporean helicopter pilots shuttling to the carrier and Mercy 24/7]
Aceh,
Sumatra, Indonesia (Jan. 3, 2005) - Lt. Jody Weinstein helps an injured
Indonesian woman into a medical evacuation vehicle after she was
transported from a coastal village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Medical teams from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Carrier Air Wing Two
(CVW-2) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) set-up a
triage site located on Sultan Iskandar Muda Air Force Base, in Banda
Aceh, Sumatra. The two teams worked together with members of the
Australian Air Force to provide initial medical care to victims of the
Tsunami-stricken coastal regions. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike
Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of
Indonesia and Thailand. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate Airman
Jordon R. Beesley (RELEASED)
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USS Abraham Lincoln follows hospital ship USNS Mercy to station near
Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
I don't have much time for self-appointed "elites".The USS Abraham Lincoln follows the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy after arriving on station near Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Feb. 3, 2005. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group has been operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia in support of Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian relief effort to aid the victims of the tsunami.
-U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Gabriel R. Piper