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Funny, and true, too.
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My Q would be, what metrics does the WHO use.  Their overall opinion doesn't mean much to me as such:  I want to know whether their evidence is compelling.  We just had this discussion about expertise.
Also, President Obama *ran for office* on the idea that the world hates us.  I don't trust the WHO to say glowing things about the U.S. at its own initiative.  I don't have a tinfoil hat.  My observation is that every other country in the world, except England and Japan, is green with envy about our nation and culture.  Think plumbers buying $4 lattes, customers in restaurants saying "sir" to the waiter, and ordinary citizens being excruciatingly "sensitive" to the disadvantaged.  It's not for nothing that the ozone is blamed on America.  The world sees us as having everything they want to have.
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An M.D. (not Grumpy) once told me that the U.S. does not accept M.D. certifications from other countries, because NO other country is as rigorous and we simply don't trust their expertise as a general principle.  If Switzerland could have given me or my mom better health care, I'd like to know how.  It's like saying somebody pitched better than Kershaw, and that Kershaw is actually a pretty lousy pitcher.