Weekend Open Thread
Easter Triduum occurs from Thursday evening until Sunday Evening (Easter). It’s the smallest liturgical season in the church and is not a part of the Lent season. (cdn.images.express.co.uk)
Easter Season begins on Sunday, April 12, 2020. It’s 50 days long, running from Easter Sunday until Pentecost. This season is considered more important than the Christmas season. Just imagine if this season was commercialized like Christmas. Enjoy your weekend.
Category: Open thread
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I was pulling for you, Gun Bunny.
Man, you guys jumped on this like a hungry dog on a pork chop. I barely blinked and it was here with 5 comments.
By the way, well done Field Artillery!
It helps that I can see when the post will pop. That’s why Editors/Admins can’t play.
Recalling the Glory/Salad Days of AW1Ed when he entered the first “First” on the TAH WOT:
24 Apr 15
17 Jun 16
12 Aug 16
11 Nov 16
Since then – Nada./smile
He became an article contributor in 2017, thus taken out of the running.
There is no better glory than tossing out a FIRST on the TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread. It Romaines to be seen as to who can Suddenly Caesar poke Sally Annie Oakley, oiling the vinegar over a thousand islands. Don’t be bleu ’cause it can happen to you. If you have the proper dressing you should have a big salude’.
My most gracious and humble Thanks to the loyal d’weeded/weedetted miscreants, POGs, REMFs, feather merchants, ne’er do wells, and assorted hangers on et al of the TAH Family for their Rats of the Kong and continued disrespect.
Now, drop the baskets and GET OFF MY LAWN!
I have had quarantine brain. I totally forgot by 3 hours, Also I’ve been playing tag with doctors and receptionists on email all day.
Congratulations 5th/77th FA .
I think you have tied me and are set to break the TAH WoT First record.
I’m rooting for you.
Yay, have a great weekend all you fucktards.
I’m a day or two behind on reading all of the threads so I’m gonna be spending my time doing that to catch up.
Second. koB does it again.
Top 5
It’s been a long time since I was a top 5er
5th
TIME ON TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION FIRE MISSION!!!!!!!!!
QUAD .50s 4/40mm Bofors FIRST on the Coveted TAH EARNED NEVER GIVEN FRIDAY WEEKEND OPEN THREAD!!!!
The King of Battle has sent his Thunder in a four pete FIRST.
Let us orast the leg of lamb, tater salad, greenbeans devilish eggs and cat heads on the buffet table. Let us not pass it over.
Kongrats, KoB.
Have a great weekend y’all, Happy Easter!
Things are a’happnin over here: 6 baby quail, 3 baby squirrels*, one 600sf veggie garden, one flower bed, an ulcer and an intermittently helpful gf.
Ain’t life grand?!
*de-homed when removing some trees Wednesday, left them a few hours to see if mom would come back. $100 and feedings every 4 hours later, I cant wait to kick them out!
Dog, make sure you give the little varmits some greens, they will have trouble climbing if you don’t! They are harder to raise than you think. Give them some peanut butter as well. Call me if you need any help?
Happy Easter to all my friends at TAH! You are all the best friends anyone could have!!
Take care all,
Willy
Out
WW,
Great to see you back in the mix here!
Keep getting better, please!
Ditto. Great to see WW back in the groove here…
Hey WW!
Got them some puppy formula, which was recommended. They’re not on solid food yet but domestic rat feed and peanut butter is on stand-by.
What greens would you recommend? I have fresh clover/chicory game plot mix coming up in the back yard, not opposed to going to the store for something more substantial.
Top 10?
Actually #7 for the first time in ages!
Been busy working in the garden and making devotional & Sunday School lesson videos, otherwise.
Hope all is well in y’all AO
We had a storm knock down a lot of trees & electricity in our general AO, but nothing serious at the GB Compound.
Easter Trivia & Humor
Do you know what the letters INRI on a crucifix stand for?
Answer: I’m Nailed Right In
For those of a more learned or devout persuasion the letters in Latin mean Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum which in English translates to “Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.”
Keep smiling, keep laughing, stay safe, and enjoy your chocolate Easter bunnies.
I prolly shouldn’t have laughed so loud at that… scared the kid sitting next to me, and he just shook his head when I told him why…
Jesus can’t eat M&M’s either.
To those who celebrate, I wish you all a Happy Easter … and a Happy Pesach to those who celebrate that. May good health be yours! To honor the King of Battle, now one step closer to the coveted Ace, and the rest of us DWs, I offer this week’s trivia – and the answers to last week’s annual puzzle! DID YOU KNOW…? Did a Major League Baseball player die because of being hit by a pitch during a game? By Commissioner Wretched So, how did you do? If you missed last week’s column (and shame on you if you did – where were you?), I laid out the usual collection of odd trivia bits, but with the (now) annual addition of the April Fool’s challenge … three of the items were wrong. Your job was to find them. If you found them, give yourselves a really big cookie, because you earned it! If not, try again next year. For those who tried, the three incorrect or false items were: 1. Salt water reacting to temperature. I had the part correct about freezing at a lower temperature, but the bit about taking longer to boil was wrong – it’s actually the reverse, it doesn’t take as long; 2. Dr. Einstein never, ever failed a math course, though he did fail the overall entrance exam at Zurich Polytechnic; 3. Baby birds aren’t pushed out of the nest if a human touches them. A bird’s sense of smell isn’t all that great, and momma won’t know if you touched a baby by its odor. Now on to this week’s trivia, all of which is 100% verified! Did you know … … more people are killed each year by falling coconuts and by bee stings than by sharks? (Those coconuts with stingers are the worst, if you ask me.) … your feet have about 500,000 sweat glands? They are capable of producing up to a pint of sweat every day. (Ewwww!) … almost 70% of people who win big lottery jackpots end up broke within seven years? (I keep hoping to be part… Read more »
How many people are killed each year by IECs (Improvised Exploding Coconuts)?
I once heard that there are varieties of those which can rustle bushes and scatter wood screws in driveways
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And unlike that former Jewish Carpenter, a certain be nasty lawer wanna be pile it will not resurrect from his minus 6 feet AGL.
I recall reading that the English referred to syphilis as the French disease…while the French called it the Spanish disease, and the Spaniards called it the Egyptian disease. Have to think someone must call it the English disease to close the loop.
Spring is here… just killed a 2 foot copperhead in the back yard. Gotta love Texas…
You must be in a different part of Texas from me, David.
None of our copperheads have feet.
… songs really are contagious?
A well a everybody’s heard about the bird
B-b-b bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A well a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A well a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A well a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
And now it’s stuck in your head. No need to thank me. It’s a service I provide for free.
FWIW: while most if not virtually all sources refer to Ray Chapman as “the only MLB player to die as the result of injuries suffered during a game”, that assertion does not appear to be correct.
In 1909, another MLB player – Michael Riley “Doc” Powers – died of peritonitis. This occurred two weeks after Powers suffered internal injuries during a game. Specifically, those internal injuries (which required multiple surgeries) happened when Powers crashed into a wall chasing a pop foul during the first game played at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park.
Powers’ death precedes Chapman’s by 13+ years. While the immediate cause of Powers’ death was peritonitis, the injury that required his undergoing 3 surgeries during the pre-antibiotic era (and thus to the resulting peritonitis that killed him) was suffered during a MLB game. Powers thus rightfully should be referred to as the first MLB player to die as the result of injuries suffered during a MLB game vice Chapman. Had Powers not suffered internal injuries requiring multiple surgeries during that particular MLB game, it’s a exceedingly doubtful that he’d have developed the peritonitis that killed him.
Chapman was thus the second – and, so far, the last – MLB player to die as the result of injuries received during a MLB game. Chapman was, however, the only MLB player to die from injuries received from being hit by a pitch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Powers
Also FWIW: “Doc” Powers came by his nickname honestly. He was a licensed physician.
Addendum: it turns out that there was one other MLB player who died as the result of being hit by a pitch during a baseball game – and his death predates that of Chapman. However, his case is somewhat different than Chapman’s.
John Dodge played MLB for parts of 2 seasons (1912 and 1913). After being released during his second season, he played in the minor leagues.
In 1916, while playing for the minor league Mobile Sea Gulls, Dodge was hit by a pitch. He later died of injuries sustained during that incident.
At the time, Dodge was a former MLB player, and the game in which he was fatally injured was a minor league game. So even though Dodge’s death due to injuries from being hit by a pitch precedes Chapman’s by 5+ years, Chapman is both the only active MLB player to die after being hit by a pitch and is also the only player to die after being hit by a pitch during a MLB game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_players_who_died_during_their_careers#Deaths_of_active_players
Fascinating stuff, Hondo, and promptly added to my storehouse of information. Many thanks!
De nada, amigo.
Might want to take a look at the Wikipedia article on “Doc” Powers, though. There just might be another trivia point there (not mentioned above) that you’d possibly be interested in using in a future article. (smile)
I’ll have to “bump” that into a future column!
KOB has the point. Again.
Lead us from this place of pandemic political pestilence.
Free us from our homes.
Hack Stone would have checked in sooner for the Weekend Open Thread, but he was stuck in the break room with the Vice President of the proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the Federal Government to give Elaine Ricci a welcome back party following her successful treatment of placebo addiction, but unfortunately she was struck down by the Norton Virus, and she has been rushed to Rampart Hospital and placed in isolation. Dr. Earley and Dr. Brackett are confident that Elaine will pull out of it before the last commercial break. Thoughts and prayers are appreciated.
Was that an Emergency meeting?
Did Paramedics Gage and DeSoto take her? And did she have her vitals taken by Dixie McCall?
If Dixie McCall was checking my vitals, my bp, pulse, and respiration would be at elevated levels. Among other things.
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) continues to avoid calls seeking clarification of his Native American, Navy SEAL and Law Enforcement claims.
All-Points Logistics Family Easter Egg Hunt:
Boy: “Where did all of the Easter Eggs go?!?”
Mom: “Phildo stole all of them”.
Boy: “Again?”.
Mom: “Yes, dear”.
Boy: “Fuck him”.
Mom: “Word”.
Boy: “Mom, is Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics really a US Navy SEAL?”
Mom: “Phil Monkress is surely a US Navy SEAL, just like Daniel Bernath was an Honorary Chief Petty Officer and Rick Jowers was an Army Ranger who took a bullet for his country.”
Too bad about Jason Lee Merrick and Dane Paul Reason in Louisiana.
More people than ever are now home on the PC,
or doofing around with their cellphones,
and these 2 Bayou Phony Jokers
are high visibility #1 and #2 at the TOP of Military Phony
for the past 18 DAYS.
These guys should be wearing the face masks,
to protect everyone else from the bullshit.
https://militaryphony.com/2020/03/23/jason-lee-merrick-u-s-navy-finished-bud-s-in-1988-which-implies-us-navy-seal-blog-of-shame/
Don’t forget Foley and Jowers!
… both of who began their own voluntary self quarantine
way back in February.
Nothing to do with virus, of course,
but due to the aforementioned bullshit coming out of their mouths.
Public shunning is a bitch.
Just ask Rachel Dolezal.
I wonder how a certain group in Elko, NV is faring these days? with all the non-activity due to the China Virus, there’s no slinging Chili for money!
Oh, the Elko POW*MIA knocked out the annual chili feed in February.
Donation proceeds down 15% from 2019, their 1st decrease EVER.
They aren’t doing too much now, with
meetings cancelled,
parades cancelled,
memorial services cancelled,
other town events where they set up the bling stand,
all cancelled,
and the glorious fully paid trip to D.C., cancelled.
Nothing left to do, but get fat eating all the leftover chili,
before it goes stale,
because the desert wild hogs won’t touch the stuff.
They’ll find an excuse to ride the motorcycles this summer,
on someone else’s dime, of course.
Update – Newly scheduled April meetings (2).
Doubt those will happen.
http://www.elkonvpowmia.org/upcom.html
Elko County, Nevada is not immune.
11 positive, 1 dead.
A significant problem (over 2000) in Las Vegas, Clark County.
Ugh.
https://elkodaily.com/news/local/2-more-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-elko-county/article_32b8462d-bebd-551d-9e0c-0d063c990f2d.html
Twenny-two and Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
“Just imagine if this season was commercialized like Christmas.”
Please don’t give them any ideas.
To my fellow bloggers, Peace be with you. May the lord watch over you, your friends and family.
Amen.
No Red Dawn progress this week due to supplies not arriving yet, so I put up pics of some other current projects instead.
https://www.deviantart.com/yt45
More readers appreciate your efforts than have commented.
You’ve also been doing this since before governors in this country have been issuing “stay at home” orders. Thanks for showing us your handiwork and creativity. 
Always good to have some air support from a fast mover Aerial Artillery Platform TOW.
Tanks for sharing! 😀
IIRC these other projects are ones you’re working on for other family members. Looking forward to more progress updates.
The F-100 is for my middle daughter. The tail flash is copied from, if memory serves, that worn by F-100s of the Indiana ANG back in the day, except theirs was red and white. I swapped the red for pink to give it a “girly touch,” so to speak. I learned my lesson from previous builds and won’t start on external stores & hardpoints until the plane itself is fully decaled and clearcoated.
The F2H is for my one of my little nieces. I think she mostly picked that one out because she’s able to say “Banshee.” My wife did a FaceTime call with my Sis-In-Law the other day while I was working on it. She held up the phone so my niece could see me working at the kitchen counter, and my niece got all excited, repeating, “Boo* Whitey, my Banshee! My Banshee!”
For those out there interested in something to build, the Trumpeter F-100D kit is mostly decent except for really loose and shitty joins at the wing roots. The Kitty Hawk F2H-2 kit is a fucking overly-complicated nightmare whose parts need to go together a certain way, but gives you no help whatsoever in properly aligning many of them. No pins, no slots, nothing, except foul language of such magnitude it would make Samuel L. Jackson blush (and my wife berating me in two languages for swearing where the kids might hear).
* “Boo” (rendered phonetically in English, no idea how to properly spell it) is Khmer for “Uncle.” The language has multiple proper nouns for various familial relations. “Ming” is an informal “Auntie,” while “Ohm” is more formal and means something more like “Honored Elder Aunt.”
That’s cool as hell TOW. The girls interested in old school close in air support. Took a minute for them to get the bugs out of the Hun but it did give honorable service. I vaguely remember some of the pilots from them way back days talking about how you had to fly it with undivided attention. You gonna have a tiny bottle of Irish Whiskey for the Banshee to pay honors to its name? 😆
Feel free to toss one (or more) back for the cause!
Nice job on the F-100, natural metal finishes on models are really hard to do, many of the ones I’ve seen, and done, over-emphasize the shadings.
I do enjoy the Red Dawn photos.
I don’t do preshading, which probably has a lot to do with it. I prime it in black instead, which I think gives a better effect on panel lines & whatnot that are sheltered from the airbrush. I’ll also do a panel line wash for some things, but I try not to overdo it. As for the metal finish itself, it’s Xtreme Metal paint from AK Interactive. Comes in a bunch of different shades from white aluminum to burnt bronze. I used matte aluminum for most of the skin and a couple of different shades in thinned layers for the sheathing around the engine. Admittedly not a perfect rendition of the heat-tempering effect on the real thing, but I’m reasonably happy with it.
All of this is stuff I learned from various experts around Teh Interwebz. I can’t claim aBy of it as my own invention.
Regular people are seeing these reporters acting more like emotional pundits than as journalists. The left ignores their anti-Trump attitudes but gets annoyed at President Trump’s response to them. Conservatives are calling these journalists out, and are supporting President Trump’s fighting them back and hammering them.
https://gayletrotter.com/press-conferences-show-desperately-biased-media-are-no-match-for-president-trump/
This is one of the reasons why the left wants to curtail conservative speech. In the free market of ideas, BS walks and substance talks. People will flock to conservative outlets instead of leftist propaganda outlets.
Give them another four years of President Trump. Once he steps down after his second term, CNN will have to change an 8/9-year-old reporting model. What will they end up doing?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/randy-hall/2020/04/03/cnn-fails-crack-top-20-ratings-list-during-dismal-first-quarter
They risk life and limb to get to our country illegally. For those that make it, the Democrat supported “benefits” puts them in a better situation than the one that they escaped. However, remove the incentive to come here and fewer people than before will make the attempt.
This article includes the order to immediately release them back to the other side… right after they’re tallied as a reason as to why their numbers have dropped. Since human smuggling is a business, and businesses are taking a hit as a result of the pandemic, this also is a contributor to reduced crossings.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/illegal-mexican-border-crossing-at-a-standstill-as-coronavirus-pandemic-rages-in-us
Sarah Silverman ranting her assumptions about how President Trump and his supporters have it wrong with regards to this pandemic. According to Silverman, President Trump is “responsible” for these deaths.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2020/04/04/sarah-silverman-hates-trump-supporters-hatred-what-i-feel
Because Sarah Silverman has a history of getting it right, right?
I can just hear the guffaws and chortles at the yeshivas and synagogues:
Oy vay, that Sarah, cheese and matzo, what a waste of good pussy.
Immigration barrister assaults a female counterpart. The assault included a headbutt into the face. He gets off easy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8176145/Immigration-barrister-40-avoids-struck-headbutting-female-lawyer-Chelsea.html
Most of the mainstream media doesn’t give us credit for having our own views… Based on our own experiences and research. They think that we were “fooled” into supporting the conservative argument. If we only “opened our eyes”, we’d be advancing the “progressive” argument.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/04/media-mystified-as-us-rallies-behind-trump-amid-coronavirus-crisis/
Claims of patients being placed in body bags while still alive…
They couldn’t independently verify this. A former patient claims that hospital staff placed people into body bags when it was clear that they were going to die. They were sent to the crematorium before they were declared dead.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/04/07/report-wuhan-funeral-homes-burned-people-alive/
Ventilators as the wrong solution to treating the coronavirus?
https://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb
Taiwan has pretty good numbers with regards to infection rate when compared to the rest of the world.
Taiwan provided information, early in this pandemic. Had WHO taken them seriously and taken action on Taiwan’s recommendation, this Pandemic could’ve been better dealt with. Taiwan has managed to keep its coronavirus numbers low.
https://riponadvance.com/stories/gardners-taipei-act-becomes-law-state-department-pledges-compliance/
This is what I’ve been saying on here and another site I frequent only now are people
waking up to the facts
Top 100. While I like being back at Casa de Sparky, working from home has its drawbacks. At least I’m working, which is a lot more than nearly 20 million in the last 3 weeks have been doing.
IF YOU COULD sacrifice one person to stop the Coronavirus outbreak by tossing them into a live volcano, who would it be and why did you choose Nancy Pelosi?
Why stop at one? This situation requires strong action!
(Volcano edge precipice)
“What if we had a preventive treatment?”
” a vaccine of harmless proteins that confer immunity?”
“Yeah”
” …You got it here?”
“No”
“Right. In you go”
SplooshFOOMP! (Smoke puff)
(Checks kid’s temp)
“Next!”
The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics).
Better choice. He would save the taxpayers in this county millions!
But Phildo would scream SEAL, racism against Native Americans and violence against the police based on his fake and nefarious claims (Stolen Valor and Stolen Heritage), thus attempting to buy his way out while tossing his friends, family and employees under the bus.
So lets make it easy. Lets pick a guy that does those things all of the time.
“Turd” Bolling of Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency, Memphis, TN (both National and international).
This shitbag is such a disease that the virus might just give up and quit.
Is it true that health care workers (everything from receptionists to docs) and first responders of every variety are specifically exempted from the benefits of paycheck protection, stimulus, or whatever it is called? Just heard that claim on the Jim Bohannan radio show.
A short story and a 5:00 minute acapella music video composed of singers from Nashville, TN.
Perfect for the times we are going thru.
Have a Blessed Easter. He Has Risen.
The ninja family
Life can be so unpredictable—joys and sorrows, beautiful blessings and distressing difficulties can come unexpectedly. Our life’s dreams and plans can change in an instant.
We all know this to be true.
So how can we find peace amid such turbulence?
Horatio Spafford knew something about life’s unexpected challenges. He was a successful attorney and real estate investor who lost a fortune in the great Chicago fire of 1871. Around the same time, his beloved four-year-old son died of scarlet fever.
Thinking a vacation would do his family some good, he sent his wife and four daughters on a ship to England, planning to join them after he finished some pressing business at home.
However, while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship was involved in a terrible collision and sunk. More than 200 people lost their lives, including all four of Horatio Spafford’s precious daughters. His wife, Anna, survived the tragedy.
Upon arriving in England, she sent a telegram to her husband that began: “Saved alone. What shall I do?”
Horatio immediately set sail for England. At one point during his voyage, the captain of the ship, aware of the tragedy that had struck the Spafford family, summoned Horatio to tell him that they were now passing over the spot where the shipwreck had occurred.
As Horatio thought about his daughters, words of comfort and hope filled his heart and mind. He wrote them down, and they have since become a well-beloved hymn.
Perhaps we cannot always say that everything is well in all aspects of our lives. There will always be storms to face, and sometimes there will be tragedies.
But with faith in a loving God and with trust in His divine help, we can confidently say, “It is well, it is well with my soul.”
Thanks ninja. Got a bit dusty in here, what with the pollen and pet dander.
I give Thanks for not only the many Blessing but for the Trials and Tribulations that I’ve survived. “The weeping may last thru the night, but the Joy cometh in the morning.
A Blessed Easter to you and yours. Firebase Magnolia sends! nsnr
Nice. And just what the unassembled needed.
Hack Stone is standing in line to get into the Joint Base Andrews Commissary. If Bernie Sanders were to see this sight, he would certainly be sporting some serious wood, because it’s great o see people in food lines, for some reason. Just wondering if Josef Stalin has to stand in a food line.
A man removed from a bus for not wearing a face mask?
On one hand, the bus driver asked for someone to be removed from the bus for not having a face mask on. The bus driver allegedly didn’t have one on either. The cops removed him, but at the request of the bus driver:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/669953/shock-moment-passenger-dragged-off-philadelphia-bus-cops-face-mask/
Totally unrelated to anything anybody has bee discussing, but funny.
We all get our share of spam, right? Today, the absolutely funniest address yet came through, several times. It was for the usual stuff, but the address was “acnestudios dot com.” Made me chuckle so had to share. (Or maybe it just proves my boredom. Hope some of y’all are equally bored.)
I found this trolling the web
I did do a fact check it’s true
As China knowingly misled the world, Tedros publicly praised the country for its “transparency.”
Why did he do it? Some say keeping China happy has tremendous advantages for not only the WHO but also for Ethiopia, Tedros’ home country.
For more than a decade, Ethiopia’s economy has been largely dependent on China. Beijing has shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars for mega-projects including a new $160 million national sports stadium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s largest city and capital.
“China is building the city from the ground up,” Welibuw Buzenehe, a local food merchant in the area, told Politico. “Without China, not much would happen around here.”
China has also become Ethiopia’s largest trading partner. The Export-Import Bank of China put up $2.9 billion of the $3.4 billion railway project connecting a landlocked Ethiopia to the port-heavy country of Djibouti. China’s money was also instrumental in building Ethiopia’s first six-lane highway. Beijing can — and has — taken credit for helping reshape Addis Ababa’s entire skyline with high-rises and sky scrapers.
But lately, China hasn’t been happy with its investments in Ethiopia after projects like the railway line failed to generate the kind of cash developers had hoped. If China pulls out of Ethiopia, the African country’s economy could crumble — something Tedros is desperate to avoid.
The conflict of interest puts him and his actions as head of the WHO under a microscope.
Tedros was elected to his position in the WHO in 2017