The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government censored and detained those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of what was to come.
Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of the pandemic. In naming the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically avoided mentioning Wuhan. Yet in de-emphasizing where the epidemic began (something China has been aggressively pushing for), we run the risk of obscuring Beijing’s role in letting the disease spread beyond its borders.
China has a history of mishandling outbreaks, including SARS in 2002 and 2003. But Chinese leaders’ negligence in December and January—for well over a month after the first outbreak in Wuhan—far surpasses those bungled responses. The end of last year was the time for authorities to act, and, as Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has noted, “act decisively they did—not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.” More by Shadi Hamid
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Don’t know about you, but I’m gonna be looking for some payback from the ChiComs when the dust settles. Big time!!!!!
Sounds like China handled this outbreak quite well. Today as America announced the number of new cases doubled in 24 hours, China is celebrating the 1st day of no new cases. Within weeks China will be back to business as usual as American and Europe slip into recession. No wonder people are making up all kinds of shit to discredit the Chinese. They have triumph where America and Europe are failing in their fight against the virus.
OH HELL NO, I DONT ******* THINK SO
I AM AND HAVE BEEN CONSUMED BY RETRIBUTION
HAVING SPENT THE LAST 2 MONTHS BACKTRACKING
AND SIMPLY BESIDE MYSELF WONDERING WHY
WHAT I HAD UNCOVERED AND WAS AWARE OF
WAS NOT NOR HAD NOT BEEN ADDRESSED, LET ALONE
EVEN ******* MENTIONED OR BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE
AND HOW I COULD MAKE THAT HAPPEN
WHO COULD I CONTACT THAT WOULD TAKE ME
SERIOUS ENOUGH TO TAKE WHAT I HAVE COLLECTED
AND MOVE FORWARD WITH IT
I DONT GIVE A **** WHAT YOU OR YOUR LIKEMINDED SAY...
THIS WAS INTENTIONAL
FIRST OF ALL, OF COURSE OUR NUMBERS
ARE GOING TO DOUBLE....WHY WOULDNT THEY
WHATS NOT NORMAL IS THE SPREAD
AND I WISH TO GOD I HAD KEPT HOURLY SCREENSHOTS
BEFORE THEY TOOK THE FIRST MAP DOWN
AND BEING THAT ITALY HAS SURPASSED
THE DEATHS IN CHINA, STILL NO OUTBREAK IN JAPAN
LEADS ME TO BELIEVE IT IS MORE SINISTER THAN I THOUGHT
WHAT IS THIS CELEBRATING 1ST DAY NO NEW CASES?
OBVIOUSLY CHINA FORGOT AND YOU'RE CLUELESS...
FROM JAN. 3 - JAN. 17, CHINA WAS REPORTING
THEY HAD NO NEW CASES
JUST LIKE THEY SAID THE FIRST CASES OF VPUE
A CLUSTER OF 3, A CLUSTER OF 4, OCCURRED END DEC
WHEN THERE WAS A/THE FIRST DOCUMENTED CASE DEC 1ST
WITH ONSET OF SYMPTOMS DEC. 8
WHY WOULD A MAN GO TO THE HOSPITAL
ON DEC 1 IF HE DIDNT GET SICK UNTIL DEC 8
WHY WOULD THEY ADMIT HIM, LET ALONE
KEEP HIM IN THE HOSPITAL UNDER OBSERVATION
ON WHAT PLANET DO YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL
AND THEY ADMIT YOU AND KEEP YOU UNDER OBSERVATION
BECAUSE YOU DONT FEEL GOOD AND YOUR 61
ON WHAT PLANET DO YOU GO TO A HOSPITAL
ARE ADMITTED AND KEPT FOR OBSERVATION
AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU FREQUENT
A SPECIFIC WET MARKET IS PART OF YOUR ASSESSMENT
HOW DO YOU GO FROM REPORTING 2 CLUSTERS, 7 TOTAL
ON DEC. 29, TO GENE SEQUENCING DATA COMPLETED
ON 59 CASES AND VIRUS STRAIN IDENTIFIED ON JAN. 2
ON JAN. 11, (MIND YOU, STILL NO NEW CASES)
WHY DID CHINA HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE
TO REPORT THE FIRST DEATH IN CHINA FROM CoV-19
WHEN THERE HAD ALREADY BEEN 6 DEATHS
DOCUMENTED IN THE GENE SEQUENCING STUDY
FROM THE 59 CASES THE STUDY WAS BASED ON
TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF VPUE
WHY DID CHINA AND WHO HOLD A JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE
ON THE SAME DAY TRUMP ANNOUNCED, BEGINNING JAN 23
NO ENTRY COMING IN FROM CHINA/ORIGINATING/VISITED
AND RESTRICTING TRAVEL IN/OUT OF CHINA
TO ACCUSE HIM OF INCITING FEAR AND PANIC
AND HARMING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, SPECIFICALLY CHINA'S
ONLY FOR CHINA TO ENFORCE THE LOCKDOWN
ON JAN. 23, THE VERY DAY TRUMPS EO WENT INTO EFFECT
WHY DID WHO DIRECTOR, WAIT UNTIL A WEEK AFTER
OUR 'INCOMPETENT' PRESIDENT DECLARED CoV-19
A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY HIMSELF, TO DO SO
TRUMP ENACTED THE FIRST RESTRICTIONS AND BANS,
NOT RECOMMENDED BY WHO OR UNITO(?)
AND TO RECEIVE NOTHING BUT CONDEMNATION
WHY DO I HAVE A TRANSLATED PRESS RELEASE
APPROVING CONSTRUCTION OF EMERGENCY CENTERS
WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS THE EPICENTER FOR CoV-19
FROM SEPT. 2019 TO BEGIN NOV. 2019
WHY IS IT THAT ALL THE CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION
FOR EMERGING DISEASES AND OUTBREAKS
OCCURRING AND PROBLEMATIC IN CHINA
WITH A HIGH THREAT OF CAUSING A PANDEMIC
REFERS TO AND IS BASED ON,
AN OUTBREAK IN MARCH '19 IN THE HUBEI PROVINCE
OF AN ANTIGENIC VARIANT
OF A HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA H7N9
THAT HAD FIRST EMERGED IN 2013
IT CONSISTS OF 2 STAGES, IN WAVES
BEGINNING THE END OF ONE YEAR, INTO THE NEXT
NO ACTIVITY THE FOLLOWING YEAR
AGAIN, COLD AND FLU SEASON
END OF ONE YEAR, BEGINNING OF THE NEXT,
FROM END OF 2013, INTO BEGINNING OF 2014 AN OUTBREAK
2015, NOTHING
END OF 2016, INTO BEGINNING OF 2017, OUTBREAK
2018, NOTHING
END OF 2019, INTO BEGINNING OF 2020....
HELLOOOOOOOOOOO
WE ARE IN THE FIFTH WAVE OF A VIRUS
THAT HAS BEEN RE EMERGING IN CHINA SINCE 2013
THAT HAS MUTATED FROM THE 4 PREVIOUS WAVES
INTO AN ANTIGENIC VARIANT, WHICH IS WORSE
BECAUSE IT EVADES NATURAL ANTIBODIES OUR
IMMUNE SYSTEM PRODUCES TO FIGHT INVASIVE VIRUSES
AND THERE ARE NO ANTIBODIES TO COUNTER IT
THAT CAN BE USED TO CREATE A VACCINE, THUS A PANDEMIC
I MEAN EVERY ******* ATTRIBUTE
OF WHAT THEY ARE CALLING CoV-19, SARS CoV 2
THE VARIANT HAS 4 UNIQUE CHANGES
TO ITS GENE SEQUENCING THAT VIROLOGISTS
CANT MAKE SENSE OF ACCORDING TO ANTIGENIC SHIFT
AND PRESENTING PROBLEMS CREATING A CVV
YOU CAN NOT WAGE A FIGHT
WHEN YOUVE GEARED UP FOR THE WRONG BATTLE
