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All commercial flights from Wuhan, international and local, were stopped at the very same time. Repeating over and over again that domestic flights from Wuhan were stopped but international flights from the city were not stopped is just one more slander and propagandistic LIE told and believed by many Americans. It is frankly disgusting that so many here embarrass themselves repeating this fantasy.
In actual fact, there were hundreds of Westerners, including many American English teachers, businessmen, including workers & family members at the American Wuhan Consulate, who were trapped in that central Yangtze River city of 11 million people by the sudden closure of all exiting airport, bus and rail transport.
The Chinese government — at the request of Western governments including the U.S. — had to arrange for special flights to vacate foreign nationals. All this was covered in the Chinese and Western press at the time. You folks are utter and total asses.
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"There is new evidence to show that China locked down all domestic traffic internally by end January 2020 but pushed to open foreign travel till end March."
" Data from Tom Tom traffic index, a traffic location site that covers 416 cities across 57 countries show that as a result of this strategy, China, intentionally or otherwise, was able to lockdown its cities unknown to the world."
"As per data from Tom Tom traffic index Wuhan had a traffic density of 60% in January while Shanghai and Beijing had nearly 80% density. After the total lockdown the average traffic density fell to below 10% in Wuhan and Shanghai during February and below 5% in Beijing. While implementing a total domestic lockdown in February,"
"China kept on the facade of hiding the severity of the virus attack till mid March. On the 11th of March WHO belatedly declared COVID-19 a global pandemic."
"It was only after a telephonic conversation with US President Donald Trump on March 27th that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to curb international flights from China."