https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/
December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.
December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.
Three weeks after doctors first started noticing the cases, China contacts the World Health Organization.
Tao Lina, a public-health expert and former official with Shanghai’s center for disease control and prevention, tells the South China Morning Post, “I think we are [now] quite capable of killing it in the beginning phase, given China’s disease control system, emergency handling capacity and clinical medicine support.”
January 1: The Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Dr. Li Wenliang, accusing him of “spreading rumors.” Two days later, at a police station, Dr. Li signed a statement acknowledging his “misdemeanor” and promising not to commit further “unlawful acts.” Seven other people are arrested on similar charges and their fate is unknown.
Also that day, “after several batches of genome sequence results had been returned to hospitals and submitted to health authorities, an employee of one genomics company received a phone call from an official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission, ordering the company to stop testing samples from Wuhan related to the new disease and destroy all existing samples.”
According to a New York Times study of cellphone data from China, 175,000 people leave Wuhan that day. According to global travel data research firm OAG, 21 countries have direct flights to Wuhan. In the first quarter of 2019 for comparison, 13,267 air passengers traveled from Wuhan, China, to destinations in the United States, or about 4,422 per month. The U.S. government would not bar foreign nationals who had traveled to China from entering the country for another month.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316
"On the basis of this information, there is evidence that human-to-human transmission has occurred among close contacts since the middle of December 2019. Considerable efforts to reduce transmission will be required to control outbreaks if similar dynamics apply elsewhere. Measures to prevent or reduce transmission should be implemented in populations at risk. (Funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and others.)"
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Started by metmike - April 7, 2020, 9:06 p.m.
Right, like it was fair to the rest of the world to suffer the consequences of their acting blatantly irresponsible..............because of the origins of the virus, then hiding information about it from the world for months.
But we have always called things by the name of where they came from. If this were a good thing, it would be perfectly ok to call it the Chinese ............
Go Bill Maher!
metmike: Some of the same people, take the person working the hardest to fight the Chinese virus in the United States and want to name it after him............because they hate that person. No, the articles below are not parody.
As COVID-19 gets worse, so does the president.
https://thebulwark.com/38792-2/
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-20/chinese-virus-trump-virus
editor: President Trump is now calling the pandemic a “Chinese virus.” He continues his habit of insulting others and shifting blame away from himself.
Let’s put the blame where it belongs and start calling this the “Trump Virus.”
Hate is the most destructive emotion of all!
Hate for President Trump is causing people to completely embarrass themselves with laughable statements and positions, trying to use the coronavirus pandemic to obliterate him.
The ruling Communist party in China has previously been accused of underreporting cases and not communicating swiftly enough with the global community vital information about the virus, which first emerged in Wuhan in December 2019, including what the party knew about human-to-human transmission and just how fast it spread.
Read more: Delivery of 5,000 urns undermines China’s coronavirus official death toll: Report
Now, critics have also suggested that China is partly to blame for the virus spreading globally because it continued to allow flights to Hubei for its own interests – while taking greater action to stop the spread within China.
Addressing China’s President Xi Jinping directly, historian Niall Ferguson wrote in an op-ed: “... after it became clear that there was a full-blown epidemic spreading from Wuhan to the rest of Hubei province, why did you cut off travel from Hubei to the rest of China – on January 23 – but not from Hubei to the rest of the world?”
Ferguson’s accusations refer to China continuing to allow international travel long past January 23, the date when it imposed serious restrictions on travel within China in an attempt to quarantine Wuhan from the rest of the country.
There were 1,300 direct flights to 17 cities before President Trump’s travel restrictions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html
Trump administration officials have also said they received significant pushback about imposing the restrictions even when they did. At the time, the World Health Organization was not recommending travel restrictions, Chinese officials rebuffed them and some scientists questioned whether curtailing travel would do any good. Some Democrats in Congress said they could lead to discrimination.
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