Posted on 03/19/2020 9:27:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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.
This article is from The Atlantic? What happened to them?
lol! You little Devil, you!
The Atlantic is acting like a liberal that just got mugged...
China is digging themselves deeper. Pretty soon they will dig themselves to the South Pacific.
My thought too.
China is a factory nation. They will be buried is nations stop buying from them.
If I read that China was completely leveled, burned, and salted tomorrow, wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. By their horrendous cruelty to humans and animals, they were long overdue for retribution.
Thanks, China. You united Americans against a common enemy.
Me Chinee. Me play joke. Me put Wu Flu in your coke!
https://twitter.com/LouPalumbo/status/1240642152822120448
Red China owns this. President Trump is correct to call it the Chinese virus.
I am never eating in another Chinese restaurant again.
and from all those corp leaders that off-shored to China. We need to hold our own scum accountable as well.
I hope you are not serious.
What is not being reported is that they are hacking the planet, in particular U.S. Ask any IT professional.
Any FReepers wanna back me up? Some weird shit going on this week.
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