Posted on 03/25/2020 9:12:43 PM PDT by hapnHal
As the novel coronavirus incubated in Wuhan from mid-December to mid-January, the Chinese state made evidently intentional misrepresentations to its people concerning the outbreak, providing false assurances to the population preceding the approach of the Lunar New Year celebrations on Jan. 25.
In mid-December, an outbreak of a novel influenza-like illness was traced to workers and customers of the city’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which contained exotic and wild animal species. On Dec. 26, multiple Chinese news outlets released reports of an anonymous laboratory technician who made a startling discovery: The sickness was caused by a new coronavirus that was 87 percent similar to SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, sounded the alarm in an online chatroom on Dec. 30.
That night, Wuhan public health authorities solicited information on the emergence of a “pneumonia of unclear cause,” but omitted Li’s discussion about SARS or a novel coronavirus. Li and other medical professionals who tried to disclose the emergence of the virus were suppressed or jailed by the regime. On Jan. 1, the state-run Xinhua News Agency warned, “The police call on all netizens to not fabricate rumors, not spread rumors, not believe rumors.” Four days after Li’s chatroom discussion, officers of the Public Security Bureau forced him to sign a letter acknowledging he had made “false comments,” and that his revelations had “severely disturbed the social order.”
Li, who has become something of an underground folk hero in China against chicanery by state officials, ultimately died of the disease. China silenced other doctors raising the alarm, minimizing the danger to the public even as they were bewildered and overwhelmed. State media suppressed information about the virus.
Although authorities closed the Wuhan “wet market” at the epicenter of the contagion, they did not take further steps to stop the wildlife trade.
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Just tell the Chicoms those Treasury bills they hold are now going to be used as payment so fear them up.
Send Chuck Norris, he'll kick their asses AND the China virus's ass.
“Li, who has become something of an underground folk hero in China against chicanery by state officials, ultimately died of the disease.”
Bang!
Finally, every brat they've squeezed out in the "birth tourism" scam? No citizenship for you.
He will stop twisting their nipples and put their balls in the vise at the proper time...we’ve been getting signals that they are considering what to do but we have another mission to accomplish before turning “a baleful eye” on the Communist Chinese Government....as Pompeo was sure to emphasize yesterday...
This article is a lawyerly wet dream.
It is balderdascious garbage
Any country that allows “wet markets” in every city, where exotic creatures from bats and snakes to pangolins are kept in cages and then slaughtered and cooked to order in the stalls next to where pork, dog meat, poultry and fish are left to hang among the flies, deserves to be blamed for pandemic virus outbreaks.
Their current sanitary conditions would shock Upton Sinclair. We figured this shit out more than a century ago, and fixed it. China just doesn’t care.
SARS scientists have been warning the world about the infectious viral cocktail lab of Chinese “wet markets” for decades.
If Covid-19 came from Indonesia or Nebraska, they would deserve the same blame. But it didn’t. It came from the country that pays poachers around the world to kill tigers and rhinos for “traditional Chinese medicine.”
China deserves to be shunned from the civilized global community until they at least enter the 20th Century, if not the 21st.
I’d hate to work in the collection agency that has to call up President Xi and ask him to pay up the many trillions he’s cost us. I kind of doubt my success record would be all that great.
Maybe we should change “chicanery” to “chi-canery”.
Total blogger BS.
China would be so very responsive to a foreign lawsuit. </ sarcasm>
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