If you have studied China and it’s incredible booming infrastructure buildout it’s obvious that the last thing they could want to tolerate is a decrease in the cash flow they have become addicted to. They have become as mainlined on cash flow as the worst capitalist around. It makes sense that they would hide the virus because of that but it’s not realistic for them to do so. But they did. And, it would make no sense for them to weaponize a virus against the US because while they can tolerate Trump kicking them in the ass a little they could not tolerate a radical reduction in cash flow.
I suspect that there already are a lot of dead Chinese and more to come but not from the virus....
I agree with you that it was not “intentional”, but we should ALL be very angry with China over how this was handled.
This Gingrich op-ed lays out the timeline. Change any one of the events prior to the Jan 7th date and this is far different in the rest of the world.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-china-newt-gingrich
They covered it up. They refused access to the disease to world health officials or to even release what they knew about the virus. They caused this to be far worse than it would have been.
Trump should pass an executive order banning travel to any nation that allows or tolerates wet markets. Period. This would be leadership because as this article and many others states - these markets are the incubators for SARS viruses.
This practice must be stopped and such an action places the blame clearly on China and other nations that allow such markets which are the perfect vectors for pandemics.
Consider for a second that all of this likely started from one vendor selling diseased bats for a soup. Crazy.
Look for such an order from Trump in the near future along with additional orders dictating domestic manufacture for key industries such as pharmaceuticals and other health care products.