Posted on 04/01/2020 7:45:34 PM PDT by amorphous
US authorities are now firing an opening salvo at China, claiming that the county misinformed the rest of the world about the severity of covid-19. And that better information would have spurred other nations to take the threat more seriously.
That would perhaps make sense if it weren't such a crock of baloney.
Anyone paying attention (like we here at PeakProsperity.com) could see sufficient signs by late January that the virus was extremely contagious, deadly, and had overwhelmed China's attempts to contain it. And yet US, and CDC officials continued to downplay its risks into early March.
And, c'mon. Who believes official Chinese reports about *anything*, let alone something as potentially disruptive as a brewing pandemic?
After all, we've spent many trillions amassing the largest security state in world history -- you'd think that investment might actually get us some accurate "intelligence". I guess not.
In today's video, Chris explains why this blame game is both farcical and dangerous.
Remember all those warm fuzzies we were sold throughout 2019 about the great benefits of the coming China Trade Deal? Kiss those good-bye.
In a future that will surely put continued globalization into question, slinging blame, especially when there is so much culpability on our own end, will only increase the odds that China morphs from trading partner into global adversary.
The stakes in this blame game are high, and we play it at our peril.
Skip to past the numbers review:
Someone please shut this idiot up.
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Why?
Almost 30,000 cases for the past 24 hours so far and don’t know if the total is there, yet. Yesterday’s total case number was 186,979. Also looks like recovery—from the virus itself, anyway—takes at least several weeks for most.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology
United States
Cases 216,154
Deaths 5,115
Recoveries 8,878
And yes, we’ve seen plenty of evidence showing that the Chinese government was lying about the number of dead and the level of threat. But you know that other governments are doing the same including our own, with the excuse of avoiding panic. We need to know the true nature of the threat, so we can see more caution out there.
The first two paragraphs are reason enough for me.
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Partisan Media Shills update.
I have a niece who has it. For at least 2 weeks, if not more, she had been in bed at home with what she thought was a bad case of the flu. She finally went to the hospital by ambulance and after waiting 2 days for the test to come back, it showed she had the Coronavirus. She’s still in the hospital (3 days now) - not on a respirator - doing a little better now.
He’s not wrong about the CYA.
I wish he was, but he’s not.
That being said, I stand behind my President.
Utter crap
The Chinese did lie. They said there was no human transmission. They lied about the numbers. They tried to blame the US. They are still lying about the numbers. They lied about the first case back in November
Then shut up.
At least here the guy out and offer up some other logical conclusion a thinking person could take seriously.
I support the president too. I have an idea the CDC, and certainly the World Health Organization failed us however.
No doubt about that. I think CDC should be shut down. WHO I don’t know who is in charge of that besides China.
“Anyone paying attention ... could see sufficient signs by late January that the virus was extremely contagious, deadly, and had overwhelmed China’s attempts to contain it.”
That is fair. The photos and videos from January and into February depicted the highly contagious aspect of covid-19. Anyone that has ever dealt with compounding and exponential growth had an idea how this was going to go down.
He is no more that a filthy wumao shill for the Chinese Communists.
President Xi and the ChiCom Party approve this original story and message.
Yep.
Everyone was calling Trump a racist and Pelosi was walking around Chinatown saying everything was okay and we were being warned about people of Asian descent experiencing racism, which is so tired...
You lack any understanding of how closed the Chinese society is
We ain’t got an intelligence service in China
How are scientists supposed to fight a virus they have no info on???
When the genome was leaked by a brave Chinese scientist he was immediately disappeared
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