Skip to past the numbers review:
Someone please shut this idiot up.
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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.
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
“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.
President Xi and the ChiCom Party approve this original story and message.
‘Chris explains why this blame game is both farcical and dangerous.’
ah yes, the old ‘who in the world should we blame for our misfortunes?’ game...
well, probably nobody in the world; for nobody in the world created the world, but who did...? hmmm...?
Yes, the Chinese lied. They continue to lie today. They will lie tomorrow. They aren’t any different than our Democrats. But even if they hadn’t lied, it would have made no difference whatsoever.
Air travel between major world cities is ubiquitous. Or it was. Literally millions traveled by air from everywhere to everywhere on Earth daily. A virus this contagious was never going to be shut down in time because air travel was far too important to business worldwide - let alone travel for pleasure. It wasn’t ever going to be shut down in time.
This virus was probably going in China in November - I suspect that in places like New York or Las Vegas or Los Angeles, it was already spreading around in late November or December - well more than a month before people were paying attention. And mass air travel continued throughout the world all during that time.
This was going to go worldwide and get out of control everywhere no matter whether the Chinese lied or not. Their lies are damning to them for many important reasons - and they should be punished until their system changes in the aftermath. But their lies changed nothing about the virility or the spread of this particular virus.