Posted on 05/11/2020 4:18:45 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Eighteen Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders on Saturday, urging them to investigate China’s role in the coronavirus pandemic.
The state attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and other congressional leaders asking that they investigate China’s role and subsequent coverup of their failure to contain the coronavirus.
The attorneys general wrote:
Recent reports suggest that the communist Chinese government willfully and knowingly concealed information about the severity of the virus while simultaneously stockpiling personal protective equipment. In what Secretary of State Pompeo has described as a “classic communist disinformation effort,” the Chinese government, aided by the World Health Organization, appears to have intentionally misled the world over the last 6 months...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Who is MIA?
Many Roads will lead back to Fauci / Ft Detrick / Strock / NATO Military Games
The bought and paid for Congress will investigate China? I bet China will get their money’s worth.
“Investigate China’s role in ... the pandemic.”
Sure, why not. Something to keep them “busy” for years, so they can keep ignoring the treason that continues by their ... hrumpf hrumpf... colleagues across the aisle.
But the hacks who demand Barr resign don’t get identified as such. Breitbart has really gone downhill. Often as not, they read like the Asspress, the Hill, or Poltico.
s long as the Dems are in control of the House, the Chinese government is safe from investigations as the only investigations they have time for are investigations of the President.
No long-time chauffeurs of Senator Dianne Feinstein will be harmed by this ‘investigation’.
I heard the Chinese suspended all transpiration into and out of Wuhan, including domestic flights, weeks before they stopped international flights, fearing that the word would get out. Otherwise, one is hard pressed to explain how Beijing, a city with 21 million people, has 11 deaths unless the word was out long before anyone else knew. However, I cannot find any details on when domestic transportation was shut down in China compared to international flights.
My question also. it looks from what I can see that there are 26 Republican Attorney Generals.
My thought is the AG's time might be better spent protecting their state's residents civil rights during the lockdowns rather than conservative virtue signaling that will be a waste of time. There will be a day of reckoning for China when the counting is done.
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NATIONAL DISTANCING !!!!!
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It’s a start.
It’s time to turn up the heat on China.
There are plenty of things that can and should be done, among them shining a light on the way they let this spread to the world, which this will be a part of.
Can they include the corrupt Governor Putzker of Illinois? Putzker’s Family makes Billions on their Hyatt Hotels across Red China. The Hyatt - Red China deal smells like a scandal, looks like a scandal, quacks like a scandal...
it’s important not to keep repeating the claim that China allowed flights to continue from Wuhan to the rest of the world after 23 Jan, unless you have proof. it only gives China ammunition to claim all allegations re their handling of the virus might be false.
previously, I have posted Daniel Bell’s critique of journalist Niall Ferguson’s claim that flights continued from Wuhan to overseas destinations after 23 January. Ferguson was the original source for this claim.
Ferguson has replied in an update on his blog, and Bell does have a point, it seems though, as I commented previously, he is a China apologist. I also commented previously that even if there were no flights post-Jan 23 from Wuhan, that didn’t account for all the Chinese from Wuhan who may have flown overseas prior to that date, or Wuhan residents who may have flown overseas from other cities, etc. read all the following section ***Update 3:
21 Apr: Niall Ferguson: Six Questions for Xi Jinping: An update
Nearly two weeks ago, I published my usual column in the London Sunday Times with the headline, “Let’s Zoom Xi Jinping. He has questions to answer about coronavirus” (April 5, 2020)...
In response to widespread interest in this article, I thought I should update the article with new information that has since come to light...
***Update 3: Data from sensors tracking actual flight paths would seem to indicate that no flights left from Wuhan itself to other countries in the world after January 23. However, we now know that by that time thousands of infected citizens had already left Wuhan for other parts of China, so a ban on all flights out of China would have been needed to prevent the epidemic becoming a global pandemic. More importantly, while the government banned group travel and tourism within China on January 24, it continued to allow individual and group travel to all other parts of the world through the Lunar New Year holiday.
The American political scientist Daniel Bell has today publicly challenged this part of my article...
Data I had obtained from Flightstats on March 13 did indeed appear to show, as I wrote, that “regular direct flights from Wuhan continued to run to London, Paris, Rome, New York and San Francisco throughout January and in some cases into February.”...
I therefore sought clarification from a U.S. company, Flightspin. They looked into the question of flights from Wuhan and concluded that it was very unlikely indeed that any flights had gone from Wuhan to Western cities after January 23. The Flightstats data I had used had omitted the fact that the flights recorded as having landed in San Francisco and Moscow after January 23 had in fact not departed from Wuhan. It appears that China Southern decided to operate the same flights, with the same flight numbers, but without making their usual stop in Wuhan...
Even if, as seems on balance likely, no flights left Wuhan for domestic or foreign destinations after January 23, the fact remains that—as a New York Times investigation showed—so many people had already left Wuhan before that date that only a ban on all flights from China to the rest of the world would have been effective in checking the spread of the virus...
By January 22, there were 131 confirmed cases. Around 7 million people left Wuhan in January, for domestic and foreign destinations, before travel was restricted (New York Times; see also Sanche at al. (2020)). That is how COVID-19 spread so rapidly to the rest of the world. And it was happening long before January 23, because the Chinese authorities, for whatever reason, waited until that late date to place their cordon sanitaire around Hubei...
The Chinese government locked down Wuhan on Jan. 23, halting all public transportation going in and out of the city. The following day an order was issued suspending group travel within China. But in a blunder that would have far reaching consequences, China did not issue an order suspending group travel to foreign countries until three days later, on Jan. 27 [my emphasis].
In retrospect, it was a painful mistake. This is what happened in those critical three days:
The weeklong Lunar New Year string of holidays began on Jan. 24, with the outbound traffic peak lasting through Jan. 27.
The Chinese government let the massive exodus of group travelers continue despite the public health crisis...
http://www.niallferguson.com/blog/six-questions-for-xi-jinping-an-update
repeating the claim only leads to yet more attacks on The President - see the following. (btw someone should let Hannity know of the updated information, as he - and probably others - continue to make the claim):
5 May: FactCheck: Trump’s Flawed China Travel Conspiracy
By Robert Farley
We reached out to the White House to find out where the president was getting his information, but we did not get a response.
It appears the origin may be a column by historian and author Niall Ferguson in the (London) Sunday Times on April 5...
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel-conspiracy/
And find information on what we don’t already know. The intelligence community has already been in and out on this. And a lot of it, if you read between the lines, is blatantly right out in the open already.
We have the time frame of it’s “escape,” the rna break down of creation, who did the work, where, how it got out, and a number of scenarios as to why.
Remember, we are dealing with a massive country with third world thought processes in charge, that has little value for life. The information congress would go after is old news. Some of which our citizens don’t need to know fro a number of reasons.
rwood
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