Posted on 03/18/2020 7:36:15 AM PDT by Starman417
We can thank China for the current viral pandemic and crisis, but it's not the first time. China also gave us SARS in 2003, although it was first seen in Guangdong province in November 2002.
In November 2002, doctors in the Guangdong province of southeastern China began to see the first cases of what would become known as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. Over the next several months, 8,096 people in 26 countries contracted the new viral illness, leading to 774 deaths. Although the slow reporting of initial SARS cases helped the illness spread, globally-enforced medical practices eventually helped end the outbreak.The Chinese government may well have slowed the response down
There were also reports that officials may have encouraged doctors not to report new cases when SARS spread to Beijing. In April 2003, Time magazine obtained a letter from Jiang Yanyong, a physician at an army hospital in Beijing, alleging the actual number of SARS cases in the capital city was much higher than the official count. This turned out to be true, and Chinese officials released the real numbers that month (and also began to monitor Jiang).SARS is thought to have originated in bats and spread through consumption of the civet cats which ate the bats. SARS ultimately resulted in 8,000 cases worldwide and nearly 800 deaths.
After SARS, China banned the slaughter and consumption of civet cats but they hadn't really learned their lesson. They rescinded the ban shortly afterward. The wet markets remained open and that failure is brought us Covid 19. This is a well done review will illustrate how the spread of these viruses occurs.
This time it is believed that the virus again came from a bat which may have been eaten by a snake and then transmitted to humans.
China has shut down the wet markets but since they are such a large part of the economy they may well allow them to once again re-open and turn a blind eye to the devastation brought on by the wild animal farms.
As the Corona outbreak evolved, China's initial response was to deny everything.
Then as a whistleblower came forward, he curiously expired despite being in a lower risk group. China reported the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, then deleted the story and then reported it again. A journalist covering the reality of the harshness of the Wuhan virus was disappeared.
China is expelling American reporters:A Chinese citizen journalist who has told the world about the desperate situation on the streets of virus-epicentre Wuhan has disappeared as a whistleblower doctor was announced to have died.
Chen Qiushi has not been heard from since 7pm local time Thursday, with calls to his mobile phone going unanswered.
His reports have detailed horrific scenes including a woman frantically calling family on her phone as she sits next to a relative lying dead in a wheelchair and the helpless situation of patients in the overstretched hospitals.
Mr Qiushi's disappearance came as heroic 34-year-old Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who sounded the alarm on coronavirus, was announced to have died after allegedly contracting the disease while treating patients at Wuhan's Central Hospital.
https://twitter.com/Yueqi_Yang/status/1239951479097774083
China continues to demand that the US stop referring to the Chinese Corona virus as the Chinese Corona virus. It is even attempting to stifle those on Twitter
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1239925949715472384
Now they are threatening the US
President Trump ought to impose a permanent travel ban on China.
China is reckless and dishonest. This is the second time in 17 years its depravity has cost America lives, only this time the cost in lives lost will be far greater and the damage to our economy enormous.
This cannot be allowed to happen again.
China should have immediately quarantined Wuhan province. Instead they suppressed information.
China should have sought international help.
Instead they went secret.
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Extend it to anyone who goes to China for any reason.
China must be completely cut off from the world until the Communist Party is no more.
Won’t work.. they fly to Canada and walk across.
The Chinese government purposely released this virus on the world. Why else would they have gone on a PR campaign to blame the US for this? They got caught and now they’re covering it up, but the entire world knows they are the culprits for this sh*t!
The trouble began with Richard Nixon’s visit to China, which I was dead-set against from the get-go.
Covid-19 is a geopolitical,US/China extendable nightmare.
China supplies 85% of all generic medications in the US. Shipping from China is generally slowing down and west coast shipping levels are already reduced. Could a withholding of medicine from China already be underway subliminally but soon to be observable?
If this is the case, and Trump initiates a US/China travel ban, repatriation of Chinese nationals should not be allowed to return if China threatens to cut off the US from medicine delivery or is actually doing it now undetected as yet.
China could well be setting up S. China sea and offensive activity against Taiwan, Phillipines, V Nam in descending priority,holding medicine delivery to the US as leverage on the US to ignore China overtures in the entire Western Pacific.
Trump has had the right take on China for decades.
China and all muzzy countries.
Damn him!!!!
That is what happened in East King County where we live. We have huge number of Chinese living here who went back home for Chinese New Year. There was no health screening before the travel ban when they returned and after the travel ban over 10,000 just rerouted to Vancouver BC which added about 3 hours to their trip back. And still no health screening.
Call on the UN to isolate China. If they can’t or won’t do it, close the UN facility in NYC.
Exactly! Since then Nixon’s great achievement was opening the door to China but it never works out with a Communist country. The Soviet Union is screwing our oil market now. Never trust or do business with Commies
Chicoms have no chance in a military fight.
They have chosen predatory business and biological sabotage.
Now they are threatening us with withholding medicine.
End it all, NOW!
Not so much...northern border now closed.
This didn’t happen because they eat bats.
This happened because the Chinese government deliberately, intentionally, maliciously and purposely attacked the rest of the planet with biological warfare.
This is WW3. For real. One one side, China and probably Iran. On the other side, all other human beings on the planet.
He missed some historical examples, notably:
The Black Plague, which trekked from China across the Silk Road and almost destroyed Western Civilization
China’s farming and eating practices are disgusting and cause massive environmental pollution and destruction.
They need to reform this if they are to be welcomed into the modern world.
Top. Kek.
Come to Montana, North Dakota, or Minnesota.
Plenty of places the border is not patrolled.
Pretty much all bad things come from China. They need to be shunned by every nation
Get their engineering and scientific students and professors out of our university system. Most of them are spies or will use what they learn here, against us.
“The trouble began with Richard Nixon’s visit to China, which I was dead-set against from the get-go.”
Well, at least the Clintons stood up to China...
(to toast their big highly profitable collusion.)
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