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China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
Associated Press ^ | April 15, 2020

Posted on 04/14/2020 10:33:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai

In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.

President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.

Six days.

That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragged their feet for weeks and even months in addressing the virus.

But the delay by the first country to face the new coronavirus came at a critical time — the beginning of the outbreak. China’s attempt to walk a line between alerting the public and avoiding panic set the stage for a pandemic that has infected almost 2 million people and taken more than 126,000 lives.

“This is tremendous,” said Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient. We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: china; chinachinavirus; chinavirus; chinavirusnews; coronavirus; covid19; redchina
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To: justa-hairyape; bitt; generally; Liz; Jim Robinson; bagster

NANCY-19 sat on the impeachment papers for days upon days.
Schiff-19 played the distraction card with the long hearings.
MEDIA-19 parrots and edits stories with the flashy precision of chorus line of the New York Rockettes.

Team Global made their play.for all the marbles.

Time to a the piper.


21 posted on 04/15/2020 4:34:00 AM PDT by ptsal ( Bust the NVIA)
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To: Olog-hai

But they still find a way to blame Trump.


22 posted on 04/15/2020 4:38:43 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: justa-hairyape; Olog-hai; Jane Long; LucyT; ExTexasRedhead; greeneyes; metmom
(from the article): " That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak,..
But the delay by the first country to face the new coronavirus came at a critical time — the beginning of the outbreak.
China’s attempt to walk a line between alerting the public and avoiding panic set the stage for a pandemic .."

justa-hairyape : " China committed a crime.
They were legally obligated by health treaties to tell the world immediately."

This begs the question as to what actions did China do during this 'lag time' ?
They prepped themselves by purchasing Personal Protection Equipment, N-95 respirators, ventilators, and other equipment from abroad,
and recalled all Chinese manufactured equipment that they had stored elsewhere, in foreign warehouses.
They knew what disease they had on their hands and without signaling to the rest of the world, they took care and made efforts to protect themselves,
while keeping the rest of the world ignorant of the medical situation.
Therefore, this 'lag time', actually demonstrates depraved indifference to the rest of the world.
The true crime is not just the 'lag time' in failure to notify the rest of the world, but also their medical preparation activities during this lag time.
Knowing of the disease, the government allowed their own citizens to celebrate New Years, spreading the disease, and at the conclusion of the holiday, allowing the infected to disperse internationally.
This indicates malice with intent and prejudice !

23 posted on 04/15/2020 5:12:28 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Bob434

That has me sitting here laffing like a fool.


24 posted on 04/15/2020 5:29:05 AM PDT by Fishtalk
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To: Olog-hai

I believe it is time for every nation of the free world with capable underwater vessels mirror North Korea’s missile tests, but with every major CCP metropolis, now to include Hong Kong, as an intended recipient. Why H.K.? It’s their Wall Street.


25 posted on 04/15/2020 6:00:27 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Olog-hai

More like six weeks. Remember the doctor who tried to warn of it on social media and disappeared?


26 posted on 04/15/2020 6:27:51 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Olog-hai

Impeach Xi!


27 posted on 04/15/2020 6:29:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

“President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20.”

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

@WHO · Jan 14
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #ChinaFlag of China.


28 posted on 04/15/2020 7:02:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: PA Engineer

>>The PLA and its puppet CCP shut down Hubei from the rest of the country while allowing outbound flights to the rest of the world. I call that a bioweapon

There is still been no investigation or explanation into the actions of Asian people caught on video rubbing their hands on objects in public places like every computer laptop on display in Best Buy or Walmart or something, people spitting on the elevator buttons and rubbing it all over them, etc

We are told it is OCD and not to be rude in discussing it


29 posted on 04/15/2020 7:06:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: Olog-hai

Not about the warning delay, it the fact that they CREATED the virus with intent to damage us. The rest of the world was just collateral damage.


30 posted on 04/15/2020 7:09:03 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Olog-hai

I think it’s getting increasingly likely that the virus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.


31 posted on 04/15/2020 7:09:14 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Olog-hai
Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation LINK

Why was a Chinese scientist stripped of security clearance?

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties LINK

What were the professor's ties to Wuhan lab?

Expert: Chinese Scientists Sell Lab Animals as Meat on the Black Market LINK

Selling a lie? The outbreak caused by bat soup?

Steven Mosher: ‘Most Likely Explanation’ for Coronavirus Is Wuhan Bioweapons Lab LINK

Meaning it was created in a lab and weaponized. Why?

Stock Markets Retreat As Nervous Investors Pocket Week's Gains LINK

Follow the money, who's waiting in the wings to profit (As early as January 26th)?

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Commits $10 Million to Global Response to 2019-nCOV LINK

Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary LINK

There has been theories that the Wuhan Bio-lab was funded by George Soros

Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers claims Bill Gates and George Soros are behind coronavirus in bid to cull world's population with poisoned antidote in bizarre conspiracy theory LINK

Could that be disinfo to cover the real reasons? Just a motive of tanking global economies and install global governance, or simply to take down a president and return to "business as usual" with DUmocrat puppets? A 2015 documentary from Italia RAI (Italian national public broadcaster) covers a Chinese Lab that's engineering of a new virus combining Coronavirus from bats with SARS LINK

The Lab Experiment of BAT WOMAN LINK

Did she get a case of ARKANCIDE?

The DELIVERY SYSTEM LINK

DEEP STATE strikes back?

Fauci: There will be a surprise outbreak (2017) LINK

Who will PROFIT from chaos?

Bill Gates calls for nationwide social isolation policy to slow virus LINK

So, Bill Gates and George Soros both tag-team to fund a Wuhan bat virus study while combining it to infect humans, then create an "antidote" to sell to solve the problem that they themselves created.

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA

Bill Gates has got a secret!LINK

Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA LINK

Bill Gates: Coronavirus Means We Need ‘Digital Certificates’ To Prove Who Received Vaccine LINK

Can I offer you a new tattoo?

Bill Gates, MIT Develop New ‘Tattoo ID’ to Check For Vaccinations LINK

The DELIVERY SYSTEM http://theredelephants.com/chinese-intentionally-spread-corona-virus-spit-on-food-elevators-park-benches/

The Laptop

LINK

The Lugi

LINK

The ELEVATOR

LINK

Door Handles

LINK

Chinese Checkers

LINK

Air Mail

LINK

“No more for Americans!”

LINK

32 posted on 04/15/2020 7:11:26 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Olog-hai

33 posted on 04/15/2020 7:13:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

It does but who is going to hold them accountable?

To whom are they going to answer?

They’ll just get a slap on the wrist and everyone will continue to betray their own populace and continue to do business with them.

It would be nice, just for once, to see some accountability.


34 posted on 04/15/2020 7:23:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Olog-hai

Ass. Press STILL covering for the ChiComs!

It was not SIX DAYS, it was FOUR TO SIX WEEKS that they covered it up!


35 posted on 04/15/2020 7:23:44 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Olog-hai
That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragged their feet for weeks and even months in addressing the virus.

It wasn't a mistake.

36 posted on 04/15/2020 7:24:39 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: RasterMaster

They did it intentionally.

The idea would be to infect as many as possible and then send them across the globe to infect the rest of the world.

They would have NO problem in the least, sacrificing the lives of thousands of their own people to get at the rest of us for world dominion. To them people are just consumables, objects that have no real value, but are to be used and disposed of as needed to gain an end.


37 posted on 04/15/2020 7:27:55 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: justa-hairyape

How many treaties did the USSR break back in the day?


38 posted on 04/15/2020 8:34:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Fishtalk

lol it did to me too-


39 posted on 04/15/2020 9:19:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

p


40 posted on 04/15/2020 9:21:40 AM PDT by bitt (Hell hath no fury like a scorned patriot.)
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