Coronavirus and China: Beijing’s Behavior Confirms How Bad the Brand Truly Is

The Daily Signal ^ | February 6, 2020 | James Carafano

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Long before the coronavirus made international headlines, China’s Communist Party, which rules the country with unchallenged authority, had an image problem.

Image has always been a key element of Beijing’s plan to rise to global greatness. It has worked assiduously to carve a reputation as an unstoppable power wading well into the midst of world affairs.

Today, however, that carefully crafted image is badly tattered. It’s worse than it was just one year ago when nations that eagerly participated in China’s Belt and Road Initiative began to realize that Chinese “aid” was a two-edged sword.

No one has done more to damage China’s international reputation than Beijing itself. Hopefully, the coronavirus outbreak will help more and more governments recognize the truth behind the image: The Chinese Communist Party is not to be trusted.

To be fair, the Chinese response to the coronavirus thus far has been much better than its response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Southern China in 2002. Still, that’s not saying much.

The SARS response was abysmal. China moved slowly, concealing the seriousness of the disease for months. As a result, the illness spread to more than 8,000 people in more than two dozen countries. Nearly 800 died.

While China has been at least somewhat more forthcoming and preemptive in its efforts to corral the coronavirus, its performance leaves much to be desired.

Let’s start with how the virus began.

The outbreak has been traced back to the Hunan Seafood Market in Wuhan China. It is a “wet market,” a labyrinth of ramshackle stalls hawking live fish, meat, and wild animals.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[oldasrocks]

They are still hiding the true infected and death rate. Pretty hard to cremate 3,000 a day when only 500 have died.

[bgill]

Still running with it started in a wet market.

[glasseye]

Read a supposed translated company newsletter from a Chinese Bio firm announcing they had ramped up production of detection kits to 73,000 per day.
No idea if it was true or not...but somehow that being true would not violate my sense of reason-ability.
Have not seen the story elsewhere, for whatever reason.

[PIF]

ZZZZ

keep sleeping please.

[BobL]

“Throughout the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis, it displayed complete indifference to Myanmar’s reprehensible expulsion policies and offered no support or assistance to Bangladesh, a poverty-stricken neighbor struggling to provide refuge for the displaced Rohingya...Beijing has now graduated to imprisoning millions of its own citizens, Uighurs—a massive abuse of human rights that has garnered global condemnation.”

Actually, I’ll give the Chicom government credit where it is due, in both of these cases.

[steve86]

You have to wonder if the quality of the detectipn kits is declining with massively increased production. And are they skipping QA procedures? A certain percentage of kits need to be pulled randomly and tested. Calibrations can and will drift.

[TheNext]

Bio Weapon gone awry.

The virus was meant for us. Oops.

[Capt. Tom]

“Throughout the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis, it displayed complete indifference to Myanmar’s reprehensible expulsion policies and offered no support or assistance to Bangladesh, a poverty-stricken neighbor struggling to provide refuge for the displaced Rohingya...Beijing has now graduated to imprisoning millions of its own citizens, Uighurs—a massive abuse of human rights that has garnered global condemnation.”

Actually, I’ll give the Chicom government credit where it is due, in both of these cases.

You beat me to it.

When Infidels face up to the Muslim threat ,they are going to get criticized.

Rhohingas and Uighurs are both Muslim groups and the Infields should know what Muslim religious beliefs are, and that the Muslims pose a threat to anyone not a Muslim. -Tom

[MeganC]

“Pretty hard to cremate 3,000 a day when only 500 have died.”

China has plenty of historical experience cremating people who were not dead.

[metmom]

Corona/Infectious Disease ping.

[SteveH]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-scientists-want-to-patent-gilead-drug-to-treat-coronavirus-patients-2020-02-06

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[LucyT]

keep sleeping please.

What does that mean?

Please explain. Thanks.

[Black Agnes]

We’re still likely to get it.

Let’s see how things are in a month.

[fella]

Before the travel ban approximately 5 million people left Wuhan for the traditional Chinese New Year. That explains all the cruise ships and holiday spots having out breaks.

[PIF]

You figure it out I tired of explaining simple obvious stuff.

[RaceBannon]

https://twitter.com/HimalayaGlobal/status/1226129958990315520?s=20

[RaceBannon]

https://twitter.com/HimalayaGlobal/status/1226129958990315520?s=20