China officials knew of coronavirus in December, ordered cover-up, report says

nyPOST ^ | 2/29/2020 | sara dorn

[PA Engineer]

bring it on, baby

Do you realize you smell like ozone?

[WKUHilltopper]

Commies are treacherous liars, who knew?

[Mariner]

Reno89519(?) and I actually had a disagreement over who was first to publicly support Trump on this forum.

We may still be in disagreement, but both of us were at the end of April 2015.

He may remember better than I.

I’m getting old and remember little without notes.

[cba123]

Wow.

Ok I think I was in May.

Nice to meet you.

[dfwgator]

“What is the price of lies?”

[Mariner]

But just who was first is not that important.

Because in those early days the knives were out looking to cut up anyone who was not all in for Cruz.

And we took a lot of anger from a lot of people over it.

[Gene Eric]

>> a ploy to attack the president.

>> So they start emoting.

The MSM & Rats desperately wants COV-19 to be Trump’s Katrina. You’d be in denial if you thought otherwise. And that’s not to defend hostile, tinfoil Freepers.

[krogers58]

There’s a science study produced back in Feb of 2019...four local Chinese scientists from Wuhan University, who actively talked of the bat virus and how it would arrive within a period of time. I think this was out there long before December 2019.

This one?:

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

[Mariner]

“The MSM & Rats desperately wants COV-19 to be Trump’s Katrina. You’d be in denial if you thought otherwise.”

I agree 100%.

And that’s why people get angry over the subject. They take it personally as if they themselves were being attacked.

But posting an article from media about the Wuhan Flu is not an attack on Trump. Even IF the article itself was.

When people are angry they are sometimes unable to draw that distinction.

[Gene Eric]

Yes, it would be nice to see some discipline when the emotions aim to rival objectivity — a characteristic of FR that pulled me in so many years ago.

Not sure how to resurrect that tenuous civility of yore, but maybe it’s something to think about.

[grey_whiskers]

Chinese researchers were among those on a paper talking about "addition of function" studies on coronviruses inNature back in 2015.

One of them ended up at a scientific institute in ...Wuhan.

[Gene Eric]

>> “addition of function” studies on coronviruses in Nature back in 2015.

Oops...

[Mariner]

Model it.

[grey_whiskers]

Hey, bitt, check this out!

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233970271318503426

They sequenced the Washington State case -- and say with a p-value of 0.03, that it's related to the first case in the US (also in Snohomish County), from Jan 19.

That implies hidden community transmission for those six weeks...

[nikos1121]

More evidence that in my mind this was a man-made biological warfare virus that was produced in the Wuhan laboratories that was most likely accidentally released.

The Chinese immediately reacted knowing the potential damage the virus can cause not only there but worldwide unfortunately it took off and spread like wild fire

[sauropod]

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[trebb]

Yep - been around for closer to 3 months instead of the 4-6 weeks many have been using as the ‘standard’ for transmit rates/spread....which can account for a few of the “just popped up outta nowhere’ cases we’ve been seeing - could be longer chains of contact not being looked at due to “time-frame” constraints...which could be both good and bad news...bad because cases may have been slipping in prior to it being known about/looked at and good because if that is the case, it hasn’t spread more robustly than we’ve seen.

[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.

[Sirius Lee]

If the exact nature of this "community vector" can't be established then would be wary of touching anything that was manufactured in the district in the past 3 months then.

Besides heavy duty machine and vehicle parts, Wuhan manufactures typical consumer type things like soap, textiles, and electronics.

If they discover that just walking into a Walmart is all it takes to contract the disease then it's all over for the U.S. from a panic POV.

Right now I am agnostic on the whole subject. It may be a pandemic or mere pettifoggery. But everyone should prep regardless for natural disasters/weather events in general and especially in the event leftists take over (see tagline).