Posted on 02/29/2020 10:38:52 PM PST by bitt
Chinese scientists knew about the coronavirus and its deadly effects as early as December but were ordered by government officials to suppress the evidence, according to a report.
In late December, several genomics companies tested samples from sick patients in Wuhan the center of the coronavirus outbreak and noticed alarming similarities between their illnesses and the 2002 SARS virus, the Sunday Times of London reported, citing Chinese business news site Caixin Global.
The researchers alerted Beijing of their findings and on Jan. 3, received a gag order from Chinas National Health Commission, with instructions to destroy the samples.
Rather than hunkering down to contain the virus, Wuhan officials went ahead with their annual potluck dinner for 40,000 families.
The alleged cover-up continued when representatives from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited Wuhan Jan. 8, where officials intentionally withheld information that hospital workers had been infected by patients a telltale sign of contagion.
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Commies are treacherous liars, who knew?
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.
Wow.
Ok I think I was in May.
Nice to meet you.
“What is the price of lies?”
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.
>> 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.
“The MSM & Rats desperately wants COV-19 to be Trumps Katrina. Youd 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.
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.
One of them ended up at a scientific institute in ...Wuhan.
>> “addition of function” studies on coronviruses in Nature back in 2015.
Oops...
Model it.
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...
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
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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.
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.
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).
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