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China Bought the West Time with the Coronavirus. The West Squandered It.
NYT via MSN ^ | 03 /13, 2020 | Ian Johnson

Posted on 03/13/2020 11:41:00 PM PDT by granada

LONDON — When I got off my flight from Beijing to London nearly two weeks ago, I knew what I had to do: go straight into self-quarantine.

I live in China, where a dramatic lockdown since late January has made it clear that all residents, even those well beyond the epicenter’s outbreak in Wuhan, were in the middle of a global health crisis. The boarding process in Beijing was the final reminder: two mandatory temperature checks and an electronic health statement for which I had to provide an email address and two contact phone numbers.

But as the plane approached London, a sense of unreality set in. The airline distributed a cheaply printed sheet that only advised us to call the usual National Health Service hotline if we felt ill. On arrival, there was no temperature check and no health statement — meaning that British officials would have had no easy way to track us if one of us came down with Covid-19.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; disease; domesticenemies; fakenews; nytimes; nyts; tds; thewest
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1 posted on 03/13/2020 11:41:00 PM PDT by granada
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BS Chinese propaganda.


2 posted on 03/13/2020 11:43:38 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: granada

You forgot the BARF parenthetic.


3 posted on 03/13/2020 11:44:43 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: granada

Lol try again, NYT.


4 posted on 03/13/2020 11:46:27 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forest)
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To: Skywise

Yep. The damned godless commie scum likely built this virus.


5 posted on 03/13/2020 11:47:58 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: granada

I notice that he came running back to the West when the ChiComs were throwing people in boxes and welding shut quarantine centers.


6 posted on 03/13/2020 11:48:45 PM PDT by cherry
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No no - happy glorious fun time quarantine centers that the Chinese government built just for the sick... which collapsed...


7 posted on 03/13/2020 11:51:11 PM PDT by Skywise
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Worse. It’s NY Times propaganda.


8 posted on 03/13/2020 11:56:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: granada

“Ian Johnson, lying sack of Media Mitt.”


9 posted on 03/13/2020 11:59:08 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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I notice that he came running back to the West when the ChiComs were throwing people in boxes and welding shut quarantine centers.

Brave Sir Ian- "When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely tucked his tail and fled."

10 posted on 03/14/2020 12:19:48 AM PDT by niteowl77
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Yeah they let their people fly the hell All over the planet for almost a month before they told anybody yeah they really saved us.


11 posted on 03/14/2020 12:59:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: granada

Johnson is a chicom ass nuzzler. He knows they delayed informing other countries for months whilst taking advantage of chinese spreading the virus beyond china’s borders. So go stuff yourself Johnson. You commie apologist ratbag


12 posted on 03/14/2020 2:18:55 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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Q for the NYT: Then why did the ChiComs refuse to let the CDC and NIH in, hmmm?


13 posted on 03/14/2020 2:22:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: granada

On arrival, there was no temperature check and no health statement...

Maybe a one way ticket home would be more appropriate. Or a bullet.


14 posted on 03/14/2020 2:28:32 AM PDT by McGruff
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Every time you encounter a leftist, call it the Wuhan Virus.

It drives them insane.

CNN blasted for now declaring 'Wuhan virus' as 'racist' after weeks of network's 'China's coronavirus' coverage


15 posted on 03/14/2020 2:56:12 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: granada

Is this guy the Walter Duranty of our time? How does he ignore the 6 weeks or so while China’s leadership tried to hide this thing from the world, from roughly early Dec thru mid-late Jan? How does he ignore the possibility the Chinese military might have been the source for all this, via their biowarfare center in Wuhan?

To Hell with this guy.


16 posted on 03/14/2020 3:03:00 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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The West Squandered It.

Because democrats were trying to impeach our nations President when he could have been focused on this issue.

May the left burn in the fires of their own creation.

17 posted on 03/14/2020 3:33:01 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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I second the motion. And they still want open borders.


18 posted on 03/14/2020 3:53:46 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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My thinking is that there better be lots of bodies stacked up dying from this thing to justify all the hysteria. Otherwise we need to extract lots of payback to the people - and we know who they are - who ginned up this mob of panic.


19 posted on 03/14/2020 3:55:55 AM PDT by abb
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Is this doofus going to tell us that the Chinese actually CAN build a fully-equipped hospital in 11 minutes ... or whatever that silly sh!t was going around a few weeks ago?


20 posted on 03/14/2020 4:08:07 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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