China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World

The Atlantic ^

[TigerClaws]

The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government censored and detained those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of what was to come.

Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of the pandemic. In naming the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically avoided mentioning Wuhan. Yet in de-emphasizing where the epidemic began (something China has been aggressively pushing for), we run the risk of obscuring Beijing’s role in letting the disease spread beyond its borders.

China has a history of mishandling outbreaks, including SARS in 2002 and 2003. But Chinese leaders’ negligence in December and January—for well over a month after the first outbreak in Wuhan—far surpasses those bungled responses. The end of last year was the time for authorities to act, and, as Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has noted, “act decisively they did—not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.” More by Shadi Hamid

[Chgogal]

Don’t we have hackers who can bring down China?

[momincombatboots]

I hate to say it, but the false negatives in tests obtained by nasopharyngeal collextions have a high false negative rate. Some folks collecting are too timid. In truth, a great samplee produces brief eye watering pain. Oropharyngeal makes you gag or throw up.

[Zhang Fei]

[I hate to say it, but the false negatives in tests obtained by nasopharyngeal collextions have a high false negative rate. Some folks collecting are too timid. In truth, a great samplee produces brief eye watering pain. Oropharyngeal makes you gag or throw up.]

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Chinese lab techs apparently don’t fool around with their nasopharyngeal collections. They use those cotton buds like backhoes:

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/chinese-police-place-britons-in-enforced-isolation-after-ferry-trip
The couple are woken at 7am each day to be tested for coronavirus symptoms, given masks, and even asked about their bowel movements. Later their temperatures are checked again. “The tests are painful,” she said. “The swab up your nose feels like it’s prodding your brain.”

[spincaster]

nuke em

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Guess the Politburo wasn’t sing “Kung Flu Fighting”!

[ronnie raygun]

Cancel our debt with them for payment, buy American from now on, insist that stores like walmart and target sell America

[Caipirabob]

Actually you've nailed the crux of the matter. We are going to get reparations from the chicoms for this disaster, this ATTACK! If we aren't going to nuke them, this is a feasible action and then back it up with nukes.

But make no mistake. The chicoms should be nuked for this. End of the world be damned, they should not be part of tomorrow.

[MrRelevant]

Chinese are trying to gaslight the media. The thing the Chinese dont realize is, the media will pass along their propaganda regardless of its integrity anyway. There is no need to try and convince the media. They will eat it up and use it as ammo against vs Trump.

[momincombatboots]

She is right.. so if you ever have a flu test or a coronavorus test and ot doesn’t hurt.. you can just trash that result.
I will say the nucleic acid tests mitigate the collection errots a bit.

[bitt]

p

[Fiddlstix]

To: All

Novel coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent had China responded to the outbreak just three weeks earlier than it did, a March 13 study by the University of Southampton has found.

President Xi Jinping’s The Yellow Peril ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Novel Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus, Chinobyl#2, The Yellow Peril, Made in China!

8 posted on 03/19/2020 12:37:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)

[Candor7]

We have to get clear of these Red Chinese MF’ers.

[ichabod1]

Love it. Don’t like Chinese Flu? We’ll call it the Red Death.

[gawatchman]

That may be a bit harsh of a comment I made so probably not true but it will be awhile before I go back into any restaurants.