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China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World
The Atlantic ^

Posted on 03/19/2020 9:27:56 PM PDT by 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

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To: logi_cal869

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


21 posted on 03/19/2020 11:47:22 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


22 posted on 03/20/2020 12:13:36 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: 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.]


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

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.”


23 posted on 03/20/2020 12:30:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: TigerClaws

nuke em


24 posted on 03/20/2020 12:33:39 AM PDT by spincaster (ust)
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To: TigerClaws

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


25 posted on 03/20/2020 1:42:54 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: absalom01

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


26 posted on 03/20/2020 3:33:02 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: ronnie raygun
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.

27 posted on 03/20/2020 4:13:51 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: TigerClaws

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.


28 posted on 03/20/2020 4:53:21 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


29 posted on 03/20/2020 5:56:08 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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30 posted on 03/20/2020 10:49:24 AM PDT by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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To: TigerClaws; Grampa Dave


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)!!!!)


31 posted on 03/20/2020 11:15:33 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: TigerClaws

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


32 posted on 03/20/2020 1:48:52 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Fiddlstix

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


33 posted on 03/20/2020 1:53:52 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: mfish13

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.


34 posted on 03/20/2020 3:00:40 PM PDT by gawatchman
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