Posted on 04/02/2020 11:05:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping's regime concealed the extent and origins of the coronavirus outbreak, reports say.
A classified report submitted to the White House states that China intentionally lowered its reported number of coronavirus cases, Bloomberg reported on April 1, citing three officials familiar with the matter.
The report came one day after Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, suggested that the U.S. response to the pandemic may not have been as effective as possible due to “missing” data from China.
“The medical community interpreted the Chinese data as, this was serious, but smaller than anyone expected,” Birx said. “Because, probably … we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that we see what happened to Italy and we see what happened to Spain.”
One study said that China could have prevented 95 percent of coronavirus infections if it had acted sooner to stem the outbreak.
On March 31, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged nations to be transparent about the information they share regarding the virus.
“I would urge every nation: Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to share that information,” Pompeo said. “We’re doing that.”
Meanwhile, Fox News host Tucker Carlson on March 31 aired a report which said the coronavirus most likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
The report Carlson cited was from Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao of the South China University of Technology. It suggests that the more likely scenario for the virus origin is a leak from a lab.
The report detailed the tracing of COVID-19 to the intermediate horseshoe bat — a bat that the researchers confirmed was not available at the Wuhan wet market and did not live locally. In fact, the report noted that native populations were no closer than 600 miles away from the first known cases, making a natural transmission from bat to human appear more unlikely.
The only place those particular bats existed locally was inside a research facility — which was just several hundred yards from the Wuhan wet market — and the researchers' ultimate conclusion was that the coronavirus pandemic had likely been the result of a leak from the lab: “The killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.”
Carlson went on to attack American media outlets for failing to cover the story, in spite of the fact that the report had been publicly available for nearly two months.
“A post on the National Institutes of Health website, written by NIH Director Francis Collins himself, dismisses any such speculation as ‘outrageous.’ Keep in mind, NIH is supposed to be keeping you safe from diseases like this one not running interference for hostile foreign governments. This is how they are spending their time as Americans die in the middle of a global pandemic. And still, no one address the substance of the claims,” Carlson concluded.
Countries are also getting ripped off when they buy supplies from China , they have to pay half down and get nothing
“Classified” report?
Classified as what? “No $hit Sherlock”?
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That’s okay. They are way more than 6 feet apart!
I don't know how much this classified report cost, but I'd told them publicly, and for free, that the Chinese were lying...
Seeing the impact of this plague on the world's economies I can't help but wonder if the Kung Flu isn't the Communist Chinese answer to our President's tariffs and his awareness that the Chicoms have laid an elaborate economic trap via offshoring, currency manipulation and state sponsorship of Chinese "businesses" that undercut prices of foreign competitors.
Who in the White House is leaking classified material?
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google maps originally showed the lab within 911 FEET of the wet market. Then just across the river. Then across the river and 8 miles away. Then across the river, 24 miles away and out in the woods.
Whenever their Communist Chinese masters said move it further away, they instantly did...
“Duh.”
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Hi Nully.
Yep.
It’s probably in the S. China Sea by now.
Google is evil.
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Accidental or “accidental”, either is totally plausible.
I am along that same thinking.
FR had many threads on this in January.
I've started to wonder if someone in service to NK, the hermit kingdom, didn't saunter down to Wuhan and cause an accident. Kim threatened to deliver a nasty Christmas gift to Trump. Maybe that was it.
My guess, based on nothing more that my understanding of hunan nature is that it was a deliberate release, NOT by anyone in the Chinese government, and certainly without any official knowledge or approval.
My guess is a lab higher-up was engaged in hanky-panky with a lab tech, and dumped her hard.
The release was intended to shame and embarrass him as much as more than he shamed her.
Hell hath no fury...
Just a guess on my part, and I rather doubt we'll ever know....
The CCP wouldn't have approved a release until they had a vaccine, and certainly not 911 ft from the lab!
Maybe under 'Captain Obvious'.
Why are you so insistent it was not an official (though secret) Chinese government act? China is our implacable enemy and I'm pretty well convinced this was a deliberate act of biological warfare.
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