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What China Has Done to Starve U.S. Hospitals of Key Medical Equipment is Unforgivable
Townhall.com ^ | April 6, 2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 04/06/2020 3:47:01 PM PDT by Kaslin

China lied and people died. In December, China ordered its scientists to destroy samples that showed they had a pneumonia-like virus on their hands. They strong-armed doctors from trying to spread the word, kept medical staff in the dark, and prevented new cases of what we know was the Wuhan Coronavirus, or COVID-19, from being reported. And now doctors who tried to raise awareness have vanished. Vloggers documenting the situation on the ground have also disappeared. China allowed Chinese New Year to be celebrated which led to scores of people being exposed. In all, some 5 million people had left Wuhan by the time the Chinese government got its act together. It was too late. And now, their incompetence caused this pandemic. 

The world economy has ground to a halt. And while we’re dealing with this nonsense, China has also reportedly tried to corner the market on personal protection equipment which is essential for health care workers around the world. The Trump administration is fully aware of the situation and is mulling legal action. The New York Post quoted one senior lawyer said China’s actions concerning this alleged hoarding is akin to a first-degree murder charge (via NY Post):

Leading US manufacturers of medical safety gear told the White House that China prohibited them from exporting their products from the country as the coronavirus pandemic mounted — even as Beijing was trying to “corner the world market” in personal protective equipment, The Post has learned.

Now, the Trump administration is weighing legal action against China over its alleged actions, a lawyer for President Trump said Sunday.

“In criminal law, compare this to the levels that we have for murder,” said Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign.

“People are dying. When you have intentional, cold-blooded, premeditated action like you have with China, this would be considered first-degree murder.”

Ellis said the options under consideration include filing a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights or working “through the United Nations.”

Executives from 3M and Honeywell told US officials that the Chinese government in January began blocking exports of N95 respirators, booties, gloves and other supplies produced by their factories in China, according to a senior White House official.

China paid the manufacturers their standard wholesale rates, but prohibited the vital items from being sold to anyone else, the official said.

Around the same time that China cracked down on PPE exports, official data posted online shows that it imported 2.46 billion pieces of “epidemic prevention and control materials” between Jan. 24 and Feb. 29, the White House official said.

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Michael Wessell, a founding member of the federal US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, confirmed the situation and said the Chinese maneuvering had left American hospitals “starved of PPE to fight this crisis.”

U.S. companies are finding out they don't own their own factories in China. When they tried to export THEIR medical equipment, the Chinese government stopped them: https://t.co/TgnCkfHJMP @nypost— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 6, 2020

This is insane.

U.S. companies with factories in China have tried to export medical supplies to the United States,

Only for the goods to be stopped from being sent by the Chinese government.

We must end our dependency on China!

RT!— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) April 6, 2020

China must pay a high price for #Covid_19— Luke Coffey (@LukeDCoffey) April 6, 2020

Far past time to disentangle and restructure vital U.S. supply chains.https://t.co/uot9RCOfHY— Martijn Rasser (@MartijnRasser) April 6, 2020

As of today, U.S. deaths from Wuhan coronavirus infection are rapidly approaching 10,000. There are over 336,000 cases, most of which reside in New York City and the tri-state area. President Trump and his Wuhan virus task force have worked hard to increase testing and create better models that are currently being shipped out. Ventilators are now being manufactured as quickly as possible. Distilleries are now making hand sanitizer. My Pillow is now shifting their production to medical masks, making anywhere from 10,000-50,000 masks a day. American business has answered the call. Retired army doctors have also answered the call. But it makes it all the more maddening when we hear stories about how the Chinese are just bo jangling around because they’re either West-averse or insufferably greedy. 



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; china; chinachinavirus; chinavirus; medicalequipment; presidenttrump; wuhan; wuhancoronavirus
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1 posted on 04/06/2020 3:47:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why are we at the mercy of China for this stuff?


2 posted on 04/06/2020 3:49:48 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kaslin
It appears that China has declared war against the U. S. A.!

It's unfortunate that the rest of the FREE world is forced to suffer along with us. Therefore the world has to declare war on communist China!

3 posted on 04/06/2020 3:51:19 PM PDT by yardboyd (Call me a rose.... or leave me alone.)
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To: Bonemaker
So that Susie Homemaker can save fifty cents on a pair of flip flops.

Because traitors who should have hung from the gallows (aka bill klinton) sold them sensitive military technology.

Who cares why? We need to fix it, regardless.

4 posted on 04/06/2020 3:52:13 PM PDT by LouAvul ("Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.")
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To: Kaslin

The American left and many GOP are an extension of China.


5 posted on 04/06/2020 3:59:36 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

CCP’s Holodomor on the rest of the world.


6 posted on 04/06/2020 4:00:59 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: shanover

No one, and I do mean NO ONE, is saying word ONE about Feinstein’s (D-Beijing) sale of stock after the WuFlu briefing


7 posted on 04/06/2020 4:03:03 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Bonemaker
Chew on this:

*WELL PLAYED CHINA....*

*SCENE 1 :*

The curtain opens: China becomes ill, enters a "crisis" and paralyzes its trade. The curtain closes.

*SCENE II.*

The curtain opens: The Chinese currency is devalued. They do not do anything. The curtain closes.

*SCENE III.*

The curtain opens:: Due to the lack of trade of companies from Europe and the USA that are based in China, their shares fall 40% of their value.

*SCENE IV.*

The curtain opens:: The world is ill, China buys 30% of the shares of companies in Europe and the US at a very low price. The curtain closes.

*SCENE V.*

The curtain opens: China has controlled the disease and owns companies in Europe and the US. And he decides that these companies stay in China and earn $Billions. The curtain closes. How is the play called?

*SCENE VI:*

*Checkmate!*

*ReAmazing but true*

Two videos have passed between yesterday and today that convinced me of something I suspected, but had no basis. It was just my speculation. Now I am convinced that the coronavirus was purposely propagated by the Chinese themselves.

At first they were too prepared. Three weeks after the start of the roll, 14 days and a 12,000-bed hospitals were already under construction. And they really built them in two weeks.

Yesterday they announced that they had stopped the epidemic. They appear in videos celebrating, they announce that they even have a vaccine. How could they create it so quickly without having all the genetic information? Well if you are the owner of the formula it is not difficult at all.

And today I just saw a video that explains how Den Xiao Ping gave the west a half stick. Due to the coronavirus, the actions of Western companies in China fell dramatically. China I just hope, when they went down enough they bought them. Now the companies, Created by the USA and Europe in China with all the technology put in by these exchanges and their capital they passed into the hands of China, which is now rising with all that technological potential and will be able to set prices at will to sell everything they need to the West. How are you?

None of this could have happened by chance. China who cared that a few old men died? Fewer old-age pensions to pay, but the loot has been huge. And right now the West is financially defeated, in crisis and stunned by the disease. And without knowing what to do.

Masterfully diabolic. It had to be the communists. |

Adding to this, they are now the single largest owners of US treasury with 1.18 trillion holding surpassing Japan.

An instrument that has seen the most rally

One ☝ prospective & Analogy

How come Russia & North Korea have Low or Zero incidence of Covid- 19 ?

Is it because they are staunch allies of China

On the other hand USA / South Korea / United Kingdom / France / Italy / Spain and Asia are severely hit

How come Wuhan is suddenly free from the deadly virus?

China says that the drastic initial measures that they took were very stern and Wuhan was locked down to contain the spread to other areas

Why Beijing was not hit ? Why only Wuhan?

It is interesting to ponder upon.. right ?

Well ..Wuhan is open for business now

Covid - 19 needs to be seen in the backdrop of the arm twisting of China by USA in the trade war

America and all the above mentioned countries are devastated financially

Soon American economy will collapse as planned by China.

China knows it CANNOT defeat America militarily as USA is at present THE MOST POWERFUL country in the world.

So use the virus...to cripple the economy and paralyse the nation and its Defense capabilities.

Wuhan's epidemic was a showcase.

At the peak of the virus epidemic....China's President Xi Jinping...just wore a simple RM1 facemask to visit those effected areas.

As President he should have been covered from head to toe.....but that was not the case.

He was already injected to resist any harm from the virus....that means a cure was already in place before the virus was released

China's vision is to control the World ECONOMY by buying up stocks now from countries facing the brink of severe ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.....Later China will announce that their Medical Researchers have found a cure to destroy the virus

Now China shall OWN the stocks of All Western Alliances and these countries will soon be slave to their NEW MASTER..... CHINA

8 posted on 04/06/2020 4:03:28 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Kaslin

China needs to be completely cut off from the rest of the world. We can trade with all the other countries, and we can do quite well, and it will boost our trading partners too.


9 posted on 04/06/2020 4:04:38 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Kaslin

Drive across the Southeastern states. Almost every town has an abandoned textile mill. We already have some of the infrastructure needed to ramp up production of our own stuff.


10 posted on 04/06/2020 4:09:48 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Kaslin

What China has done for the past 75 years is unforgivable!


11 posted on 04/06/2020 4:12:21 PM PDT by Taxman ((We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!))
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To: carriage_hill

“Now I am convinced that the coronavirus was purposely propagated by the Chinese themselves.”

I’m looking at this sideways too. The loss of X number of Chinese for a bigger goal is believable,


12 posted on 04/06/2020 4:18:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kaslin

It is our own damned fault for putting in the past three presidents who could not ship our industry over to China fast enough to suit them.


13 posted on 04/06/2020 4:30:49 PM PDT by arthurus (in home covfefe nut)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t blame China, blame our elected representatives that sold out to the highest bidder. The Democrats and RINOs did a great job outsourcing almost everything we manufacture. Then people wonder why we have an issue with the supply chain????? Dealing with the enemy!!


14 posted on 04/06/2020 4:37:50 PM PDT by MGunny ( Al)
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To: Kaslin

Asymmetric WAR! 2020 See Clearly. American fascists and their sponsoring dictatorship conducting “business”.


15 posted on 04/06/2020 4:40:35 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

Israel is doing business with China to the tune of 11 cargo planes loaded with medical supplies...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3832322/posts


16 posted on 04/06/2020 4:50:35 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: MGunny

And we’re all going to line up like sheep herded by bombastic speeches against China to vote for Republicans who allowed it to happen.

Richard Nixon started this China thing and he was no Democrat.


17 posted on 04/06/2020 4:52:29 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Bonemaker; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ..
Why are we at the mercy of China for this stuff?

Chinese plan decades and centuries ahead.

Haaavaaad MBAs look at today's bottom line and this quarter's shareholder's statement, seldom further ahead than that.

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.

The false positive rate was 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 or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

18 posted on 04/06/2020 4:53:36 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: MGunny

The blame does not belong to “elected officials” alone by a long shot. The so-called American businesses were more than happy to screw the country and move their factories.

The problem stems from the fact that America hasn’t been an actual Nation since the 60’s. You can’t expect people to be loyal to something they don’t love.


19 posted on 04/06/2020 5:01:05 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: yardboyd

Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy.
The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CoVid19. Sure looks suspicious particularly when crews of US naval vessels somehow wind up being infected by it.

Everywhere an American looked an item came from this country (China). Now that reliance was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products , When Americans hailed the leaders decision to make many of them in their country. Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens (Hong Kong) protesting its policies since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader,


20 posted on 04/06/2020 5:03:56 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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