Posted on 04/16/2020 11:10:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.
President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.
Six days.
That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragged their feet for weeks and even months in addressing the virus.
But the delay by the first country to face the new coronavirus came at a critical time — the beginning of the outbreak. China’s attempt to walk a line between alerting the public and avoiding panic set the stage for a pandemic that has infected more than 2 million people and taken more than 133,000 lives.
“This is tremendous,” said Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient. We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system.”
Other experts noted that the Chinese government may have waited on warning the public to stave off hysteria, and that it did act quickly in private during that time.
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I have heard some people say this was an accident. If it was an accident, then why did they cover it up and let it spread?
They were LYING on the 14th, because they already KNEW they had a pandemic.
Six days, my Aunt Fanny.
If it was an accident, then why did they cover it up”
It can be both. The ChiComs blocked travel from Wuhan to the rest of China but not the rest of the world. Wuhan may have been an accident and China decided since Wuhan region got it the rest of the world must too.
Still Looking to connect the dots with Strock, Fauci, and Fort Detrick. Their relationship with Wuhan AND Iran. There is more to this than China !! There is a bigger story behind the curtain
IF this wasn’t an accident, since the “other shoe” hasn’t dropped yet, then there’s only one logical explanation. It was a dress rehearsal.
There have been a repeated attempts to try to start looking back and writing the history of this thing
it is not time to do this
This thing is still ongoing and China is still lying
and still obfuscating
still locking people in their houses
and still covering up
and still not letting people in the labs
There are multiple reports coming out now or they’re abusing workers and forgetting them to say anything about it
The communist bastard’s that run that great nation of China need to be brought to account and brought to their knees. Now !
Perhaps you should fault out own intelligence services instead. The Internet filled up quickly with private Chinese traffic regarding all of this weeks before anyone here seemed to know about it. My wife is Chinese. She told me all about early in December of last year. The citizens of Wuhan think it came from the lab. There was a doctor there selling expired lab specimens to the wet market.
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