China hid severity of Corona virus outbreak

[_ajax18]

According to a US intelligence classified report to the white house,

Communist officials in China have hidden the severity of the coronavirus outbreak within their borders, under-reporting both total cases and fatalities linked to the disease, the U.S. intelligence community reportedly confirmed in a classified report to the White House.
Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, is the birthplace of the novel coronavirus illness (COVID-19).

During the early stages of the epidemic in China that was later deemed a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), Beijing hid the extent of the viral outbreak, muzzling and jailing whistleblowers and critics in a move that allowed the disease to gain a firm foothold across the world.

Citing three officials familiar with the classified report issued by the American intelligence community, Bloomberg revealed on Wednesday:
The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret and declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.The report was received by the White House last week, one of the officials said.

Health officials detected the first case of the coronavirus in China in mid-November 2019. Yet, the Asian giant has publicly reported fewer cases and fatalities than the United States, where officials diagnosed the first person with coronavirus in late January.

Communist China has revised its methodology for counting cases several times. For weeks, the country ignored asymptomatic cases entirely. This week, it finally added over 1,500 cases of people without symptoms to its tally.

On Tuesday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, lambasted the incomplete Chinese data, saying it misled experts on the seriousness of the deadly and highly contagious disease.

“I think the medical community interpreted the Chinese data as that this was serious but smaller than anyone expected,” she declared. “Because I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data.”

Dr. Birx conceded that when she saw early data from China reporting only 50,000 cases of the coronavirus among the 80 million in Hubei province, she felt that the threat was similar to that of SARS, which had 8,098 cases globally and 774 deaths.

It was not until information came out of countries such as Italy, Spain, and South Korea that experts began to see the full picture of the disease’s devastation, she indicated.

Bloomberg acknowledged:
While China eventually imposed a strict lockdown beyond those of less autocratic nations, there has been considerable skepticism of China’s reported numbers, both outside and within the country.

China is not the only country with suspect public reporting. Western officials have pointed to Iran, Russia, Indonesia, and especially North Korea, which has not reported a single case of the disease, as probable under-counts. Others, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, may also be playing down their numbers.

On March 25, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted China’s “intentional disinformation campaign,” drawing the ire of Beijing.
“At the beginning of this, when it was clear that this was an issue, China knew about it, they were the first country to know about the risk to the world from this virus, and they repeatedly delayed sharing that information with the globe,” Pompeo proclaimed.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020 ... -outbreak/

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

There’s no way China is reporting true or factual right now, either.

[_ajax18]

There’s no way China is reporting true or factual right now, either.

You had a very good point a couple weeks ago that there is no way we have accurate data on this in the US either.

I think Tom Cotton was right about China being less than forthcoming about this from the start.

[_Icarus]

This is no revelation, but so what? Brietbart is always looking for a boogeyman to focus their attention on. Have at it if it makes you feel better. Nothing will change the fact that Americans are dead because of Trump's incompetence.

[_ajax18]

Trump could cure cancer and you would still find a way to demonize him.

[_Jersey Girl]

Can someone let me know if you guys can see and read this post? We’ve got exiles over on the temp board who can’t post here and want to know what the status is. I can read this board only on my phone. I don’t know if you guys can read my posts and apparently I’m the only envoy who can post between boards at least it looks like I can.

[_MissTish]

I can see you Jersey Girl.

I can only read on my phone as well

[_Icarus]

Trump could cure cancer and you would still find a way to demonize him.

It doesn't take a lot of effort to demonize a literal demon. Trump does all the work, all we have to dis quote him. The fact is he can do nothing wrong in your eyes. We've seen him go full blown socialist in the past couple of weeks and you're still equivocating.

[_ajax18]

It doesn't take a lot of effort to demonize a literal demon. Trump does all the work, all we have to dis quote him. The fact is he can do nothing wrong in your eyes. We've seen him go full blown socialist in the past couple of weeks and you're still equivocating.

I still remember you telling me during the Republican primaries that he never intended to enforce the border. It was a just a dog whistle to get votes from people like me. Not long after he won you were complaining he was putting kids in cages, denying asylum, etc.

He was no Democrat posing as a Republican. Sadly that's what Mitt Romney seems to have been but you were wrong about Trump and so was Glenn Beck. But you are right that I'll be loyal to Trump forever. I have been ever since he pledged to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, thrust out radical Islam from our midst, and renegotiate the trade deficit with China.

[_Icarus]

I still remember you telling me during the Republican primaries that he never intended to enforce the border. It was a just a dog whistle to get votes from people like me. Not long after he won you were complaining he was putting kids in cages, denying asylum, etc.

All of those things are true. So?

He was no Democrat posing as a Republican. Sadly that's what Mitt Romney seems to have been but you were wrong about Trump and so was Glenn Beck.

In what way? Donald Trump is an opportunist who would sell his own mother out if it meant getting publicity to stroke his ego. This is a man who tried to swindle his own father out of his fortune while on his death bed. He was never a real Democrat, he was never really anything, and he still isn't. He panders to the base that will get him what he wants and he makes empty promises to the desperate in return. Like banning abortions and punishing the mothers. Never gonna happen, but millions of morons voted for him simply because they thought he would. After four years he hasn't saved a single baby, yet the same idiots who voted for him in 2016 for that reason will do so again in 2020. Trump never stood a chance of getting a group of Democrats to vote him in, and he never could get any traction in 2012 when he was a lame duck candidate who dropped out early with 2% support. What changed things for him was when he went full blown racist in 2015 while promising to give religious nuts everything they ever wanted. That tapped into a segment of our society that has been in hiding for the most part and it worked out for him.

But you are right that I'll be loyal to Trump forever. I have been ever since he pledged to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, thrust out radical Islam from our midst, and renegotiate the trade deficit with China.

We already know you're going to support him no matter what evil deeds he does. That's because you're evil too. Not all Trump supporters are racists, but all racists are Trump supporters, and that is what lures you to him. And it doesn't seem to bother you at all that contrary to his promises from four years ago, he hasn't built a new wall and Mexico isn't paying for a damn thing. Why? Because you like being lied to. He's also done nothing to "thrust out" anything about radical Islam.