China hid severity of Corona virus outbreak

[_Icarus]

Ajax who do you think you're kidding?

You're a pleasure to converse with? All you do is run away whenever refutations are provided. Spin and pivot to something else.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

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Gadianton Tom Cotton was talking about China lying about Corona Virus while the left was busy with the impeachment hoax. At the time Res Ipsa said it as just Cotton trying to stick it to China.
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“I was trying to stay nonpolitical in this thread...”

- Doc

[_Gadianton]

Ajax,

You don't get to pick the context of your alleged facts.

Let me ask you this: Do you buy auto insurance only on the day before you get into an accident?

Pandemic threats and how nations react to them, especially adversarial ones, have been known quantities for years. The failure of your guy in recent weeks is icing on the cake only, we're talking about years of mismanagement.

Without the impeachment (you think the impeachment was a hoax, e.g., it didn't really happen?) he still would have done nothing, because he's made it clear he thought it was BS up until a couple weeks ago. His mentor, Rush, still thinks its BS. Had he done something in recent weeks, it could have made things better, but it wouldn't have been a substitute for proper preparation that should have began years ago.

[_DarkHelmet]

No, the coronavirus wasn’t made in a lab. A genetic analysis shows it’s from nature

Got to love how the usual suspects are always pimping the craziest conspiracy theories. China doesn't want the world knowing the extent of the virus in China because they are acting like Trump, putting the economy before lives. These idiots make a huge leap from this to China creating a biological weapon.

Ajax is regurgitating an anonymous viral Facebook post.

Yeah, no deep conspiracy theory is needed. Of course China is hiding and minimizing their numbers. It's China. The state controls the media and it's in thir best interests to downplay the virus. Despite Trump having his own state run media company, this is still America, and we still kinda have a free press. So despite Fox News trying to help Trump downplay the spread of the virus in America, the facts reported by real media sources forced their hand.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Once again Trump’s statements, with sources, regarding the virus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comment ... &context=3

But, hey. I’m not trying to politicize this thread.

- Doc

[_ajax18]

Well it looks like even according to Fauci, China's lack of transparency prevented other countries from inhibiting travel from China earlier.

During an interview broadcast on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that without China’s “delay in transparency” on the coronavirus, “other countries would have maybe been more quick on the trigger to try and inhibit travel from China to their country.” Fauci also stated that nothing “would have prevented the spread of this virus.”

Fauci stated that in “early January…it became clear that what the Chinese had claimed originally, that this was just a virus that jumped from an animal reservoir to a human, and wasn’t being transmitted from human to human, well, it became very clear pretty quickly that that was not the case. … And when the numbers started coming in as to what the morbidity and the mortality was, it was during that period in early to mid-January that it became clear to me that this was not just another SARS, it wasn’t another MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.”

He added, “I don’t think anything would have prevented the spread of this virus. Once it emerged into society, with its capability of efficient spread and morbidity and mortality, that was it. But what could have been different…is that, if we had known that this was highly transmissible early on, when it was just in China, I think other countries would have maybe been more quick on the trigger to try and inhibit travel from China to their country. … So, that delay in transparency, I think, likely had an impact on what I just said, the awareness that this could seed the rest of the world.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04 ... ng-travel/

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

If only we hadn’t terminated our CDC counterparts in China. The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN21C3N5

Ajax pivots, says something, and scores!

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

If only the administration hadn’t wasted months dithering around:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory ... c-69984060

The Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment. But hey, I’m not trying to politicize this thread by, you know, shifting blame onto China because my Republican-led government is rife with corruption and incompetence.