Tuesday, April 7, 2020

How China Lied as Its People Sickened & Died

 The national media has pretty much ignored how China blatantly covered up the spread of the Covid-19 virus as thousands of its people died while allowing travelers to infect the world without so much as a warning.   National Review's Jim Geraghty dove into the Covid-19 weeds, rolled around, and created a timeline that reports the depths of Chinese depravity.  An abbreviated version of the thorough timeline is posted below while the full version can be read at the National Review website. Mr. Geraghty wrote: 

The story of the coronavirus pandemic is still being written. But at this early date, we can see all kinds of moments where different decisions could have lessened the severity of the outbreak we are currently enduring. You have probably heard variations of: “Chinese authorities denied that the virus could be transferred from human to human until it was too late.” What you have probably not heard is how emphatically, loudly, and repeatedly the Chinese government insisted human transmission was impossible, long after doctors in Wuhan had concluded human transmission was ongoing — and how the World Health Organization assented to that conclusion, despite the suspicions of other outside health experts.

Clearly, the U.S. government’s response to this threat was not nearly robust enough, and not enacted anywhere near quickly enough. Most European governments weren’t prepared either. Few governments around the world were or are prepared for the scale of the danger....

Some point in late 2019: The coronavirus jumps from some animal species to a human being. The best guess at this point is that it happened at a Chinese “wet market.”

December 6: According to a study in The Lancet, the symptom onset date of the first patient identified was “Dec 1, 2019 . . . 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.” In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another....

December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.

December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.

Three weeks after doctors first started noticing the cases, China contacts the World Health Organization.

January 1: The Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Dr. Li Wenliang, accusing him of “spreading rumors.” Two days later, at a police station, Dr. Li signed a statement acknowledging his “misdemeanor” and promising not to commit further “unlawful acts.” Seven other people are arrested on similar charges and their fate is unknown.

Also that day, “after several batches of genome sequence results had been returned to hospitals and submitted to health authorities, an employee of one genomics company received a phone call from an official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission, ordering the company to stop testing samples from Wuhan related to the new disease and destroy all existing samples.”...

January 3: The Chinese government continued efforts to suppress all information about the virus: “China’s National Health Commission, the nation’s top health authority, ordered institutions not to publish any information related to the unknown disease, and ordered labs to transfer any samples they had to designated testing institutions, or to destroy them.

Roughly one month after the first cases in Wuhan, the United States government is notified. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gets initial reports about a new coronavirus from Chinese colleagues, according to Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar. Azar, who helped manage the response at HHS to earlier SARS and anthrax outbreaks, told his chief of staff to make sure the National Security Council was informed.

Also on this day, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released another statement, repeating, “As of now, preliminary investigations have shown no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infections.”

January 6:  .... Also that day, the CDC offered to send a team to China to assist with the investigation. The Chinese government declined, but a WHO team that included two Americans would visit February 16.

January 8: Chinese medical authorities claim to have identified the virus. Those authorities claim and Western media continue to repeat, “there is no evidence that the new virus is readily spread by humans, which would make it particularly dangerous, and it has not been tied to any deaths.”

The official statement from the World Health Organization declares, “Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks . . . WHO does not recommend any specific measures for travelers. WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available.”

January 10: After unknowingly treating a patient with the Wuhan coronavirus, Dr. Li Wenliang started coughing and developed a fever. He was hospitalized on January 12. In the following days, Li’s condition deteriorated so badly that he was admitted to the intensive care unit and given oxygen support.

The New York Times quotes the Wuhan City Health Commission’s declaration that “there is no evidence the virus can spread among humans.” Chinese doctors continued to find transmission among family members, contradicting the official statements from the city health commission.

January 11: The Wuhan City Health Commission issues an update declaring, “All 739 close contacts, including 419 medical staff, have undergone medical observation and no related cases have been found . . . No new cases have been detected since January 3, 2020. At present, no medical staff infections have been found, and no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission has been found.” They issue a Q&A sheet later that day reemphasizing that “most of the unexplained viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan this time have a history of exposure to the South China seafood market. No clear evidence of human-to-human transmission has been found.”...

January 14:  The World Health Organization echoes China’s assessment: “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan, China.

This is five or six weeks after the first evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan....

January 17: The CDC and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection announce that travelers from Wuhan to the United States will undergo entry screening for symptoms associated with 2019-nCoV at three U.S. airports that receive most of the travelers from Wuhan, China: San Francisco, New York (JFK), and Los Angeles airports.

January 18: ... Despite the fact that Wuhan doctors know the virus is contagious, city authorities allow 40,000 families to gather and share home-cooked food in a Lunar New Year banquet.

January 19: The Chinese National Health Commission declares the virus “still preventable and controllable.” The World Health Organization updates its statement, declaring, “Not enough is known to draw definitive conclusions about how it is transmitted, the clinical features of the disease, the extent to which it has spread, or its source, which remains unknown.”

January 20: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares for the last time in its daily bulletin, “no related cases were found among the close contacts.

That day, the head of China’s national health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China’s Guangdong province had been caused by human-to-human transmission and medical staff had been infected....

January 21: The CDC announced the first U.S. case of a the coronavirus in a Snohomish County, Wash., resident who returning from China six days earlier.
By this point, millions of people have left Wuhan, carrying the virus all around China and into other countries.

January 22: WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus continued to praise China’s handling of the outbreak. “I was very impressed by the detail and depth of China’s presentation. I also appreciate the cooperation of China’s Minister of Health, who I have spoken with directly during the last few days and weeks. His leadership and the intervention of President Xi and Premier Li have been invaluable, and all the measures they have taken to respond to the outbreak.”....

January 23: Chinese authorities announce their first steps for a quarantine of Wuhan. By this point, millions have already visited the city and left it during the Lunar New Year celebrations. Singapore and Vietnam report their first cases, and by now an unknown but significant number of Chinese citizens have traveled abroad as asymptomatic, oblivious carriers.

January 24: Vietnam reports person-to-person transmission, and Japan, South Korea, and the U.S report their second cases. The second case is in Chicago. Within two days, new cases are reported in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Arizona. The virus is in now in several locations in the United States, and the odds of preventing an outbreak are dwindling to zero.

February 1, Dr. Li Wenliang tested positive for coronavirus. He died from it six days later.
 
One final note: On February 4, Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella urged residents to hug Chinese people to encourage them in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, a member of Associazione Unione Giovani Italo Cinesi, a Chinese society in Italy aimed at promoting friendship between people in the two countries, called for respect for novel coronavirus patients during a street demonstration. “I’m not a virus. I’m a human. Eradicate the prejudice.”
The Chinese also threw out American reporters so they couldn't report on the spread of the virus.    NY Times article.   .  Much crucial empirical data was hidden or destroyed for months.  Data that could have been used to perfect a vaccine or create better models.  Make no mistake, the Chinese trying to take full advantage of this crisis and will do anything to do so. 


40 comments:

Anonymous said...

China is assho.

Anonymous said...

its about time somebody told the truth about the stinking chinese communist party and covid 19

Commie Pinko Bastards said...

The provencial commie party bosses will be thrown under the bus and all is good.

But not so fast.

It's long past time to pull all U.S. manufacturing out of the commie pinko China. Just like Russia, they are not our friends.

Anonymous said...

China is the most dangerous country ever, making Nazi Germany look like a paradise. China always lies, it's in it's DNA.

Watch Frontline to see the real China.

Wake up America! You only have one chance!

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/china-undercover/

Anonymous said...

No excuse for us to be as unprepared as we are. Narvaro's memo and Tom Cotton's letter let us know that the powers knew what was by on and did nothing.

Anonymous said...


When Trump banned travelers from China early the Democrats, Hollywood and the media called him a "racist". Now, they are blaming him for not taking action sooner. In our "woke" socialist world you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Anonymous said...

Let's condense this into few sentences, shall we?

The Chinese government played and is playing politics with a situation in which politics were the worst possible choice to make.

The US government (along with many other governments) played and is playing politics with a situation in which politics were the worst possible choice to make.

There were and are medical professionals and reasonable people in China who raged against the machine to get information out and were silenced or ignored.

There were and are medical professionals and reasonable people in the US who raged against the machine to get information out and were silenced or ignored.

And here we are. Once again, this isn't about world domination by this or that group, it is essentially about bureaucratic ineptitude and stupidity. Please don't assign convoluted and complicated conspiracy to that which much better explained by simple stupidity, along with a generous helping of mindless self-interest and greed. And as much as possible, ignore the nonsense and simply take care of yourself and your family. The Chinese don't want your mobile home and "the government" doesn't want your guns, it is just an unweaned bureaucracy which wants little more than to continue to suckle the ample tit that has been plopped in front of it. Maybe when things settle down a bit, folks will do something to change its thinking. But now is not the appropriate time.

Now is the time to protect ourselves, our families and our friends. Wash your hands, wear a mask of some kind when you must go out, but stay at home as much as you can. And, in the next election(s), try to remember who did what.

Anonymous said...

Purchase as much ammunition as you can afford. You'll appreciate every round.

MadisonRulz said...

Don’t we have agencies that are supposed to figure out what’s going on in China on our own?

Theca Jones of the Roguish Gent Podcast said...

11:05

Agree 100%

Anonymous said...

Let’s hold this so called “country” accountable! Dial #law or go to forthepeople.com.

Okay, I’m joking, as most will know. But don’t be surprised when these types of ads start appearing in the next couple of months.

Better Than Ever said...

@11:05 Exactly. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

Also, with this being a new virus, with attributes which make it lurk and spread... the chances it was going to jump outside the country was practically guaranteed.

Anonymous said...

"Purchase as much ammunition as you can afford. You'll appreciate every round."

And toilet paper, too. You'll appreciate every sheet.

Well, until you get tired of the guest room looking like a warehouse, and because everyone else is too, your hoard of TP, just like your hoard of ammo, isn't worth nearly as much as you had hoped. Remember a coupla-few years ago when folks were staking out Walmart, Academy, etc. and hoarding ammo, and then, they took a loss on their "investments?" You don't? Yeah, it never changes and many never learn.

Here's a little-known fact about panic bubbles: they burst. Spend and then learn or learn and then spend. Pretty simple, really.

Anonymous said...

11:05 - I misunderstood. Thought you were going to condense.

Anonymous said...

The South Park episode "Banned in China" got it right with the phrase "F... the Chinese Government". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXaChHCSss

Anonymous said...

@11:05
I think you meant to say medical professionals in China weren't only silenced but killed over attempting to spread the truth. I worked in China for 30 months after college. You guys don't know the half of the corruption. It was mind blowing and I left after going to HK for additional 5 months.

Anonymous said...

We were told not to wear a mask to avoid getting the virus for weeks but now we are told to wear one....... but not an M9 mask???

Truth is we should have been wearing a mask all along even if it was a old sock.

Anything on the news regardless which network, should be questioned as part of the partisan political agenda.

At least 6 times this morning I have seen the same video of the Alabama Governor tying a ribbon up in front of the state capital while no one is investigating availability of best corona test equipment in this sate.

Anonymous said...

11:05 pm

You are swimming upstream in a river of stupid which is being churned by anonymous blog owners who pay their rent by the click.

Imo until the anonymity is removed and people have to stand by their words....this is a grating cauldron of ignorance where conspiracy comes to thrive.....it’s like the check out aisle in the 80s....where National Enquirer magazines were easy to get and showed demon heads on popular actors.....you thought “who buys this stuff” and they always seemed to sell out.

Those people buying those magazines live here.

Good luck

Anonymous said...

Yeah, where was Felix Leiter and James Bond in all of this? We should have had operatives reporting intel.....

Welcome to the Cauldron said...

Imo until the anonymity is removed and people have to stand by their words ...

Not surprising that you don't lead by example and stand by your own.

Kingfish said...

Rent by the click? You're rich. What a hypocrite. I don't do anything that WLBT, WAPT, Sun Herald, Clarion Ledger, and WJTV don't do. Period.

They post tons of click bait on their websites but I'm expected to follow some higher standard. I'm sure you have been on their websites raising hell with them for getting clicks. You have haven't you? Oh, didn't think so. So because I'm not corporate, I should follow some higher standard. Just an example of corporate bigotry.

Anonymous said...

Well said @11:05. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

in the 70s this country became dependent on stinking arab kings and muslim nations for oil, and look where that got us. apparently we didn't learn our lesson because over the past 20 years we have become dependent on the chinese communist party for our manufacturing., and look what that got us. one is as bad as the other. anytime this country becomes dependent upon communist governments and arabs for so much as a paper clip, well my friend, thats going to be a recipe for disaster.
history repeats itself over and over and the left wing nut cases in this country don't know history past last wednesday.

Anonymous said...

I don't understand. Why would anyone be surprised, shocked, dismayed, disillusioned, etc. about anything China does/doesn't do. I guess you guys have the same response when a 6 week old puppy pees on your living room carpet.

Anonymous said...

Its the (micro in size) cadre of Mississippi (primarily Jackson) based liberals KF who can't stand your success. They (you know the names) bitch about JJ and you on Twitter with some frequency. Same people who never get off there asses and put the hard work in to actually compete against JJ. Like so many on the left they don't actually want to compete in the free market but rather their true objective is to silence you and the (nearly) free exchange of opinions you allow.

Anonymous said...

@8:02 AM Great analogy.

Like you've done here you were one of those folks who thumbed through the Enquirer and Star while waiting to check out.

Thanks for helping pay the bills. We know you'll come back soon.

Anonymous said...

oh that’s strange, because I read lots in the MSM about China’s stonewalling, deceptions & lies.

“X hasn’t been covered by media I don’t read” is always lame.

& even when the WH was getting that info, the Prez kept lauding Xi & minimizing COVID-19.

Anonymous said...

8:02 a.m., you omitted from you analysis those who tell the truth, as they understand the truth, and who act right simply because it's the right thing to do, i.e., those with integrity. Accountability takes more forms that just opening one's self up to public harassment.

If I had to sum up the entire problem in one word, I think "politics" would serve pretty well, as it describes a multitude of sins.

Anonymous said...

China Lied. People Died.
The Covid-19 stats coming out of China are false. Either that or China intended to save its own people and harm the rest of the world. In reality, it’s probably both.
All you liberal communists Trump haters should wake up and quit drinking the media kool-aid.

Anonymous said...

Would be interesting to see an impartial comparison of China’s statements versus those made by the US federal government to see which one was more truthful and accurate.

Anonymous said...

a little higher prices and a little less clean environment is a far better sacrifice than being beholden to china. it may mean less profit but our country would be better off for it!

Anonymous said...

"Would be interesting to see an impartial comparison of China’s statements versus those made by the US federal government to see which one was more truthful and accurate.

April 8, 2020 at 9:47 AM"

If your choice was pure, raw horseshit pumped into your home until it reached right to the ceiling or pure, raw bullshit pumped into it but only until it came about a foot shy of the ceiling, would it really make a whole hell of a lot difference as to the names on the doors of either pumptruck?

Anonymous said...

What struck me was the percent of drugs now manufactured in China. Over the last 15 years we should have never allowed this. We should offer these medical companies the land from closed military bases, a location to build new manufacturing plants here and allow them to be property tax free as long as they produce a product on the property. We would end up with more jobs, payroll taxes and medical products security. Half of the testing products that Great Britain just bought from the Chinese don't work. Screw them, we don't owe them anything and we need to dictate the terms if they want to do business with them. Have any of you really bought any products from them that have lasted any length of time? I would rather pay $1 more for a light bulb that is made here of heavy duty quality and lasts 5 years that the piece of crap that goes out in 6 months. We need to go back to 1980's quality and durability and you will see our companies sales soar.

Anonymous said...

I know the writer is not an investigative journalist and just wrote an opinion piece, but he appears to have left off several months at the start of this. US intelligence knew of the severity of this in November so you’d have to think the Chinese government knew at least then if not before.

Anonymous said...

When and what China knew is beside the point. Our government should never expect candor from China’s communist regime. In any event, our own government knew there was a real threat and attempted to marginalize it rather than prepare.

Anonymous said...

to 1;07... maybe an idiot like g.w. bush would expect candor from china but not trump. he knows those bat eating con artists from the git -go. the chinese communist party completely controls the media there and they did everything they could to suppress the news and spread of covid 19. hindsight is always 20/20. dont blame trump.

Anonymous said...

"...but not [T]rump..."

Yeah, I know, you're either trolling or an idiot, but please. The man is a narcissist. He didn't know Corona virus from Corona Light or care about either until what was pretty much his whole re-election strategy - the "stock market" - blew up in his face in late February. His own China hawk-cum-trade-strategist/expert Navarro told him the shit had hit the fan back in late December/early January and by his own account, he didn't even bother to read any of Navarro's urgent reports. By the time Trump realized what was happening, the die was solidly cast.

And as an aside, that is part of the reason guys like our own Tater Tot are so drawn to Trump - they are just as terrified of their own insignificance, so they'll say or do anything in a desperate attempt to keep from being reminded of it on a daily basis. I voted for both of them as the better of two poor choices (I voted for Waller first), but they have each shit down both of their own legs and all over everyone's shoes and I always try to never make the same mistake twice. There is plenty of reasonable criticism fairly leveled at W, but being uncaring or lacking self-confidence aren't among them.

Anonymous said...

Keep stirring up the “China did it” mantra....incite violence and join the litigation and possible criminal charges...

Keep typing

Four More Years said...

@ 2:35 - Please. Stop replaying the 'Trump is a Narcissist' tape over and over. Which president in our history was not? Name two. Name one. In your little Maddow/Pelosi/Maher anger/driven world, please stop with that bullshit. It accomplishes nothing and only adds, in the long run, to your symptoms of psychotic derangement.

Anonymous said...

"Which president in our history was not? Name two. Name one."

Don't even to think about it: Washington and Ford, among others. You seem to not know what a "narcissist" is.


"In your little Maddow/Pelosi/Maher anger/driven world..."

Yeah, I'm one of the rare Maddow/Pelosi/Maher fans who voted for Trump and Tate. Look, on a personal level, I not only have nothing against Tate, I can be and have been in social circumstances with both he and Elee and on that superficial level, he's a nice enough guy. I'm even among those who suggested that he would have made a good and effective Senator (and when compared to Cindy Lou-Who, a great one). But he just isn't remotely suited to being a Governor of a state with issues facing Mississippi.

And that touches upon my comment - he just can't help himself insofar as his abject fear of being seen as insignificant. IOW, he wanted to be what he sees as a "big fish" (Guv) in a "small pond" (MS) rather than having to start out as minnow (junior senator of a relatively insignificant state) in a very big pond (DC).


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