BREAKING: New Memo Shows China Knew Coronavirus Was Highly Contageous But Kept it Secret
The photo above should be a mug shot. He deserves to be frog marched through a perp wall. There are no excuses for anything China did since this virus 🦠 outbreak began at Wuhan. We should call it the Communist virus.
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According to bombshell documents that were recently leaked, Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping was aware that the coronavirus disease was highly contagious at the same exact time as the World Health Organization (WHO) claimed that there was no “evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press reported that leaked documents proved that President Xi knew how dangerous the situation was and that the “risk of transmission and spread” was very “high." On that same exact day, the World Health Organization downplayed the virus, saying that it wasn't contageous.
“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," the WHO tweeted at the time.
It wasn't until January 20th that China revealed that the virus could be spread from human to human.
“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,” the AP reported. “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.”
Epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Zuo-Feng Zhang said that this revelation is “tremendous.”
“If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient,” Zhang said. “We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system.”
“The six-day delay by China’s leaders in Beijing came on top of almost two weeks during which the national Center for Disease Control did not register any cases from local officials, internal bulletins obtained by the AP confirm,” the AP added. “Yet during that time, from Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, hundreds of patients were appearing in hospitals not just in Wuhan but across the country.”
The Daily Wire summarizes:
The leaked documents obtained by the AP “show that the head of China’s National Health Commission, Ma Xiaowei, laid out a grim assessment of the situation on Jan. 14 in a confidential teleconference with provincial health officials.”
A memo showed that the teleconference was held to give instructions from Xi and other top Chinese communist officials.
“The epidemic situation is still severe and complex, the most severe challenge since SARS in 2003, and is likely to develop into a major public health event,” the memo cites Ma as saying.
A section of the memo titled “sober understanding of the situation,” stated that “clustered cases suggest that human-to-human transmission is possible.”
“With the coming of the Spring Festival, many people will be traveling, and the risk of transmission and spread is high,” the memo said. “All localities must prepare for and respond to a pandemic.”
The next day the Chinese CDC activated its highest-level response to the epidemic, but only internally, as the Chinese communists continued to downplay the risk and clearly stated in the memo that the information was “not to be publicly disclosed.”
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He knew and didn't care!
Nor do they see that their "Hero", Barry, created the majority of the supply mess -
Crooked donnie had 3 1/2 years to restock...opps, guess you forgot that
And who disbanded the pandemic response team....crooked donnie, forgot that one too
And don't forget who eliminated the position of an expert embedded in China's CDC, that would have seen all this first hand.
Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
It is TRUE, no matter how many times you try to say it's not
Realty says Crooked donnie fucked up and is still fucking up
What I know is the truth...crooked donnie fucked up
That's not exactly true as presented. According to every article I could read about this it says Quick left, not that her post was eliminated. It seems that no replacement was sent. A detail that I doubt is Trump's direct responsibility, especially since Dems were wasting everyone's time with the impeachment hearings. Yet another reason why the media can't be trusted.
Further, anyone who thinks Quick would have been "in the know" as things were happening in China is assuming an awful lot, don't you think? She was part of a training program, not sitting in the same office as China's CDC director. And, considering the way China tried to cover this up and probably continues to do so, how likely do you think it would be that the Chinese would instead make sure she learned nothing?
Amazing, did you read my comment, or the article you just quoted???
Here's my quote:
Or are you trying to misrepresent this on purpose? She quit, Trump said don't replace her....!!
What reasons are you allowing for all this supposing you are doing? Why do you give President Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt? Let me ask you something: Why do you accept and run with President Trump pretexts to actions while ignoring your presidents record of misleading statements, omissions, and outright lies?
So you are maintaining that he didn't "eliminate" the position, he just chose to "eliminate" the process for hiring a replacement?
I swear we all know that if the president had a D next to his name, democrats would be lauding him for doing exactly what Trump has been doing, MSDNC and CNN would begin every hour giving accolades to dear leader and a worship fest would be on every liberal front page in America.
This is simply ANOTHER ploy by the loons on the left to destroy the president before November because they KNOW dementia Joe has no chance.
That's 100% true. It'd be wall to wall stories abouth how the President's bending the curve and praising the American response. It would be thanks to President Democrat that the worst projections didn't come true and crediting President Democrat for saving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives.
You can't swear to that; so why bother with it?
All would give President Obama years of investigations into a Benghazi incident where a few Americans lives were taken horribly. But, deadening silence on any investigations into escalating numbers of civilian deaths in the homeland caused by a probable lax in the Trump Administration. Remember this:
Trump: Coronavirus is Democrats' 'new hoax'
Go ahead. Ignore the Presidential stand-up comic. Deflect, . . .one moment . . . okay, deflect away.
Swear all you want, you don't have a crystal ball.
I don't give two chits who is the white house whether R or D, if they fuck up like Crooked donnie did/is doing, and make it all about HIM, then yes, I will keep calling them out on their mistakes
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Emphatically!
No, I think it was more like the position was funded for only so long and funding was going to run out. As I said earlier, with the Dems wasting time with the impeachment I'm sure a lot of things got overlooked. Did this even make it onto Trump's radar? Unless you can provide something otherwise, this is not what people are trying to make it out to be. That Trump willfully and intentionally eliminated this position. That doesn't appear to be the case, just like it isn't the case that he eliminated the Pandemic Response Team. In fact, I doubt he was even aware of the position in China at all.
Wow. Suppose away already.
Well, tell me, CB. The federal government is a pretty large organization, wouldn't you say? According to one site, there are 456 federal agencies in total. Do you think every hire and fire comes across his desk? Do you think that's reasonable? Why would it be Trump's playing field rather than the director of the CDC concerning that training position in China?
Look, Maybe you think I'm trying to defend Trump. Nope. But I know bullshit when I see it. The person who filled that position was there to train people, according to the link Ozzwald provided, a position that existed at least since 2007. That means we've been training their people at least 12 years. If, after 12 years, the Chinese hadn't learned all we had to teach they were never going to learn it. How long would you want to keep it going?
And, even if having a person embedded in something like their CDC gave us information we wouldn't otherwise get, why do you think having a person there would have made a difference? Do you really think China, who was trying to cover it up, would let that person have access to what was going on? Really?
What the left is trying to do is make it seem as if there was a dropped ball on the part of the Trump administration. Nope. Just normal, everyday stuff. No big deal and nothing to see here.
Let me get this 'part' straight first. You are NOT trying to defend (the) Trump Administration, and in your argument against "bullshit" you make a claim, without any proof I might add, and imply that the "left" is trying to make a false charge. Why does that read like a defense of the Trump Administration?
Drakk, I am going to ply you full of information on this 'case,' so let us get started shall we:
Trump Explained Why He Fired The White House Pandemic Team | NowThis
’I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need ‘em’ — On Feb. 26,
Trump said he fired the White House pandemic office to save money, but on March 13 claimed he didn’t know anything about it.
But, but, but Obama....crooked donnie and his administration fucked up and didn't restock...no deflection, just the truth
I had my last comment deleted (censored) because I told the truth.
There are many, many, many documented incidents of TDS in this country since November 2016. Millions of Americans, unfortunately, suffer from this epidemic.
Here is an example of yet another mass case of TDS suffering by the media and liberals (one and the same).
About 3 weeks ago, the loon left press in the White House press room kept asking Trump why he is not declaring a national stay at home order for the entire country. He said he wanted to leave that decision to the states. Of course, he is being blamed for every virus case in the country because of that.
Now, fast forward 3 weeks. The president stated at a press brief that he had absolute power to open all states. The media and liberals (one and the same) went ballistic, saying he has no rights to tell governors what to do in their states.
So, libs, what is it? Does the president have the power to open and shut states or not. You can't have both even though TDS makes you think otherwise.
My last comment to you was deleted because it was telling the truth, so let me try again in a different way.
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You ever think of doing any research? Position was up for renewal in September, every September.
Do they have to write everything on a Big Mac wrapper for him to see it?
Your entire argument consists of:
"He didn't eliminate the position on purpose, he was just completely incompetent at doing his job."
Yes. It's called practicality. There is a major distinction between acting responsibly to save lives and acting recklessly to subject human workers and families to unknown risks and exposures for the sake of financial capital and a personal upcoming election.
Why don't you know the differences?
Rationality? There are millions of federal employees in 456 federal agencies. Do you think Trump oversees all of them?
Is it your opinion that, if only this post had still been there, all of this would have turned out differently? Like, the Chinese were going to tell our person on the spot "We're trying to cover this up but here's the info on what we're trying to cover up. Don't tell anybody"? What do you think would have happened had the person still been there?
You can think I'm trying to defend Trump. Go ahead, I don't care. What I do care about is rationality and the truth. The truth is, for whatever reason, the post wasn't renewed. It isn't rational to assume that things would have turned out differently if only it had been there. As if our person was going to be in on all the government meetings on the outbreak or something.
So, how about you tell me what would have happened had the position been refunded and why you think so?
My practice is dangerously low on masks, when we try to order them, the order gets kicked back at us saying we have reached our limit for the month, same with gloves, lysol, toilet paper, and anything else the practice needs.I have to check pts temps at the door and use gloves to do it. I take those off after every pt.
My vote is because I feel for what you are going through. However, President Trump, three years in, or even once taken on the mantle of the office can not point to anybody else as accountable to what you are going through right now and today. It is the American president's duties and responsibilities to see that supplies come to you and all others in need in successful numbers. I want to give you an example of how South Korea solved their supply issues:
South Korean Military Boosts Mask Manufacturing for Coronavirus
GaJenn78, this is a no mealy-mouth response to a novel virus outbreak. We have a larger military force sitting around in barracks, and having served myself in the armed services, it pains me, that our leader has not bothered to see how South Korea is winning the battle against a microbe and followed through to ask American soldiers to help make what we need.
You might know this yourself: Our soldiering men and women live to serve! They simply have not been asked-ordered to!
Actually the U.S. manufacturing output is a bit over 5 times as much as SK. So I would think that we should be able to match or exceed anything that SK can do/manufacturer.
They really don't need a lot of protection. South Korea had more troops fighting in Vietnam than any other country except the US, around 300,000. They are some of the most feared troops in Nam. They suffered over 5,000 KIA and 11,000 WIA.
Yes, our troops are in SK, IMO, it is also to our advantage with the North having nukes. If we were to pull out SK would immediately start their own nuclear program. Something that we don't want to happen. There is, of course, the China question that is part of the equation as well.
This is a good link outlining South Korea's military strength.
Thank you so much. Although, it appears XDm9mm missed my larger point. We have troops and national guard willing and able to help: to serve. The trainings can be put on hold for the duration. We all know how much troops are dedicated to the civilian population and their families! The Trump administration is absent with an order of execution. The troops in South Korean are superfluous (more than what is needed) to stateside functioning in this crisis.
Why would I be unawares of this? How could you miss my point, which is easily larger than the video presentation itself? American soldiers will follow any lawful order given my the Commander in Chief of the Armed Services—up to and touching making masks or PPE's or other health-related gear for the civilian population (in a time of emergency).
Trump has been president for how long already? Time for growth and development. Oh and time to go figure out what the expression - "THE BUCK STOPS HERE MEANS."
Shame on some of you conservatives for permitting yourselves to fall prey to telling half-truths, making misleading statements, and trying to make others scrapgoats for the duties and responsibilities of the sitting president: Donald J. Trump.
This is nearly an unforgivable failure on Trump conservatives part. How can anybody relate to you if you won't even admit to wrongs committed intentionally and unintentionally?
Pathetically sad.
Where does the Buck stop , there 'Goose? (Hint: Four feet won't work with this one.)
Wow. What is it that Trump got in that "tam-bone"
of his?
The fault falls on the sitting president. And your "both sides" bs was dismissed. Trump was told when he arrived in office in a presentation about world pandemics and what he needed to do to prepare - he and John Bolton - ignored the warnings. As is customary, the buck stops with the sitting president and he or she can not point fingers back (certainly not in a near complete term) to some other past leader. After all, I will be bringing out information to show Trump's footprint and handprint on gutting the pandemic side of our national health system in a discussion with another member. Watch this space. That is, if the other conservative member wishes to develop the issue or point!
Yeah, that sound a lot like aggressive bigotry, and personal hatred. I can't help in any way with that!
I am going to let you 'rip' . . . . Go ahead. Do make it really good.
So it's Obama's fault that donny didn't have testing kits for a virus that didn't exist when Obama left office? Wow...ok.. LOL
Um, you understand that would be true of Trump as well, don't you? How would you expect Trump to stockpile tests for a disease that didn't exist yet?
FEMA Report Warned of Pandemic Vulnerability Months before COVID-19
Posted in late July, the document foresaw many current impacts, including overwhelmed hospitals and disruptions in essential services
That's many months longer than the 6 days the Chinese government, concerned about public panic, kept its knowledge of the seriousness of the virus from the public, isn't it. And even the many weeks Trump ignored what was happening before he did anything other than stop travel. What was left to do to absolve selves of being culpable? Finger-point, blame, criticize, disseminate false information, use language to cause xenophobia and racial hatred, stop funding that's now needed to help deprived countries around the world, refusing to comply with guidelines that have proven effective (compliance was effective here where I am) to return life to normal.....What else does America want to do to increase its astronomical numbers of infected and dead? If the numbers that were quoted by China-haters were correct I would have seen from my balcony bodies piled up in the streets, and we would have been aware of someone, at least ONE person, among my wife's extended family and our friends and their extended families that would have been infected, but there have been NONE.
Stellar article. I will read it twice over. We were warned. "Many people" are saying it!
When President Trump says things like:
'"Nobody has seen anything or thought about anything like this." (or words to that effect),
substitute in its place Trump's real meaning:
[Trump] "I have never seen anything or thought of anything like this."
See? Works perfectly across the board!
Yes, I know and it's not the first time such a warning has been given. These warnings come out every so often. That is, we knew this before this particular report. We've never been ready.
In any case, the subject to which I responded was test kits. Are you suggesting that we could have started stockpiling tests for Covid-19 back in July when we didn't know this virus existed? How does that work?
Er, President Xi is not accountable to the American people. I thought you knew. China owes us nothing we can't get through a treaty or contractual agreement with that nation. How convenient it is to not fully comprehend this point! Our intelligence agencies informed the American President Donald J. Trump about this virus in late December 2019 thereabouts. Talk in Washington high circles was revving up in January. President Trump did not not act until the end of February 2020.
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. You can muster up will account for the absence of the American president's voice warning his citizenry about an unknown novel virus killer asymptomatically creeping in among us and our families. Dead New Yorkers, of Trump's hometown no doubt, in the ten's of thousands are lying in cold storage and more are promised to join them. And, neither President Trump, Vice-president Pence, or any one of you (surrogates) can fan out to offer anything resembling an apology or accountability.
Moreover, there are maddening attempts to steer people away from the obvious negligence which occurred by the one official (the President) duty-bound to protect the American people from all enemies foreign. . . .
There you hit it on the nose. Accusing China and the WHO are just Trump looking desperately for scapegoats to point the finger at.
Well President Donald Trump praised President Xi until the day he threw him under the bus! We saw the tweet. It is in the public domain.
Wally, when you have to start with an outright lie, you are already losing the argument.
This 'so called story' is a swing and miss. US INTEL knew everything that was happening in China with the COVID-19 during the month of December 2019 and informed the US government, but the leaders of the US government were in the midst of calling it a hoax while trying to coerce certain foreign 'actors' to find dirt on the Biden family.
Does China keep secrets? This is laughable. What in the hell do you think?
Does the USA keep secrets? Does any country in the world keep secrets? The answer should be obviois to anyone with an IQ over 80.
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So did our intelligence agencies.
I was just thinking that eventually the public is going to come to a realization about the fact that the massive effort on the part of Trump and his promoters to deflect from his incompetence by pointing fingers elsewhere and blaming others has been designed to maintain the loyalty of his supporters and not lose their votes come November.
In almost 7 months we'll find out if that's right, won't we?
But keep watching. There are bound to be more headline grabbing moves such as suing China, attempting to have it removed from the WTO or other International organizations - but nothing much to benefit the American people.
This entire thing has been truly pathetic. The most pitiful display of "leadership" I have ever seen. I mean I guess 43% of the population has fuck up's back no matter what, but if he wasn't a politician but their retirement account manager, would they show the same support?
It is interesting that you can see with clarity the tired old antics of the Trump Administration from so far away.
Even the reemergence of the so-called, conservative "grassroots" yesterday in Lansing, Michigan and today in Ohio and from 'parts unknown,' and Trump tweeting 'em onward are all fragments of a concerted effort by Trump and Trump conservatives to never look back, never apologize - even though most of the dead are from this president's hometown, to conduct themselves as if the COVID-19 virus was a minor inconvenience on the road of life, and finally to never admit to mistakes made - this last being the worst indecency of all.
A person with eyes, ears and a working brain could see it from the moon.
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