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lol. Hardly - of course I read it. I just don't give communist countries the benefit of the doubt like you and the leftwing media does. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/china-coronavirus-cover-up-claims-1.5471946 But questions now swirl about what the Chinese knew during the first, crucial few weeks of the outbreak, and if information about the severity and spread of the disease was being suppressed instead of shared. A possible repeat of what happened during the early days of the SARS crisis in 2002-03, when the country's Communist leadership downplayed a similar illness that eventually moved around the world, infecting more than 8,000 people, and killing 774, including 44 in Canada. More than 1,700 Chinese health workers infected while fighting coronavirus outbreak What researchers have learned about the spread and severity of the coronavirus "They promised transparency, they promised everything would change, they promised a new rule book," says Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author who has tracked global outbreaks and epidemics for decades. Garrett, who was based in Beijing during the SARS outbreak, says China's COVID-19 statistics have given her a strange case of déjà vu. "When you started seeing this long period where the numbers either didn't budge, or even one day went backwards, to me that just looked like completely fabricated figures," she says. "There was absolutely no reason to believe that was true, especially if this was a SARS-related virus." Yanzhong Huang, a professor of global health studies at Seton Hall University in New Jersey and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, agrees that China's early reports on the illness were severely flawed. "It seems very clear that either local government officials or the health authorities messed up in their response to the outbreak," he says. Low-balled case numbers and inaccurate information about how the disease was spreading meant that health-care workers failed to take adequate precautions to isolate patients or even protect themselves, he says. "When the preparation fails, you are guaranteed to see how a small outbreak evolves into an epidemic and takes a heavy toll on the economy and a society," he says. "At least two weeks were squandered." A changing timeline There has been widespread outrage in China over the case of Dr. Li Wenliang, a Wuhan ophthalmologist who was among the first to report a cluster of strange, SARS-like pneumonia cases at a local hospital. After Li shared his observations in an online chat group with his medical school classmates on Dec. 30, he was questioned by police, and ultimately forced to sign a statement declaring that his insights were "incorrect" and "illegal." Li's death on Feb. 7 from the very virus he had been accused of fabricating touched off public mourning and expressions of dissent on social media, and many consider him a martyr to both science and free expression. However, we now know that Li was not the only one to sound the alarm. A report from another Wuhan doctor, Zhang Hong, published in The Lancet medical journal earlier this month, revealed that seven other area physicians were cautioned by police after flagging suspicious pneumonia cases in early December. And while China did inform the World Health Organization (WHO) about the unexplained illnesses on Dec. 31 — blaming animal-to-human transmission at a local market — it took authorities almost three weeks more to disclose other major developments such as the first confirmed person-to-person transmission on Jan. 3, the spread of the sickness to health-care workers on Jan. 7, and the initial COVID-19 death on Jan. 9. The Chinese public was also kept in the dark. Local papers in Wuhan reported sparingly on the illness in early January, mostly denying that it existed, or was in any way related to SARS. The People's Daily, the country's national newspaper, made no mention of the outbreak whatsoever until Jan. 21, the day President Xi Jinping finally acknowledged the problem, decreeing that the virus "must be taken seriously," in remarks reported by state television. And the timeline of who knew what, when, keeps changing. Last week, official Chinese media reported on a speech Xi gave at the beginning of February in which the president claimed he had demanded measures to "prevent and control" the coronavirus during a Jan. 7 gathering of the Politburo Standing Committee, the country's highest authority. Some observers of Chinese politics suggest the speech has been highlighted in an effort to portray Xi as a take-charge leader and insulate him from domestic criticism over his government's handling of the crisis. But the disclosure raises other questions. "The official story to the outside world and the rest of China was, 'It's all under control,'" says Laurie Garrett. "[Xi] clearly knew that was a false narrative because, you know, a small outbreak of 40 people in one city, all connected to an animal market does not warrant an intervention by the head of state — in any country." Global consequences If the Chinese were concealing the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak through the first weeks of January, they didn't do the rest of the world any favours. When the WHO met on Jan. 22 and 23 to debate whether to declare a global health emergency, it was understood that there were 571 confirmed cases with 17 fatalities in China, and 10 more illnesses across seven other territories and countries. The WHO committee held off on the emergency — a label that frees up funds and international assistance — because of the relatively small number of reported infections and China's aggressive lockdown in Hubei. In retrospect, it may have been a costly deferral. By the time the declaration was ultimately made on Jan. 30, the number of coronavirus illnesses in China had grown to 7,736 confirmed and 12,167 suspected cases, with 170 deaths. And the disease had spread to 18 countries, with 82 people having fallen sick. And there are continued questions about the country's case numbers as authorities keep changing the diagnosis criteria, making it difficult to tell how much progress is actually being made in the battle against the coronavirus. The politics of fear Kelley Lee, the director of global health studies at Simon Fraser University, has studied and followed the WHO since the 1990s. She says the crisis is highlighting the "disconnect" between a body that was created in 1948, and the realities of a transnational epidemic in a modern, inter-connected world. "It's during an outbreak like this that we find out if our political institutions and our politicians are helping or hindering," says Lee. The WHO doesn't have the authority to tell Xi Jingping what to do, let alone take over the fight on the ground. All it can do is engage in what is known as disease diplomacy, and try to convince China that its interests and the world's concerns are completely aligned. "In some ways the SARS outbreak taught the WHO that you have to have the country that is most affected — the epicentre of the outbreak — on its side. It can't risk alienating the Chinese," says Lee. "I'm sure they know that they're not getting full co-operation, but they're still trying to encourage that." However, that baked-in skepticism about the Chinese numbers is being harnessed and exploited by other actors. A conspiracy theory suggesting the novel coronavirus actually originated in a Chinese bioweapons laboratory has been making the rounds online, amplified by people like U.S. President Donald Trump's former adviser, Steve Bannon. Earlier this month, Sen. Tom Cotton, raised the idea — flatly discredited by experts — during a Fox News appearance. "We don't have evidence that this disease originated there," said the Arkansas Republican. "But because of China's duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says, and China right now is not giving evidence on that question at all." A similar, and equally false, online claim suggests the COVID-19 virus was stolen by Chinese spies working at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. Where this all leads China and the world remains impossible to predict. But the fears associated with a spreading and deadly disease have a way of lingering long after the outbreak peters out. Journalist Ian Young, a former international editor of the South China Morning Post, thinks of the legacy of SARS in Hong Kong. "It was a psychologically shaping event for a lot of Hongkongers because it changed the way a lot of people lived their lives," he says. "It ended up killing about 300 people. It doesn't sound like a vast toll, but in the early stages of the outbreak, we had no idea exactly how deadly it was going to be — how transmittable it was going to be and there were massive levels of fear." Young likens it to what happened in North America with the Sept. 11 attacks, when governments shifted to a war footing in the course of a single morning and air travel changed forever as terrorism went from being a distant threat to a live-on-TV reality. "It changes people's behaviours and perceptions of the world. And perceptions of risk," he says. Making COVID-19 just the latest twist on the old saw about history repeating. Watch: Terence McKenna's documentary report on the lessons to be learned from China's handling of the coronavirus crisis on CBC TV's The National, Monday night. About the Author Jonathon Gatehouse CBC Investigative Journalist Jonathon Gatehouse has covered news and politics at home and abroad, reporting from dozens of countries. He has also written extensively about sports, covering seven Olympic Games and authoring a best-selling book on the business of pro-hockey. He works for the national investigative unit in Toronto.

Mentioning S. Korea is a good point, but S. Korea is next door to N. Korea, who has threatened all sorts of nasty stuff on them over decades. They have reason to be more prepared.

FIFY. Trump never testified, so you are wrong there. The obamao leakers/traitors are good to be gone. The people Pres Trump have working on it are the best in the world. And consider this: The NSC heads are not the NSC. There are many, many people who do just fine without politically left leaning obaMao refugee figureheads to tell them how to do their jobs. You be wrong, Tour. You betcha: Fact Check: WH Dissolved Pandemic Unit but Did Not 'Fire ... https://dailytruthreport.com/fact-check-wh-dissolved-pandemic-unit-but-did-not-fire... CLAIM: President Donald Trump “fired the entire White House pandemic team.” VERDICT: Partly false. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton “dissolved” the pandemic office but staff remained to deal with the issue. Last month, Democrats tried a new way of blaming Trump for the coronavirus outbreak. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg claimed during the Democrat debate in ... FACT CHECK: No, Trump Did Not 'Fire' Pandemic Specialist ... https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/02/25/fact-check-no-trump-did-not-fire-pandemic... The specialist was not fired; he quit. Some CDC cuts were proposed, but not implemented. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed at the Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, on Tuesday night that President Donald Trump had “fired” the government’s pandemic expert and “defunded” the Centers for Disease Control:

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we are tempted. Don't know how to use roku etc yet. The neighbor kids will teach us....

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sorry, but this stupid scatter-brained vague mud thrown on the wall with a promise of "real dynamic mud sticking to wall".... is just "crying wolf" for the millionth time. and I'm only guessing on the "millionth"

no, it just completely devasted any chance Pres Trump had to work with your demoquack hater sombetches. as in, by your own op subject - THEY IGNORED that exercise for three years and THEY made the budget. It's your dems you should own up to bashing, not Pres Trump. and now you know the rest of the story.

apparently so, for you - the exercise was designed with an emphasis based on PERSON TO PERSON CONTAGION. The WHO, AGAIN, and CHINA, DECLARED THAT THE CORONA VIRUS WAS NOT TRANSMITTABLE PERSON TO PERSON> therefore, the exercise, if it actually did exist as reported, had nothing to do with the corona virus, until it was WAY TOO LATE and it spread all around the world. That is the freaking point. They denited it was a problem, the WHO even went with the lie. and that's that. If you did a wartime exercise with aliens from another galaxy coming here to take our planet - do you throw all your available funding to get ready to fight that ? Of course not. IN CONCLUSION - the dirty commie chinese and the WHO could have admitted the truth way, way early, and the results of the exercise would be been applicable.

your dems were too busy with hate over losing the last pres election. Pollak: Democrats Pushed Impeachment While Coronavirus Spread https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/13/... 7 days ago · When Republicans warned Democrats that impeachment was a waste of time, a divisive partisan exercise, and a distraction from the real issues facing the country — a lesson Republicans learned the hard way, in Bill Clinton’s impeachment, 21 years before — Democrats ignored them.

oh, baloney. The WHO and china SAID IT WAS NOT CONTAGIOUS HUMAN TO HUMAN BEFORE IT LEFT CHINA. which, under the tests you mention, it WAS. Half truth + facts = you got no point on the op.

their lies LED to the world being caught off guard, and with insiders saying they are telling more lies now, trying to say they have no more "reported cases"... they will be giving too many people hope that they can just stop quarantining and be fine. https://www.theblaze.com/news/china-may-be-faking-its-recovery-from-the-coronavirus-outbreak-report

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he's been doing the right moves. https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump_polls_coronavirus_high_ratings Poll: Americans rally around Trump with 56% approving of his handling of the coronavirus crisis Americans also gave Trump high marks on the economy, jobs, and other key issues

no, the truth was lifted. or ....sifted.....

Experienced Lives Matter "ELM"

Greek festival? Canadian Bacon? Russian Roulett? (now there's a dangerous game.)

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/new-york-times-chinese-propaganda " It is still jarring, though, to see what unbelievable suckers NYT writers can apparently be for even the most fantastic and unbelievable claims, as long as those claims are made by a totalitarian communist regime. The actual thesis of Thursday's piece was that China has done a much better job of containing the coronavirus than has most of the West and that the Chinese government (and people!) are now sitting around wondering why we in the West are all so bad at containing the coronavirus. " "... Seriously. Here is just one of the pieces of obvious bovine fecal material that slipped through the layers and layers of editors and fact checking that we are constantly assured exist at the Times: "But on Thursday, [China] reported no new local cases for the first time since the outbreak began. Its uncompromising response — locking down cities, shutting factories, testing thousands — seems to have brought China's contagion under control." Now, it might be technically true that China reported no new local cases on Thursday. However, only the world's most irresponsible journalist — or the world's biggest idiot — would print that claim without pointing out that it's obviously false. The chances that there were zero new cases of coronavirus in China on Thursday are, well, zero. You do not have to be an expert in infectious diseases to know that this is not how they work. You just have to be possessed of the common sense and skepticism that God gave the average fifth-grader. If President Donald Trump had announced Thursday that there were no new cases of coronavirus reported by the United States government, the Times would have printed five news articles debunking the claim and three opinion columns about what an irresponsible leader Trump was for making such an obviously false claim. But when the Chinese government — which has literally kicked out Western journalists so no one can see what is going on — made the same claim, the Times just uncritically printed it. Of course, numerous courageous whistleblowers from inside China have stated the obvious — that the Chinese government's claims of a miraculous recovery are fake. But no one should need those whistleblowers to know that the ChiComms' claims were obvious lies, any more than North Korea needs whistleblowers to tell the world that Kim Jong Il did not actually bowl a perfect 300 the first time he ever bowled. Making up fantastic lies about the perfection of their government and leadership is what communist governments do. It's a signature hallmark of communism to never ever admit that the government has made a mistake and to further claim that the government has accomplished fantastic miracles that Western governments could not replicate (because, in every case, no government could actually do those things). But even if you got a job at the Times without somehow being aware of how communist governments have operated for the last 100 years, any person possessed of a fully formed cerebral cortex should have known not to uncritically reprint such fantastical claims about China's success at controlling the spread of the virus, especially after China kicked out all journalists who don't work for its state-sanctioned media. So why didn't these reporters and editors from the Times? I think a lot about Stephen Glass, in my line of work. Glass, if you will remember, hoodwinked his editors at the liberal New Republic for years with stories that were entirely made up. He quoted people who didn't exist. He retold stories that never happened. And when his malfeasance was finally exposed, his editors had a day of reckoning. And what they admitted, frankly, was that they did not check his work as diligently as they should have because his stories confirmed their pre-existing biases and beliefs. Newspaper editors ought to have pictures of Stephen Glass hung on their walls, if they don't want to end up getting embarrassed like the New Republic was. Because that lesson — always question stories that confirm your beliefs the most — is a necessary one." "And this, I think, is where the Times got suckered into being a national laughingstock Thursday — again. The media have somehow convinced themselves that it's really important to obsess about the fact that President Trump refers to coronavirus sometimes as a "Chinese virus," and they hate him so much that they would like to believe that even the obviously corrupt and dishonest Chinese government is doing better at controlling coronavirus than he is. After all, that would help sell their most treasured belief, which is that he should be defeated at the ballot box in November. "

I'm still waiting for the guilty party to fess up and admit they taught Woody the "F" word...........

I don't recall Woody ever complaining about Pres Trump being made a victim of the left's tainted set up gotcha questions. Only now he complains? huh.

I disagree. The Chinese lied, the WHO said what the Chinese told them to say. that it was not human to human transmitted. That lie costs thousands of lives around the world, after the virus went entirely global. China REFUSED help from the CDC and our experts. As in, what were they hiding? Maybe just hiding the grim truth and trying not to embarrass themselves badly in the eyes of the rest of the world? That would be easier to believe, if Wuhan wasn't the site of the bio lab. After seeing a pic of a huge pile of dead rats for sale at a food market - I would chip in to buy a one way ticket for sanders to go there and not come back. of course there's AOC, tlaib, van jones, brennan, etc etc etc....

I was wondering what happened to Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi, who was eventually cut by the Browns - didn't make the final 53 man roster. I hope he is doing well, and still with the New York Guardians in the XFL. the xfl I will never watch.... Timeline 2016: There, Sheehy-Guiseppi was named a first-team NJCAA All-American in 2016, after leading the nation in kick return yardage and touchdowns. 2019: The Browns officially signed him on April 5, 2019. 2019: On November 22, 2019, Sheehy-Guiseppi was drafted by the New York Guardians in the XFL Supplemental Draft.

more like, what goes around, comes around. The negative belligerent smart ass attempts at "gotcha" has gotten so much attention - it was bound to cause a reaction in the more honest press. Pres Trump rarely ever gets "softball" questions. That's a fact.