Re:Pentagon Knew of Possible Coronavirus Threat for Years
by megous on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:42PM
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Chinese timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO5EXjFKE7U
The guy may be a bit biased towards China, but all of that should be verifiable information, so if there's bias it will come through via omissions, or cherry-picking, or playing up insignificant events.
Re:Pentagon Knew of Possible Coronavirus Threat for Years
by James_Henry on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:42PM
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Two of three is meaningless without a good measure and a complete list. I could have added the WHO or others. Also, it's not just about staffing.
Also, I'm not saying anything about the US monitoring Chinese disease outbreaks. The failings of the CCP were in fostering a system that punished and hid early warnings of a novel coronavirus. I'm also not saying that other institutions don't have similar issues.
People also talk about the US pandemic prevention team being disbanded a few years ago. What I haven't heard anyone talk about is how much work they did in other countries. I'd assume some of that involved monitoring for disease outbreaks across the world, but they probably were more essential in poor and less developed nations.
China, I suspect, insists on taking care of their own stuff for the most part and doesn't want the US in there monitoring disease outbreaks, similar to how the US doesn't want China operating in our country. I'd be interested in actual information about this, though.