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A comment on A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virology in November of 2019. Parent comment

Re:A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virol... by shaobo on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:54AM (#33392191)
You mean flights specifically chartered by the US and British governments to evacuate their citizens and their family from Wuhan?

It is all in the articles you linked.

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Re:A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virol... by rasz on Sunday October 30, 2022 @08:25PM (#33400567)
I specifically wrote "but letting international departures".
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Re:A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virol... by shaobo on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:56PM (#33408707)
You wrote:

> Shutting down ALL internal Chinese travel from Wuhan, but letting international departures - that did happen, after all the more the merrier, let the world share our misery. ...

implying China allowed the flights to leave so they can infect the rest of the world, when in fact China did stop international flights from leaving, but the US, UK governments lobbied hard for these repatriation flights due to their own domestic politics.

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Re:A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virol... by rasz on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:51PM (#33412882)
Why wouldnt they want citizens returning while WHO kept claiming its not a big deal? but China knew how bad it was.
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