Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by seadan83 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:20PM
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> Beijing didn't grant it
If we recall, initially China downplayed how widespread the virus was and made it out as if it were contained. Perhaps they did not know how widespread the issue was either. Further, at that time there was complete uncertainty regarding Covid-19's virulence (it was after all, a completely brand new virus; and there was a ton of uncertainty around in January 2020).
Regarding to the communication from the US government of how contained the issue was, as a reference, the president at the time wrote:
"Jan. 24, Twitter:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”"
Basically, the entire world needed to start quarantine in early January of 2020 to effectively nip this in the bud (shutting down international travel, regional travel, etc). Perhaps that needed to have even started in December. I would suggest then that Beijing didn't shut down international travel at that time for the same reasons that the rest of the international community did not. In part they were still downplaying it as was the public oration from the US government was downplaying it as well. It wasn't until late February and into March that it became well known publicly that this was a new pandemic.
Hence, by March China was fully shut down, and at that point there is no hiding the issue (why is all of China locked down?), and at that time it was everyone's problem.
> A) Poor information propagation
There was some info released that the CIA assessed the virulence opportunity to easily be a pandemic as early as November 2019. That poor information propagation wasn't necessarily just a problem with the Chinese government.
If we recall, initially China downplayed how widespread the virus was and made it out as if it were contained. Perhaps they did not know how widespread the issue was either. Further, at that time there was complete uncertainty regarding Covid-19's virulence (it was after all, a completely brand new virus; and there was a ton of uncertainty around in January 2020).
Regarding to the communication from the US government of how contained the issue was, as a reference, the president at the time wrote:
"Jan. 24, Twitter:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”"
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronav...
Basically, the entire world needed to start quarantine in early January of 2020 to effectively nip this in the bud (shutting down international travel, regional travel, etc). Perhaps that needed to have even started in December. I would suggest then that Beijing didn't shut down international travel at that time for the same reasons that the rest of the international community did not. In part they were still downplaying it as was the public oration from the US government was downplaying it as well. It wasn't until late February and into March that it became well known publicly that this was a new pandemic.
Hence, by March China was fully shut down, and at that point there is no hiding the issue (why is all of China locked down?), and at that time it was everyone's problem.
> A) Poor information propagation
There was some info released that the CIA assessed the virulence opportunity to easily be a pandemic as early as November 2019. That poor information propagation wasn't necessarily just a problem with the Chinese government.
Citation: "Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources" - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-c...