More Evidence of PRC Coronavirus Culpability

| April 30, 2020

Recent reports indicate that the PRC had hard scientific evidence months ago regarding the 2019 Wuhan Coronavirus (IMO misleadingly called “COVID-19” to obscure the virus’ location of origin and the PRC’s mishandling of same) that they kept close-hold. Specifically, by no later than mid-March – and possibly as early as late February – PRC scientists had hard scientific evidence that the virus likely can spread by airborne droplet transmission much like influenza.

The information disclosing this was published this past Monday in an article in the journal Nature. Here’s an excerpt from a recent news article concerning the recently-published Chinese research (emphasis added):

In February and March, scientists collected samples at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and at a makeshift temporary medical facility used to quarantine and treat patients with mild symptoms. They also sampled the air in public areas around Wuhan, including a residential building, a supermarket and two department stores.

Very little virus was detected in the air of the isolation wards or in the patient rooms of the hospital, which were well ventilated. But elevated concentrations were measured in the small toilet areas, about one square yard in size, which were not ventilated.

Hmm. “In February and March, scientists collected samples . . . .” I’m guessing that means the PRC had preliminary results providing evidence of viral RNA spread by airborne droplet transmission by, oh, no later than mid-March – and maybe even before the end of February.

Now, I understand the need for peer review of scientific research prior to release. And I understand the reluctance to release information concerning said research prior to publication.

I can understand it under normal circumstances, that is. But the emergence of a previously-unknown deadly disease that may spread via airborne droplet transmission (like the common flu) – and which thus has epidemic if not pandemic potential – is hardly “normal circumstances”.

Yet the Nature article wasn’t released until three days ago – on 27 April 2020. And I don’t recall seeing anything concerning this research until on or after that date.

It certainly looks to me like the preliminary results of that research were kept “close hold” until those Chinese researchers could publish an article concerning their research first, the rest of the world be damned. Such behavior is . . . reprehensible.

Specifically, it means the PRC almost certainly withheld hard scientific evidence for a month and a half or longer during a global pandemic caused by a previously-unknown disease organism that airborne droplet transmission of the disease is at least possible, and most probably is happening. Knowing that in early March would quite likely have changed the way many nations managed their response to the disease.

We shouldn’t be surprised, though. The PRC doing something like that is eminently plausible.

Why? Because this would be the second time the PRC has done something along those lines.

PRC authorities are known to have previously suppressed evidence of likely person-to-person spread of the virus for roughly a month on a second, earlier occasion during the outbreak. They did so from late December 2019 to late January 2020.

PRC medical personnel in Wuhan began warning around Christmas in 2019 that the then-unidentified deadly disease in Wuhan (later identified to be the coronavirus causing the current worldwide pandemic) appeared to spread person-to-person, with many new cases having no connection whatsoever to the claimed Wuhan “wet market” origin. Instead of acting on that information (and releasing it to the world), PRC authorities instead kept that info close-hold – and also persecuted those who raised the alarm.

In fact, the PRC didn’t even start effective control measures to limit spread of the virus until nearly a month later. They finally began quarantine measures in Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, on 23 January 2020 – after the problem had finally become too big to hide.

The disease has claimed over 217,000 lives worldwide to date, with 58,000+ of those deaths in the US.

Most of that blood is on the PRC’s hands. Had the PRC disclosed on what they knew about this virus in late December instead of suppressing the info, the death toll from this pandemic would almost certainly have been dramatically lower. And this second incident further demonstrates their reprehensible lack of concern for the rest of the world, adding to their culpability.

Category: China, COVID-19

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Cowpill

China is not our friend.

A Proud Infidel®™️

China hid this from everyone.
China has lied about it.
CHINA SUCKS.

BlueCord Dad

#chinaisasshole #wuhanvirus #chicomsliedpeopledied
That is all…

Mason

China only cares about China. Always have. Always will. I can’t fault them for that, I believe in American exceptionalism. We should however never forget that China is gunning for us. Literally and figuratively.

OldSoldier54

“… never forget that China is gunning for us. Literally and figuratively.”

I am continuously astonished at how many American citizens do not have that fact firmly branded into their souls.

At least now, that number seems to be rising.

HMCS(FMF) ret

CHINA LIED… PEOPLE DIED!

JTB

Death counts in the U.S. have been severely padded…

26Limabeans

Now that a dog has contracted it all pet deaths
will be counted in the total.
Fish are next.

JTB

Shit Sorry…I reported this intending to reply…!!!

Yes…For the Federal $$$$$$’s…!!!

The Other Whitey

True, and the Chicoms have been lying their Mao-worshipping asses off about their own numbers.

China: massive death toll, but their leaders lie and say everything is fine.

America: relatively few deaths, but our leaders (mostly of the D variety) lie and say it’s the end of the world and we’re all gonna die.

Twist

That’s what happens when a monetary value is added to a certain type of death. Wasn’t it around 2,700 hundred deaths that New York counted as Kung Flu deaths and the people were never even tested?

Skippy

Well medicare pays 130 thousand bucks for Wuhan only only 30 thousand for the flu

Poetrooper

Manipulation of the Medicare diagnostic codes to inflate reimbursement has long been the bane of that program and the source of billions of dollars in federal fraud.

But I guess it’s not a crime when it’s being pushed by governors and mayors with the support of the media and the Democrat party, hmm?

OldSoldier54

“… our leaders (mostly of the D variety) lie and say it’s the end of the world and we’re all gonna die.”

… and it’s ALL Trump’s fault. Somehow …

Satan, himself, doesn’t get blamed for bad crap happening as much as Trump does.

Combat Historian

The chicoms are the enemy of humanity. The Free Chinese on Taiwan tried to warn the world about PRC wuhan flu infectiousness in late 2019 and was shut down and ignored by the WHO.

Can’t say it often enough. We should reestablish diplomatic relations and security assistance treaty with the Taiwan Chinese ASAP, and offshore all non-critical manufacturing to Taiwan and our other friends and allies. Treat the chicoms like the diseased pariahs they are…

I’m sure the Marxist squid gull will be here to defend the diseased chicoms soon. Start the countdown…

David

Some of the friendliest folks I have met around Taipei. Still have friends there.

Wilted Willy

My Pa always told me you can never trust them little CHICOM bastards!!

AW1Ed

Fixed.

OWB

Thanks.

Sparks

I guess I missed an audible or something. What was racist in WW’s comment?

AW1Ed

Asian eye shape reference.

Poetrooper

Almond shaped?

Heh…

11B-Mailclerk

The outbreak started in -November- 2019. They were actively dealing with it by mid December.

It was -clearly- and undeniably infectious to them in December.

They shut down domestic travel, but not international travel. Before, during, and after, they used absurdly heavy-handed methods on the infected and anyone else nearby that they deemed “a threat”.

They left a door open, and flogged folks who naturally fled internationally. And many of them came here.

That, folks, is a deliberate and hostile act.

They could -easily- have slammed the door on international travel, as they did domestic. Dictatorships do stuff like that.

But they chose -not- to stop international travel from the infected areas.

-chose-

-not-

Things must not go back to business as usual with the ChiComs, because their behavior is only going to get worse.

They saw “opportunity” in “crisis”.

So do we.

11B-Mailclerk

Did they leave international travel open, when domestic was closed or restricted? Yes.

Had to have been active sooner than cited to spread the way it did.

They knew.

5th/77th FA

All of the above. My only surprise is that this information was allowed to be published. I still believe that it was deliberate too. Human life means absolutely nothing to the Communist Chinese Government that originated this virus infecting disease. If allowed to keep digging, someone will prove that this was also aided and abetted by others. Send those Communist Bastards a bill for what this has cost.

OWB

One consideration we must not forget is that the benchmarks Hondo, and others, state are the latest possible dates officials in China knew of the potential dangers of this virus. When they actually knew could have been at any time prior – days, weeks, months earlier. We may never know just how much earlier that they knew.

Wireman611

Never let a crisis (that you created) go to waste.

Skippy

M thinks China has only reported about 1 percent of there cases and deaths based on what I’ve seen here in the US and Europe. No surprise that China is full of Shit

SFC D

I have a feeling this thread is gonna get real interesting.

Popcorn, anyone?

11B-Mailclerk

Clickbait

Trollbait

Covidiotbait

What’s not to like?

A Proud Infidel®™️

I’m sure that those two empty wagons will be rattling here very soon!

get off my lawn

And now the rat bastids are trying to buy a major oil field in texas for 1.5 billion. i’m hoping Trump shuts that deal down now.

Mason

I’m sure he will. Hilary would have fast tracked that shit while simultaneously, and totally unrelated, Bill was booked for a speaking engagement for $2m. Also entirely unrelated, the Chinese government would be giving the Clinton Foundation another $2m. For all their charitable works in places like Haiti. China loves the Haitian people almost as much as the Clintons.

SFC D

Question… can the President actually shut down a deal like that? And how?

Nope, not trolling, I’m really asking. I don’t know how that works.

Ex-PH2

Imagine the embarrassment to Xi Jinping, having to admit publicly that he’s a complete F/U and an idiot, when he could have stopped this in its tracks. He’s the Big Mahoff over there. China’s our biggest trading partner, right? They get all their “stuff” from us and we buy it back from them. And they are stupid enough to lie about something like this, when it could have been stopped in its tracks? They haven’t invented anything new since they invented giant war wagons, and that was a while back. Even the K’ang Tsi dynasty couldn’t do much more than create high quality porcelain, and that fell apart when that dynasty ended.

Anyone besides me remember the story of the goose that laid the golden egg? Well, if you don’t, the eggs only turned to gold when the goose laid them in the nest. Otherwise, there was nothing there.

Nothing says we have to go on doing commerce with China. My stove was made in Mexico. It may be 20 years old, but it cooks just fine. There’s hardly any real industry left in this country, which is ridiculous. This is the most innovative nation on the planet. China hasn’t created anything new since before someone told Mao that people could make steel in their back yards, which was pure baloney, but he was stupid enough to believe it.

The real question is how many times do they have to screw up, and lie about it, before we stop accepting that crap from them?

Fjardeson

Not to mention that one noble doctor in China, that tried to publicize it, … died from it… wonder how many other medical folks disappeared until it was obvious that (China) couldn’t cover it up

rgr769

The other doc that initially blew the whistle, Dr. Ai, was disappeared and she is still MIA.

Fjardeson

Damn.

OldSoldier54

I believe you are referring to Dr. Li Wenliang. 34, IIRC, got arrested for trying to warn his colleagues and required to publish a retraction stating that what he said wasn’t true. Reported dead from the virus a few weeks later.

David

Not defending the PRC… but they aren’t the sharpest tools in the drawer. Great copiers and thieves but terrible innovators… they just don’t go ‘outside the box’ EVER. I have to wonder if all this malice, aforethought, and maliciousness we are attributing to them is not just the result of sheer bureaucratic stupidity and CYA? (I am a firm believer that stupidity is at the root of most human problems, with greed running a close second.)

11B-Mailclerk

They have a track record of -monstrous- malice.

Folks don’t want to contemplate that. They should.

OldSoldier54

IIRC, Mao had significantly higher death count than Stalin.

And that’s saying something.