China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World

[Catabolite]

Beijing is successfully dodging culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus.

 

Xi Jinping during a visit to the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University in BeijingXINHUA / YAN YAN VIA GETTY

 

The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government censored and detained those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of what was to come.

[Catabolite]

Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of the pandemic. In naming the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically avoided mentioning Wuhan. Yet in de-emphasizing where the epidemic began (something China has been aggressively pushing for), we run the risk of obscuring Beijing’s role in letting the disease spread beyond its borders.

China has a history of mishandling outbreaks, including SARS in 2002 and 2003. But Chinese leaders’ negligence in December and January—for well over a month after the first outbreak in Wuhan—far surpasses those bungled responses. The end of last year was the time for authorities to act, and, as Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has noted, “act decisively they did—not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.”

[JAMBALHOT_RAJA]

They will pay price very soon for their actions 

[Catabolite]

This is what allowed the virus to spread across the globe. Because the Chinese Communist Party was pretending that there was little to be concerned about, Wuhan was a porous purveyor of the virus. The government only instituted a lockdown in Wuhan on January 23—seven weeks after the virus first appeared. As events in Italy, the United States, Spain, and France have shown, quite a lot can happen in a week, much less seven. By then, mayor Zhou Xianwang admitted that more than 5 million people had already left Wuhan.

If that weren’t enough, we can plumb recent history for an even more damning account. In a 2019 article, Chinese experts warned it was “highly likely that future SARS- or MERS-like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.” In a 2007 journal article, infectious-disease specialists published a study arguing that “the presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored.” It was ignored.

[BeerBob123]

Just now, JAMBALHOT_RAJA said:

They will pay price very soon for their actions 

How Raja?

[Catabolite]

Just now, BeerBob123 said:

How Raja?

Good koshen

[quickgun_murugun]

2 minutes ago, JAMBALHOT_RAJA said:

They will pay price very soon for their actions 

 

1 minute ago, BeerBob123 said:

How Raja?

Racial discrimination 

[Catabolite]

Just now, quickgun_murugun said:

 

Racial discrimination 

Make China pay, not Chinese pay. 

[quickgun_murugun]

1 minute ago, Catabolite said:

Make China pay, not Chinese pay. 

China pays only through Chinese...

[Ellen]

1 minute ago, quickgun_murugun said:

China pays only through Chinese...

That is wrong on many levels

[JAMBALHOT_RAJA]

2 minutes ago, BeerBob123 said:

How Raja?

IMO there will be a drastic reduction in sectors like tourism, restaurants, exports etc... even after this epidemic ends these sectors will be effected badly in China 

[dasari4kntr]

6 minutes ago, BeerBob123 said:

How Raja?

 

5 minutes ago, Catabolite said:

Good koshen

 

3 minutes ago, Catabolite said:

Make China pay, not Chinese pay. 

I think China might get penalized...just like germany after ww2

[user789]

7 minutes ago, JAMBALHOT_RAJA said:

They will pay price very soon for their actions 

i doubt...after everything settles down...again each country will tie up for import/export to gown their economy and become scapegoat.

[JAMBALHOT_RAJA]

4 minutes ago, quickgun_murugun said:

 

Racial discrimination 

I don’t think it will be at personal level but it would be there for a while in consumers business level 

[user789]

5 minutes ago, Catabolite said:

Make China pay, not Chinese pay. 

its one and the same...it this thing was due to food- then its Chinese to blamed not china.. nee lab lo andaru chinese aa enti...ne brain kuda virus tho impact ayindha