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There are two specific catastrophes in China's coronavirus response.
First, Beijing's stubborn refusal to confront the crisis when it emerged. The testament to Chinese President Xi Jinping's failure here is measured most obviously and tragically in the bodies of thousands of Chinese civilians.
As coronavirus took hold in the sprawling metropolis of Wuhan, Xi's Communist Party sat idle. Actually, we're wrong about that. It did do something. It harassed courageous doctors and threw them in prison. Such was the fate of Dr. Li Wenliang, who rose the alarm about the novel virus. Dr. Li is now dead, succumbed to the virus he so nobly sought to stop. The propagandists also sent out ridiculous reports, lapped up by far too many in the West, of their noble construction of massive new hospitals. Unfortunately for the patients in those hospitals, there weren't enough beds and medical supplies. Those were hoarded in Beijing.
There was also the refusal of China's paranoid leadership to allow scientists into Wuhan to study the virus at its outset. What China had to hide here is not clear. It may well be nothing. Perhaps it was simply Beijing's obsessive need to shield itself from any criticism? Or perhaps the virus is a consequence of bioweapons research gone wrong. We don't know. But what we do know is that, had the regime recognized the global import of this crisis, it could have been avoided in the first place. But Xi and his minions viewed the health of more than 7 billion people around the world as irrelevant compared to their own reputations. Figuratively and literally, their decision was sick.
Again, we must mention these things and not simply because they are the truth but also because they testify to a regime that has no regard for anything but its narrow band of inner-party elites. To be clear, there is a sustained theme in the Chinese Communist Party's handling of the coronavirus, its rapacious theft of international waters, and its throwing of millions of Uighurs into reeducation camps. That theme is evil.
Read more:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/chinese-government-shouldnt-escape-blame-for-the-coronavirus-pandemic
China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if it enacted measures after silenced whistleblower’s warning
https://imgur.com/gallery/FsgcrWd
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Useful information of Coronavirus including characteristic of patients, how infectious is it, evidence for mask usage, etc.
https://imgur.com/gallery/7JCIOvj
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What China did amid the coronavirus outbreak:
- Blame the US:
Chinese diplomat said the coronavirus originated in the US
https://imgur.com/gallery/BSzRC1U
China said the US might be the source of the coronavirus
https://imgur.com/gallery/kI9YzhO
China Blames America for the Coronavirus Outbreak
https://youtu.be/fg7FwHteB0I
Chinese Propaganda Attempts to Blame the US for Coronavirus
https://imgur.com/gallery/ojMRQfs
- Rewrite history:
De-Sinicizing the Virus: How CCP Propaganda Is Rewriting History
https://imgur.com/gallery/N2JVzJK
China's coronavirus propaganda blitz goes global
https://imgur.com/gallery/gUPILss
- To become "saviour" of the world:
China Spins Coronavirus Crisis, Hailing Itself as a Global Leader
https://imgur.com/gallery/jSMoJsi
Chinese media demands apology from the rest of the world for the sacrifice China has made for coronavirus
https://imgur.com/gallery/tdFMqP5
- Covered up the virus at first:
How It All Started: China’s Early Coronavirus Missteps
https://imgur.com/gallery/zHhk0WB
How China covered up the coronavirus outbreak at first
https://imgur.com/gallery/7XLbrn9
China censors report about how authorities hid coronavirus genome sequence test results for 14 days
https://imgur.com/gallery/2udXoRP
- Punished the whistleblower:
Chinese doctor who warned about coronavirus died, triggering an extraordinary outpouring of emotion in China
https://imgur.com/gallery/9SJQIVC
Chinese start to understand why Hong Kong revolt and regret mocking the protests after Dr. Li's death in Wuhan
https://imgur.com/gallery/TZJMFd7
- Censorship:
China Is Censoring Coronavirus Stories. These Citizens Are Fighting Back
https://imgur.com/gallery/cLFPATZ
Chinese social media goes full fury after Wuhan's top leader suggests that "gratitude education" must be carried out among the people of Wuhan
https://imgur.com/gallery/XEAEgBi
Coronavirus Lockdown Is A 'Living Hell'
https://imgur.com/gallery/BqX0LmB
ausernamewhat
CyborgScribe
I'm a simple man. I see idiotic prattle about bioweapons I downvote.
PancakeLegend
This is exactly how you create an epidemic:
RinKurokawa
Or the fact that Wuhan Institute of Virology a level 4 bio lab, idk seems strange.
thereisgoodintheworld
Fuck China. Fuck Pooh Bear and his hilarious attempts to shift blame. You suck. Your regime sucks. It's a shame you weren't infected.
Captainplanetmotherfucker
And what the fuck is anyone going to do if they decide to tell the world to fuck off?
TheFastpaws
China needs the world but the world doesn't need any of them.
kaitco1984
HailKingZoidberg
nasukkin
If Chernobyl could kill the USSR (as good ol' Gorby put it), Covid-19 should kill the current Chinese government.
mrmetaldragonfiji
Just saying out loud that I dont think the USA would have done any different given what it's going through now. From the outside looking in.
TheFastpaws
Your account is really off.
mrmetaldragonfiji
Gee I'm sorry buddy. I thought it was On by default. Can someone help we turn it on please?
Ancientmariner52
Chinese govt hates it when you say 'Wuhan virus'. Let's all be kind and call it 'Wuhan plague' instead.
leroy666
Yeah. That'll help. Idiot!
Ancientmariner52
You want to help the Chinese government? I'd rather help the Chinese knock it down.
Jonataurus
Dude don't even suggest it may have been a bioweapon experiment, there is 0 evidence for that and it's quite absurd.
GenStrike
Could it be "Beijing's obsessive need to shield itself from any criticism"? Yes. Obviously. Or CoUlD iT bE bIoWeApOnS? UWU
Invyggle
Have you not seen OPs other posts?
KarateCanine
Ummmmmmm https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansas.com/news/local/article200880539.html
Shuey
Fucking pathetic Chinese leadership
MisterDonutVampire
Stop eating Bats and Pangolin... AssHoe
DukeOfArrgyl
You all are hopelessly brainwashed
MrFlibbleIsVeryCross
It's a common thing for history to repeat itself and trying to hide blame is one of them. Look at Chernobyl for example.
Bexabo
Not great, not terrible.
LarryPutsPineappleOnPizza
History repeating itself.. like trump responding the exact same way China did. Now the United States is FUCKED
arnavkapoor182
The new Kung Flu series on HBO will do well.
Thelrishlnquistion
I think this is their Chernobyl moment .
wolf387465
it is also common for everybody to be the general after the battle...
TangoTeaTime
Nothing happened in Chernobyl, you are clearly in a state of shock.
Piloerection69
Take OP to the infirmary.
MrFlibbleIsVeryCross
Thank you comrade
YouwontlikewhatIhavetosay
So we just have to wait around 30 years for a Netflix special about the Corona Virus? Neat!
JustRegisteredToLeaveThisComment
The scariest thing here is that most of 108 upvoters don't see a problem with learning history from fictional tv shows.
YayItsMillerTime
3.6 Robitussin, not bad.... Not good, but not bad
weasel1902
The CCP response is typical of communist totalitarian regimes. The russian communist party is the blueprint for all the others.
KarateCanine
Or the Spanish flu. Started in Kansas, and killed 50 million. Hushed up by the US gov. So.....
KarateCanine
One of MANY sources.... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansas.com/news/local/article200880539.html
TeamToasterNeverForget
Okay sure, just vote them out at the next election... oh wait..
RyanLwin
Don't forget Iran blaming US for the virus. Lol.
potatoardvarkhybrid
china bad, USA good
DownvotesRmyBadgeUvadge
USA better than most
tinytyrant
don't forget the Trump Whitehouse has asked for COVID-19 discussions to be classified. it's not China, it's power that is the problem.
Rex83ll4t0r
Who will enforce a penalty on China. Almost every country is in debt to China.
Geribils
1 -For example the Chinese govt. has invested heavily in buying private assets in foreign states, there is very little they could do to stop
Geribils
2 -those states confiscating/freezing those assets if globally everyone got mad at the Chinese govt. and no-one put pressure on their behalf
Geribils
Who's gonna make those countries pay those debts? International leverage is a delicate game.
orginelenaam
Are you Alex Jones?
DownvotesRmyBadgeUvadge
Are you Karl Marx?
orginelenaam
RaptorClawBR
Xi Ping Pandaexpress is at it again!
TodayIsSlapANaziDay
KillerTofu69
Xinnie the pooh
thanatos777
When the U.S. fucks over the rest of the world: "AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!" When anyone else does: "These people need to be held accountable..."
TyfereoBrown
Every country so far reacts the same way to corona: not at all until its too late. No matter where covid19 had started it'd've been the same
chuckles11
Not to mention our administrations first response was to deny and not prepare, something this post holds China to account for
TheFastpaws
America handled it poorly but we weren't ground zero. Fuck off
chuckles11
Sorry my mistake. USA USA USA.
Sovren343
Those bastards are now trying to blame the US.
leroy666
And vice versa.
ImBaman
Uhh? What? China IS to blame for this. Did you hit your head?
TheFastpaws
China like Russia has loads of social media trolls and brainwashed mainlanders. Mainlanders from China are just lobotomized zombies.
smrollinger
Dr Li ALLEGEDLY died from the virus
pancakesplz
*twice
HeroThatWasNeeded
He did, that's what makes me more upset about my country. They just let him die from infection.
ililililililililililililili
Pretty sure he was quite young and healthy too
DodgyMerchant
Three times, in the back, while trying to escape
squirreltactics
mtndewfanatic
Came to post this exactly
squirreltactics
https://i.redd.it/ls5boha8icn21.jpg
mtndewfanatic
If I could “love” a comment right now
springuy8
I mean if you jump off a building the fall is what kills you but isn't it really gravity tho?
BoyofBeef
It's not the fall, it's the sudden deceleration.
tomyironmane
9mm macrovirus.
jeeeps
RatElemental
The good old lead aneurysm.
tomyironmane
Died while being treated. Turns out high velocity trans-corteal lead therapy is the miracle cure for speaking out against the government.
seanmccorkle
Those wild-animal markets were identified over two decades ago as breeding grounds for exactly this kind of species hopping virus.
seanmccorkle
China lacks the functional regulatory agencies (USDA, FDA etc) and rule of law that would have closed these unsanitary practices years ago
jonestown
Seems to me they could shut it down if they wanted to.
pandro
but has enough people to lock citizens inside their homes, lol. But seriously, keeping 1.3+ billion people fed is nit a system you want 1/
pandro
to arbitrarily fiddle with. Food needs to keep coming even while they try to sort it out. Or not. Hungry people are dangerous people. 2/2
Cavalrysword
Denial, silencing whistleblowers, mishandling, inept, sounds a lot like Trump.
Goodwill82
He does seem to love the dictators
User3rr0r37
Good job making it all about Trump...
odinsleep
it takes a idiot with TDS to be as ignorant as you are Cav
yscotty
China is by far the worst here (I’m Canadian, for context).
ArtOzz
Birds of a horrible feather.
TheXMojoman720
You're comparing Trump to communist China? That's rich! ROFL! He's the opposite in so many ways, good or bad.
snarflex
How about giving it a rest and realizing there are things out there that actually are, objectively, worse than Trump?
KingKelloggTheWaffleHaggler
Any excuse to make it about trump right? Seriously it's annoying stop.
Imisspelledthatonpurpose
Can’t help but blame trump.
Imisspelledthatonpurpose
I don’t know if people are upvoting because they think I blame trump or understand I’m criticizing people obsession with blaming trump.
MasterfulToast
But this is nothing new China has shown it has no problem letting millions die for the "communist" regime.
pandro
I love the "gratitude education" thing. Are millenials etc taught about reeducation camps?
OmegaKane689
In HS, nope. In college, class, nope. In college art history class, a bit...in a Asian art history class. 1/2
OmegaKane689
Old school history channel and YT, was where I got/get most of my history knowledge. 2/2
pandro
After I posted my comment I remembered the same as you: american schools never even touched on china, even art history skips them. 1/
UranusSpelunker
As I said in another post the only openly know 4bio lab is in Wuhan. I’m not offering a conspiracy theory but it maybe why they shut out 1/
Geribils
Wanna know how the managed to delay sharing the genome of the virus and still have it faster than most expected? Maybe they already had it.
UranusSpelunker
/2 scientists who wanted to investigate.
ReasonablySorryButNotTooMuch
It is a virus. We can analyze it over here. It is not bio-engineered.
JimKongElectricEel
That's not a claim anyone can make. We dont know their capabilities.
Cyanide555
Heard on radio. Bioengineered are generally targeted and simple. This one isn't targeted at all. Its a mish mash.
ReasonablySorryButNotTooMuch
No serious scientist in any country believes it is bio-engineered, for multiple reasons including yours. It is BS conspiracy nonsense.
RackhamTheRed
There is at least one more known. In Harbin. And most likely one or more military one you will never hear about
Snapdragonzz
There's actually a lot of openly identified biosafety level 4 labs, but yes, Wuhan is one of them. Access would be heavily restricted 1/2
Snapdragonzz
2/2 Scientists require proper training and credentials to enter, so it kinda makes sense as to why most researchers wouldn't be allowed in
insomniapanda
Who cares... “conspiracy theory” or not, they could provide evidence it was investigated as a source instead of trying to shut people up!
insomniapanda
It’s highly suspicious when the media jumps all over it as a conspiracy theory. It’s a possibility that there was a leak from the Wuhan lab
ImBaman
Honestly? Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but fuck China for their messed up government and their habit of eating wild animals.
Zhopa101
It’s unpopular because of all the trolls
SadSack
Their habits of eating domesticated animals too, don't forget.
iLikeTurtlesAndPizza
I see a bunch of Pooh bear c@ck sucking commie bastards down voting you.
Youhavinagiraffe
How could you say something so daring and yet so brave
HailKingZoidberg
TechnicallyCorrectTheBestKindOfCorrect
This is amazing
Katygsdrescue
Now they are just killing pet dogs :(
grantavius
Unpopular? But we as a people love to lay blame. Unpopular-no, inaccurate-probably also no.
memeseeks
I blame their fucked up govt more than I blame their wild animal eating.
ImBaman
If it was a competition about what's more wrong, sure. However both are still to blame.
memeseeks
Agreed
Spookadook
Okay but technically a deer is wild animal
Misteree8
There is no technical, if it is in the wild outside if human intervention.
ImBaman
Sure. Do you eat it raw though? Do you eat it when it's still alive? If you HAVE to eat wild animals at least cook that shit.
Bustajay
It isn’t so much the eating of “exotic” animals. The problem lies with animals in cages. Cages of diseased animals waiting to be sold. 1)
Bustajay
Animals of different species spreading diseases to each other.
ImBaman
Yeah. And that could be avoided if the government provided proper food to the people.
PorneliusHubertII
I agree with the govt thing but pretty sure people have been eating wild animals as long as there have been people.
ImBaman
Again, like I've been telling everyone. You cook that shit. You don't eat it alive or raw.
Noob3rts
(1) The Chinese culture is partially to blame for this due to the desire to eat a wide array of animals, but the Government is worse off for
tomattow
Not so much desire, as necessity.
Steven054
Maybe if the Chinese government wasn't such dumpster fire they can provide their people with modern amenities like the grocery stores so
Steven054
That the people wouldn't have to eat weird shit in order to not starve to death.
ImBaman
I agree completely. My problem is with the fact that they don't even try. All they care about is their reputation.
Noob3rts
(2) not enforcing even the lowest level of health standards to these market places. It's fucking bullshit. As for the rest of the issues in
Noob3rts
(3) China, yeah, that's entirely on the Government. I cannot say I blame people since even the faintest whiff of an uprising and they
Noob3rts
(4) mysteriously "disappear" or "die" similar to anti-Putin folks.
ImBaman
Yeah. I'm not blaming the people, per say. I'm blaming the nation and especially the government. And China IS to blame for the whole thing.
itsallinyourhead
Sure glad nobody in North America has ever mysteriously disappeared or suicided themselves /heavyfuckingsarcasm
DrGonzo1805
Just curious. Aren't the deer, bears, rabbit and other things in forest that we hunt in Can and US wild?
ImBaman
Do you eat them alive or raw?
DrGonzo1805
I eat sushi raw. Last time I checked fish are wild as well.
ImBaman
Sushi is disgusting to me. Never ate it. I cook my food. You know, like normal people.
DrGonzo1805
So you've cooked every piece of fruit and vegetable too?
DrGonzo1805
Also I think I've heard of people eating steak barely cooked. It's called blue right?
ImBaman
That's just as stupid. Cook your food.
mediocrejoker
You dense brick.
ImBaman
Yeah. Because calling someone out on their shit is so uncalled for. Get off your high horse.
mediocrejoker
What are you talking about? I'm just sick and tired of people who try to seem woke while they're kicking in open barn doors.
ImBaman
Listen here, bud. I'm not trying to sound 'woke' at all. You seem to have a problem with acknowledging a government's involvement in pushing
mediocrejoker
Woah there buddy, I think you're denser than you're aware of. EVERYONE hates China. This is NOT news. China is absolute garbage.
ImBaman
A disease further than it should have gone by putting down doctors and reporters who talked about it not to mention their inability to
mediocrejoker
To exemplify how redundant your comment is, you could've just as well proclaimed "I don't like parents who kill their newborns for sport."
AllAboutThatD
Have you been online lately? Yours is an extremely popular opinion.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
More popular, among doctors, is that it was a lab leak
allyourpostarebelong2us
That doesn’t mean it’s popular here
gracefalls
Apparently it does
allyourpostarebelong2us
Lol yeah I guess you got me on that one
plaguegremlin
But it is
keyholes
... Except in China when the secret police are listening.
hoistedbymyownpetard
Not like the CIA listen here....
Invyggle
They dont. Its illegal. Google spies on you and sell it to the CIA
hoistedbymyownpetard
“ They don’t, it’s illegal “ by far the funniest thing I’ve read here for ages! Here, have an upvote and thanks for the belly laugh!
ImBaman
Sure, I said it MIGHT be. Either way, that's how I feel. All the deaths are on them. Least they can do is acknowledge it and work on it.
BobaFettApproves
There's way better examples of why not to like Chinese government.
Steven054
This might be an unpopular opinion BUT, water is wet.
Azathought
You'd be surprised how many people disagree that water is wet. They say water is what makes other things wet. They're wrong, of course.
Blarama
A lot of people around the globe eat wild animals too, this is just some kind of racist attitude you're showing here.
DarthLordPotato
I lost someone to coronavirus and yes i am pissed at the fucking eating habits there. Dirty slimy fucks
DarthLordPotato
STOP SPREADING A NEW FUCKING DISEASE EVERY 10 YEARS THEN! or atleast just die in your own countries and not spread it
TheDerpMaster3000
Racist? Keep throwing that word around incorrectly and it won’t mean much in the future. Bar the wild animal talk for a sec and look up..
TheDerpMaster3000
China’s virgin boy egg. China has an issue with health standards not just the fact that they eat wild animals but other unhealthy things.
ImBaman
How am I being racist? I called a country out on something it did that cost thousands of people their lives, globally.
ImBaman
If you wanna fix a God damn problem, you gotta acknowledge the fact that there is a problem first.
Bugsyjr9000
Calling out shitty cultural practices is very different than using racial stereotypes. Saying "Americans eat too much sugar and fat" is
Bugsyjr9000
Just as racist as saying this. They're both proven phenomenons that only occur bc of cultural, not skin color.
WoeToHice
How about getting some actual info, before you pull the racist card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHxeOQA1Mc
ImBaman
How about you explain exactly what part of whatever I've said is racist? I pointed out something wrong that China is doing as a nation.
WoeToHice
You're barking up the wrong tree, dude. Blarama called you racist. I told Blarama to get informed before calling people racist.
ImBaman
Ah. My bad must have posted the comment to the wrong thread.
ThankYouForYourTime
For additional fuck-that’s, see: concentration camps, social credit scoring, state controlled media & gov monitored reproduction. Also:
ThankYouForYourTime
Complete disregard for their contribution to climate change, child labor and terrible working conditions. They also have one of the largest
ThankYouForYourTime
Standing armies on earth and (until recently) one of the fastest growing economies. 70% of their companies are state owned and *those* are
caaarrrlll
Don't forget poaching animals for getting boners...
badomenbaddercompany
I know right. China be compensating for they micro dicks.
ThankYouForYourTime
Buying up real estate and companies in other countries so fast it’s driving up housing prices. Oh & they share a border with Russia. Yay.
Misteree8
Right cuz eatting wild animals is exclusively a China thing...
WoeToHice
It isn't. Neither is their appalling hygiene and cruelty. Regardless, it has to be called out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHxeOQA1Mc
Misteree8
Btw if its about calling out then do it across the the board not after the car crash. It just makes you sound like a sensationalist.
Misteree8
I woukdnt equate bad sanitation practices and cruelty with hunting/eating wild game. If thats the case most western countries are guilty too
ImBaman
They eat these animals raw or even alive. That's asking for disease. And then they spread that shit across the world.
Misteree8
I agree its bad to have practises that have a high risk of getting and spreading harmful contagens.
WoeToHice
Nobody here is _equating_ these things. We are condemning bad practices in China that cause real problems. I'm not sure if you're (1/2)
WoeToHice
arguing in bad faith or incapable of comprehending nuance, but either way there's no use discussing this with you. (2/2)