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On January 14, Chinese central authorities knew that COVID-19 spread readily between people. They continued to tell the world the opposite, as reflected by the

On January 14, Chinese central authorities knew that COVID-19 spread readily between people. They continued to tell the world the opposite, as reflected by the infamous WHO tweet. Also, the word you are looking for is not "extend" but "extent".

runawaybottle 6y ago
This is the exact tweet: January 14 by WHO “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,” https://mobile.twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?la... AP reports China knew on the 14th that the virus could spread amongst humans, didn’t publicize until January 20: https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9 https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9
- JamesG124 6y ago
  Wuhan government publicly stated they found a possible case of h2h from husband to wife, on 1/15 https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/china-virus-spread-humans-68293043?__twitter_impression=true https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/china-virus-spre...
- DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
  By 10 January, the WHO was already recommending precautions against droplet and contact transmission. In their 14 January press briefing, the WHO warned that human-to-human transmission was a possibility, given that both SARS and MERS are transmissible. Every competent public health agency around the world was fully aware of these warnings and recommendations. People pointing to the 14 January tweet that discusses "preliminary investigations" not finding "clear evidence" of human-to-human transmission, but not mentioning the WHO's other statements and recommendations from the same time, are just trying to shift blame.
IAmEveryone 6y ago
And on January 17th the US started screening passengers from China (here’s a great source for that: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/timeline-the-trump-administrations-decisive-actions-to-combat-the-coronavirus/ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/timeline-the-trump-admini...). Screening only makes sense if you believe the disease is contagious. So that’s what.. 3 days of misdirection? Before that, on January 6th, the CDC issued a “Level 1 travel warning” and “established an incident management system”. And according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-... the virus (and it’s true extend) was discussed dozens of times in the president’s daily briefings, starting in early January. Not that any of it matters: Two months after the first warnings, and more than a month after the Wuhan shutdown that ended any possible efforts to hide anything, the President was publicly forecasting that the number of cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” That’s from February 26th. Check his own timeline above to see how much use he made of that month. He’s very proud of mentioning it in the SoU and chatting about it with the Indian PM, and various groups being briefed.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  Thanks for the detailed info. FYI: corona was apparently everywhere by Dec. 10, but the "January 6th, the CDC issued a Level 1 travel warning” is interesting as it's one of the earliest US references. So the CDC was still 4 weeks behind the ball, and about 2.5 months behind the likely patient zero (Oct./Nov.)
- ehvatum 6y ago
  > So that’s what.. 3 days of misdirection? Oh! So, China only intentionally lied to the entire world for a 3 days. Or, at least that's all your prepared to acknowledge, while bizarrely attempting to minimize it. In fact, this is only one example in a pattern of behavior by the Chinese central authorities. You invite the reader to assume the opposite. Why?
  - IAmEveryone 6y ago
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runawaybottle 6y ago

This is the exact tweet: January 14 by WHO “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,” https://mobile.twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?la... AP reports China knew on the 14th that the virus could spread amongst humans, didn’t publicize until January 20: https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9 https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

JamesG124 6y ago
Wuhan government publicly stated they found a possible case of h2h from husband to wife, on 1/15 https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/china-virus-spread-humans-68293043?__twitter_impression=true https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/china-virus-spre...
DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
By 10 January, the WHO was already recommending precautions against droplet and contact transmission. In their 14 January press briefing, the WHO warned that human-to-human transmission was a possibility, given that both SARS and MERS are transmissible. Every competent public health agency around the world was fully aware of these warnings and recommendations. People pointing to the 14 January tweet that discusses "preliminary investigations" not finding "clear evidence" of human-to-human transmission, but not mentioning the WHO's other statements and recommendations from the same time, are just trying to shift blame.

IAmEveryone 6y ago

And on January 17th the US started screening passengers from China (here’s a great source for that: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/timeline-the-trump-administrations-decisive-actions-to-combat-the-coronavirus/ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/timeline-the-trump-admini...). Screening only makes sense if you believe the disease is contagious. So that’s what.. 3 days of misdirection? Before that, on January 6th, the CDC issued a “Level 1 travel warning” and “established an incident management system”. And according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-... the virus (and it’s true extend) was discussed dozens of times in the president’s daily briefings, starting in early January. Not that any of it matters: Two months after the first warnings, and more than a month after the Wuhan shutdown that ended any possible efforts to hide anything, the President was publicly forecasting that the number of cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” That’s from February 26th. Check his own timeline above to see how much use he made of that month. He’s very proud of mentioning it in the SoU and chatting about it with the Indian PM, and various groups being briefed.

redis_mlc 6y ago
Thanks for the detailed info. FYI: corona was apparently everywhere by Dec. 10, but the "January 6th, the CDC issued a Level 1 travel warning” is interesting as it's one of the earliest US references. So the CDC was still 4 weeks behind the ball, and about 2.5 months behind the likely patient zero (Oct./Nov.)
ehvatum 6y ago
> So that’s what.. 3 days of misdirection? Oh! So, China only intentionally lied to the entire world for a 3 days. Or, at least that's all your prepared to acknowledge, while bizarrely attempting to minimize it. In fact, this is only one example in a pattern of behavior by the Chinese central authorities. You invite the reader to assume the opposite. Why?
- IAmEveryone 6y ago

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