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It's just simply not true that China covered up the existence of the virus for months. On December 16, 2019, the first patient was admitted to a hospital. This
by adrianmonk 6y ago
It's just simply not true that China covered up the existence of the virus for months.
On December 16, 2019, the first patient was admitted to a hospital. This is more or less China's first reasonable opportunity to understand that there was a new disease.
On December 31, 2019, there was an article about it in the South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mystery-illness-hits-chinas-wuhan-city-nearly-30-hospitalised https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mys...
And on DW:
https://www.dw.com/en/china-investigates-sars-like-virus-as-dozens-struck-by-pneumonia/a-51843861 https://www.dw.com/en/china-investigates-sars-like-virus-as-...
And in Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-idUSKBN1YZ0GP https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-id...
So 2 weeks from discovery to worldwide news.
- aaomidi 6y agoAnd as someone who was closely following this before the US started to take action, we dropped the ball extremely badly. Even New York was going with its just a bad flu line for a while. This is solely our fault in our mismanagement. State governments dropped the ball. Federal government dropped the ball. They all immediately scapegoatd China because we decided they're going to be the 20s enemy. The 10s were Iran and middle east. The 00s were Islamic terrorists. Maybe the 30s will be India or Brazil. Manufactured outrage is basically our MO now.
- throwaway1997 6y agoPlease see this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang The world doesn't need apologists for China and its suppression and human rights abuses.
- adrianmonk 6y agoI'm not a China apologist, and your statement is still wrong.