re: OT: Alabama Coronavirus Thread (see link in OP for case numbers and death totals in AL)

Again they can easily reinstate the funding for next year. Asking politely isn’t going to cause any changes. Freezing funding can

Posted this earlier in the thread, but here's a more extended timeline to go with that Tweet

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We can only wonder whether accurate and timely information from China would have altered the way the U.S. government, the American people, and the world prepared for the oncoming danger of infection.

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Some point in late 2019: The coronavirus jumps from some animal species to a human being. The best guess at this point is that it happened at a Chinese “wet market.”

December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang [China] sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

January 1: The Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued summons to Dr. Li Wenliang, accusing him of “spreading rumors.” Two days later, at a police station, Dr. Li signed a statement acknowledging his “misdemeanor” and promising not to commit further “unlawful acts.”

Also that day, an employee of one genomics company received a phone call from an official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission, ordering the company to stop testing samples from Wuhan related to the new disease and destroy all existing samples.

According to a New York Times study of cellphone data from China, 175,000 people leave Wuhan that day.

January 3: China’s National Health Commission, the nation’s top health authority, ordered institutions not to publish any information related to the unknown disease, and ordered labs to transfer any samples they had to designated testing institutions, or to destroy them.

January 14: The World Health Organization echoes China’s assessment: “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.”

January 19: The Chinese National Health Commission declares the virus “still preventable and controllable.”

January 23: Chinese authorities announce their first steps for a quarantine of Wuhan. By this point, millions have already visited the city and left it during the Lunar New Year celebrations.

February 4: Mayor of Florence [Italy] urged residents to hug Chinese people to encourage them in the fight against the novel coronavirus. “I’m not a virus. I’m a human. Eradicate the prejudice.”

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National Review: The Comprehensive Timeline of China’s COVID-19 Lies

They have turned into quite the hotbed down there.

County Name Mobile
County FIPS 01097
ADPHDistrict Mobile
CONFIRMED 549
DIED 12
Reported_Death 19
LabTestCount 2,761

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they also get a lot of people there for Mardi Gras

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I forgot about their Mardi Gras. Yikes.

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All that announcement sought to do was put blame somewhere other than the White House.

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The WHO shamelessly regurgitated China's lies about the virus until February.

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It was nakedly transparent.

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It was many years overdue.

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Sure. Didn’t say they didn’t. But then so did Trump.

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Trump on Jan 24th:
"China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!"


Trump on FEB 10:
"Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away."

"China, I spoke with President Xi, and they're working very, very hard. And I think it's going to all work out fine."


Trump on Feb 24th:
"The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"

Feb 26th:
"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."

Trump was lock-step with everything WHO said the entire way. In fact, they often said almost the exact things, the day after he did.

He absolutely knew -- along with a lot of higher level officials unless we have the most inept international intelligence gathering in the world -- that this was very bad in China at that time.

Not sure why so many people want to completely hide the fact that Trump dropped the ball getting the country as prepared as it needed to be (even if you can argue that it would be some level of economic disaster regardless).

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Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy.

U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

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There were doctors and journalists who were "disappeared" warning of the spread of the virus and its contagious nature and human to human transmission. China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan.

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The man is fought on every decision he makes. He is called every name in the book and attacked regardless of right or wrong. Shut down travel from China & was attacked non-stop in spite of it being absolutely the right call to make. People see through the facade that is presented by so-called news people and that is why he was elected.

Keep up the good fight because whether you realize it or not it is only making him stronger.