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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
But that's the point, they didn't deny Covid, they confirmed it in January when they had a 2 hundred cases pretty much as they realised it existed, at each step of the way they let the world know what they had, you could make an argument that they could have assumed it would be spread person to person when they saw they had a flu like virus in week one but they didn't have proof at that time and proof needs patients to track, by the time they had 400 cases with clear proof one of them had never been to the wet market they announced it was now person to person.
With SARS the Chinese said nothing from November 2002 when they had their first case until February, almost 4 months, with Covid they told us a week after it started and while would agree they wanted to down play the severity of things, like all Governments have done, they have still been clear about what was happening, the fact that the rest of the world pretty much dropped the ball on their response isn't on the Chinese this time.
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Yet I read reports China knew about this in November. Countries around China were already reacting before China spoke to the world. Even the secret service in the USA knew about this in November apparently. Please dont ask for a link. You would be fair to ask but its out there.
Doctors reporting on this new virus were arrested in China, and forced to recant their statements. That happened! Reporters imprisoned.
They deliberately tried to hide this viral outbreak from the world again. If you are arresting doctors and the media to me that means you are trying to hide something.
The rest of the world has paid a heavy price from this.
With that said trying to stay on topic here. I have no idea if this was because of wet markets or a lab exposure.
I do know however China deliberately tried to cover this up from the start.
We can debate a lot of things. China trying to cover this up is not one of them.