1ClassyLady 68F
3114 posts
4/6/2020 6:47 am
Blame the CCP for the coronavirus crisis


As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, one fact is increasingly clear: The Chinese Communist Party caused this crisis.

From the moment the coronavirus emerged in central China, Beijing has acted in a way that made a pandemic possible and then inevitable. It covered up what was happening in Wuhan. It silenced whistleblowers who sought to warn the world. It stole medical supplies from other countries, even while claiming the sickness was no big deal.

At every stage, the Chinese Communist Party has lied. Now at least 50,000 people have died. And the number is growing by the minute.

Beijing’s culpability is the result of its oppression — its “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The only way to stop a spreading sickness is to spread information even faster, giving people and countries the facts and the time to prevent a pandemic. China’s rulers made that impossible. Starting in December, communist authorities cracked down on anyone talking about the coronavirus.

China's censorship

When a brave doctor warned his peers online, he was summoned by police in the middle of the night and forced to write a “self-criticism” — a classic communist method of silencing dissenters that forces them to confess supposed crimes. When Chinese journalists wrote about the sickness, their work was censored. When average citizens took to social media to share the facts, they were silenced. Beijing did everything in its power to prevent the outside world from figuring out what was really going on.

The truth was terrifying, although largely unknown beyond China’s borders. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that China systematically hid the real number of sick people, as well as the number of deaths. Sure enough, in mid-January, Beijing still claimed that only a few dozen people were infected with the coronavirus. The real totals of people infected and deaths were likely far higher, as my organization was already hearing from dissidents within China.

Beijing’s lies lulled the world into a false sense of security. By concealing the extent of the coronavirus, China caused other countries to assume the situation was under control, or at least that they had more time to prepare. A senior White House official pointed out that Chinese data caused the medical community in the United States to think “this was serious, but smaller than anyone expected… we were missing a significant amount of the data.”

The results have been tragic. China’s actions made other countries less able to contain coronavirus outbreaks. In some cases, those outbreaks were perhaps already underway but unknown, because China lied about the sickness’ spread. By that point, a pandemic was only a matter of time.

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Ultimately, China’s incomplete picture led to insufficient plans in other countries. But Beijing’s omissions and lies didn’t just include the number of infected people. They also covered up the nature of the coronavirus itself. In doing so, Beijing violated international treaty obligations to which China is a signatory, including the International Health Regulations (20'05).

If they had just been honest

Beijing denied until January 20th that human to human transmission was occurring. Yet at the same time, Chinese officials and state-owned companies were urgently acquiring bulk medical supplies —especially personal protective equipment like masks and gloves — from Australia, Europe, and around the world. Put simply, Beijing hoarded the world’s life-saving resources while falsely claiming that people’s lives weren’t at risk.

If Beijing had given the real number of infected people and deaths, other countries would have recognized the danger, and taken necessary steps.

But Beijing wasn’t honest. It lied. It is lying still. As a result, more than a million people are sick, and millions could die before the year is out.

Their blood is on the Chinese Communist Party’s hands. If the coronavirus crisis proves anything, it’s that communism — its logic, its brutality, its incompetence — is still a grave threat to the entire world.

The sooner communism is swept into the dustbin of history, the safer we’ll all be.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
4/11/2020 12:57 am

    Quoting  :

A viral video posted to Twitter shows a Chinese woman, who is married to an American man, gloating about buying up all the facemasks across several stores and US supermarkets.

The woman originally posted the video to Douyin–the Chinese equivalent of TikTok–where the woman expresses her contentment at buying all the masks with her compliant husband doing the heavy lifting.

The video was introduced to Twitter with the caption:”A Chinese woman proudly filmed herself buying huge amount of facemasks from multiple US supermarkets and loaded the masks onto her pickup truck.

“It feels so awesome to buy all the masks! I didn’t leave a single mask for the Americans."
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You are an American who was born and raised in USA. Why you are so generous to Chinese sent them 40 N95 masks, but not to the U.S. Healthcare professionals?? My daughter is a MD in New York who works 12 hrs a day but lack of PPE. It is very dangerous for a exhausted MD working long hours and insufficient PPE.

You are a Democrat and so am I. I am an American too, I can vote just like any citizen in USA. My daughter and son were born, raised and educated in USA. They are patriots to USA. Although we have Republican president Trump at this time, please take the politics aside and we are all Americans and love this "land of the free and the home of the brave." as a whole. Okay??!!!

CCP have treated their own people with inhumanity. We have different level of Democracy. The coronavirus was originated from Wuhan city, Hubei province, China that is a truth. Trump has sent Americans back to USA since the first outbreak started. He is right to this decision. In spite of Trump is a Republican, but he is our president. Maybe he should not say "it is just a common flu like any other flu." because he trusted W.H.O. that coronavirus is just happened in Asia, mainly China and it will go away like miracle, once the weather turns hot in summer. Trump is not perfect but he is right to send Americans who lived in China back to USA.

You are an American, you should love USA even Republican Americans. Yes, we have bipartisan system, but we are a country. Together we are stronger.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
4/6/2020 11:26 am

Chinese officials blocked U.S. manufacturers from exporting medical supplies as the coronavirus spread across the globe.

President Trump's administration is considering filing a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights or working “through the United Nations" to address the reported actions.

“In criminal law, compare this to the levels that we have for murder,” Jenna Ellis, a legal aide to Trump’s reelection campaign, said. "People are dying. When you have intentional, cold-blooded, premeditated action like you have with China, this would be considered first-degree murder.”

In January, executives at large U.S. companies such as 3M and Honeywell told federal authorities China was not allowing exports of face masks and shields, gloves, and other personal protective equipment.

Trump last month invoked the Defense Production Act to compel U.S. companies to make the lifesaving equipment, which is running in short supply in hot spots across the country.

More than 300,000 confirmed cases of the virus have been reported in the United States, and nearly 10,000 people have died.

Trump has criticized China for not doing more to slow the spread of the virus, which originated in Wuhan, China.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
4/6/2020 7:38 am

FYI (For Your Information):

3M (MMM) is the company that makes N95 masks. However, China won't let 3M to ship N95 masks back to USA or any country in the world because 3M N95 masks were manufactured in China. Trump is mad about China not let 3M N95 mask back to USA.

Abbott (ABT) is the company that makes rapid test kit (10 minutes)

Gilead (GILD) is the company invented Remesivir to treat Coronavirus but it is very expensive and insurance is not cover it.

Hydroxycholoroquine (Plaquenil) is a prescription drug indicated for anti-malaria approved by FDA. Some Coronavirus patients have been healed by Hydroxycholoroquine. Recently this drug has quickly sold out.

Regeneron (REGN) is investing for Vaccine to prevent Coronavirus, but they need twelve months to 18 months to do animal test and human test to get FDA approval.

Medtronic (MDT) is the company that makes Ventilator to help Coronavirus patients to breath.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3276 posts
4/6/2020 6:54 am

The world should join together to sue CCP. CCP is guilty for Coronavirus outbreak. The world needs justice.



Honesty is the best policy.