There are plenty of accurate things to blame the Trump administration for, but this is flat out false and dangerously so. China lied and covered up until Jan 20, and even after. It’s also gravely disrespecting the Wuhan whistleblowers who risked everything. Please delete this.https://twitter.com/PodSaveAmerica/status/1245121589181476864 …
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Maybe he burst into tears because they were lying about all the crucial details. That is NOT "China tells Trump admin this is a horrific pandemic." OTOH, Taiwan told the truth to the WHO by Jan 1, but WHO kept on parroting China's false claims for weeks. https://twitter.com/Hehrman001/status/1245359775870844928 …
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Everyone thinks partisanship and polarization erodes fact-based analysis only among their opponents. I can't construct a "China told Trump of a horrible pandemic on January 1" no matter how I slice and dice this. Just can't make it work. See timeline:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ …
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I mean is it so hard? We should have been prepared for this pandemic, which unfolded almost exactly like SARS including cover-up by China except we got a less consistent clinical presentation, so much harder to contain. Why make China "tell" Trump when it did nothing of the sort?
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Unless you have reporting nobody else has, this did NOT happen. If China told the WHO of a "horrible pandemic" or even human-to-human transmission early Jan and WHO kept lying for many more weeks, time to set-up the crimes-against-humanity tribunals. https://twitter.com/Aziazi72907007/status/1245365588957859840 …
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You are proving my point. Read the text. If you can't stop replying.
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