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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted
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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Yep, this is what happened. There absolutely needs to be an investigation into it. What did WHO know and when? It is a very, very good question. I hate to say this, but no guarantee we won't have future pandemics. It's perhaps the most important question. https://twitter.com/jay_how1971/status/1245366354343059457 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted gz
China didn't inform us or the world, but yeah, there was no reason to wait even until January 20. The signs were there, and countries like Taiwan and the people of Hong Kong leapt to action first week of January. But not because China told anyone anything.https://twitter.com/gz48367515/status/1245370128650260480 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Greg Merklin
Yep. The rumors were there by then. Taiwan figured it out by sending a team to Wuhan in December, and started January with mask production/distribution, travel ban, tracing. They have *five* total deaths, still, and they reopened their schools a month ago.https://twitter.com/GMerklin/status/1245378986252918785 …
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Yes, very very true and important. It was the government of China, not the people of China. From the people of China we have seen heroism, suffering, whistleblowing, heroic medical work and also, amazing journalism (Caixin has been amazing, for example).https://twitter.com/cpltalk/status/1245382038481403905 …
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