From Bloomberg News:
China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says
For the Boomers:
For the Millenials:
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.
The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.
You mean after the anti-Trump media said that the response of the US was the worst in the world and China had this under control, we find out that’s not true?
“The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming,” Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday on CNN. “What appears evident now is that long before the world learned in December that China was dealing with this, and maybe as much as a month earlier than that, that the outbreak was real in China.
I bet Italy and Spain would say exactly the same thing.
Stacks of thousands of urns outside funeral homes in Hubei province have driven public doubt in Beijing’s reporting.
Here is a video from French 24 news that covered this quite well:
Back to Bloomberg:
China isn’t the only country with suspect public reporting. Western officials have pointed to Iran, Russia, Indonesia and especially North Korea, which has not reported a single case of the disease, as probable under-counts. Others including Saudi Arabia and Egypt may also be playing down their numbers.
You mean totalitarian nations lie to make themselves look better? Say it ain’t so. And CNN reports this bullshit as fact? Say it ain’t so.
Bloomberg News is acknowledging what we already know to be true.
This outbreak really was the fault of the Chinese Government and their coverup, which made the world not respond adequately earlier.
The fact is, I expect CNN and MSNBC to ignore this because it makes China look bad and doesn’t harm Trump.
But, but, but it was racist for Trump to halt flights from China in January.
If you listened to the news from China (as reported by CNN, et. al.), then drink fish tank cleaner because it sounds similar to what the Chinese were touting as a “cure”, and you then die, your wife can always blame Trump because you’re big donors to the democrat party.
As Law Dog said, “Anybody who trusts any information from the Chinese Government, or any socialist government for that matter, should have their Licence [sic] To Adult taken away.”