We can thank China for the current viral pandemic and crisis, but it’s not the first time. China also gave us SARS in 2003, although it was first seen in Guangdong province in November 2002.
In November 2002, doctors in the Guangdong province of southeastern China began to see the first cases of what would become known as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. Over the next several months, 8,096 people in 26 countries contracted the new viral illness, leading to 774 deaths. Although the slow reporting of initial SARS cases helped the illness spread, globally-enforced medical practices eventually helped end the outbreak.
The Chinese government may well have slowed the response down
There were also reports that officials may have encouraged doctors not to report new cases when SARS spread to Beijing. In April 2003, Time magazine obtained a letter from Jiang Yanyong, a physician at an army hospital in Beijing, alleging the actual number of SARS cases in the capital city was much higher than the official count. This turned out to be true, and Chinese officials released the real numbers that month (and also began to monitor Jiang).
SARS is thought to have originated in bats and spread through consumption of the civet cats which ate the bats. SARS ultimately resulted in 8,000 cases worldwide and nearly 800 deaths.
After SARS, China banned the slaughter and consumption of civet cats but they hadn’t really learned their lesson. They rescinded the ban shortly afterward. The wet markets remained open and that failure is brought us Covid 19. This is a well done review will illustrate how the spread of these viruses occurs.
This time it is believed that the virus again came from a bat which may have been eaten by a snake and then transmitted to humans.
China has shut down the wet markets but since they are such a large part of the economy they may well allow them to once again re-open and turn a blind eye to the devastation brought on by the wild animal farms.
As the Corona outbreak evolved, China’s initial response was to deny everything.
Then as a whistleblower came forward, he curiously expired despite being in a lower risk group. China reported the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, then deleted the story and then reported it again. A journalist covering the reality of the harshness of the Wuhan virus was disappeared.
A Chinese citizen journalist who has told the world about the desperate situation on the streets of virus-epicentre Wuhan has disappeared as a whistleblower doctor was announced to have died.
Chen Qiushi has not been heard from since 7pm local time Thursday, with calls to his mobile phone going unanswered.
His reports have detailed horrific scenes including a woman frantically calling family on her phone as she sits next to a relative lying dead in a wheelchair and the helpless situation of patients in the overstretched hospitals.
Mr Qiushi’s disappearance came as heroic 34-year-old Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who sounded the alarm on coronavirus, was announced to have died after allegedly contracting the disease while treating patients at Wuhan’s Central Hospital.
China is expelling American reporters:
NEW: China requires American reporters at NYT, WSJ, WaPo – whose press passes are set to expire this year – to return the passes within 10 days; they will no longer be allowed to work as a journalist in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau from now on.https://t.co/LWNiFaav3d
— Yueqi Yang (@Yueqi_Yang) March 17, 2020
China continues to demand that the US stop referring to the Chinese Corona virus as the Chinese Corona virus. It is even attempting to stifle those on Twitter
WOW! China really wants to suppress its critics. My reply to @realdonaldtrump was mass reported because I criticized China and called for them to take responsibility for the Chinese virus. pic.twitter.com/OHBvbzXDyJ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 17, 2020
Now they are threatening the US
President Trump ought to impose a permanent travel ban on China.
China is reckless and dishonest. This is the second time in 17 years its depravity has cost America lives, only this time the cost in lives lost will be far greater and the damage to our economy enormous.
This cannot be allowed to happen again.
China should have immediately quarantined Wuhan province. Instead they suppressed information.
China should have sought international help.
Instead they went secret.
It was all incredibly counter productive and it cost lives all over the world.
It is time to impose a permanent travel ban. For the sake of our country. If nationals of other countries have visited China prior to attempting to enter the US they need to be placed in quarantine.
Because we just don’t know what they’ve been exposed to and won’t until it’s too late.
If good are to be exchanged, they really should be gamma irradiated before they reach inside our borders. We need to make our own pharmaceuticals.
This cannot happen again.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
No one is allowed to criticize the all powerful state. No one is allowed to protest decisions, there is a social credit score our silicon valley assisted in developing.
Earlier this month there was a military tiff. https://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2020/03/us-china-laser-tag-at-sea-3175338.html
Hong Kong long had freedoms they enjoyed under the Brittish crown OMG they protested, People in Wuhan Protested the plans for an electronics recycling plant the same kind that killed more chinese than SARS with toxic pollution.
How dare they question the loving benevolent State.
Our media so kissing Chinas ass who doesnt want the credit for a real invention in their country, not ripped off American technology.
Totalitarian governments don’t like to have their failures made known. We see the same characteristic here with our totalitarian liberal media; they don’t like to be criticized and have their lies pointed out. The Soviet Union acted the same way during the Chernobyl disaster.
But, this is how socialism works. First, they fail to deliver what they promise. Then to prevent regime change, they suppress information and lie about the facts. I don’t know why any Democrats here would disagree with what China has done; they still celebrate the same thing that existed here from 2009 to 2017.
Once again we see a situation where the UN should be serving a critical function but, of course, is invisible. There should be some international penalty for such reckless endangerment. China should lose its seat on the Security Council for a year or more; there should be SOME accountability. But, bribes come first.
I have always hated Communism and its pomps and works, and wish and pray for the violent overthrow of the genocidal Chinese Communist party..
But a permanent travel ban? I don’t think so. This isn’t 1968.
@Deplorable Me: #2
If every nation that has been harmed by China’s actions would sue for damages, (and win) President Xi would find himself sitting in a cave, cooking his dog meat over a fire started by rubbing two sticks together.
Assuming he survived the reactions of his party members.
@Petercat: I doubt the World Court would handle it fairly.