Sen. Rick Scott on Tuesday called for a congressional investigation into the World Health Organization, suggesting the U.S. should cut off its funding for “helping Communist China cover up” the full extent of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Florida Republican, a noted China hawk, has long raised concerns about the WHO’s relationship with Beijing, which has undercounted the number of coronavirus cases in the country.
…”We know Communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it — and the WHO never bothered to investigate further, Scott added. “Their inaction cost lives.”
He said the WHO “willfully parroted propaganda” from China’s Communist Party, and he called for hearings and a full investigation when Congress returns to Washington next month.
Among the lies the WHO has pushed for their Chinese Communist patrons: That the coronavirus could only be transmitted from animal (bat) to human, not from human to human, so there was no need to limit travel to and from China.
In fact, Communist China already knew the virus could pass with epidemic speed from human to human.
In fact, the Chinese government knew at that point to could be transmitted between humans and they had hundreds of cases even though they were reporting only 41 officially on Jan. 11, according to the South China Morning Post. Chinese doctors and labs had identified the virus at least by December and there are now reports that there may even have been cases in November.But China tried to shut down the information from getting out.
From NY Post:
Chinese labs ID’d the new virus in December, but the regime ordered them to stop testing and quietly destroy their samples. Officials even squelched health care workers, like the late Dr. Li Wenliang, who tried to warn colleagues of the coming epidemic.
Li and others knew in December the virus was spreading through human contact. But the government publicly denied it until Jan. 20.
What is WHO’s answer? They won’t respond.
Are they merely China’s dupes, or are they China’s coconspirators? I think they won’t answer either way because they don’t even want to admit their patron lied in the first place.
Legal Insurrection has a good roundup of China’s aggressive lies on behalf of its pet plague.
One of China’s propaganda pushes is to claim that the country does not need to change its food and health practices, despite the fact that one new plague after another keeps coming out of the country.
They just don’t want to change — and so any suggestion that they should is, of course… racist!
From the Spectator:
Meanwhile, several articles have decried the problematic ways in which Chinese eating and hygiene habits have been discussed in light of the outbreak, especially because they may lead to stereotyping Chinese people as a whole for being barbaric and uncivilized. These stereotypes, they fear, will only end up fueling xenophobia and racism. The temptation here is to avoid falling into the trap of cultural relativism. It[s perfectly appropriate to criticize China’s rampant consumption of exotic animals, lack of hygiene standards and otherwise risky behavior that puts people at risk for zoonotic infections. Until these entrenched behaviors based on cultural or magical beliefs are divorced from Chinese culture, wet wildlife markets will linger as time-bombs ready to set off the next pandemic, which in a globalized age is proving only too easy to do. We already know that more than 75 percent of emerging diseases originate in animals and that in the last century, at least 10 infectious diseases jumped from animals to people. China should be aghast at its role setting off the global domino effect at Wuhan Seafood Market in late 2019.
After countless infections and death, the obliteration of trillions of dollars and the radical retooling of modern life as we know it, the least China could do is introduce higher food safety regulations, eradicate all wet markets and ban the wildlife trade, once and for all.
The Center for Security Policy is updating its timeline of China’s aggressive propaganda efforts.
60 Minutes did a great piece on China’s active efforts to propagandize and propagate their plague.
Wait, did I say 60 Minutes? Major error on my part — the American media is in bed with China and would never dare report on China’s misbehavior.
I meant 60 Minutes Australia.
Don’t expect Anderson Cooper to pick up this reporting thread any time soon!
US funding should be pulled from WHO as well as the UN. They have their own agendas, serving globalists.
Yeah, let’s add the World Health Organization to the GOP’s rotational coronavirus blame-shifting list. I’ve lost track of how many entries they’ve got on there now.
Maybe you should also investigate why your own state’s governor didn’t get around to a serious social distancing directive until today. Keeping the beaches open for spring break might have gratified the local hospitality industries, but Florida’s local hospitals won’t be sending Ron DeSantis any thank you notes. That bit of abysmal stupidity likely raised the individual coronavirus risk level for everybody in the nation.
@Greg: The scale of the crisis is what it is because WHO just parroted China’s propaganda. But, you’re probably right; let’s not follow the evidence or facts. Instead, let’s hold Trump fully responsible for something NO ONE ON THE PLANTET took any more seriously than he did. Because you know you can’t win in November. Schiff is dying to have an impeachment hearing going on during the campaign (not being smart enough to have learned his lesson yet).
The abysmal response by NY and NYC should be thoroughly investigated.
Complete, total, unmitigated horse manure. The Chinese government may well have downplayed the situation at first—as did our own leaders, for as long as they could get away with it—but neither WHO nor our CDC mindlessly parroted anything.
I trust our best doctors and epidemiologists. They’ve told the truth all along, so far as they have been able to determine it. Politicians have ulterior motives by definition, and the current batch lie far more than most. I trust mission-oriented career public servants far more than elected officials.
@Greg:
Wait… WHAT? The goddamn communist Chinese were downplaying the virus; why wouldn’t anyone getting their information from them (WHO, without questioning it) or us (from WHO) likewise “downplay” the virus, since that was the ONLY information available? Are you STUPID?
Now that their lies are exposed we are using our OWN data and making different decisions based on that. Meanwhile, you bigoted liberals parrot whatever the Chinese tell you to say and, as long as it criticizes Trump, completely buy into their propaganda. Still siding with communist adversaries instead of this country, I see.
@Greg: Down played? Seriously? They arrested the doctor who reported a SARs like virus and an outbreak.
Our CDC was most likely just acting on information it got at the time.
CHINA LIED they knew it was contagious and Tawain told the WHO and instead of listening they repeated what Xi told them.
Now get your head out of Xis ass brother.
Oh yeah Tawain had an ax to grind so they have no mission-oriented career public servants or health professionals.
WHO never investigated it, why? Whats on second I dont knows on third.
China selling inaccurate tests and faulty PPE everywhere.
April 1, 2020 – Protective gear in national stockpile is nearly depleted, DHS officials say
So, while reports that our hospital personnel are without essential personal protective equipment have been in the news for weeks, warehoused stockpiles in private hands have been allowed to sold to overseas purchasers for prices in quantities adding up to 280 million units—and that while our government’s emergency stockpiles were being rapidly depleted.
This results from a failure at the top of federal government, plain and simple. There should have been an immediate Executive Order locking down sales to foreign buyers. The need should have been totally obvious. It has been televised.
Similarly, there should have been a national directive that all states to implement strict and uniform social distancing guidelines weeks ago, so we wouldn’t have had abysmally clueless governors taking abysmally ineffective approaches to containing a rapidly expanding, lethal menace that doesn’t give a doodly damn about state lines.
We still have no such uniform national directive. We have nothing more than a national suggestion. Hello? Is anybody home?
In the absence of the foregoing, the Governor of Florida allowed the beaches to remain open and spring break festivities to proceed. He just got around to a state-wide directive after his state picked up over 1,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases in a single day. The Governor of Georgia also issued a state-wide order today, commenting during his announcement that he had only just learned that non-symptomatic people could be silent carriers. What the hell? Do they not have radio or television in Georgia? Maybe he should tune in some of that mainstream media now and then.
Hopefully we’re not buying back any of the same 280 million masks that were recently sold and exported.
@Greg:
We still have a First Amendment, Comrade Greggie. Apparently the lights are out and no one is home in your head.
We also have the Emergency Powers Act, which has in fact been invoked. The purpose of it is to allow the President to deal with serious threats to the safety of the nation that require a rapid response. At the moment we’ve got one of those.
@Greg:
The Emergency Powers Act is not in use anymore, idiot. It was replaced by the National Emergency Act.
It still does not abolish the First Amendment.
Damn, you’re stupid.
@retire05: Greg knows leftists will resist the Presidents National requests so perhaps thats why they are the most paranoid about not having enough ventilators and PPE. So afraid of air travel but jump right on the subways, buses and stinky cabs, are they sure that uber driver isnt infected?
Greg would love to see the national guard marching the streets stopping Americans from going for milk, not delivering supplies or helping to build temp hospitals.
@Greg: Got problems with freedom in your city, call your mayor.
@retire05, #10:
You’re full of attitude and hateful insults, but you never seem to address a single relevant point in any remotely intelligent manner.
Not having issued a national directive to deal with a highly contagious disease that can be passed on by asymptomatic carriers, is present in every state, is doubling every few days, and threatens to collapse both our economy and our healthcare system is nothing short of moronic.
So is letting 280 million protective masks be exported when our strategic stockpile is depleted and we’re already facing such shortages that we can’t even provide them to front-line healthcare providers. It’s not going to be good if they start dropping from the ranks, and if they don’t have protection it’s entirely predictable.
You can’t figure something so obvious out, but I’m the idiot? Does Trump have some function beyond standing at podiums? He declared a national emergency. The point of doing so is not just to make a formal observation that a bad situation exists.
Funny how greg goes all out on this one, throwing as many words as he can while he changes the subject.
Have we finally found his troll-farm’s country of origin, China?
Just to remind everyone, because of this virus, and our response:
1. The government is giving handouts.
2. We are not free to move about freely in our own country.
3. We can’t work at the jobs we choose.
All in all, we’re closer to being China today than we were a few weeks ago.
Consider that.
@Greg: Did anyone find out about the sale of PPE BEFORE it happened? So, what are you going to do… go get it BACK? Why don’t you try being an adult for a while and end your infantile auto-blaming of Trump for anything bad that happens anywhere in the world?
@Deplorable Me: He repeats another anon source for something that was announced, I wonder if it was the same asshole that did not restock after H1N1. The Feds have been sending supplies to just about every State and the supplies are nearly gone? Where were those masks going? Is that country Kung flu fighting? The clothing manufacturers that weren’t driven out to shithole countries are making masks, they sew like the wind. (three Amigos reference)
They need to find out why places that sell fabric and elastic were shuttered Hobby lobby etc but the hardware stores like home depo remain open.
What to do when there is a everyone wear masks order.
@Greg:
Perhaps you don’t realize that 99.99% of what you post is irrelevant. That’s on you, buddy, not me. Frankly, all you have lately is doom and gloom. Keep that up and you will be suicidal.
I understand you’re a Communist, and I understand that you would like nothing more than for the U.S. to be like Communist nations. Oddly enough, it was just a few weeks ago you, and your fellow travelers, were shouting how Trump is a dictator. Now, it seems, he’s not a big enough dictator to suit your demands. So which is it, Comrade Greggie? Newsflash, pandemics do not abolish our Constitution.
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I don’t really pay much attention to articles, such as the one in the Washington Compost, that only refers to anonymous sources. Yes, one governor did say he was being outbid by outside interests. The President addressed that. Perhaps if you removed some of your hatred for Trump, you would more clearly hear what he says. Oh, and stop paying attention to the hate media.
He doesn’t stand at that podium along, moron. And he knows better than you the situation is bad. But your constant negative harping is not helping anyone.
Unlike you, I’m not willing to give up my freedom for a Chinese originated disease and live in constant fear of what tomorrow brings. You want to blame someone, OK. But blame the right entity; the Chinese Communist government who is STILL allowing its wet markets to function. If it were up to me, not one damn thing made in China would ever be found in the United States from this day forward. I would bury the CCP with their own evil.
@retire05: greg is a paid troll for the Chinese Communist Party.