Posted on 03/19/2020 2:37:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Richard Haas is a longtime diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He decided to weigh in on who is to blame for the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and decided to lay a large chunk on the blame on us. Yeah, apparently, he got some of the timeframe messed up. Our friends at Twitchy found this story.
“Yes, the coronavirus crisis had its origins in China-both its wet market & its initial coverup-but China cannot be blamed for our own months of denial, the lack of protective gear, tests & ventilators, & the failure still to require social distancing throughout the entire US,” Haas tweeted.
Yes, the #coronavirus crisis had its origins in China-both its wet market & its initial coverup-but China cannot be blamed for our own months of denial, the lack of protective gear, tests & ventilators, & the failure still to require social distancing throughout the entire US.— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) March 19, 2020
1st cases in China 11/2019
China said no human to human spread 1/14/20
WHO declares a health emergency 1/30/20
Trump shuts down travel from China 1/31/20
Shut up. Thanks. https://t.co/DtlQay3f1E— Stacey - Cruising the #ChinaVirus Crisis (@ScotsFyre) March 19, 2020
Months of denial?
In beginning of Jan (only about 75 days ago!) China was still denying this had person to person transmission.
Much of the world's inability to get ready for this...is China's fault.— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) March 19, 2020
The longtime diplomat was then fact-checked, with those noting that in January, China was still denying there was human-to-human transmission. Also, they destroyed samples that exposed the virus in December, strong-armed doctors who were trying to do the right thing, kept medical crews in the dark, and prevented doctors from reporting on cases of Wuhan coronavirus they encountered. They allowed Chinese New Year to be celebrated, exposing legions to the disease and allowed 5 million to leave Wuhan. This is all China’s fault. Their incompetence unleashed this mayhem upon the world. And we should be unapologetic in that regard. For now, the liberal news media is peddling Chinese communist propaganda because…'orange man bad.’
Sorry, Mr. Haas, the fault rests with China and China alone.
Ikr
Here’s another video. Coordinated effort to infect various countries?
Dude looks like a rat or maybe a weasel.
Summary: The United States’ unipolar moment is over.
NEWER WORLD ORDER - Dick Haas 2008
and just exactly WHO said they were a virus to start with...
it’ psy-ops
It’s been great that the president has used his authority to at least talk to CEOs about ramping up production of ventilators, and also worked to get production of various other services mentioned in his press conferences going. But that the ventilator task in particular, the need for which was predictable a month ago, is only now (possibly; not a single ventilator has been produced yet because of these initiatives) being planned is a screwup. We all hope it’s not a costly one,
I hope I am wrong, but it appears that with respect to the mundane tasks necessary to save future patients’ lives, we are still struggling.
IMHO; if you think these tasks are not critical or will be pulled off quickly please let me have it.
Have to change the spelling of Richard Haas’s name to “Richard Ass”.
CFR, don’t believe anything they say or write without double checking it.
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