Posted on 03/20/2020 8:44:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most Americans are horrified at the havoc the coronavirus has wrought on the U.S. and its economy - everything from lockdowns to school and church shutdowns, to missing products on store shelves, to business closures and layoffs, to travel and tourism restrictions, to the stock crash, to isolated elderly people being protected from harm's way. That's in addition to those who have been directly hit by the virus, some severely, and our horror at what is happening in Italy.
The only thing that keeps us going is the prospect of ... getting through it.
But in a Fox News appearance on "Hannity," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an important warning -- that there has to be some kind of reckoning from China or else the upheaval is going to happen again:
"Instead of trying to do the work to suppress the virus, which is what the world demanded, the Chinese Communist Party didn't get it right and put countless lives at risk as a result of that," Pompeo told "Hannity."
Pompeo added that the Chinese government had created a "disinformation campaign," and "wasted valuable days at the front end" after the virus was first reportedly discovered in November.
"They haven't been sufficiently transparent and the risk you find [is] if we don't get this right, if we don't get to the bottom of this, is this could be something that is repeatable," Pompeo warned. "Maybe not in this form, maybe not in this way, but transparency matters."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
According to Agence France-Presse:
Police in China’s virus epicentre Wuhan acted “inappropriately” by punishing a doctor who blew the whistle on the outbreak that has now killed more than 9,000 worldwide, a Chinese government investigation found Thursday.
Li Wenliang, one of a group of doctors in Wuhan who shared posts on social media warning of a SARS-like virus spreading in the city in December, was reprimanded by police for sharing the information and made to sign a statement agreeing not to commit any more “law-breaking actions.”
Li’s death from the virus in February prompted a national outpouring of grief as well as anger at the government’s handling of the crisis, and bold demands for freedom of speech.
The police issued an apology after the result of the investigation was published, drawing a new round of criticism on Twitter-like Weibo, with people saying it was too little, too late.
But, as the locals say, it’s not good enough. The doctor is dead, so he’s an easy one to exonerate. What about the ones who are still in jail for sounding the warnings? They’re still there. What about the ones who kept silent even though they also knew what was going on? They’re still there, too, and probably an even bigger hurdle for enacting a solution than the now-punished dissidents. It’s a system that’s a problem, a system that doesn’t value free speech, doesn’t value transparency of information, yet demands to be part of the free-world global economy as a dominant player.
Sure, but we need to clean up our act re: business with China regardless.
And government tyranny over the freedom of citizens is easily repeatable too.
Taiwan and South Korea already learned this lesson. Taiwan was very pro-active in figuring out what was going on in Wuhan and not listening to the ChiComs.
The SoS is correct - there is nothing stopping the ChiComs to unleash another chinese virus on the world and destroy lives and economies...
it may not be next year, but guaranteed another outbreak within the decade.
RE: Taiwan was very pro-active in figuring out what was going on in Wuhan and not listening to the ChiComs.
Taiwan is OSTRACIZED from the WHO because of Chicom pressure. They had to rely on their own scientific know how ( of which they are advanced ) based on their experience with SARS over a decade ago.
Historically this will go down as an example of a world gone nuts.
When barely educated people that I have talked to, they express concerns that this is way overblown.
IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN
They need to clean up both their bio-warfare facilities and their exotic bush-meat markets. Might help it they weren’t in the same cities, too. But I suppose there is the slim chance that was intentional.
Safe to say the ChiComs are becoming more like Stalin bigtime.
F that S.
They don’t GET another chance, that’s Cheap Labor Express treason talking.
Nuke their Commie Asses and be done with it.
We did not allow immigration from China between 1890-1965, and banned immigrants from all of Asia between 1915-1965.
We did not allow immigration from China between 1890-1965, and banned immigrants from all of Asia between 1915-1965.
China needs to be excoriated and ostracized to become the true hermit empire. They do not now and never have been worth of being citizens of the family of nations.
If there is justice China will wither from their preeminence.
The next thing I fear is once China is ostracized the will fight back with the only thing they have left. One problem at a time though.
I am grateful we have the leadership in the administration we do now. I’m not so much pleased with the congress and certainly not with the media.
We need a total and permanent embargo of anything and everything from China. Nothing to or from. Nothing. And they need to pay for all the damage they’ve done.
What were they eating BEFORE Mao’s Great Leap Forward?
What's the major problem, relying on China to produce practically everything we buy.
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