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Posted on 04/21/2020 11:13:18 AM PDT by jazusamo
The pandemic which is now ravaging the world – killing an estimated 170,000 people and causing trillions of dollars of economic damage – originated in China and was hidden by the Chinese Communist dictatorship. The dictatorship lied to the world and got its puppet head of the World Health Organization to also lie to the world.
A recent University of Southampton study titled, “Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing the COVID-19 outbreak in China” estimated that 95 percent of the COVID-19 cases we have seen could have been avoided if the Communist dictatorship had told the truth at the beginning and instituted interventions three weeks earlier than it did. This would have significantly reduced the number of cases spreading to other areas in the future.
If the University of Southampton study is correct, more than 160,000 people would be alive today. Instead, they were killed by the virus because of the Chinese dictatorship’s dishonesty. So, the dictatorship and its puppet leader at the WHO have a lot for which they must answer.
The United States should pass a law making the Chinese government and its controlling power, the Chinese Communist Party, open to individual or class action lawsuits on behalf of the families who have lost loved ones to the pandemic. The Lockerbie lawsuit and the 9/11 lawsuit legislation are solid models for this action.
After the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the families of the 270 people who were killed were awarded a total of $2.7 billion in damages. Applied to COVID-19, the numbers would be staggering. There are already lawsuits being filed in several states and this would simply waive the sovereign immunity defense.
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They’ll pay with inflated Chinese currency.
Why would they pay? What court. They may be to blame but sadly they’re never going to pay.
Ah, a lawyer employment program. /s
Like China would ever recognize the jurisdiction responsibility. Cannot see the ChiComs ever paying even a penny. Although canceling 100% of our debt with them, would be an interesting accounting exercise. Poof - its gone.
A much greater loss of life than the most ambitious terrorist attack ever attempted.
Anyone who thinks this won't be tried again with another weaponized virus is kidding himself.
Although canceling 100% of our debt with them”
This is Trump’s leverage. The bat soup/lab origin debate is a MSM distraction. We know China made sure the rest world got this while the shielded much of their own country. This is a massive International crime.
Sadly I believe you’re right.
My thoughts exactly. China will do the Santa laugh.
Waste of time
Create the deepest and most generous tax exemptions or whatever and decouple from China.
If it’s war, then Eff em....
They closed down every way in and out of Wuhu except international flights.
Like I’ve been alluding to my friends for the last month they thought to themselves “We aren’t going to be the only one getting sick “ and unleashed this on the rest of the world
Does anyone think that China will abide by a court ruling?
They’re guilty as hell, but they don’t care. Their answer: Talk to my AK-47. Return ALL American industry to the US and raise tariffs on ALL Chinese imports. Don’t allow them to become the #1 industrial power in the world.
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To go with the massive international political crime of trying to remove a duly-elected American president in a coup.
The democrat controlled congress would block this.
It will have to wait until after the election and a republican congress is seated.
The dems are tight with the CCP.
US court judgements could halt all shipments from China to the US...because such shipments could be seized to settle judgements...so they won’t ship them, and China will have revolution with hundreds of millions of young men in the streets.
Don’t forget seizing their assets. We could start with that Smithfield plant in South Dakota.
This will slowly go down memory hole and things will get back to “normal”. They should pay and they never will. This event should makes us prepare for the future but we won’t. The reality is that this ALL may happen again with far reaching SHTF results.
They hold significant amounts of US debt and own many international interests, whether companies, stock, whatever. This would all be fair game for collections. So it could not only eliminate huge amounts of US debt to offset much of the recent spending, but bring ownership back to this country.
China will pay, and ultimately face internal revolt. Whatever may replace the current Communists hopefully will be better, but no way to really know.
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