Just received this news flash

[doc03]

US intelligence says China concealed extent of COVID-19.

[treestar]

1. It's not like we have spies or anything like that

[spanone]

2. How many excuses will be made for trump's lack of leadership?

too many

[malaise]

14. The US Sent Tons of Medical Supplies to China Even as Senators Warned of Virus Threat Here

Perhaps if he didn't fire the CDC person in China, they would have known.
One more thing - why did they send tons of supplies to China if they didn't know it was a huge event?

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/the-us-sent-tons-of-medical-supplies-to-china-even-as-senators-warned-of-virus-threat-here/
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The United States government sent nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to China—including masks and respirators—almost three weeks after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the state of Washington.

In a press release from the State Department dated Feb. 7, the agency announced it was prepared to spend up to $100 million to assist China as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to rise there. The day the press release went out, Trump tweeted that he spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping and that China would be “successful especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker and then gone.”

At the time, sending supplies overseas may have seemed like the right thing to do. But it’s worth noting that this release of vital medical supplies came two days after several senators, including Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, offered to allocate congressional emergency funding for preventative health measures and research to ward off the virus in the United States—and President Donald Trump turned it down. “Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff, etc…” tweeted Murphy, “and they need it now.”

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@ChrisMurphyCT
Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough.

Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.

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That makes no fucking sense

[spanone]

19. There is NO excuse for this incompetent POS

[unblock]

3. is donnie going to go on a tirade about how terrible our intelligence services are?

somehow, i think, not this time.

[doc03]

6. I suppose he will go on the attack against China

again today.

[MyNameGoesHere]

4. Whoa? Piped into your brain or?

Was it from a news source, TV show, airplane flying a banner, billboard etc..?

[doc03]

8. Don't get smart it will be on the news. It is reported by

Bloomberg news I don't know how to link
it on my phone.

[TwilightZone]

13. It's common courtesy to include the source in the OP.

Context-free posts don't really help.

[MyNameGoesHere]

23. Ok. No smart ass if you can

Refrain from posting a very concerning topic with zero context. Fair enough?

[Beakybird]

5. And we fired half the CDC staff in China in the months leading up to this crisis!

[DFW]

7. How shocking

The next thing you know, the CIA will discover that China wants Hong Kong back from the British.........

[MontanaMama]

9. This will be their excuse.

The rubes will hold onto it like a life raft. Of course, MF45 has never believed our IC before...maybe he won’t now?

[Coleman]

10. This is the public release of the basic information

which means that the intel community (to include IQ45) knew about it 1 or 2 months ago or longer. There is a lot more information that was scrubbed away before public release.

So Trump knew well before than he claims, as well as the extent of the outbreak.

[Midnightwalk]

11. What has our government done? Nothing

All I want to know is when and how many tests, ppe and ventilators are arriving.

I haven’t believed a word they’ve said yet. Tell us when the equipment will be deployed. Everything else is a smoke screen.

That forbes article on millions of masks being shipped overseas should be a wake up call. Americans are dying because of their malevolent incompetence.
[link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2020/03/30/i-spent-a-day-in-the-coronavirus-driven-feeding-frenzy-of-n95-mask-sellers-and-buyers-and-this-is-what-i-learned/#6834e7556d44|]

[doc03]

12. This report came from 3 anonymous US

officials. Gee I wonder who it backs up Trump's bullshit.

[malaise]

20. Because this cat got out of the bag

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/the-us-sent-tons-of-medical-supplies-to-china-even-as-senators-warned-of-virus-threat-here/
<snip>
The United States government sent nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to China—including masks and respirators—almost three weeks after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the state of Washington.

In a press release from the State Department dated Feb. 7, the agency announced it was prepared to spend up to $100 million to assist China as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to rise there. The day the press release went out, Trump tweeted that he spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping and that China would be “successful especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker and then gone.”

At the time, sending supplies overseas may have seemed like the right thing to do. But it’s worth noting that this release of vital medical supplies came two days after several senators, including Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, offered to allocate congressional emergency funding for preventative health measures and research to ward off the virus in the United States—and President Donald Trump turned it down. “Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff, etc…” tweeted Murphy, “and they need it now.”

[handmade34]

15. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China...

The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21910S

[FM123]

16. What was not concealed was trump's incompetence and inability to handle a health crisis

when the GOP senators voted to let him stay in office instead of impeaching and removing him.
They can talk about China all they want, but the coronavirus blood is on their GOP hands.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213212675

[scrabblequeen40]

17. so what? The orange anus is responsible for the spread. Period.

[mathematic]

18. Well, duh

The first case was in november and they let people travel from wuhan for new year's in january. You don't need to be an intelligence officer to figure this one out.

[orwell]

21. You mean...

...he "deep state'.

I don't trust them...

[dewsgirl]

22. Yes, some of us have been saying this since January.

[keithbvadu2]

24. Like Trump tried to conceal it here in America?

Like Trump tried to conceal it here in America?

False confidence/claims.

Little testing.

Keeping cruise ships away to not count their sick people.