Report: China hid coronavirus' severity to hoard supplies
Source: MSNBC
The analysis states that, while downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, China increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies. It attempted to cover up doing so by “denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data,” the analysis states.
The report also says China held off informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus “was a contagion” for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply.
Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus due to some kind of horrible “mistake.” His intelligence agencies say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab.
Speaking Sunday on ABC's “This Week," Pompeo said he had no reason to believe that the virus was deliberately spread. But he added, “Remember, China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running substandard laboratories.”
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Wow, this is just getting more and more racist. China was aware that it had an epidemic in January, which most folks figured out when they put Wuhan on lockdown, so they started hoarding medical supplies. What a conspiracy!
Oh, and the Chinese have "a history of infecting the world," which is sort of like how before 2018, Republicans were saying Mexicans carried disease, which is why Trump declared a national emergency to block the border.
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I guess I can understand that if you prepare for a possible epidemic, Trump would find that to be totally wrong, since he ignored intelligence reports through late last year and did nothing to prepare for the coronavirus.
In fact, on page 14 of the the Obama administration's briefing to Trump's team, it says to prepare for key shortages of medical equipment.
Like shortstops come from the Dominican Republic.
Bill Maher's joke not mine.
Because he said China, I don't think one can say with certainty that 'racism' is the driving force behind his statement.
Could it be? Of course it could. It's probably even likely.
But because he criticized the country as opposed to the race ... I'm not prepared to assert it *must* be racist in intent. Especially when it appears to be a generally fairly factual statement insofar as lot of pandemics having started there over the years (including the present one).
You can though 
Anything that goes wrong is always someone else's fault. We are blessed to have him as president at this time of our country's greatest need. He should continue in office without elections until our country's crises are over. 
(Actually, he thinks he deserves two more years added onto this term.)
And what about Hillary's emails? Ultimately, weren't they directly responsible for the pandemic? 
