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Arriving in Tokyo's Haneda airport last week, the Japanese border security officials were using temperature radars to surveil arriving passengers and taking those who were showing high temperatures aside. The coronavirus was a lead story in Japanese media. https://twitter.com/callapilla/status/1219390576560201729
The danger of the #coronovirus was clear a week-plus ago. Certainly the Japanese were very aware of it. Have no idea why any public health officials would try to play down what a virus will make clear is obviously dangerous. It is 2020-people travel. https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1220024550878076930
Chinese Govt now attempting a quarantine of Wuhan - a city of 11 million people https://twitter.com/danutakozaki/status/1220090047292039169
This is not encouraging if predictable #coronovirus https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1220059835644944384
No one familiar with the 'elastic truthiness' of Chinese state news is comforted here #Coronavirus https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1220406531096707077
The threat posed by the #Coronavirus was clear, at least to the Japanese authorities no later than cJan 10 or thereabouts. Quite why Australian authorities acted so slowly (PR? Spin? Fear of Beijing?) is staggering in an age of mass travel esp in Asia. https://twitter.com/7NewsAdelaide/status/1220557555799248896
The PRC will have to 'come clean' in a transparent way about how the #Coronavirus originated noting the "Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory" operates in the area of the outbreak. Kudos to @TomCottonAR here for pushing back on obvious causation issues.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tom-cotton-coronavirus-come-from-chinese-super-laboratory-2020-2?r=US&IR=T
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tom-cotton-coronavirus-come-from-chinese-super-laboratory-2020-2?r=US&IR=T
Good thread here by @EpsilonTheory re #Coronavirus and the maddening narrative-maintenance going on now as against the evidence of what is actually happening https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1228530396192813057
NY Times buries lede (one speculates why) on Xi & the #Coronavirus ... if this was a mere localised virus, why would Xi be so involved so early on? And why has the PRC been so cagey about transparency re the virus' origins...noting PRC state labs in Wuhan https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/asia/coronavirus-china-live-updates.html
Remember that 'this is just a flu-nothing to see here' etc is being said while Xi has been personally involved for weeks now - and risking an enormous loss of face if he fails - in managing the response to what we are told is 'just a flu'... #Coronavirus https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/15/heres-why-the-white-house-doesnt-trust-chinas-coronavirus-numbers.html
Note that Russia (with its own Soviet history of bio weapons inc plague, anthrax, viruses etc) closed its border with China on Jan 30...and noting Russia & China are in the #DragonBear pact & Russia earns USD from leasing agricultural land to China https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/coronavirus-russia-closes-border-with-china-to-prevent-spread.html
No doubt the PRC will now fully open up its research on #Coronavirus to combat this story.....lest anyone think the virus originated in a PRC state lab.... https://twitter.com/OSINTHK/status/1228664201452765185
12 November 2015: "In an article published....on 9 November, scientists investigated a virus called SHC014, which is found in horseshoe bats in China"
Note the recently appended "Editors’ note, March 2020"
#Coronavirus https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
Note the recently appended "Editors’ note, March 2020"
#Coronavirus https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
"A regional health official in Wuhan, centre of the outbreak, demanded the destruction of the lab samples that established the cause of unexplained viral pneumonia on January 1."
#Coronavirus https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destroyed-proof-of-virus-in-december-rz055qjnj
#Coronavirus https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destroyed-proof-of-virus-in-december-rz055qjnj
Well done to @jimgeraghty on compiling this shameful chronology of the communist PRC regime's lies about #Coronavirus https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/
"Employees of Greenland Australia, a subsidiary of the Chinese government-backed global property giant Greenland Group, were instructed to put...normal work on hold and source bulk supplies of essential medical items to ship back to China"
#Coronavirus https://www.smh.com.au/national/second-developer-flies-82-tonnes-of-medical-supplies-to-china-20200326-p54e8n.html
#Coronavirus https://www.smh.com.au/national/second-developer-flies-82-tonnes-of-medical-supplies-to-china-20200326-p54e8n.html
The Russians closed their China border on Jan 30...now comes the 'backfill' in late March of cooperation to sustain the #DragonBear relationship despite Moscow's complete lack of trust in Beijing in January. https://tass.com/world/1114985
Iran has been devastated by the Virus - the movement of Iranian regime leaders via Mahan to/from China has brought back not just goods unavailable due to sanction but #Coronavirus #DragonBear https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/30/mahan-air-iranian-airline-spread-coronavirus-and-lied-about-it/
This is just the US - the UK/EU area has been ravagaed by the #Coronavirus ... the idea that China gets a 'no harm, no foul' exit from this disaster given Wuhan orgins & Beijing's lies is believed only by China's lobbyists & useful media idiots https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1245541337837035525
"That would imply a death toll in Wuhan of about 42,000-or 16 times the official number. Another widely shared calculation, based on Wuhan’s 84 furnaces running nonstop and each cremation taking an hour, puts the death toll at 46,800."
#Coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-families-should-be-sweeping-graves-now-but-thousands-still-havent-buried-their-dead/2020/04/03/5a6daa50-7234-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html
#Coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-families-should-be-sweeping-graves-now-but-thousands-still-havent-buried-their-dead/2020/04/03/5a6daa50-7234-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html
If nothing else, #Coronavirus has exposed the World Health Organization as, in this crisis, little more than a useful cut-out for Beijing's lies and propaganda. Hard to see how WHO survives without major reform.
