U.S. envoy blames China for endangering world with coronavirus

[snoop1130]

U.S. envoy blames China for endangering world with coronavirus

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Woody Johnson, is pictured after listening British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and David Attenborough during a conference about the UK-hosted COP26 UN Climate Summit, at the Science Museum in London, Britain February 4, 2020. Chris J Ratcliffe/Pool via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to London has said China had endangered the world by suppressing information about the coronavirus outbreak thus allowing it to spread far beyond the Communist republic’s borders.

 

“First it tried to suppress the news,” Ambassador Woody Johnson wrote in an article for The Times newspaper published on Thursday, adding that Beijing had then selectively shared critical information while stonewalling international health authorities.

 

“Had China done the right things at the right time, more of its own population, and the rest of the world, might have been spared the most serious impact of this disease,” the ambassador wrote.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump has said Beijing should have acted faster to warn the world after the outbreak of the disease there. He also dismissed criticism that his labeling it as the “Chinese virus” was racist.

 

Last week, he brushed aside a reporter’s question as to whether it was potentially harmful to Asian-Americans to give the disease that name, as well for an unnamed White House official to have privately termed it the “kung flu”.

 

On Monday, the president said Asian-Americans were not responsible for spreading the disease and needed to be protected.

 

“When the crisis finally abates we should take stock of the outcome and evaluate the costs of this breakdown in international collaboration,” Ambassador Johnson wrote in The Times.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-03-26

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[smedly]

3 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The U.S. ambassador to London has said China had endangered the world by suppressing information about the coronavirus outbreak thus allowing it to spread far beyond the Communist republic’s borders.

well said 

[riclag]

It's not the time to blame! It doesn't solve anything! Time for everyone to kick A-- on this  CV pandemic

Edited March 26, 2020 by riclag

[stevenl]

I would guess he is one of the guys that bought his ambassadorship?

[Yasobill]

3 minutes ago, riclag said:

It's not the time to blame! It doesn't solve anything! Time for everyone to kick A-- on this  CV pandemic

Agree...they’ll be plenty of time to assess culpability for the cause & delay. Now is the time to put 100% of our worldwide effort toward stopping further spread, treatment and a vaccine.

 

[Boomer6969]

U.S.C

 

C stands for <deleted>

 

(Just shared a bottle of Macon village with the wife, followed by RHUM raisin and a Ti-punch, which, as you can see, brings the best out of me.)

[Emeraldisle]

Call a spade a spade. We all know that the Chinese with their disgusting choices of food are responsible for this. In the future nobody should be allowed to leave China without being quarantined for an appropriate length of time first. If you visit China be prepared to be quarantined before you are let loose in another county.  

[darrendsd]

If they had done the right thing and closed their Borders/Airports early it wouldn't have spread worldwide

[Swimfan]

11 minutes ago, Emeraldisle said:

Call a spade a spade. We all know that the Chinese with their disgusting choices of food are responsible for this. In the future nobody should be allowed to leave China without being quarantined for an appropriate length of time first. If you visit China be prepared to be quarantined before you are let loose in another county.  

Exactly. China should be quarantined from the rest of the world indefinitely until they can demonstrate they understand the consequences of their practices and actions. I’m sure certain governments will make them bleed for this disaster. 

[ukrules]

China lied about their numbers, these numbers were then used for predictions, these don't appear to be holding up to scrutiny.

 

Mass testing will begin as soon as next week and the truth will be known one way or the other.

[timendres]

13 minutes ago, ukrules said:

China lied about their numbers, these numbers were then used for predictions, these don't appear to be holding up to scrutiny.

 

Mass testing will begin as soon as next week and the truth will be known one way or the other.

The "truth" in China will never be known outside the country.

[RickBradford]

China feels free to blame the West for the "damage" caused by climate change, and demands massive reparations, yet refuses to be blamed for the Covid-19 epidemic, where the damage is evident and substantial.

 

Even more sickening, the WHO, (aided by the mainstream media) discourages any links between this outbreak and China on the grounds that it "stigmatizes" a country.

[Ventenio]

1 hour ago, riclag said:

It's not the time to blame! It doesn't solve anything! Time for everyone to kick A-- on this  CV pandemic

It IS exactly the time to blame.  It solves the stress for billions.  People now have a place to vent.  It's NOT the time to act.

 

different

[Boomer6969]

1 hour ago, Emeraldisle said:

Call a spade a spade. We all know that the Chinese with their disgusting choices of food are responsible for this. In the future nobody should be allowed to leave China without being quarantined for an appropriate length of time first. If you visit China be prepared to be quarantined before you are let loose in another county.  

Vaguely remember the "Mad Cow Disease", did it come from China too?

[ExpatOilWorker]

21 minutes ago, timendres said:

The "truth" in China will never be known outside the country.

Then we have to guess: 7 million death in China?

 

https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/03/coronavirus-chronology/

[idiot farang]

1 hour ago, riclag said:

It's not the time to blame! It doesn't solve anything! Time for everyone to kick A-- on this  CV pandemic

i vehemently disagree. China is running a massive disinformation campaign saying the US military introduced the virus to Wuhan. The rise of China is a massive threat to the entire world, and Asia, in particular. The CCP are not the good guys. If you don't ralize that, you are soooooo not paying attention. 

 

SARS was because they covered it up. Same with the Wuhan Coronavirus. To refuse to hold them to account is to trivialize every death, every person who is in dire straits now.  

Despite the brainwashing of globalists, diversity is not a strength (in ANY historical context) and, yes.... some cultures are better than others.

[Ketyo]

So why did they name MERS the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome if you are not allowed to mention where the disease came from?

 

Why aren't Arabs complaining when someone says the virus started from there whereas the Chinese are allowed to spit the dummy when someone mentions that COVID started in China.

 

In fact the Chinese authorities are behaving pathetically. For decades they have bullied their own citizens and denied them free speech. They shouldn't now be able to do that on a global scale to other countries and international institutions and get away with it.

Edited March 26, 2020 by Ketyo

[Lodestone]

I've also heard the Chinese government will not release the identity and/or any information on 'patient zero.' Such infection data is critical to understanding the animal to human jump of the virus and aid in preventing the next one.

[idiot farang]

17 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Vaguely remember the "Mad Cow Disease", did it come from China too?

And that killed how many?!? 

And that did the same thing to the world as the Wuhan Coronavirus?

I realize you think your little quip is clever---- it simply shows your inability to properly put a situation in context...

[rabas]

45 minutes ago, ukrules said:

China lied about their numbers, these numbers were then used for predictions, these don't appear to be holding up to scrutiny.

 

Mass testing will begin as soon as next week and the truth will be known one way or the other.

Statements like "No confirmed human to human transmission yet."  First confirmed on January 20.

[Logosone]

It's funny because this is exactly what the US did during the Spanish flu pandemic.

 

Only it was much more dangerous, as there was a war on, and had much worse consequences.

[fruitman]

36 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

It IS exactly the time to blame.  It solves the stress for billions.  People now have a place to vent.  It's NOT the time to act.

 

different

The chinese and thai also blame westerners for bringing it back into their country..

[daveAustin]

2 hours ago, riclag said:

It's not the time to blame! It doesn't solve anything! Time for everyone to kick A-- on this  CV pandemic

Disagree. That's the meek, PC way where no-one get's to answer for their wrongs. There wouldn't be any pandemic if it weren't for their strange ways. They have to have it, I'm afraid. China has to be shown up to hopefully get them to change their ways. Hoping enough good Chinese are swayed to kick their despotic regime to the curb.

[Number 6]

Feels like a Tienamen all over again. Bunch of Chinese just vanished of the face of the Earth.

 

Can happen anywhere knowhatimean?

 

[sotonowl]

China's day of reckoning is yet to come, the world will not forgive or forget.

[idiot farang]

1 minute ago, Number 6 said:

Feels like a Tienamen all over again. Bunch of Chinese just vanished of the face of the Earth.

 

Can happen anywhere knowhatimean?

 

Stop with your facts! THey don't care about truth and facts- only misguided opinions formed by their masters in the mainstream media...

[idiot farang]

1 minute ago, sotonowl said:

China's day of reckoning is yet to come, the world will not forgive or forget.

unfortunately, except for the occasional informed individual, most people are not blaming them. The disinformation campaign, with massive support for the globalist mainsteam media, is winning the day. 

 

When you control the media, you control everything--- a lesson leftists learned early, whilst the rest have dithered. 

[RickBradford]

49 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Vaguely remember the "Mad Cow Disease", did it come from China too?

Do you vaguely remember the SARS epidemic of 2002/2003? That came from China, too.

Edited March 26, 2020 by RickBradford

[Ventenio]

1 minute ago, idiot farang said:

unfortunately, except for the occasional informed individual, most people are not blaming them.

I would imagine all 350 million Americans are blaming them, plus about all of Europe and most of the rest of the world.

 

Let's take Africa for example....who do you think they are blaming?  tourists?  anyone with a brain blames the source. 

 

 

[DLock]

48 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Vaguely remember the "Mad Cow Disease", did it come from China too?

 

Then you should "vaguely remember" it has killed a grand total of 177 people to date.

 

...basically a bad day of Corona virus in Iran, or a good afternoon in Italy.

 

Fail.