Coronavirus 'cover-up' is China's Chernobyl - White House adviser

[webfact 60,122]

Coronavirus 'cover-up' is China's Chernobyl - White House adviser

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are adjusted before the opening session of trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House official on Sunday likened China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak to the Soviet Union's cover-up of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.

 

National security adviser Robert O'Brien said Beijing knew what was happening with the virus, which originated in Wuhan, from November but lied to the World Health Organization and prevented outside experts from accessing information.

 

"They unleashed a virus on the world that's destroyed trillions of dollars in American economic wealth that we're having to spend to keep our economy alive, to keep Americans afloat during this virus," O'Brien said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

 

"The cover-up that they did of the virus is going to go down in history, along with Chernobyl. We'll see an HBO special about it ten or 15 years from now," he added, referring to a television miniseries.

 

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, released radioactive nuclear material that killed dozens of people within weeks and forced tens of thousands to flee. Moscow delayed revealing the extent of what is regarded as the worst nuclear accident in history.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump regularly complains about China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

 

China has denied the accusations against it, and its top diplomat on Sunday accused the United States of spreading lies and attacking the country.

 

"This is a real problem and it cost many, many thousands of lives in America and around the world because the real information was not allowed to get out," O'Brien said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "It was a cover-up. And we'll get to the bottom of it eventually."

 

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

 

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[Retarded 729]

Sanitation and Chinese never mix together. It is always the Chinese restaurants that get citations for violation of sanitation from the health department. And they have no shame about their filthy standard. It is no surprise that the epidemic started in China in this modern era. 

 

However, there is not even a word of apology or admitting its faults. On the contrary they exert best effort to blame other countries for whatever reason. I saw that identical attitude from a Chinese lady who I recently had contact. They will never admit for their sub-standard culture of sanitation and feel no shame about it.

[simple1 14,898]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

lied to the World Health Organization and prevented outside experts from accessing information.

Now a senior trump admin official has finally acknowledged the facts, will they back off their attacks on WHO

Edited May 25 by simple1

[TopDeadSenter 8,171]

2 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Now a senior trump admin official has finally acknowledged the facts, will they back off their attacks on WHO

No. The WHO (and everybody else) knows the Chinese official line is to be taken with a large pinch of salt, as per their history. The WHO eagerly lapped up every lie from China without questioning anything. The Trump administration is absolutely right to hound both the WHO and China for their appalling behavior that has led to 350,000 deaths so far. Political idealism and sycophancy towards like minded leaders at should have no place among the WHO leadership.

 It comes as a relief that the obvious cover-up scenario is now finally being aired in public. Brings to mind another lie. The official narrative about a bat coronavirus emanating by chance in a market outside a bat coronavirus laboratory which is still far fetched, to put it mildly.

[Chomper Higgot 26,673]

Imagine, if only the US had a specialist intelligence officer in China dedicated to monitoring and reporting disease threats directly to the US.

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S

 

 

 

Edited May 25 by Chomper Higgot

[Thailand 17,167]

Just another Trump mouthpiece spouting the leaders  election line, nothing to see here.

[Tug 14,343]

Lousy comparison imo and the (they unleashed on the world)is wrong imo  I don’t think it was done on purpose it wasent an intentional act of war that’s what that kind of speech implies 

 

[Jack Mountain 982]

The US is the new Thailand. Foreigner did it ....

[simple1 14,898]

1 hour ago, TopDeadSenter said:

No. The WHO (and everybody else) knows the Chinese official line is to be taken with a large pinch of salt, as per their history. The WHO eagerly lapped up every lie from China without questioning anything. The Trump administration is absolutely right to hound both the WHO and China for their appalling behavior that has led to 350,000 deaths so far. Political idealism and sycophancy towards like minded leaders at should have no place among the WHO leadership.

 It comes as a relief that the obvious cover-up scenario is now finally being aired in public. Brings to mind another lie. The official narrative about a bat coronavirus emanating by chance in a market outside a bat coronavirus laboratory which is still far fetched, to put it mildly.

Interesting trump supporters never mention trump 15 times (refer below) articulated his public support for XI regards Covid even though trump had received reports from his own agencies of the dangers. Just never ending deny and deflect in the exact same manner as trump. It was trump's lack of prompt actions and errors of judgement which has led to the current awful total of 100k deaths in the US. There are analysis if trump had acted earlier a large number of lives would have been saved.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736

 

In the meantime trump's push back against his own team's guidelines is now leading to dangerous outbreaks of infection and death in rural Red areas. e.g.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-16/coronavirus-second-wave-hits-rural-america/12251058

 

Perhaps you don't understand at the time WHO was refused entry to China for investigation. WHO eventually gained entry, with US nationals on the team, & published their detailed advisory report a very short time later on 28/02/20. When one reads the recommendations for the international community it is blindingly obvious the trump administration was slow to move. Accordingly enough of the blame game denials by trump and co.

[tlandtday 2,263]

1 hour ago, Jack Mountain said:

The US is the new Thailand. Foreigner did it ....

Okay so if the virus did not come from China where is it from?  Please explain.

[Thailand 17,167]

9 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

Okay so if the virus did not come from China where is it from?  Please explain.

Aliens of course, I thought everyone knew that?

[TopDeadSenter 8,171]

21 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Interesting trump supporters never mention trump 15 times <SNIP>

This is a thread about the Chinese communist party covering up the flu that originated in Wuhan. You have more than 10,000 threads since 2016 to write anti-Trump/America/democracy hate speech on.

[Sujo 9,762]

3 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

This is a thread about the Chinese communist party covering up the flu that originated in Wuhan. You have more than 10,000 threads since 2016 to write anti-Trump/America/democracy hate speech on.

No its not. Its about a trump crony blaming china for a coverup. Even though trump was part of the coverup by thanking Xi for being transparent.

[Traubert 3,933]

34 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

Okay so if the virus did not come from China where is it from?  Please explain.

Here?

 

http://english.sina.com/world/e/2020-05-24/detail-iircuyvi4717003.shtml

[simple1 14,898]

36 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

This is a thread about the Chinese communist party covering up the flu that originated in Wuhan. You have more than 10,000 threads since 2016 to write anti-Trump/America/democracy hate speech on.

I was responding to your comments regarding trump and WHO. No hate speech / anti democracy stuff which BTW is trump's forte, but responding to the usual deflection / denials of responsibility by trump and his supporters.