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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Article Needs a Delux: As New Coronavirus Spread, China's Old Habits Delayed Fight
From FEBRUARY 1, 2020:; Updated FEBRUARY 7, 2020
"WUHAN, China A mysterious illness had stricken seven patients at a hospital, and a doctor tried to warn his medical school classmates. Quarantined in the emergency department, the doctor, Li Wenliang, wrote in an online chat group on Dec. 30, referring to patients.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATESChinese doctor who tried to warn of outbreak dies from coronavirus.
So frightening, one recipient replied, before asking about the epidemic that began in China in 2002 and ultimately killed nearly 800 people. Is SARS coming again?
In the middle of the night, officials from the health authority in the central city of Wuhan summoned Dr. Li, demanding to know why he had shared the information. Three days later, the police compelled him to sign a statement that his warning constituted illegal behavior.
The illness was not SARS, but something similar: a coronavirus that is now on a relentless march outward from Wuhan, throughout the country and across the globe, killing at least 304 people in China and infecting more than 14,380 worldwide.
The governments initial handling of the epidemic allowed the virus to gain a tenacious hold. At critical moments, officials chose to put secrecy and order ahead of openly confronting the growing crisis to avoid public alarm and political embarrassment.
A reconstruction of the crucial seven weeks between the appearance of the first symptoms in early December and the governments decision to lock down the city, based on two dozen interviews with Wuhan residents, doctors and officials, on government statements and on Chinese media reports, points to decisions that delayed a concerted public health offensive.
In those weeks, the authorities silenced doctors and others for raising red flags. They played down the dangers to the public, leaving the citys 11 million residents unaware they should protect themselves. They closed a food market where the virus was believed to have started, but didnt broadly curb the wildlife trade."
CORONAVIRUS UPDATESChinese doctor who tried to warn of outbreak dies from coronavirus.
So frightening, one recipient replied, before asking about the epidemic that began in China in 2002 and ultimately killed nearly 800 people. Is SARS coming again?
In the middle of the night, officials from the health authority in the central city of Wuhan summoned Dr. Li, demanding to know why he had shared the information. Three days later, the police compelled him to sign a statement that his warning constituted illegal behavior.
The illness was not SARS, but something similar: a coronavirus that is now on a relentless march outward from Wuhan, throughout the country and across the globe, killing at least 304 people in China and infecting more than 14,380 worldwide.
The governments initial handling of the epidemic allowed the virus to gain a tenacious hold. At critical moments, officials chose to put secrecy and order ahead of openly confronting the growing crisis to avoid public alarm and political embarrassment.
A reconstruction of the crucial seven weeks between the appearance of the first symptoms in early December and the governments decision to lock down the city, based on two dozen interviews with Wuhan residents, doctors and officials, on government statements and on Chinese media reports, points to decisions that delayed a concerted public health offensive.
In those weeks, the authorities silenced doctors and others for raising red flags. They played down the dangers to the public, leaving the citys 11 million residents unaware they should protect themselves. They closed a food market where the virus was believed to have started, but didnt broadly curb the wildlife trade."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
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This Article Needs a Delux: As New Coronavirus Spread, China's Old Habits Delayed Fight (Original Post)
LovingA2andMI
Mar 2020
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denem
(11,045 posts)1. China covered up for two weeks
The cover up ended on January 11, when they released the genetic sequence to WHO.
Trump covered up, took no action, for 4 weeks +.
Response to LovingA2andMI (Original post)
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The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)4. There Is Continuity With The Old Imperial System In This
No county magistrate reported disorders in his district, if he could possibly avoid it, because the existence of disorder meant he was unfit for his post. It was a confession he lacked the virtue necessary to inspire good behavior and propriety among the people. Crop failures, floods, invasions, this sort of thing, he could report and seek assistance for, as they were beyond his pay grade, so to speak, being related to proper relation of his superiors to Heaven.
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)5. +1. But not a pandemic - a mark of Heavenly displeasure upon him