China Hid Severity of Virus to Hoard Supplies: DHS Report

AP here is only reporting that there is a US government document saying as much. Which was conveniently leaked to them.<p>Reading between the lines, this document seems to include a statistical analysis of Chinese trade patterns to conclude that its trade in medical supplies in January deviated from the past.<p>The idea that China was buying more medical supplies in January seems entirely obvious to me, and I’m pretty sure I have seen previous reports of this, extending even beyond January.<p>The Wuhan Lockdown happened on January 23rd. Do I believe that they were importing more medical equipment in the month where they locked down an entire providence due to the emergence of a new and deadly contagious disease? Yes. Does it take advanced statistics and p-values do convince me of that fact? No.<p>But, of course, including a bit of stats in such a paper might also induce people to put more stock into its other claims, namely that buying such materials was a motivating factor to hide the extend of the disease. Or that China was hiding the extend of the disease in the first place.<p>Here&#x27;s the WHO&#x27;s bulletin on the matter. This is based on information they were given by China <i>in December</i>. If you search any news, you&#x27;ll also find reference to China briefing their US contacts on January 3rd, with similar information. The bulletin itself is from <i>January 5th</i>: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;csr&#x2F;don&#x2F;05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unkown-cause-china&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;csr&#x2F;don&#x2F;05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unk...</a><p>Quotes:<p><i>On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City</i><p><i>Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition.</i><p><i>National authorities report that all patients are isolated and receiving treatment in Wuhan medical institutions.</i><p><i>One hundred and twenty-one close contacts have been identified and are under medical observation;</i><p>So they were hiding it, except they told WHO that they had severely ill patients which had been isolated? And that they were tracking &gt;100 people that had been in contact with these patients, indicating the believe that the disease may be contagious?

I hate China more than the next person, but it&#x27;s hilarious we&#x27;re blaming China for our system that&#x27;s fucked people over.<p>Our economic system is not set up for natural issues like this. I would also like to propose another question. You know how we&#x27;re spending a metric fuckton of money on the Military? What if this was, you know, actually a biological attack?<p>Is this where all of our preparedness has come to show itself? What if this virus was actually manufactured to be even stronger than this? If we&#x27;re not even able to prepare for a pandemic through spending this much money, maybe we shouldn&#x27;t spend this much money on the military and spend more on social systems that would lessen the blow of such an attack.

60 Minutes Australia did an interesting report on Chinese companies that stockpiled and shipped supplies back to China at the onset of the pandemic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T3s6kcXi4pA?t=305" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T3s6kcXi4pA?t=305</a>

Trying to blame China for the US govt ineptness and preparedness for this pandemic is a bit daft when you look at other countries who had much better outcomes with the same information.<p>Logic will work for the MAGA crowd but some of us are more cynical after the lies peddled to justify the mess that was Iraq.