jimnyc
04-17-2020, 01:25 PM
That's a massive attention grabbing headline by a senator. But he may be right. Think so?
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Cotton: China’s Coronavirus ‘the Biggest, the Costliest, the Most Deadly Cover-Up in the History of Mankind’
Friday on Fox News, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed the possibility of a link to the global coronavirus outbreak and a Chinese lab and the possibility China’s government may have tried to cover up the outbreak domestically.
Cotton told “Fox & Friends” that if the allegations were true about China, it would be historic on a global level.
“The circumstantial evidence, which I began to cite in January, stacking up pretty quickly that this virus may have originated in those labs in Wuhan,” he said. “We knew from the very beginning that the Chinese Communist Party’s front story about the food market was probably wrong.”
“For one, it appears that they don’t even sell the kind of bats at that market from which this virus originated, and two, Chinese scientists in an authoritative study as early as January found that about a third of the early cases had no contact with the food market whatsoever,” he continued. “We know that China has a very sloppy history of laboratory safety. Some of our own diplomats at the embassies in China went to these labs as far back as two years ago and said the shape the practices there were very alarming. And you can see how the Chinese Communist Party has continued to lie about this from the very beginning as if they have something to cover up. If that’s the case, it really is the biggest, the costliest, the most deadly cover-up in the history of mankind.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/17/cotton-chinas-coronavirus-the-biggest-the-costliest-the-most-deadly-cover-up-in-the-history-of-mankind/
And this was a week ago:
Sen. Tom Cotton: Coronavirus – How to make China's Communist Party pay for the COVID-19 pandemic
The world is now in the midst of a pandemic that threatens millions. Our first priority in this emergency is suppressing the coronavirus to keep Americans safe. But our next priority must be holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable for unleashing this plague on the world.
Instead of reporting the deadly outbreak in Wuhan when it first appeared, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) engaged in a cover-up, intimidating brave whistleblowers like the late Dr. Li Wenliang, destroying samples that pointed to the virus’s origin, and shutting down a laboratory that shared the virus’s genetic sequence on the Internet.
By the time the CCP switched from cover-up to containment, it was already too late for the Chinese people and the world. Officials resorted to draconian measures like welding shut apartment doors in a desperate bid to control the virus’s spread.
Just because the CCP’s tardy efforts failed doesn’t mean a pandemic was inevitable. According to researchers at the University of Southampton, worldwide cases could’ve been reduced by two-thirds if the CCP had responded to the virus just one week sooner; if it had responded three weeks sooner, a stunning 95 percent of cases could’ve been avoided.
Instead of fighting the virus to save its citizens, the CCP fought a P.R. battle to save its own skin while enlisting its cronies at the World Health Organization to toe the Party line.
Months later, the CCP is still engaged in a propaganda war about the coronavirus. Last month, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman speculated that the U.S. Army might have brought the virus to Wuhan.
His comments are part of a larger misinformation campaign to shift the blame for this pandemic from Beijing, where it belongs, to literally anyone else.
We shouldn’t allow the CCP to escape blame for causing this pandemic nor should we put ourselves in a position to be victimized by it again.
That means, first, we should treat this pandemic not just as a war with a deadly pathogen but as an information war with the CCP.
This campaign can start by ignoring cynical CCP flacks and politically correct dupes who claim that referring to the China virus by its point of origin is somehow xenophobic or racist.
The United States must also undertake an investigation into which Communist officials are responsible for covering up the outbreak in Wuhan. This investigation should lead to stiff sanctions against the officials we identify. I introduced a bill last week to make such sanctions possible.
Furthermore, we should restrict Chinese propaganda organs that sow misinformation within the United States, like state-sponsored newspaper China Daily and Confucius Centers on college campuses.
We can even rename the street outside the CCP’s embassy in Washington, D.C. after whistleblowers like Dr. Li, so that the CCP’s functionaries are forced to confront their party’s victims every day when they arrive at work.
As we make sure the history books record the facts about the China virus pandemic, we must also make sure the CCP pays a price for its malpractice, here and now.
If this pandemic has proven anything, it’s that the CCP has abandoned any claim to global leadership. We should move immediately to demote China from positions of prominence in international institutions like the United Nations as well as technical standards-setting bodies that Beijing has coopted in recent years to promote Chinese technology.
We can also bring action against China at the World Trade Organization and revoke its special trading privileges with our country for threatening to cut off access to vital supplies in a time of crisis.
Likewise, Beijing’s influence at the WHO should be rooted out. Cronies like WHO official Bruce Aylward ought to be replaced with impartial public servants who are willing to buck the party line in Beijing.
We should also seek membership in the WHO for Taiwan. It has handled the pandemic better than perhaps any country to date, despite its shameful exclusion from the WHO at China’s insistence.
Rest - https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-china-communist-party-covid-19-tom-cotton
And now back to today again:
Senator Tom Cotton claims that China 'deliberately' allowed coronavirus to wreak havoc on the rest of the world as he calls for the Chinese Communist Party to be 'held responsible'
Tom Cotton claimed there is 'circumstantial evidence' to point to Wuhan lab
'There has to be consequences to those actions,' he said on Fox News
US intelligence is investigating whether novel virus could have leaked from lab
China refutes claims it could have crossed to humans accidentally during tests
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has claimed that China 'deliberately' allowed the rest of the world to become infected with the novel coronavirus.
He made the comments during an interview on Fox's Outnumbered Overtime after it emerged that US intelligence officials are investigating whether the virus could have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan.
Cotton said that even if there was a lack of 'conclusive evidence' on where the virus originated, the cover up in the weeks following the outbreak allowed the disease to spread beyond China to wreak havoc on the rest of the world.
China has strongly refuted claims that coronavirus could have first crossed to humans accidentally during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab.
'Even if we can't establish it conclusively, we still know that they covered up this virus for weeks in December and January when they could have been forthright, when they could have tried to arrest its spread in Wuhan,' Cotton said.
'But instead they made this decision deliberately to allow this virus to spread around the world.
'In my opinion, Xi Jinping had decided if China is going to suffer then the rest of the world, especially the United States, is going to suffer, and there has to be consequences to those actions.'
Cotton also commented: 'There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to point to those labs as the sources of this pandemic.
'There's virtually no evidence, circumstantial or direct, to point to a food market in Wuhan.
'It just takes a little bit of common sense to say that the Chinese Communist Party needs to be held responsible.'
It comes after a report by Fox News in which multiple sources claimed investigations are underway to determine if coronavirus could have first crossed to humans during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory.
Rest - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8229461/Senator-claims-China-deliberately-allowed-coronavirus-spread.html
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Cotton: China’s Coronavirus ‘the Biggest, the Costliest, the Most Deadly Cover-Up in the History of Mankind’
Friday on Fox News, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed the possibility of a link to the global coronavirus outbreak and a Chinese lab and the possibility China’s government may have tried to cover up the outbreak domestically.
Cotton told “Fox & Friends” that if the allegations were true about China, it would be historic on a global level.
“The circumstantial evidence, which I began to cite in January, stacking up pretty quickly that this virus may have originated in those labs in Wuhan,” he said. “We knew from the very beginning that the Chinese Communist Party’s front story about the food market was probably wrong.”
“For one, it appears that they don’t even sell the kind of bats at that market from which this virus originated, and two, Chinese scientists in an authoritative study as early as January found that about a third of the early cases had no contact with the food market whatsoever,” he continued. “We know that China has a very sloppy history of laboratory safety. Some of our own diplomats at the embassies in China went to these labs as far back as two years ago and said the shape the practices there were very alarming. And you can see how the Chinese Communist Party has continued to lie about this from the very beginning as if they have something to cover up. If that’s the case, it really is the biggest, the costliest, the most deadly cover-up in the history of mankind.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/17/cotton-chinas-coronavirus-the-biggest-the-costliest-the-most-deadly-cover-up-in-the-history-of-mankind/
And this was a week ago:
Sen. Tom Cotton: Coronavirus – How to make China's Communist Party pay for the COVID-19 pandemic
The world is now in the midst of a pandemic that threatens millions. Our first priority in this emergency is suppressing the coronavirus to keep Americans safe. But our next priority must be holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable for unleashing this plague on the world.
Instead of reporting the deadly outbreak in Wuhan when it first appeared, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) engaged in a cover-up, intimidating brave whistleblowers like the late Dr. Li Wenliang, destroying samples that pointed to the virus’s origin, and shutting down a laboratory that shared the virus’s genetic sequence on the Internet.
By the time the CCP switched from cover-up to containment, it was already too late for the Chinese people and the world. Officials resorted to draconian measures like welding shut apartment doors in a desperate bid to control the virus’s spread.
Just because the CCP’s tardy efforts failed doesn’t mean a pandemic was inevitable. According to researchers at the University of Southampton, worldwide cases could’ve been reduced by two-thirds if the CCP had responded to the virus just one week sooner; if it had responded three weeks sooner, a stunning 95 percent of cases could’ve been avoided.
Instead of fighting the virus to save its citizens, the CCP fought a P.R. battle to save its own skin while enlisting its cronies at the World Health Organization to toe the Party line.
Months later, the CCP is still engaged in a propaganda war about the coronavirus. Last month, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman speculated that the U.S. Army might have brought the virus to Wuhan.
His comments are part of a larger misinformation campaign to shift the blame for this pandemic from Beijing, where it belongs, to literally anyone else.
We shouldn’t allow the CCP to escape blame for causing this pandemic nor should we put ourselves in a position to be victimized by it again.
That means, first, we should treat this pandemic not just as a war with a deadly pathogen but as an information war with the CCP.
This campaign can start by ignoring cynical CCP flacks and politically correct dupes who claim that referring to the China virus by its point of origin is somehow xenophobic or racist.
The United States must also undertake an investigation into which Communist officials are responsible for covering up the outbreak in Wuhan. This investigation should lead to stiff sanctions against the officials we identify. I introduced a bill last week to make such sanctions possible.
Furthermore, we should restrict Chinese propaganda organs that sow misinformation within the United States, like state-sponsored newspaper China Daily and Confucius Centers on college campuses.
We can even rename the street outside the CCP’s embassy in Washington, D.C. after whistleblowers like Dr. Li, so that the CCP’s functionaries are forced to confront their party’s victims every day when they arrive at work.
As we make sure the history books record the facts about the China virus pandemic, we must also make sure the CCP pays a price for its malpractice, here and now.
If this pandemic has proven anything, it’s that the CCP has abandoned any claim to global leadership. We should move immediately to demote China from positions of prominence in international institutions like the United Nations as well as technical standards-setting bodies that Beijing has coopted in recent years to promote Chinese technology.
We can also bring action against China at the World Trade Organization and revoke its special trading privileges with our country for threatening to cut off access to vital supplies in a time of crisis.
Likewise, Beijing’s influence at the WHO should be rooted out. Cronies like WHO official Bruce Aylward ought to be replaced with impartial public servants who are willing to buck the party line in Beijing.
We should also seek membership in the WHO for Taiwan. It has handled the pandemic better than perhaps any country to date, despite its shameful exclusion from the WHO at China’s insistence.
Rest - https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-china-communist-party-covid-19-tom-cotton
And now back to today again:
Senator Tom Cotton claims that China 'deliberately' allowed coronavirus to wreak havoc on the rest of the world as he calls for the Chinese Communist Party to be 'held responsible'
Tom Cotton claimed there is 'circumstantial evidence' to point to Wuhan lab
'There has to be consequences to those actions,' he said on Fox News
US intelligence is investigating whether novel virus could have leaked from lab
China refutes claims it could have crossed to humans accidentally during tests
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has claimed that China 'deliberately' allowed the rest of the world to become infected with the novel coronavirus.
He made the comments during an interview on Fox's Outnumbered Overtime after it emerged that US intelligence officials are investigating whether the virus could have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan.
Cotton said that even if there was a lack of 'conclusive evidence' on where the virus originated, the cover up in the weeks following the outbreak allowed the disease to spread beyond China to wreak havoc on the rest of the world.
China has strongly refuted claims that coronavirus could have first crossed to humans accidentally during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab.
'Even if we can't establish it conclusively, we still know that they covered up this virus for weeks in December and January when they could have been forthright, when they could have tried to arrest its spread in Wuhan,' Cotton said.
'But instead they made this decision deliberately to allow this virus to spread around the world.
'In my opinion, Xi Jinping had decided if China is going to suffer then the rest of the world, especially the United States, is going to suffer, and there has to be consequences to those actions.'
Cotton also commented: 'There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to point to those labs as the sources of this pandemic.
'There's virtually no evidence, circumstantial or direct, to point to a food market in Wuhan.
'It just takes a little bit of common sense to say that the Chinese Communist Party needs to be held responsible.'
It comes after a report by Fox News in which multiple sources claimed investigations are underway to determine if coronavirus could have first crossed to humans during experiments with bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory.
Rest - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8229461/Senator-claims-China-deliberately-allowed-coronavirus-spread.html