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Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.

Did the US pay reparations to essentially all the nations for the 1918 flu? This originated among cattle in Kansas, and killed 50 million people: more than WW1 and WW2 combined.

Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab. [1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

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Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab. [1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

Citation please?

If we take a few verbal statements of political figure or government officials as official stance. Then US' official stance must be fascism xenophobic totalitarian antiintellectal ...

Let not fall with the questionable thinking cultivated by propaganda and fear mongering

Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab. [1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

Please don't spread conspiracy theories without linking to a reliable source.

Defnitely not the official stance, but Lijian Zhao (China Spokesperson & Deputy Director General, Information Department, Foreign Ministry) tweeted "It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan."

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab. [1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

Citation please? If we take a few verbal statements of political figure or government officials as official stance. Then US' official stance must be fascism xenophobic totalitarian antiintellectal ... Let not fall with the questionable thinking cultivated by propaganda and fear mongering

He is referring to this one Chinese diplomat's statement, I don't believe it is the official stance but it could be the CCP attempt to blame an external entity:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...

Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.

Coverup, because every country has things that can cause problems for others.

China should have used their resources to seal everything and everyone the minute they knew. I agree with Trump on this one, they should have stopped it there. Bats, civets were all linked to previous infections and we know bats have other viruses waiting for us

Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.

A lot of countries did a poor job of the initial handling of the outbreak, which is why we're in this mess right now. If we're going to demand reparations from countries for a cover-up and exacerbating the situation, it shouldn't be limited to just China.

Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)

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China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab. [1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823

It's not an official stance. It's just yet another fake news from China.
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