{"id":1823,"date":"2020-04-02T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2020-04-03T04:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:06:28","slug":"breaking-china-lied-about-coronavirus-cases-us-intelligence-says-canadas-sino-servile-liberal-establishment-cried-racism-rather-thank-blocking-or-testing-travellers-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: China lied about coronavirus cases US intelligence says &#038; Canada&#8217;s Sino-servile Liberal Establishment Cried Racism Rather Than Blocking or Testing Travellers from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BREAKING: China lied about coronavirus cases US intelligence says &amp; Canada&#8217;s Sino-servile Liberal Establishment Cried Racism Rather Than Blocking or Testing Travellers from China<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CHINESE-MARKET.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1824\" src=\"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CHINESE-MARKET-300x150.png\" alt=\"CHINESE MARKET\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CHINESE-MARKET-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CHINESE-MARKET.png 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>: China lied about coronavirus cases US intelligence says<\/h1>\n<p>The country has allegedly under-reported the total number of cases and deaths in connection with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Sam McGriskin Montreal, QC<\/p>\n<p>1st April 2020 2 mins read<\/p>\n<p>China has not revealed the extent to which the coronavirus outbreak has affected the country according to US intelligence. The country has allegedly under-reported the total number of cases and deaths in connection with the virus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-01\/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says\"><em>Bloomberg News<\/em><\/a> reported that three US officials said information on the subject was released to the White House in a classified report.<\/p>\n<p>The officials did not want to be identified due to the secrecy of the report and did not provide further details on its contents. They did note however, that China intentionally provided incomplete reporting on the number of cases and the overall death toll. According to two of the officials, information in the report says China\u2019s numbers are fake.<\/p>\n<p>One official added that the White House received the report last week.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak started in Hubei, China in 2019 and data from Johns Hopkins University shows that China has reported around 82,000 cases of the disease and 3,300 deaths. The U.S. has reported 189,000 cases and over 4,000 deaths\u2014the world&#8217;s largest publicly reported outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Skepticism of China\u2019s numbers has grown both inside and outside of the country as several methodologies have been used to count cases. The country did not include asymptomatic people in its counts until only recently. Over 1,500 people without symptoms were added to China\u2019s total on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In Hubei province, people began to doubt the reporting when thousands of urns were stacked outside funeral homes.<\/p>\n<p>In a news conference on Tuesday, State Department immunologist Deborah Birx who is advising on the subject at the White house said, \u201cThe medical community made\u2014interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller than anyone expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I think probably we were missing a significant amount of the data, now that what we see happened to Italy and see what happened to Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran, Indonesia, Russia and particularly North Korea are suspected of similar faulty reporting by Western officials. North Korea has not even reported one case of the disease. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have also been suspected of underreporting.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has accused China of not revealing the extent of the problem many times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis data set matters,\u201d Pompeo said during a news conference on Tuesday. Development of Public health measures and medical therapies used for combating coronavirus \u201cso that we can save lives depends on the ability to have confidence and information about what has actually transpired,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would urge every nation: Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to share that information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Chris Selley of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The National Post<\/strong><\/span> (March 31, 2020) exposes how many of Ottawa&#8217;s very deferential to China &#8220;experts&#8221; were woefully wrong with advice not to close the borders to people coming from the epicentre of the Coronavirus &#8212; Red China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Chris Selley: Official nonsense on masks, travel bans is killing Ottawa&#8217;s COVID-19 credibility<\/strong><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When officials say &#8216;masks don\u2019t work,&#8217; regular people hear, &#8216;we have a dire shortage of masks for frontline healthcare workers so please give us your masks&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/no-plane-train-travel-if-showing-symptoms-trudeau-says-1.5513608\">the federal government announced<\/a> passengers with COVID-19 symptoms would be barred from domestic air and train travel, effective noon on Monday. \u201cIt will be important for operators of airlines and trains to ensure that people who are exhibiting symptoms do not board,\u201d Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/coronavirus-live-updates-covid19-canada-covid-19-world\"><strong><em>Follow our coronavirus live updates: Cases in Canada surge past 7,400 and deaths near 100<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does that make sense? It\u2019s a question Canadians seem to be asking more and more about this country\u2019s coronavirus response. And for governments and public health officials, it\u2019s a dangerous one. All too often, the answer is \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about buses?\u201d many asked on social media of Saturday\u2019s announcement. Buses are provincial jurisdiction, the feds noted. \u201cWhat about ferries?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timminstoday.com\/national-news\/ferry-operators-call-for-inclusion-in-covid-19-travel-restrictions-2210900\">asked the Canadian Ferry Association<\/a>. Good question. Ferries are Transport Canada\u2019s business. No answer yet. Mind you, transport operators don\u2019t yet have any guidance on how exactly they\u2019re supposed to \u201censure\u201d symptomatic people don\u2019t travel. It doesn\u2019t make much sense.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/newalert-trudeau-says-air-train-travel-to-be-denied-for-anyone-with-covid-19-symptoms\">Air and train travel to be denied for anyone with COVID-19 symptoms starting Monday: Trudeau<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/canada-news-pmn\/top-public-health-officer-says-canada-at-critical-juncture-in-covid-19-battle-2\">COVID-19 spreads to vulnerable communities as new provinces report deaths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/chris-selley-they-insisted-we-were-prepared-for-another-sars-then-they-sent-our-masks-to-china\">Chris Selley: They insisted we were prepared for another SARS. Then they sent our masks to China<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furthermore, we have been told over and over again that any measures carriers might implement \u2014 temperature sensors, for example \u2014 simply don\u2019t work. \u201cThe positive predictive value of screening is essentially zero,\u201d the authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3294328\/\">a widely cited 2005 study<\/a> reported, based on Canadian airports\u2019 experience with thermal scanners during the 2003 SARS outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>One of the authors of that study was Theresa Tam, who is now Canada\u2019s Chief Public Health Officer. She\u2019s the one doling out all the science that Trudeau insists underpins every single decision he and his ministers make: \u201cOur focus every step of the way is doing what (is) necessary at every moment based on the recommendations of experts, based on science and doing what we can to keep Canadians safe,\u201d the prime minister said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more than a bit awkward\u00a0\u2014 but not as awkward as federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu\u2019s immortal March 13th dismissal of travel restrictions: \u201cCanadians think we can stop this at the border, but what we see is a global pandemic, meaning that border measures actually are highly ineffective and in some cases can create harm.\u201d Five days later, the border slammed shut.<\/p>\n<p>We are to believe all of the positions above were supported by the same scientific experts. That doesn\u2019t make sense. Clearly the experts supported the more lenient measures, and then politics intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the experts supported the more lenient measures, and then politics intervened<\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the Health Committee on January 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/43-1\/HESA\/meeting-1\/evidence\">Tam strongly dismissed<\/a> the notion even of having all travellers from COVID-19 hot zones self-isolate for 14 days. She warned against \u201cstigmatizing\u201d communities. She very nearly suggested we couldn\u2019t implement travel restrictions even if we wanted to. \u201cRight now\u2026 (the World Health Organization) does not recommend travel bans,\u201d she warned the committee. \u201cWe are a signatory to the International Health Regulations and we\u2019ll be called to account if we do anything different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/articles-detail\/updated-who-recommendations-for-international-traffic-in-relation-to-covid-19-outbreak\/\">still recommends<\/a> against travel restrictions, even to and from especially affected countries. No one seems to be \u201ccalling us to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It could well be that by the time Canadians started calling for travel restrictions, it was already too late to implement useful ones. That\u2019s what research generally concludes. But research <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/02\/23\/virus-travel-bans-are-inevitable-but-ineffective\/\">also acknowledges the political inevitability<\/a> of travel crackdowns. They just make too much sense to too many people. Federal ministers and public health officials recklessly undermined themselves by so forcefully rejecting measures that made so much sense to so many people Health Minister Patty Hajdu. Justin Tang\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity theatre\u00a0can be\u00a0dangerous \u2014 but the absence of security theatre can be dangerous too,\u201d Martha Pillinger, an associate at the O\u2019Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/02\/23\/virus-travel-bans-are-inevitable-but-ineffective\/\">wrote<\/a> in Foreign Policy last month. \u201cApparent inaction (or insufficient action) erodes trust in public health authorities, which undermines response efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Tam is asking a lot of Canadians to set aside a lot of common sense right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capnews.ca\/news\/masks-covid19\">There is ample evidence<\/a> that face masks \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2440799\/\">even homemade ones<\/a> \u2014 can provide significant protection to the uninfected. But Tam warns only of the potential pitfalls: Masks can provide \u201ca false sense of security,\u201d lead to more face-touching or make us forget to wash our hands. \u201cPutting a mask on an asymptomatic person is not beneficial,\u201d she said at her Monday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>That makes sense to a lot of medical professionals. A lot of regular people, however, are pretty sure they know how to wash their hands and not touch their faces. When officials say \u201cmasks don\u2019t work,\u201d a lot of regular people hear \u201cwe have an inexcusable shortage of masks for frontline healthcare workers so please give us your masks.\u201d When officials say \u201cyou don\u2019t need to be tested,\u201d they are likely to hear \u201cwe have inexcusably few tests available and not enough lab capacity to process the ones we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials recklessly undermined themselves by so forcefully rejecting measures that made so much sense to so many people<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Tam sternly advised Canadians against retreating to any \u201crural properties\u201d they might own. \u201cThese places have less capacity to manage COVID-19,\u201d she told reporters in Ottawa. That makes sense, as do concerns about straining off-season supply chains. But let\u2019s say you\u2019ve been extremely careful. You\u2019re symptom free. You pack up a week\u2019s worth of groceries, drive 90 minutes or two hours non-stop to your cottage, camp, farm or chalet, and don\u2019t interact with a single other human being. How dangerous, how irresponsible could that really be? If the cottage is good enough for Sophie Gr\u00e9goire Trudeau and the kids, who beetled off to Harrington Lake on Sunday, some people might conclude it\u2019s good enough for them.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials want to prevent people from asking such questions, from making excuses for themselves, in hopes the maximum number of people will take the maximum precautions. They need smart people to forsake relatively low-risk things in order to counterbalance all the dumb people who do high-risk things no matter what they\u2019re told. None of the measures will ever make perfect sense in every single situation. They are calls to collective sacrifice for the greater good. But they can\u2019t keep changing on the fly, with no explanation other than \u201cthe experts got more worried overnight,\u201d and remain credible.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Trudeau declined even to say he regretted not moving quicker on measures he now insists are essential.<\/p>\n<p>Does that make sense? No, that doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: China lied about coronavirus cases US intelligence says &amp; Canada&#8217;s Sino-servile Liberal Establishment Cried Racism Rather Than Blocking or Testing Travellers from China &nbsp; : China lied about coronavirus cases US intelligence says The country has allegedly under-reported the total number of cases and deaths in connection with the virus. 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