Thread by @modernhomesla

COVID-19 Pandemic

"At its root,
story of 2 deeply flawed leaders,
Xi Jinping
+
tRUmp,
who 4 too long
minimized coronavirus threat;

+ who,
bc of enormous,
lrgly unaccountable power they wield,
must share responsibility
4 its global scale."
@Laurie_Garrett
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

World.
We have a problem.

"How Trump + Xi
set stage 4
coronavirus pandemic"

"Defying the brute nationalist logic of border closure, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread as an unseen stealth agent among us, causing illness + death."

Excellent Read!
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"Mid-January,
Chinese propaganda campaign
denying any pending pandemic
in full swing.

tRUmp would later tout
politicized tactic of
keeping passengers quarantined
on cruise line 2 make his own
coronavirus numbers look good."
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

"Chinese officialdom
then reported just 41 people
were diagnosed with
*the new pneumonia disease,
w only one fatality."
🤦‍♂️
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

chYna tRUmp Lies

~~ Timeline ~~

"January 13,
Wuhan Commission on Health
proudly announced
'there were no new cases of pneumonia
caused by new coronavirus infection
in our city,
one case was cured + discharged
+ no new deaths were reported'."
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

"As late as
January 14,
Ch-in-ese govt reps
officially reported 2 @WHO
there was “no clear evidence
of human-to-human transmission
of the novel coronavirus
identified in Wuhan,”
a point they would stress again
January 20."

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"On January 18,
w blessing of Wuhan authorities,
40,000 people gathered
4 traditional Lunar New Year celebration
in which households prepared special dishes
+ shared them widely,
w participants dipping their chopsticks
N2 1 dish after another."
😱
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"3 days earlier
[Jan 15],
man in his 30s
flew from Wuhan
2 Seattle-Tacoma Intl Airport,
+ went 2 his home in
Snohomish County, Washington.

On January 19,
he was diagnosed
w probable case of
Wuhan pneumonia."

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"It was also true
U.S. CDC,
where tRUmp
had previously discharged much of
the pandemic preparedness team,
largely on grounds
Obama admin
had taken pains
2 build up its ranks,

had no test👈
2 definitively prove
he was infected."
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"When asked about
ailing Seattle-area man,
tRUmp insisted,

'We have it totally under control.

It’s one person coming in from China.

We have it under control.

It’s going to be just fine'."

🤦‍♂️
And, how's that working out for us???
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"W China’s Lunar New Year
[1-18-20]
holiday approaching,
Beijing ordered travel ban,
beginning lockdown of Wuhan;
but not B4 some 5M people
fled the metropolis,
taking the virus w them."

Think Sun Valley, ID.😱
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"As the world health community
was starting 2 learn of
SARS-like new pneumonia virus
spreading in China,
govt officials in chYna
were still downplaying
its true severity."

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"By January 26,
China had placed
> 50M people
under quarantines."

Same day,
US - 5 cases, 4 states.

Imagine what true numbers are?🤔

Unfortunately,
no one seems 2
appreciate data
w/in autocratic admins.

What's up with that?

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"Keep-the-virus-out strategy
started on Fri, January 17,
as screening procedure
at 3 U.S. airports
San Francisco, Los Angeles
+ JFK in NY.

Passengers arriving from Wuhan
were screened by DHS + CDC"🌡️
checking 4
fevers, coughing
+ breathing difficulties

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January 17
🔥tRUmp Admin Feud🔥

HHS Sec
Alex Azar
+
Seema Verma,
head of Medicare + Medicaid,

"over appropriate uses
of health care funds
+ allegations of misappropriation
by Verma."

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January 17
*Tensions w/in
tRUmp admin about
how 2 scale back
or eliminate
core provisions of
Affordable Care Act [ACA]
ObamaCare

🍄Shrivel-diqq
is such a
shrivel-diqq.🍄
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

January 16
Senate impeachment trial begins.

tRUmp all ready impeached in House.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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"[tRUmp] even suggested
Covid-19
justified closing
U.S. border w Mexico;
even though southern border
didn’t represent principal avenue
of transmission 4 virus,
it was tried-and-true source
of nationalist panic
Trump could gin up among his base."🔥

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March 9,
tRUmp
on Twitler,
“The BEST decision made
was the toughest of them all
- which saved many lives.
Our VERY early decision
to stop travel
to and from
certain parts of the world!”

🥩🧠
🤦‍♂️
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March 6
Larry Kudlow

Yep.
🤦‍♂️
They still stoopid.
👇
“This[COVID-19]
came unexpectedly,
it came out of China,
we closed it down,
we stopped it,
it was a very early shut down.
I would still argue 2 U
that this thing is contained.”
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

By January 26,
"Chinese auth annced
virus spreading
via person-2-person contact;
w spreaders by all appear
well + w/out any observable symptoms.

This development✴️
should have been red flag
about reliability
of airport screening procedures
worldwide."
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

"Regardless of original genesis
of virus’s spread among humans,
it’s now clear unseen cases
of the mysterious pneumonia
were present in Wuhan
at least as early as Dec 8, 2019,
+ may well date back 2 Nov,
even Oct."👈🔥

👏🎬👏🎬👏🎬👏
@Laurie_Garrett
newrepublic.com/article/157118…

@threadreaderapp please unroll this COVID-19 timeline to add to the many others collected.