Houston Chronicle March 30, 2020
On Jan. 21, a Chinese government agency issued a stark warning about the emerging novel coronavirus: “anyone who deliberately delays and hides the reporting of cases out of his or her own self-interest will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity.â€
We’re still waiting for Chinese President Xi Jinping and some officials in Wuhan to show up on that pillar.
That dramatic Jan. 21 warning came the day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case in the U.S.
It came seven days after the World Health Organization announced that Chinese authorities reported “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.â€
It came 22 whole days after Wuhan doctors, including, Li Wenliang, were reprimanded as “rumormongers†for trying to warn about the virus.
It came long after the lies and secrets of China’s authoritarian government had allowed a mysterious illness infecting a couple dozen people to explode into a worldwide pandemic that has now sickened more than 723, 000 people, killed more than 34,000 and caused untold economic destruction.
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