plain logic

Have you asked the big question knothead? How did this whole thing start? There is no clue, just facts woody.
Here, take a read:Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended — and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.

Why it matters: A study published in March indicated that if Chinese authorities had acted three weeks earlier than they did, the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95% and its geographic spread limited.

This timeline, compiled from information reported by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the South China Morning Post and other sources, shows that China's cover-up and the delay in serious measures to contain the virus lasted about three weeks.

Dec. 10: Wei Guixian, one of the earliest known coronavirus patients, starts feeling ill.

Dec. 16: Patient admitted to Wuhan Central Hospital with infection in both lungs but resistant to anti-flu drugs. Staff later learned he worked at a wildlife market connected to the outbreak.

Dec. 27: Wuhan health officials are told that a new coronavirus is causing the illness.

Dec. 30:

Ai Fen, a top director at Wuhan Central Hospital, posts information on WeChat about the new virus. She was reprimanded for doing so and told not to spread information about it.
Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang also shares information on WeChat about the new SARS-like virus. He is called in for questioning shortly afterward.
Wuhan health commission notifies hospitals of a “pneumonia of unclear cause” and orders them to report any related information.
Dec. 31:

Wuhan health officials confirm 27 cases of illness and close a market they think is related to the virus' spread.
China tells the World Health Organization’s China office about the cases of an unknown illness.
Jan. 1: Wuhan Public Security Bureau brings in for questioning eight doctors who had posted information about the illness on WeChat.

An official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission orders labs, which had already determined that the novel virus was similar to SARS, to stop testing samples and to destroy existing samples.
Jan. 2: Chinese researchers map the new coronavirus' complete genetic information. This information is not made public until Jan. 9.

Jan. 7: Xi Jinping becomes involved in the response.

Jan. 9: China announces it has mapped the coronavirus genome.

Jan. 11–17: Important prescheduled CCP meeting held in Wuhan. During that time, the Wuhan Health Commission insists there are no new cases.

Jan. 13: First coronavirus case reported in Thailand, the first known case outside China.

Jan. 14: WHO announces Chinese authorities have seen "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus."

Jan. 15: The patient who becomes the first confirmed U.S. case leaves Wuhan and arrives in the U.S., carrying the coronavirus.

Jan. 18:

The Wuhan Health Commission announces four new cases.
Annual Wuhan Lunar New Year banquet. Tens of thousands of people gathered for a potluck.
Jan. 19: Beijing sends epidemiologists to Wuhan.

Jan. 20:

The first case announced in South Korea.
Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese doctor who is helping to coordinate the coronavirus response, announces the virus can be passed between people.
Jan. 21:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the first coronavirus case in the United States.
CCP flagship newspaper People’s Daily mentions the coronavirus epidemic and Xi's actions to fight it for the first time.
China's top political commission in charge of law and order warns that “anyone who deliberately delays and hides the reporting of [virus] cases out of his or her own self-interest will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity."
Jan. 23: Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. Right around this time, approximately 5 million people leave the city without being screened for the illness.

Jan. 24–30: China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives.

Jan. 24: China extends the lockdown to cover 36 million people and starts to rapidly build a new hospital in Wuhan. From this point, very strict measures continue to be implemented around the country for the rest of the epidemic.

The bottom line: China is now trying to create a narrative that it's an example of how to handle this crisis when in fact its early actions led to the virus spreading around the globe.

Go deeper: China's coronavirus cover-up was among worst in history, congressman says

NancyAnn

Too bad you are not able to read. Trump closed the borders to certain countries despite the fact that old man Joe said it was not necessary.

plain logic

So true Blade. Reminds me of history, Hitlers propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the German people heard and read everything that Nazi had to say and never looked beyond it for truth. They just blindly followed, as they do here today following the DNC.

NancyAnn

So correct!!

plain logic

That's what they do as a MOB, there is no rationale just follow blindly, yell, scream, light the torches get the rope. They are the MOB.

Yankel Drumpf

I got maga hat my wife kids got maga hats I got my ARs so we ain’t getting any of that Democrat foreigner disease anyway. My president called as it is. Another hoax, fake news. I trust him with my life. He always tells the truth. Like he says What you see on tv is not what’s happening

jwrevagent

I always get a chuckle out of people who compare anything in the US to any other country. South Korea is a totally different country than we are, fewer people, less area to cover, and most of the population is located in one area which makes it easier to set up drive through testing sites. I love to hear the arguments from some about how things work in smaller European countries and so they should work here as well, never mind that we have a completely different and more diverse population, spread out over more area, with different cultural backgrounds and even some different languages prevalent and different religious beliefs with differing taboos and commands-the US is one of the few countries that does not have an official language-so the socialized medicine of Canada or Sweden that works for them, would not work here much as you might think it should. We are not as homogenious a population and we take some pride in our spirit of independence, though I admit that is becoming less and less as we ask the government to take over more and more parts of our lives. We are even to the point of giving up our right to defend ourselves from our government and certainly our right to assemble has been freely, willingly tossed aside too easily to my way of thinking. I would like to know what constitutes "fitness for office" in your opinion. Seriously.

Yankel Drumpf

You guys are funny. You’re trained to do whatever you can get away with to stop poor brown people getting govt welfare but spread your cheeks like Stormy for Trump when it comes to the trillion in welfare to oil companies, large companies and farmers. Call your self Christians you’re an embarrassment to the Lord.

Yankel Drumpf

You mean Fox News right?

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

That oil companies and large companies get handouts FROM THE GUBMENT is not what I would have them do. Up to me they would twist in the wind for ANYTHING. Farmers (I am one and get zip from the gubment) so be more careful with your BS.

Yankel Drumpf

nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert

Shoulda coulda woulda, get over it were here now ,all in it together ,so let's calm down and work together to get through this, like civilized folks. Or is it asking too much?

Smartass

Mr. plain logic, What you forgot to mention was your dump ass President Trump brought this to the attention of the American people in his state of the union address on Jan. 4th.
Mr. president said there was an out brake of the coronavirus in china and we are keeping an eye on this crisis and that when the weather starts to warm up it should go away.
Now which one of us did not do their job?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Shoulda what? Coulda what? Woulda what?

Tell that to the young people who aren't in any danger who now can't work and pay bills or make a living. I am in shock over how easily the American people have allowed their freedoms to be removed and it ain't over yet. There will be more of our freedom removed.

Simple solution to the entire problem. Educate the public and tell those over 70 with pre-existing conditions to isolate themselves or at the very least avoid contact with anyone. And we can distance our selves from others, voluntarily, without closing all businesses. And certainly don't give us predictions of millions dead in the US.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Did our response teams at the CDC et al decide to not get ready because the president hoped it would not be a bad pandemic? Did they fail to prepare since 2009 because of anything Trump had said or done? Did Trump cause China to be the main manufacturer of drugs for the US?

Trump. Trump. Trump.