Hi Media!
Thank you for the continuing offers to participate in interviews and appearances.
However, I am not available now. It is a pandemic after all.
In any event, I do not make any appearances.
Yes. It is an undisputed fact that we were the first in the West to publish an English account of what is now named the COVID-19 pandemic. Apparently another entity is claiming to be the first media to publish an account (a Chinese translation) 30 minutes earlier than us. All I will say about that is FluTrackers does not have the ability to choose the time stamp that appears on each post. It is automatically assigned by the software.
Our original thread which was originally named "China - Mystery pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province" is here.
I personally feel that the seeds for the COVID-19 pandemic were evident possibly as far back as the summer of 2019. It is my guess that an early strain may have been circulating which was not efficient at human-to-human transmission and that over several months it became more efficient. A thread with some support documentation is here. I am not a virologist or geneticist. These hard sciences will have a better proof of what really happened.
There has been some interest in whether China "covered up" this outbreak. There is some support for this assertion:
1) Eight people spreading Wuhan pneumonia rumors were investigated and punished according to law - January 1, 2020 link (This situation is well known now.)
2) China - Doctor, 51, with severe pneumonia moved to isolation on Dec. 31 - on experimental drugs - Dongguan, Guangdong province - January 4, 2020 (This doctor became sick on December 2, 2019 and no known drugs were working on him.)
China has a very firm policy on disrupting social order. Spreading unauthorized news can be viewed as disrupting the social order. It is punishable by fines and imprisonment. This policy is very well sourced. I can provide our links to their policies about spreading rumors, if requested, but China's policy is very well known.
There is also some speculation about how this disease started. Again, the hard sciences will probably be the answer here. The only BSL - 4 lab in China is located in Wuhan and this is an interesting coincidence. We have collected various studies that the lab has published in previous years. It does appear they have worked on SARS for some period of years. link I do not take any position on this. I do not know.
I will say that over 14 years I have found the China government to be less than candid and truthful about their disease outbreaks.
I hope there are public national and international hearings after this outbreak has ended. We need to answer many questions to be better prepared for the future. How did it start? How did it spread? What erroneous public policies led to a further spread? What did we learn about expediting effective treatments and vaccines in a novel outbreak? Did we respond effectively to our most vulnerable populations?
Was a crime against humanity committed?
Thank you for the interest.
See you after this is all over.
Sharon
Thank you for the continuing offers to participate in interviews and appearances.
However, I am not available now. It is a pandemic after all.
In any event, I do not make any appearances.
Yes. It is an undisputed fact that we were the first in the West to publish an English account of what is now named the COVID-19 pandemic. Apparently another entity is claiming to be the first media to publish an account (a Chinese translation) 30 minutes earlier than us. All I will say about that is FluTrackers does not have the ability to choose the time stamp that appears on each post. It is automatically assigned by the software.
Our original thread which was originally named "China - Mystery pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province" is here.
I personally feel that the seeds for the COVID-19 pandemic were evident possibly as far back as the summer of 2019. It is my guess that an early strain may have been circulating which was not efficient at human-to-human transmission and that over several months it became more efficient. A thread with some support documentation is here. I am not a virologist or geneticist. These hard sciences will have a better proof of what really happened.
There has been some interest in whether China "covered up" this outbreak. There is some support for this assertion:
1) Eight people spreading Wuhan pneumonia rumors were investigated and punished according to law - January 1, 2020 link (This situation is well known now.)
2) China - Doctor, 51, with severe pneumonia moved to isolation on Dec. 31 - on experimental drugs - Dongguan, Guangdong province - January 4, 2020 (This doctor became sick on December 2, 2019 and no known drugs were working on him.)
China has a very firm policy on disrupting social order. Spreading unauthorized news can be viewed as disrupting the social order. It is punishable by fines and imprisonment. This policy is very well sourced. I can provide our links to their policies about spreading rumors, if requested, but China's policy is very well known.
There is also some speculation about how this disease started. Again, the hard sciences will probably be the answer here. The only BSL - 4 lab in China is located in Wuhan and this is an interesting coincidence. We have collected various studies that the lab has published in previous years. It does appear they have worked on SARS for some period of years. link I do not take any position on this. I do not know.
I will say that over 14 years I have found the China government to be less than candid and truthful about their disease outbreaks.
I hope there are public national and international hearings after this outbreak has ended. We need to answer many questions to be better prepared for the future. How did it start? How did it spread? What erroneous public policies led to a further spread? What did we learn about expediting effective treatments and vaccines in a novel outbreak? Did we respond effectively to our most vulnerable populations?
Was a crime against humanity committed?
Thank you for the interest.
See you after this is all over.
Sharon
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