Also, Rod Rosenstein's sister worked at CDC and may have been involved in not telling President Trump the truth about the coronavirus.
Trump backers see a coronavirus conspiracy (date 2/26/2020)
CDC official who raised fears turns out to be Rod Rosenstein’s sister, setting off MAGA-world alarms.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/trump-backers-coronavirus-conspiracy-117781
From RedState:
I’ll preface this by saying that it’s possible “lie” is too strong of a word here. Nonetheless, James Rosen dropped a bombshell report today that could explain the early slow distribution of Wuhan virus tests. It involves a former official speaking on the record about what he saw at the time.
You can watch the full hit above, which includes the comments from the former official about the CDC misleading the Trump administration on the viability of their early testing regimes. That’s been a hot topic in regards to judging how quickly the President did or didn’t act, often used as a bludgeon within the current news coverage.
This has actually been a question for quite a while, with strong evidence to support the idea that CDC, operating within all the red tape previously created, had really dropped the ball. Tests from overseas were rejected that could have gotten the U.S. testing capacity up and going much sooner. Eventually, the CDC would admit that their early tests were giving false positives, requiring a rework. That’s how we ended up where we are today, with private companies doing the lion’s share of the heavy lifting to get this done. The fact that those private companies had to get involved is a pretty good signal that the CDC screwed this up.
For their part, the CDC gave a statement that doesn’t really deny there were issues, but instead shifts to the current good work they are doing. That may be a reasonable response, as there’s a difference between “lying” about something and just screwing up early on. RedState writer Stu Cvrk gave his own opinions about the CDC’s response in a recent write up.
Once this is all over, I’m sure we’ll see plenty of deep dives to get to the bottom of this, but the President is obviously not going to address it right now with the CDC playing a central role in combating the virus.
https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2020/03/20/james-rosen-reports-cdc-lied-to-the-white-house-about-wuhan-virus-testing/
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[–] Hispeedtim2876 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Maybe 15 million really died in China?
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[–] Gorillion 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
On lock-down for sure.
[–] NoBS 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
For those who said Hitler could not burn 15 million in 6 years are in for a bitch slap.
Or was that 6 million in 15 weeks? Well, what ever.
[–] Fried-Laptop 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
italy cant. neither could germany.
pretty sure IF china could achieve such a feat, it involved blast furnaces/ore processing facilities.
im suprised germant couldnt incinerat 6gorillion jews... they are oily & greasy, should go like cord wood. even in a swamp like trebelka. go figger...
[–] Sumarongi ago
In a country with 1,5 Billion people, 15m is a drop in the bucket.
I don’t think those people died from the disease
[–] xzars_folly 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Which would put the impact in line with what is being seen in Italy. The fact that Italy and China's numbers are so insanely different says that china is lying its ass off about how bad they got hit.
This is still rapidly spreading, and the rate of spread is increasing, despite quarantines, so there is zero reason to think that China has any control over their situation either.