From US Congress thread, the Senator who saw the coronavirus coming:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/the-senator-who-saw-the-coronavirus-coming/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in&utm_term=first
Sen. Tom Cotton was early on this. (Famous people reading the forum, see below.) He sounded the alarm (Jan 23?) on the Hugh Hewitt show where he appears regularly. He tweeted Jan 29, we need to shut down the flights from China. Trump did that the next day - to much criticism. This was while being tied up in the impeachment trial.
Cotton credited John Ellis - 'New Items' for his early awareness of the virus. Ellis combs international news for stories of interest and importance and distributes them every morning by email. I posted link to his newsletter here:
https://dogbrothers.com/phpBB2/index.php?topic=1263.msg118358#msg118358Hat tip, news items John Ellis
https://newsitems.substack.com/welcomeJuly 10, 2019. Should have put it on the media thread
The problem with the Ellis newsletter is that he keeps linking to places where I don't have subscriptions, but he captures or paraphrases the main points. They have a paid and a shortened free edition.
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Here on the Forum,
Crafty and Stratfor
had it first:
Crafty_Dog
Stratfor: Risks follow spread of new virus out of China
« Reply #153 on: January 22, 2020
From the article:
"The new virus will test pandemic management systems in China and internationally."
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Next day, next post in epidemics, I posted NYT's first story on it:
DougMacG
Re: new virus out of China
« Reply #154 on: January 23, 2020, 06:05:57 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage[Doug] "Quarantine a city the size of Wuhan? How?"
Referral to that story came to me from John Ellis News Items.
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Also to the credit of Sen Cotton is his healthy skepticism of the statements coming out of China. As he stated then, their denials of massive numbers and denial of person to person contact do not match the extreme measures they are taking to contain it, locking down a city, Wuhan,the size of NYC, (and Hubei province, the population of 7 Londons).
Where was our attention when it should have been on this emerging story?
In China, the big New Year celebration was Jan 25.
In the US, besides impeachment, Kobe Bryant (and daughter and others) died on Jan 26, 2020, in between the first news stories of the virus and our first response to it. Do you know anyone, even among those who know nothing about basketball, who wasn't aware of that fatal helicopter crash? Do you know anyone, other than on the forum, who was aware of the virus, at that time, that would shut down the world economy within two months.
On Jan 30, Hugh Hewitt had Meet the Press's Chuck Todd on the show and asked him about the virus and Cotton call for a China travel ban. Todd pooh-poohed it. Hugh replayed his early coverage of this today and says the audio will be posted on his youtube channel. [The show airs too early for the west coasters.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzd0HpLq6ic Coverage starts Jan 20 with WSJ story.
It is the two months preceding all that, that interests me most, from patient zero to the first western alarm going off. China was jailing their whistleblowers. One of them died, the others 'missing'. That's when the world could have protected itself and started the search for the cure, the treatment, the containment. But we didn't because we couldn't. Because China lies. We still can't investigate how it started, because China lies and is STILL blocking the search for the truth.
Once we survive the medical crisis we are immersed in, I would like to accumulate all the early evidence and timeline of that, hopefully in its own thread.
