“American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.”
“The researchers studied almost 7,400 blood donations made in nine US states between December 13, 2019 and January 17, 2020. Evidence of Covid-19 bodies antibodies, the presence of which suggest a person had contact with the virus, were present in 106 of those samples, according to the study.”
“This means coronavirus could have been in the US a month before it saw its first confirmed case, and weeks before the Chinese authorities announced the infection in the city of Wuhan.”
I can think of a good productive reason: maybe the anti-Chinese sentiment in the US will quiet down some. And perhaps a couple more people will realize that factory farms are fucking horrible and go vegan.
You really think it'll be that and not "those fucking Chinese snuck it into our country first to make us look bad and take the blame!"?
I don't know, you're probably right. The media and also the government certainly seem to be working very hard to drum up anti-Chinese sentiment and surely they won't let something pesky like facts stand in their way.
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Well the Chinese military would be absolutely stupid if they didn't see the damage a relatively low death rate disease has caused to the western world and double down investments into bioweapons.
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so I watch DemocracyNow! 's headline news today, and while Goodman was reading the news about Covid-19 being in the US in December, the footage they played over her voice were scenes from a US Chinatown...
They'll definitely say the scientists are lying so china doesn't look bad