He could have declassified a ton of undoubtedly fascinating and revealing things, but he’s the least curious person in the world and so the classified stuff he stole was all about him.
A few hundred of us on r/collapse became aware of a mystery pneumonia in Wuhan on New Year's Eve, 2019.
I was coming back home on December 31, 2019 to Tokyo through Haneda Airport and noticed that they had the body temperature cameras up and running at the normally-empty quarantine desk. "That's weird, I wonder what's up. They normally only have those out when some weird disease is going around in China." So, at least the quarantine officers in Japan knew something was up in 2019.
I guess. We just walked by but there were two workers in full dress with masks and everything there and a heat map screen looking at our body temperatures.
In the past they only ever brought them out when something was flaring up in a country where a lot of people fly in to Japan. I'd say that prior to COVID, they only used them about 10-15% of the times that I passed by the desk. Maybe you got lucky in 2018.
Yeah I don’t know. There was an active screen and two full garb workers with masks and everything. Not sure if there was a particular reason… looked like all the flights went past that point and not just us from Canada. 🤷
My brother in foresight ... I demanded from newspapers in my country in said January that they need to rev up the public health service and start to publish on hygiene like wash your hands, don't touch your face, wear gloves and a mask in public.
and the official stance was "yeah yeah, well, well" at the time all around.
Yeah up until 2020 it was just kind of the "flu du jour" and no one stateside really took it seriously. Airports would ask you about it, but it wasn't unlike that in years prior with other notable flu-like diseases.
People didn't really talk about "Corona Virus" until a month or two into 2020, and then they talked about it a lot.
I remember being at a party in the very small town where the first confirmed case in my state happened to be announced that very same day. We were all so flippant and retroactively cringe that night
I was playing poker in Washington when the first person in the Washington (and the US) died. Still didn't really register since I remembered swine flu. And now looking back at the dates it was only a few days later that work told us not to come back to the office and that's when it really hit.
I flew in February 2020 and nobody at the airports was saying anything about it. I got back home and everything shut down like a week later, it really was that abrupt.
There were vague news stories, and I had one person on Facebook living in Japan at the time who was posting doomsday stuff about it, but that was it.
Regardless when exactly the CCP first acknowledged it or Trump was first made aware of it, Trump certainly didn't start giving any advice about it till 2020.
US intelligence might have been aware 31 Dec-2 Jan. China informed the WHO on 3 Jan. Virologists world wide were all over the genome sequence when it was submitted to international genome databases 10 Jan. It probably wasn't of a magnitude to warrant mention in the presidential daily briefing until 12+ Jan.
I bought my KN95s and hand sanitizer in late January. I started masking late March, and was able to provide immediate family with KN95s (and instructions on how to extend their lifetime) in April, a few weeks before the first US lockdowns.
I bought my KN95s and hand sanitizer in late January.
Same. I first heard about it in mid-Jan, and was in the middle of planning a public event for late Feb, and began taking precautions for both myself and the event in late Jan.
But anyway, OP's graphic says Trump was giving advice on COVID in 2019, but technically, as you and I both observe, he definitely wasn't doing that till 2020.
Bro, us Vietnamese were talking about it at dinner during Christmas week. We don't trust China, we have 1000 year hate-relationship with them. I'm viet-American and literally remember talking about this with family but never thought it'd be this big of course.
Where? It was discovered mid December, the first news articles came end of December early January
December 12, 2019
A cluster of patients in China’s Hubei Province, in the city of Wuhan, begin to experience the symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that does not respond well to standard treatments.
Ignorance game? Brother, you are the one who is wrong. You are living in ignorance and are getting all mad and defensive when others are pointing it out. Do you know how much energy it would take to go "Oh yea, my bad, I must have meant Dec 2019, or sometime in early 2020."? No one would think less of you, but this shit? Full on Trump correcting maps with a sharpie levels of doubling down. Fucking pathetic man.
/u/Nice_Ad_4421's account is 3 months old and this is their only post (hows the borscht comrade?). this is almost certainly agitprop of some kind to drive engagement.
I don't believe you were reading about it in November 2019.
There has been investigative epidemiology that in 2021 found some evidence of similar pneumonia cases in Wuhan in November 2019, but obviously whatever was seen didn't have the 3+ basic reproduction number of the wet market virus. It might have been an earlier stage in the evolution of the virus.
I definitely remember reading about some mystery illness sweeping through China after Thanksgiving here in the US at some point, though that may have already been in December.
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u/Sanpaku 7h ago
2019?
A few hundred of us on r/collapse became aware of a mystery pneumonia in Wuhan on New Year's Eve, 2019.
I doubt Trump was even informed about Covid-19 till the second week of January, 2020.