Behind the Virus Report That Jarred the U.S. and the U.K. To Action

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Here is the link to the report itself - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

The report is published on March 16th. However, US and UK government started taking action on the first week of March, so I am not sure how the story says this report led "U.S" and "U.K" to take action.

Sanction and fine the Chinese communist party and their officers for the catastrophe they inflicted on the world. Never again.

That’s nonsense and borderline racism. This comment is the proof that Corona is our generation’s Gravilo Princip. The most likely first order consequence is a lot of dead people but it’s the second and third order consequences that scare me the most. You can already smell the thirst for blood and the need for escape goats.

Communism is not a race and Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China are responsible and should be held accountable.

Lots of people are responsible -- SARS should have been a wake-up call for everyone -- but yes, the CCP shares a large portion of the responsibility.

I think if a similarly spreading disease had started in say a tent city in the US, the response would’ve been much worse

Yea. We should have learned when the US unleashed H1N1

Point being .. this is just stupid. You start this and countries will intentionally infect each other next.

The only answer here is more robust international collaboration and response and getting rid of the stupid people sabotaging our preparedness or selling your protective measures to the highest bidder when we already see the wave coming

https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=71QSCI20292...

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