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It did not. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel-conspiracy/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...

by shaobo 4y ago

rasz 4y ago
"regular commercial flights", but planes full of people did travel out of wuhan https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/coronavirus-flights-wuhan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/coronavirus-flights-wu... https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/us-wuhan-evacuation-flight-coronavirus/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/us-wuhan-evacuation-fl... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/cdc-says-us-is-accepting-four-new-planes-carrying-americans-from-wuhan.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/cdc-says-us-is-accepting-fou... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/two-more-u-s-evacuation-planes-leave-coronavirus-epicenter-wuhan-idUSKBN20105M https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/two-more... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-trav... https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-britain/british-evacuation-flight-cleared-to-leave-coronavirus-epicentre-in-china-idINKBN1ZT0OO https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-britain/british... https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavirus-travel-ban https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir... “Travel restrictions can cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing, medical supply chains and harming economies,” said the World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 12:18 PM · Jan 14, 2020 "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China." WHO waited full week to Jan 30 before declaring "outbreak meeting the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern".
- shaobo 4y ago
  You mean flights specifically chartered by the US and British governments to evacuate their citizens and their family from Wuhan? It is all in the articles you linked.
  - rasz 4y ago
    I specifically wrote "but letting international departures".
    - shaobo 4y ago
      You wrote: > Shutting down ALL internal Chinese travel from Wuhan, but letting international departures - that did happen, after all the more the merrier, let the world share our misery. ... implying China allowed the flights to leave so they can infect the rest of the world, when in fact China did stop international flights from leaving, but the US, UK governments lobbied hard for these repatriation flights due to their own domestic politics.
      - rasz 4y ago
        Why wouldnt they want citizens returning while WHO kept claiming its not a big deal? but China knew how bad it was.

It did not. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel-conspiracy/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...

by shaobo 4y ago

It did not. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel-conspiracy/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...

rasz 4y ago

"regular commercial flights", but planes full of people did travel out of wuhan https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/coronavirus-flights-wuhan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/coronavirus-flights-wu... https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/us-wuhan-evacuation-flight-coronavirus/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/us-wuhan-evacuation-fl... https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/cdc-says-us-is-accepting-four-new-planes-carrying-americans-from-wuhan.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/cdc-says-us-is-accepting-fou... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/two-more-u-s-evacuation-planes-leave-coronavirus-epicenter-wuhan-idUSKBN20105M https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/two-more... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-trav... https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-britain/british-evacuation-flight-cleared-to-leave-coronavirus-epicentre-in-china-idINKBN1ZT0OO https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-britain/british... https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavirus-travel-ban https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir... “Travel restrictions can cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing, medical supply chains and harming economies,” said the World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 12:18 PM · Jan 14, 2020 "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China." WHO waited full week to Jan 30 before declaring "outbreak meeting the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern".

shaobo 4y ago
You mean flights specifically chartered by the US and British governments to evacuate their citizens and their family from Wuhan? It is all in the articles you linked.
- rasz 4y ago
  I specifically wrote "but letting international departures".
  - shaobo 4y ago
    You wrote: > Shutting down ALL internal Chinese travel from Wuhan, but letting international departures - that did happen, after all the more the merrier, let the world share our misery. ... implying China allowed the flights to leave so they can infect the rest of the world, when in fact China did stop international flights from leaving, but the US, UK governments lobbied hard for these repatriation flights due to their own domestic politics.
    - rasz 4y ago
      Why wouldnt they want citizens returning while WHO kept claiming its not a big deal? but China knew how bad it was.