China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before notifying the world about Covid outbreak’ (The Daily Telegraph)

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China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before Covid outbreak’

China also started to buy up global PPE stocks in Europe, Australia and the US around the same time, experts say
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China began severely restricting the export of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gowns and masks, months before notifying the world of the outbreak of Covid-19, it has emerged.

PPE exports to the US fell by around 50 per cent between August and September of 2019, in a significant drop which raised alarm bells at key US government agencies.

China also started to buy up global PPE stocks in Europe, Australia and the US around the same time, experts said.

The fall in PPE supplies exiting China, the world’s biggest manufacturer of PPE, raises new questions about the true timeline of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.

An altered timeline would significantly challenge the theory that the pandemic originated from a seafood market in Wuhan, where the first cases emerged in December 2019.
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A bunch of Chinese hospitals started buying PCR machines around the same time.
 
It would not all suprise me at all . Sadly the Chinese government has a very bad history of doing this .
This happens internally as well . It not uncommon for local officials to be a little liberal with the truth when sending off reports to the Capitol. Especially if it's bad news.
 
Decided to go play in Google for related American mainstream media content.
Found a couple things,

One from yesterday of MSN reblogging the Telegraph article,

And from a couple years ago ...

www.nbcnews.com

DHS report: China hid coronavirus' severity in order to hoard medical supplies

The country engaged in a coverup in January as it boosted imports of masks and surgical gowns, the document says.
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May 4, 2020, 10:40 AM UTC / Updated May 4, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC
By Abigail Williams, Dan De Luce and Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of its coronavirus outbreak while stockpiling crucial medical supplies, slashing exports of surgical face masks and other items needed to respond to the pandemic, according to a U.S. intelligence document obtained by NBC News.
The report by the Department of Homeland Security intelligence service found that China initially delayed informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus "was a contagion."
The Associated Press first reported on the DHS findings.
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That bit is especially interesting,

We assess the Chinese Government intentionally concealed the severity of COVID-19 from the International community in early January while it stockpiled medical supplies by both increasing imports and decreasing exports," the May 1 DHS report states.
"We further assess the Chinese government attempted to hide its actions by denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data," said the four-page analysis.
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GTX said:
So what’s the purpose of this thread?
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Well, given this thread is in the Discussion and Speculation section I would deduce that the purpose of this thread is to discuss the speculation about a large scale worldwide event which has variously impacted and/or altered worldwide lives and businesses, and to discuss whether there is legitimate evidence or not to either support or negate said speculation.

But do take that deduction with a grain of salt since my brain is autistic and sometimes deduces things which elements of the neurotypical population never seem to see.

And at this point, according to what the United States Department of Homeland Security said in 2021 there appears to be documentable evidence that the opening premise about China's actions had already moved beyond speculation to documentable validity before this thread was even begun,
We assess the Chinese Government intentionally concealed the severity of COVID-19 from the International community in early January while it stockpiled medical supplies by both increasing imports and decreasing exports," the May 1 DHS report states.
"We further assess the Chinese government attempted to hide its actions by denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data," said the four-page analysis.
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GTX said:
So what’s the purpose of this thread? To start fueling conspiracy theory BS? To ramp up anti-China rhetoric?
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Perhaps to see where the authoritarians are. This is exactly the sort of story that got people deplatformed for spreading "misinformation" before it was acknowledged to be fact.
 
"You can fool some people sometime / but you can't fool all the people all the time" (Bob Marley)

Here, the axiom may be "You can't fool the global economy". In a world where all the economies are locked together; and where the big fluxes are de facto monitored... then you can't hide such moves.

If the Chinese government went crazy on PPEs as early as summer 2019, this mean they may have known about COVID from earlier in the year, or perhaps 2018.

In a more subtle way, the moment they started raiding PPEs may coincide with them losing control of the pandemic. They probably thought they could quietly control it as done with SRAS in 2003, or damage control it. So they didn't have to tell other countries and WHO. Or only some years down the road. "Oh sure, we got that bad flu outbreak in 2019, but we nipped it in the bud."

Well - that was quite a bad idea.
 
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Conspiracy theories are definitely the funnest theories...
www.dailymail.co.uk

Covid leaked from AMERICAN - not Chinese - lab, top US professor says

Covid was manufactured in a laboratory - in America rather than China. That is the explosive claim made by leading US economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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Professor Sachs, who was twice named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, admitted 'we don't know for sure'.

'But there's enough evidence that it should be looked into and it's not being investigated — not in the US, not anywhere.'

He added: 'I think for real reasons, they [US officials] don't want to look under the rug too much.'

Critics have previously described Professor Sachs as a President Xi 'propagandist', dismissing China's genocide of Uighurs and publicly calling for US cooperation.
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And the doom has started.
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In Dutch we have an expression: Schoenmaker blijf bij je leest. Roughly translates to: Shoemaker stay at your post.
If economists are going to talk about epidemiology, where will it end?
Countries stock pile all kinds of stuff all the time, it is a necessity to keep important stuff within your borders. But when the largest supplier in the world starts hoarding and buying stuff, yes, there is reason to be worried. No matter how they look at things, everyone else should be questioning their motive.
 
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