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What do I need proof of?
I've posted links various times in this thread to the reports issued by the Chinese medical community. By 14th Jan they'd told the world pretty much everything we needed to know, just 2 weeks after first concerns were raised in a few hospitals in Wuhan about a few cases of pneumonia. Given the scale we're talking about with a country that large and everything else they've got going on, I don't think realistically that they could have done much better, no.
Once they identified it they managed to trace the first case back to 1st Dec (it didn't start in the wet market), but that is retrospective analysis. It'll likely be traced back further after more work is done, that don't mean 'China' knew about it and covered it up from these dates, as some people seem to think.
You seem to have made your mind up.
I have checked back as far as I could and couldn't see any links on your previous posts.
I read a bit about Li Wenliang and it appears the Chinese authorities accept he was correct and they shouldn't have punished him. They have issued a veiled apology to his family but its too late. He died of a different strain of SARS which in itself is being investigated. He was one of only eight doctors who had identified a new illness and a report in the Guardian explains that his warnings went back to early December 2019. This would indicate there was at least one Chinese doctor issuing warnings over a month before the 14th Jan.
The fact there were other doctors corroborating his findings leads me to believe there is more to this story than meets the eye and it is naïve to believe the Chinese are not capable of making serious errors. It is reported today that President Macron believes there is more to come from this story and that it is naïve to think the Chinese have handled this better than us.
I find it implausible that there will be no restitution for this one way or another. Too many people have either died, been ruined or just deeply effected. Like a war it will be remembered and the victims should be remembered. With those memories will be thoughts of justice and how to prevent such a tragedy ever happening again. I know you see this as blame but it's beyond blame.
Lessons must be learnt and I just wonder if the Chinese people will have a Tiananmen Sq moment. It may not happen next week or next month but the full ramifications of this event haven't yet crystallised.