OPINION:
One glaring omission in the report issued this week by a panel of WHO-appointed experts is that the “immediate and decisive decisions” made by China after the novel-coronavirus outbreak included a lockdown — but it was an internal-only one, from Wuhan. China left international air travel in place, sponsoring worldwide export of a virus they already knew was deadly. To my knowledge, that export remained in place until our president shut down the flow to the United States in late January of 2020.
This “decisive action” by China now provides a lesson in how to shut down competition worldwide with a biological-warfare attack, concealed by accepting the death of a few hundred thousand of your own people. If the initial release was an accident, then that internal loss was already fated.
After all, never let a crisis go to waste, right?
BILL MILLS
Sterling, Va.
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