Our very own racist dillweed in Congress: Seth Moulton

keep your mind on the fact that THIS country was totally unprepared for anything like this, then you are a bigoted charlatan moron, though I hate to lump additional disparagement on bigoted charlatan morons.

Not if, but when we see on the nightly news totally disturbing evidence of the total failure of the for-profit medical system, and whatever negative and economic social outcomes appear from that, we will unfortunately have nobody else to blame but cavedwelling dipshits like this Moulton fool.

It's apparently not a choice to evolve or die, but that's the dichotomy we face

Cong. Moulton exhibited some leadership skills by rightly condemning the Chinese Communist Party and their lackies in the WHO for withholding critical data concerning the rapid [exponentiating phase] of COVID-19.

During December the number of cases in Wuhan and the rest of Hubei was manageable through quarantine and tracing. By the time China let the rest of the world know what was beginning to happen and began to crack-down on internal transport -- many hundreds if not thousands of Chinese and others from Hubei had left the immediate area -- many probably unaware of the symptoms or even asymptomatic*1

They seeded the rest of the World. As soon as we learned Pres. Trump put the clamps on travel to/from China which spared us from becoming another Italy.

Had China allowed US CDC and NIH to join the WHO team which was finally allowed to investigate what was happening -- a lot of the death and devastation to the economies of the rest of the world could still have been averted.

Unfortunately -- because of some ill-justified loyalty to Speaker Pelosi or the Democrat Party -- Cong. Moulton then cranked-in the standard fake Demo-Media talking points

Moral of the story:
Cong Moulton was right about the fact China [as a government] lied about the COVID-19 at the time when Millions of People around the world who today are living in fear of either the disease or the economic-collapse could have been saved. They need to compensate the rest of the world for their actions.

*1
From Axios
https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-c...

Why it matters: A study published in March*2 indicated that if Chinese authorities had acted three weeks earlier than they did, the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95% and its geographic spread limited.

This timeline, compiled from information reported by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the South China Morning Post and other sources, shows that China's cover-up and the delay in serious measures to contain the virus lasted about three weeks.

Dec. 10: Wei Guixian, one of the earliest known coronavirus patients, starts feeling ill.

Dec. 16: Patient admitted to Wuhan Central Hospital with infection in both lungs but resistant to anti-flu drugs. Staff later learned he worked at a wildlife market connected to the outbreak.

Dec. 27: Wuhan health officials are told that a new coronavirus is causing the illness.

Dec. 30:
Ai Fen, a top director at Wuhan Central Hospital, posts information on WeChat about the new virus. She was reprimanded for doing so and told not to spread information about it.
Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang also shares information on WeChat about the new SARS-like virus. He is called in for questioning shortly afterward.
Wuhan health commission notifies hospitals of a “pneumonia of unclear cause” and orders them to report any related information.

Dec. 31:
Wuhan health officials confirm 27 cases of illness and close a market they think is related to the virus' spread.
China tells the World Health Organization’s China office about the cases of an unknown illness.

Jan. 1: Wuhan Public Security Bureau brings in for questioning eight doctors who had posted information about the illness on WeChat.
An official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission orders labs, which had already determined that the novel virus was similar to SARS, to stop testing samples and to destroy existing samples.

Jan. 2: Chinese researchers map the new coronavirus' complete genetic information. This information is not made public until Jan. 9.

Jan. 9: China announces it has mapped the coronavirus genome.

Jan. 11–17: Important prescheduled CCP meeting held in Wuhan. During that time, the Wuhan Health Commission insists there are no new cases.

Jan. 13: First coronavirus case reported in Thailand, the first known case outside China.

Jan. 14: WHO announces Chinese authorities have seen "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus."

Jan. 15: The patient who becomes the first confirmed U.S. case leaves Wuhan and arrives in the U.S., carrying the coronavirus.

Jan. 18:
The Wuhan Health Commission announces four new cases.
Annual Wuhan Lunar New Year banquet. Tens of thousands of people gathered for a potluck.

Jan. 19: Beijing sends epidemiologists to Wuhan.

Jan. 20:
The first case announced in South Korea.
Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese doctor who is helping to coordinate the coronavirus response, announces the virus can be passed between people.

Jan. 21:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the first coronavirus case in the United States.
CCP flagship newspaper People’s Daily mentions the coronavirus epidemic and Xi's actions to fight it for the first time.
China's top political commission in charge of law and order warns that “anyone who deliberately delays and hides the reporting of [virus] cases out of his or her own self-interest will be nailed on the pillar of shame for eternity."

Jan. 23: Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. Right around this time, approximately 5 million people leave the city without being screened for the illness.

Jan. 24–30: China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives.

Jan. 24: China extends the lockdown to cover 36 million people and starts to rapidly build a new hospital in Wuhan. From this point, very strict measures continue to be implemented around the country for the rest of the epidemic.

The bottom line: China is now trying to create a narrative that it's an example of how to handle this crisis when in fact its early actions led to the virus spreading around the globe.

*2
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/03/covid-1...

Early and combined interventions crucial in tackling Covid-19 spread in China
Published: 11 March 2020

A study by the University of Southampton examining non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in China shows that a range of early, coordinated and targeted measures are needed to help significantly reduce its spread.

Researchers in the population mapping group WorldPop ran complex modelling, using anonymised data on both human movement and illness onset, to help simulate different outbreak scenarios for cities in mainland China. This allowed them to understand how variations in the timing, level and combinations of interventions affect speed and transmission of the disease.

Findings are available in a preprint paper on medRxiv website.1

Chinese people are not responsible for this pandemic. Quite the opposite, in fact: many citizens living in Wuhan tried to warn the world in the early days. Just as we Americans live under a government we do not always agree with or trust, the same may be said for people living in China. And the tRUmp administration certainly made decisions that may have mitigated the effect of this pandemic.

However, China is not only hostile to their own citizens; they can often be a hostile player on the world stage as well. After trying to cover up the novel coronavirus/COVID-19, and reportedly further restricting their citizens freedom, China is now trying to spread malicious weaponized propaganda about this virus just as the rest of the world ramps up efforts to combat it. Americans should expect malicious actors to attack us while we're weak & distracted; that seems to be what the country of China is attempting to do, so I am glad our government is paying attention and acting.
AGAIN - THIS IS NOT ANYBODY'S FAULT. DO NOT BE RACIST!!!

I think reading the actual text of the non-binding resolution shows that it includes language that condemns the Chinese government for its treatment of "non ethnic minorities," removal of Western journalists from the country, and calls for "end all forced labor programs." Does America need introspection now? Yes. Does that mean we should ignore everything else? No.

Here is the actual text of the non-binding resolution, linked to the Bill's progress tracker on Congress.gov with the emphasis mostly mine below:
H.Res.907 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People's Republic of China made multiple, serious mistakes in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak that heightened the severity and spread of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which include the Chinese Government's intentional spread of misinformation to downplay the risks of the virus, a refusal to cooperate with international health authorities, internal censorship of doctors and journalists, and malicious disregard for the health of ethnic minorities.
H.Res.907 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People’s Republic of China made multiple, serious mistakes in the early stages of the COVID–19 outbreak that heightened the severity and spread of the ongoing COVID–19 pandemic, which include the Chinese Government’s intentional spread of misinformation to downplay the risks of the virus, a refusal to cooperate with international health authorities, internal censorship of doctors and journalists, and malicious disregard for the health of ethnic minorities.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 24, 2020

Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Kinzinger, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Waltz, Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio, Mr. Riggleman, Mr. Hagedorn, Mr. Norman, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Ms. Stefanik, and Mr. Weber of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People’s Republic of China made multiple, serious mistakes in the early stages of the COVID–19 outbreak that heightened the severity and spread of the ongoing COVID–19 pandemic, which include the Chinese Government’s intentional spread of misinformation to downplay the risks of the virus, a refusal to cooperate with international health authorities, internal censorship of doctors and journalists, and malicious disregard for the health of ethnic minorities.

Whereas Chinese Government records suggest that the first human became infected with COVID–19 on November 17, 2019, in China’s Hubei Province;

Whereas, on December 27, 2019, Zhang Jixian, a doctor from the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Chinese and Western Medicine alerted China’s health authorities that several individuals exhibiting mysterious, flu-like symptoms, were infected with a novel strain of coronavirus;

Whereas Dr. Yu Wenbin and a team of researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden reported that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market greatly contributed to the spread of COVID–19 throughout the city of Wuhan;

Whereas the Chinese Government waited five days after being informed of cases of a dangerous new strain of coronavirus concentrated around Wuhan’s open-air market to shut down of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan;

Whereas Zhou Xianwang, the mayor of Wuhan, stated that 5,000,000 of Wuhan’s 14,000,000 residents left the city before the Chinese Government imposed a lockdown;

Whereas, on December 30, 2019, Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital’s emergency department, shared a diagnostic report on the then unknown COVID–19 virus with a group of doctors through the social media application WeChat;

Whereas, on December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, warned his medical school classmates of an outbreak of an unknown SARS-like virus over WeChat;

Whereas, on December 31, 2019, Wuhan Central Hospital authorities formally reprimanded Fei for “spreading rumors” about the virus;

Whereas, on January 1, 2020, an official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission ordered at least one private genomics testing company to cease testing samples of a SARS-like virus from Wuhan and to destroy all existing samples of the virus;

Whereas, on January 3, 2020, Wuhan’s Public Security Bureau detained, questioned and forced Dr. Li Wenliang and seven other doctors to sign a letter confessing he had made “false comments” that “severely disturbed the social order”;

Whereas, on January 3, 2020, the leading public health authority in China, the National Health Commission, directed all Chinese research institutions to cease publicly publishing any information related to a then unknown SARS-like virus, and ordered them to destroy existing samples of the virus or transfer them to approved testing sites;

Whereas the Centers for Disease Control first asked permission to study COVID–19 within China on January 6, 2020, but was barred by the Chinese Government from entering the country until mid-February;

Whereas Chinese authorities first publicly confirmed the existence of COVID–19 on January 9, 2020, 14 days after the presence of a novel strain of coronavirus was internally confirmed;

Whereas China’s National Health Commission publicly denied COVID–19 was person-to-person transmissible until January 15, 2020, despite having uncovered contrary evidence in late December and being alerted of the transmissibility of COVID–19 on January 1, 2020;

Whereas, on January 18, 2020, over 10,000 families attended the city of Wuhan’s annual Lunar New Year Banquet, which was organized and sponsored by the Wuhan city government;

Whereas the People’s Daily, the largest newspaper in China, first reported on the coronavirus on January 21, 2020, nearly a month after the virus was internally confirmed;

Whereas, on February 7, 2020, one month after checking into Wuhan Central Hospital, Dr. Li Wenliang died of a severe case of COVID–19;

Whereas the COVID–19 outbreak has disproportionately harmed China’s persecuted Uyghur Muslim minority as a result of the following actions taken by the Chinese Government—

(1) the detention of over 1,000,000 Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in “re-education camps”, whose crowded and unsanitary conditions makes the camps hotspots for viral disease and leave prisoners at an elevated risk of contracting COVID–19;

(2) as reported by Uyghur Human Rights Project, and corroborated by video evidence and Radio Free Asia, an unannounced and strictly enforced quarantine of millions of residents in its predominantly Uyghur Muslim Xinjiang Province around January 24, 2020, resulted in mass starvation and shortages of basic medical supplies; and

(3) on February 25, 2020, Xinhua News Service reported that China had “re-located” 30,000 Uyghur laborers to temporarily shuttered factories in the Hotan prefecture, exposing them to health risks the Chinese Government deemed unacceptable for the ethnically Han majority;

Whereas the Centers for Disease Control, being the premier infectious disease research institution in the world, was well situated at the beginning of the COVID–19 outbreak to both assist China’s response and prepare the United States to handle the virus should it spread internationally;

Whereas China’s National Health Commission failed to include individuals who tested positive for COVID–19 but remained asymptomatic in its daily tally of confirmed COVID–19 cases, hampering American public health authorities’ ability to accurately account for the health risks of infection and spread rate of the virus;

Whereas Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Zhao Lijian, claimed that COVID–19 originated in the United States and that the United States Army brought the virus to Wuhan to wage biological warfare on China;

Whereas other Chinese Government officials including scientists working on China’s COVID–19 response, China’s Ambassador to South Africa and China’s Ambassador to Australia have claimed that there is no evidence that COVID–19 originated in China;

Whereas, on March 4, 2020, Xinhua News Agency, an official mouthpiece of the Chinese Government, published an article threatening to cut off medical supply exports to the United States and “plunge [the United States] into the mighty sea of coronavirus”;

Whereas, on March 17, 2020, China expelled American nationals working at the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times, reducing the spread of reliable information on the COVID–19 outbreak in China; and

Whereas a study by the University of Southampton found that if China had taken action 3 weeks earlier, the spread of coronavirus would be reduced by 95 percent globally: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

(1) calls on the Chinese Government to—

(A) publicly state that there’s no evidence that COVID–19 originated anywhere else but China;

(B) denounce the baseless conspiracy that the United States Army placed COVID–19 in Wuhan;

(C) revoke its expulsion of American journalists;

(D) end its detainment of Uyghur Muslims and other persecuted ethnic minorities; and

(E) end all forced labor programs;

(2) condemns—

(A) the Chinese Government’s censorship of doctors and journalists during the early days of the outbreak and particularly its treatment of the deceased Dr. Li Wenliang;

(B) the Chinese Government’s refusal to allow scientists from the Centers for Disease Control to assist its response to COVID–19 for over a month after cooperation was offered, needlessly endangering the lives of its own citizens and hampering the United States early attempts to learn more about COVID–19; and

(C) China’s National Health Commissions’ duplicitous denial of the person-to-person transmissibility of COVID–19; and

(3) calls for the World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to retract highly misleading statements of support for the Chinese Government’s response to COVID–19, especially his praise for the “commitment from [China’s] top leadership, and the transparency they have demonstrated”.

FINAL COMMENT FROM THE OP:
I'm a little disappointed that I saw this story on UHub with so little context, Adam, because I really trust you. Is there a reason you didn't link to the bill on Congress.gov originally? I hope you're OK. I know you are usually more nuanced, and rest assured that I continue to trust & recommend you widely. Be safe.

Has anyone actually read the resolution?

It's criticizing the Chinese government for, among other things--

Punishing Dr. Li Wenliang and others for publicizing the existence of the virus;

Censoring information about the virus and ordering scientific data be destroyed;

Blocking the CDC from investigating;

Expelling American journalists reporting on the virus;

Their ongoing oppression of the Uyghurs, which is exacerbating the COVID-19 risk among them; and

Spreading numerous stories that would be best described as "fake news" and "conspiracy theories".

This is now considered "racist" attacks on "Chinese"? Criticizing an authoritarian, illiberal government for all manner of oppressive behavior? Every single one of these examples above are things that people who call themselves liberals should be condemning. Yet because Trump in his typical stupidity keeps calling this thing a "Chinese" virus, now anyone supporting condemning the above is labeled racist?

The only legitimate part of this "resolution" is the demand (or whatever it is) to:

(C) revoke its expulsion of American journalists;
(D) end its detainment of Uyghur Muslims and other persecuted ethnic minorities; and
(E) end all forced labor programs;

The rest is just bluster and BS. This should be beneath us, but that bar has dropped out a long time ago.