Subj : Re: Monkey Business
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Tue May 24 2022 22:09:31

On 24 May 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > No, they don't. By the time we knew it was here, it was already here.
 MP> But that ruins part of the narrative that "Trump knew about it before it
 MP> was here and did nothing," and casts into doubt that we did know about
 MP> it before it was here and China was not actively covering it up.

Trump didn't immediately cancel travel to the US by Chinese nationals. Trump
spent a good part of the virus' initial time in the US denying that it
existed or that it was a threat or that it would be here for more than a few
weeks. After all, banning international travel might panic the public, no?

Jeff.

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