None of this has anything at all to do with the false claim that international flights continued out of Wuhan after domestic flight were stopped.
It does show that US policy on flights during the beginning of the epidemic was flawed.
So it took Trump to have people screened arriving from Wuhan, China BEFORE China locked down Wuhan? That doesn't seem a little odd to you that China sees the horrible condition Wuhan is in but Trump does something about their travels here before China does something about it?
By the way, China is not inexperienced either when it comes to the spreading of viruses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/h...screening.html Published Jan. 17, 2020Updated Jan. 21, 2020
Airports in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles will begin screening passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, for infection with a mysterious respiratory virus that has killed two people and sickened at least 45 overseas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday.[END]
There are others besides Trump who say people left Wuhan and traveled internationally while taking measures to ensure the virus didn't spread across China.
One would think that Trump has knowledge that others don't from the secret service.
However, even if Trump made a mistake about saying China deliberately sent people from Wuhan while protecting China's other cites,
it doesn't make him out to be a deceitful liar as you make him out to be.
This article among others show that many people believe that China let people from Wuhan leave on international flights:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/fea...uring-outbreak
China may have allowed the new coronavirus to spread across the world by allowing international flights to and from Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, while taking stronger measures to ensure the virus didn’t spread within China, according to the latest criticism of the country’s handling of the outbreak.
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Maybe it is all an innocent mistake that Trump made when he said China let people from Wuhan come here while they protected their cities inside China, and maybe it is innocent mistakes that China made the way they handled the virus.
Even if China didn't deliberately send people from Wuhan on international flights, it still makes one
wonder why the virus didn't spread more in China like it did all over America.
Another thing to consider is that people from Wuhan were visiting in other places in China when the lock down of Wuhan occurred. How many were there and where did they go, did they leave on international flights?
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...0012800791.htm
The second question is, you mentioned there is a sizeable number of Hubei residents already still in Hong Kong. Could you give us an idea of how many are there? Are there thousands, tens of thousands of them?
As far as the number of Hubei residents who have entered Hong Kong prior to yesterday, when the ban took effect, unfortunately in our usual immigration system, we did not capture those statistics. But, if anything is to go by, we only allow them to come in for seven days and according to Immigration, yesterday we denied entry of about 300-plus, so if you make that assumption, and people who have left,
either back to the Mainland or using Hong Kong as a transit to other places, then the number would not be in the range of the tens of thousands that you have mentioned - certainly not of that magnitude.[END]