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>>option+(OP)
"The COVID-19 pandemic was avoidable. Any responsible country would have invited world health investigators to Wuhan within days of an outbreak. China instead refused offers of help – including from the United States – and punished brave Chinese doctors, scientists, and journalists who tried to alert the world to the dangers of the virus. Beijing continues today to withhold vital information that scientists need to protect the world from this deadly virus, and the next one."

The above shows this is a political statement.

I happen to agree with this quote. It's also not, as the US administration likes to pretend, any sort of defense of their response to the pandemic. But at the same time, the presence of this quote makes it very clear that this is little more than a political, rather than a fact based statement intended to get to the truth.

It also aligns with what Pompeo is doing in nearly every other delicate situation in the US over the past few weeks. Setting stuff on fire making it as difficult as possible for the incoming administration to deal with.

>>addict+s3
Pompeo for me seems very narcissistic person. This week alone I already saw his tweets as Sec of State asking people to follow his personal account. Is it normal to do that?

Not to mention having digital photo of him for every announcement tweets reminds me of my country's bureaucrats that keep doing same for every PSA posters.