8th Jan:So you knew about Covid here before anyone else did. Humm.
I don't know Johnsurrey in any way, but I feel I have to defend him, as he's right. It's that simple.
He originally posted on the 8th January about a trip he was
about to make, which was going to be in "
a couple of weeks", i.e.: around 22nd January 2020. He was then asked on 7th June, how he got on, to which he replied on 13th June that it was cancelled due to Covid.
So although your quoted date of 8th January is wrong, that minor misapprehension has no impact on the facts, as Japan's government and health authorities, being situated next to China, were already keeping a VERY close eye on how this was evolving on a daily basis from the end of 2019, particularly with regards to incoming foreign visitors.
Separately, I work in a field related to epidemiology, and I was one of many following what was going on in China, specifically Wuhan, from mid-December 2019. Granted, the first cases weren't being widely reported even in the serious media in the UK until early-mid January 2020, and the tabloids took even longer (but hey, who needs serious news when you can rip off gullible readers by yapping mindlessly about affairs and tits instead of giving them useful information which might save their lives?), which is the period when most people outside of those fields would have first heard about it, but still thought it to be a problem contained inside China, which it initially appeared to be. The numbers in the far east were already VERY concerning to health authorities by that point, including the WHO, but moreso, due to the rate of contagion.
Also in January, one of my colleagues in Washington (USA) had already become seriously ill from it, and was off work by the time we'd all returned from the Christmas 2019 break. Washington knew about it widely in early January 2020, and saw a massive rise in hospital admissions two months before we acted in the UK.
Finally, one of my own relatives was told by the NHS to isolate herself in early-February due to a chronic immunological condition that made her especially vulnerable. This was over five weeks before the country-wide lockdown started.
So if Johnsurrey was reading anything slightly more intelligent than the Daily Fail or breakfast television, there is no reason why he'd not have known about it.
No secret.
No Illuminati.
No QAnon conspiracy.
And although not fashionable the last four years, just simple, provable facts.
Simple as that.
