Editor’s Note:The Chattanooga Free Press editorial page has offered the two main candidates in the Republican primary for Tennessee’s U.S. Senate seat an opportunity to write two issues-oriented commentaries before the August election. This one is by Bill Hagerty.
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Last week a U.S. intelligence report confirmed what we have known for some time: that China’s government placed regime control over the health of its citizens who were suffering from the highly contagious coronavirus that broke out in Wuhan, China, by “under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease.”
Make no mistake, the efforts of the Chinese communist leadership to conceal and destroy evidence, even silencing their own people, is the crime of the century and the greatest cover-up in human history. The communist regime must be held accountable for the death and destruction leveled on its own people and for the widespread damage to the world’s health and economy. Rather, we see global organizations like the World Health Organization and the United Nations embrace China’s government, providing cover – and tacit support – for the propaganda machine that emanates from the largest communist power in the world.
Incredibly, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman accused the U.S. military of bringing the coronavirus to Wuhan. This blatant lie is shocking and atrocious, particularly as the reported U.S. infection toll from this disease – that originated in China – has become the world’s largest.