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China’s Coronavirus Cover-Up Rips Pages From Soviet Chernobyl Playbook: Report

China’s repeated attempts to obscure the origins of the novel coronavirus have been a striking callback to the Soviet Union’s efforts to downplay the Chernobyl meltdown.

In the immediate aftermath of Chernobyl, the Soviet Union kept the truth from even the residents they forced to evacuate — and many were told they’d be allowed to return home in three days time. By the time officials did allow for a full evacuation, the radiation levels were so high that evacuees carried the contamination with them over thousands of miles and a number had already been stricken with radiation sickness.

China’s initial response to the coronavirus pandemic that started in Wuhan appears to have followed a similar pattern of government-supplied disinformation and the ensuing catastrophic collateral damage.

According to a report from Australia’s Telegraph, a new dossier compiled by the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance has shed damning new light on what the Chinese Communist Party may have known about the origins of the virus and how long that information was either hidden from the rest of the world or actively destroyed.

Intelligence officials from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand all contributed to the dossier, which addressed a number of topics with regard to the origins and spread of SARS-COV2, now known as COVID-19.

Among the main points were the CCP’s efforts to destroy laboratory evidence, silence any who tried to sound the alarm and perpetuate the lie that the virus was not transmissible from human to human.

The World Health Organization, for example, publicly stated that the virus could only be passed to humans from...