A retrospective look found that “China had started hoarding Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) far earlier than the initial date of the [official SARS-CoV-2] outbreak”. China allegedly bought up PPE stock from US, Europe and Australia from mid 2019 (May-June). Between August and September of PPE exports from China to US fell by around 50%, and as early as May-June 2019 China’s PPE spending doubled in 2019 compared to both 2017 and 2018 together. This information which calls into question whether China was aware of a virus outbreak earlier than December 2019? [1]
Additionally in late September 2019 US hospitals reporting they were unable to get their “normal supply of masks, gloves, gowns and goggles”.
When the US Dept of Homeland Security was made aware of this statistical intel they allegedly “declined to investigate.”
The restricting of PPE exports happened around the time frame the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) removed a database of bat virus gene sequences, which has never been restored