Marsha Blackburn: “it has been so interesting talking to our Tennesseans as they have faced these issues we have with coronavirus and what…”

“it has been so interesting talking to our Tennesseans as they have faced these issues we have with coronavirus and what is happening, our response to it, and how we are going to fight it. And yes, we are going to win this war, and we are going to defeat this, but we have to look at it as our health, food, and financial assistance. Last night, a couple of my Tennesseans and I were discussing this-- what their thoughts and their questions to me were about the relationship we have with China and how can we trust that we know what China knew, that we know when they knew it, and their lack of transparency around what happened with COVID-19. As we have gotten a couple of months past the start of this, these questions are unanswered. As I was telling our Tennesseans on the phone last night, even as this virus that came out of Wuhan, China--they had it in December. It has now touched six continents, and we know people are dealing with containment. They are dealing with mitigation. They are dealing with going through the process of getting the anti-virals, getting the vaccines that are necessary to deal with COVID-19. The questions that people have around this are compounded by the growing realization of how China has chosen not to be honest and not to be transparent in their dealings with the rest of the world. The way Beijing handled its initial response to the coronavirus was nothing new.…”