Commentary From the beginning of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic, China’s communist government has lied about the disease, its origin and its transmissibility. It has also avoided an accurate accounting of the contagion’s health and economic consequences within the People’s Republic, always insisting Chinese Communist Party leadership has minimized the pandemic’s effects. We know for a fact that since early January 2020, CCP lies, denials, and obfuscations have exacted a heavy worldwide price in human illness, in human lives lost, and in economic damage. A Wall Street Journal article recently revealed Chinese officials didn’t inform their own Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the December 2019 outbreak. That decision surely delayed China’s own domestic response. As CCP elites conducted political damage control, Chinese citizens died. I’ve written that by late December 2019, the CCP dictatorship confronted a strategic threat: a domestic epidemic that would damage China’s economy. So, the …