“[Months] into this national and worldwide catastrophe, some huge elephants are rampaging around the room, conspicuously being ignored, lied about, and manipulated to destroy, not to rescue the nation.”
One such elephant is China’s initial culpability, dragging the world into this disaster. Why does no one in leadership in the US – or on the world stage – seem to be very interested in holding the communists accountable?
The first cause – the first event – and the responsibility for this worldwide calamity belong solely to the CCP – the Chinese Communist Party.
We know that the Chinese purposely waited to inform the world for at least six weeks, quite possibly much longer, that a new SARS virus was wreaking mayhem in Hubei Province and the city of 11 million, Wuhan. Then the Chinese government sealed the Province from intra-China travel yet allowed international flights to leave Wuhan – overnighting the virus across the planet like a Fed-Ex package.
The only reason the world learned about the virus as early as it did, was that a brave Chinese doctor alerted his colleagues to the outbreak. Dr. Li Wenliang, an eye specialist in the Wuhan Central Hospital, warned other doctors using the social media platform WeChat on December 30, 2019, that seven people had died of a “new respiratory” virus, urging them to be careful. (Dr. Wenliang himself soon afterward succumbed to the virus.)
What other conclusion can one reach? The Communist regime made a deliberate decision to unleash COVID-19 worldwide.
In early 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist working at Hong Kong University’s public health laboratory – a WHO infectious diseases research center –was tasked to investigate the outbreak in Wuhan. She and three other doctors produced a paper; Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification.
After the paper was officially suppressed and fearing for her safety, Dr. Yan fled to the US in April 2020. She continues to write and speak publicly on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, which she believes was “conveniently created.” (Here)
Another Chinese defector, Vice Minister for State Security Dong Jingwei, reportedly fled with a treasure trove of classified information. The Chinese state secrets he provided to US intelligence agencies included pathogenic “studies” of the virus and detailed “models” that predicted the spread of COVID-19 worldwide and its potential lethality. In addition, Mr. Jingwei had comprehensive financial records of organizations and governments funding “research” on biological weapons, including SARS-CoV-2. (Here)
[In Anchorage, Alaska, on March 19, 2021, Mr. Jingwei’s presence in the US was confirmed when a Chinese delegation meeting with US officials, including the humiliated new Secretary of State, Antony Blinkin, demanded MR. Jingwei’s return.]
This month Americans learned through email traffic released under a FOIA request what was already widely suspected based on grant applications. NIH and Dr. Fauci used taxpayers’ money to pursue “gain of function” (to make the virus more virulent) research at the Wuhan lab, despite his repeated denials, including during sworn testimony before Congress. (Perhaps this explains why Dr. Fauci was a shill for the Chinese from the first day of the pandemic and remains so.)
His only consistency is Dr. Fauci’s almost weekly contradictions of previous positions and statements since the pandemic started.
Whether SARS-CoV-2 was created, enhanced, or natural in origin – it seems most likely created based on the Chinese witnesses – there is no doubt it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Why the silence from world leaders? Especially in the West? The Chinese premeditatedly murdered 4.5 million people worldwide. The only answer that fits the facts is that many leading politicians are in financial bed with the Chinese.
[A minimal starting point for holding the Chinese accountable, to this writer, seems the forfeiture of trillions of dollars of debt and bonds owned by China from countries across the world.]
After the Chinese finally informed the world that a new variant of the SARS virus had escaped, health experts worldwide, with few exceptions, ignored history and science. Prior pandemics followed a well-understood medical pattern found as far back as the Old Testament – practices that played out with even deadlier modern outbreaks, based on mortality rate and population. Instead, the world turned to “expert planning” pioneered by the World Health Organization (WHO) in conjunction with other scientists, epidemiologists, and public health organizations in the mid-2000s.
The computer models and “remedies” for new epidemics, which became the basis for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, were initially conceptualized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in conjunction with, among others, the Imperial College London and their infamous Professor, Neil Ferguson. (Mr. Ferguson’s early work on computer modeling projecting deaths from mad cow disease, bird flu, and swine flu proved wildly incorrect and earned him public scorn (here.)
Then-President George W. Bush, at the same time, responded to the alarming 2005 flu season by tasking the government with strategies to deal with severe epidemics in the US. In a curious turn of events, an internist at the Department of Veteran Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, began working on a plan with Dr. Richard Hatchett, then a White House advisor. Their plan proposed stay-at-home orders and other “mitigations,” which ran into a buzz-saw of objections. (Writer Jeffery A. Tucker details this in AIER here.)
Help would arrive in the form of a computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Robert Glass. For a science project, Mr. Glass’s 14-year-old daughter, Laura, had created a computer model of how “social distancing” would slow the spread of the flu in a school. Mr. Glass built on that model to make a simulation demonstrating that “mitigation strategies” could reduce an influenza epidemic of 10,000 people by 90 percent in a hypothetical town.
The computer simulation and a paper written by the father-daughter Glass team were presented to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and used in part for CDC’s planning during 2006. It’s not altogether clear how mass lockdowns of entire economies for extended duration found their way into the final 2007 plan. But that extreme measure was not in the Glass paper, nor the CDC’s conceptual planning. Nonetheless, despite the published objections of many leading scientists and physicians arguing that there was no evidence that lockdowns and other draconian interventions worked, the CDC made lockdowns – (calling them non-pharmaceutical Interventions) official US policy in 2007.
Both of these unproven, untested, and eventually devastating theories merged in early 2020.
On March 16, 2020, the Imperial College London and Mr. Furguson released a report, terrifyingly predicting 2 million American coronavirus deaths without immediate action, or “suppressions,” as he and his team termed lockdowns. And the CDC had just the policy already in place.
In the end, there was no more science behind advanced computer modeling than there was for locking down an entire country. The initial modeling was self-evidently preposterous based on past epidemics and what was already known about the coronavirus. And, there was not a shred of evidence that mitigating strategies – lockdowns – were useful against a virus at all. No historical evidence would suggest they work going back thousands of years. And there is still none.
Unsurprisingly, bad or ignored science begot more bad science.
The pandemic was horrible enough in terms of death and long-term health issues. But to add to the injury, the country – the world – was sent into catastrophic economic meltdown with incalculable pain and ruin — all based on the stuff you’d find in a bad science fiction novel.
It seems there are three serious issues to consider eighteen months into the Wuhan Express. One, if masks work, then why didn’t they? And if lockdowns and closing down the economy were helpful in stopping the spread of COVID, why didn’t they work? And, if the vaccines worked as promised, why don’t they?
As I write, there is a spike in COVID cases in the US – and other countries such as Israel and Great Britain, where an alarming percentage of the new COVID cases have been vaccinated individuals who carry a far more substantial viral “load” of COVID (here).
But when the vaccines were first introduced, the public was told they had to get the jabs to prevent COVID and that with a shot, you would no longer need a mask because you could not spread the virus.
Now with the summer-fall spike and the considerable uptick of cases, it’s obvious that you can get COVID, and evidently, you can pass it on. The CDC has now changed the actual definition used for a “vaccine” to deflate public expectations. What a mess.
The only thing that seems obvious is that COVID-19 will be around – like the flu – in various forms forever. And like all viruses, there is precious little anyone can do about it. We have to tough it out as humans have always had to do. You can lock everyone and everything down tighter than a tick and destroy the economy and tens of millions of jobs and companies – but COVID in some form will be waiting. It’s better to let it burn out in the herd than to attempt to control the uncontrollable. That’s the cold reality.
The other truth is that we have learned a great deal about the leaders we tolerate, from mayors to county officials to governors and national leaders. They have way too much-unchecked power. That is never a good thing. We have tested them in this crisis and found all but a few wanting. Small men and women. Totalitarian in nature while weak in smarts – a dangerous combination. Power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats are far worse than any virus.
Finally, what about us? What have we learned personally? I’m not sure there is an answer to that question – yet. Trust is only learned in the dark. Perhaps we’ll know more next year, God willing, when we can put some space between the event and our understanding of how it’s changed us.
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Excellent writing Michael…the only twist I see is that the Italian flu epidemic immediately preceedeing Wuhan was likely not Flu. ITALUAN Covid death rates were published shortly after Wuhan approaching 15% unheard of elsewhere anywhwre, anytume. The outbreak was most likely in Italy and coveted up as flu with deaths reported later than they occured, officially. Gain of function experiments have been going on unchecked and NIH funded for years… and older or abandoned antibiotics are ideal as agents for counterselections . The only ones who could know which antibiotic was used would be the scientist doing the gain of function selection and counterselection and the polirician he reported to how to be safe from the outbreak. Wher that leaves China is ??? The wool is thick everywhere! God knows.
Fauci lied to congress, we need to make China and all involved pay for the destruction this virus has unleashed on the world! Both Cuomo and Fouchi need to be in prison for the people their decisions killed!
EXCELLENT ARTICle consistent with my personal research.
“www.”“forbes.”com/sites/startswithabang/2021/06/03/the-wuhan-lab-leak-hypothesis-is-a-conspiracy-theory-not-science/
Remove the “” for a dose of reality.
Forbes is not a serious source of information about the Covid outbreak Eric. The intel report provided to Dopey Joe, Diaper Head President of the Dystopian States, basically said that there’s no confidence as to a natural source but concluded that the Chinese won’t cooperate to release their lab data so they say they cannot know from the work that these great agencies did. 85 billion or more is spent on these so called “intelligence” agencies. Not sure what the country gets for that money..
Oh right!! A Russian Trump collusion effort! Hey that went down the toilet for you didn’t it Eric? Looks like Durham is going to squeeze a couple of your people. Not that I have any faith in anything happening to anyone important. But between Mueller and then this indictment of Sussman, at least there will be some truth for anyone, not you , who wants to see how the government can be weaponized against its enemies.. And I say Mueller because that useless scrotal sac spent three years and got nothing. Even though he had all the data from the NSA that the FISA warrant got the government.
No reason to circle the wagons around Fauci Eric. This is akin to the anti Vaccination stuff you like to go on about. Fauci needs to be held accountable for funding a lab in China where they were mucking around with bat viruses…
“Forbes is not a serious source of information about the Covid outbreak Eric.”
Far better than any “source” from this blog, Stoner! And get back on your meds!!
No Eric… if you are going to quote a source Forbes isn’t it. Your so called refuting article came before the “science” decided that maybe there was a problem with zoonotic escape. Before the article in Atomic Scientist, it was settled science that the virus was natural… and the scientific echo chamber gathered in their little sheep herd to blah blah blah that bullcrap.
Because Eric… do you know how powerful the likes of that little schmuck Fauci is? He has billions of dollars to hand out in research grants. Science wants his money. Plus Fauci has contacts in big Pharma… another source of money from heaven for “scientists”.
Now boy… if you want to refute the WSJ scientists who had the balls to counter Fauci’s horsecrap to cover his ass (you might recall low information boy, that Daszak has an email thanking Fauci for throwing a blanket over the lab leak theory… or maybe you don’t know this. You aren’t bright enough to seek out information)….
You have to refute the WSJ guy showing that Covid 19 has a sequence in its genome that doesn’t occur in nature…Some light weight biologists have tried to say it could occur… but they don’t refute that covid has that CCG CCG insert…. which as pointed out below is one sequence that researchers use..
Here’s the issue Eric… in defending the Wuhan Lab… you could settle this for good if you could show what sequences Bat Doctor was using if they did insert something into the bat virus they were working with. BUT Eric… the CCP shut that down. You can’t get her lab logs which would show this… Or it might show she didn’t spike the virus… but they won’t release that.
So get back on drinking the Kool Aid boy… you are good at that.
Read the Newsweek articles about drastic.
Google Gen Chen Wei and read those articles from Canada and India.
Like I have been telling the TBE’s main Democrat Eric, the standout point you make Mr Giere is that Covid is here to stay. As a corona virus it cannot be controlled like viruses that are less apt to mutate. Small Pox. Polio. To state two viruses that are amenable to vaccination control. Can they come up with a new version and vaccinate the entire world population like clockwork, every six months.
Can the world do that Eric? You have to go to every village, mud hut, town, city, trailer park (where we deplorable live Eric 🙂
Plus, Eric… they have already seen that even vaccinated people still carry viral loads, and can transmit it. The vaccine is only good for possibly preventing your own illness from getting out of hand… but this isn’t true if you are compromised.
So… you are likely one day to get Covid in summation. Maybe the vaccine gave your immune system a heads up… maybe it won’t. But one thing is for sure… the vaccine won’t eradicate Covid and one day, when your vaccine’s efficacy. wears off, you are heading for a case of it.
Google Drastic Wuhan.
DRASTIC Research you mean. Kind of tough reading without an advanced degree in microbiology but you get the gist of it. The natural origin theory has a harder road to prove than the laboratory leak theory. another article you might find interesting was in the WSJ when they were publishing their stories on the probability of a lab leak. In sum:
From the WSJ, Steven Quay and Richard Muller:
“In fact, in the entire class of coronaviruses that includes CoV-2, the CGG-CGG combination has never been found naturally. That means the common method of viruses picking up new skills, called recombination, cannot operate here. A virus simply cannot pick up a sequence from another virus if that sequence isn’t present in any other virus.
Although the double CGG is suppressed naturally, the opposite is true in laboratory work. The insertion sequence of choice is the double CGG. That’s because it is readily available and convenient, and scientists have a great deal of experience inserting it. An additional advantage of the double CGG sequence compared with the other 35 possible choices: It creates a useful beacon that permits the scientists to track the insertion in the laboratory.
Now the damning fact. It was this exact sequence that appears in CoV-2. Proponents of zoonotic origin must explain why the novel coronavirus, when it mutated or recombined, happened to pick its least favorite combination, the double CGG. Why did it replicate the choice the lab’s gain-of-function researchers would have made?
Yes, it could have happened randomly, through mutations. But do you believe that? At the minimum, this fact—that the coronavirus, with all its random possibilities, took the rare and unnatural combination used by human researchers—implies that the leading theory for the origin of the coronavirus must be laboratory escape.”
Looks like Fauci funded the virus….
There is no evidence for COVID19 being a natural mutation of any existing virus – quite the opposite. As such, human beings are in real trouble as predictive models are suspect. With the flu, predictive models give statistically useful info in making the next year’s vaccine. With covid 19, it is shooting in the dark and hoping the bullet doesn’t rebound and kill you. So far, the situation is still tbd.
Yes, very true… the situation is TBD… I guess the best case scenario is that USUALLY… viruses become less lethal as they evolve.. As human immune systems begin to cope with them and the reality that a very lethal virus kills its hosts and dies out comes in to play. A less lethal virus just moves along and keeps replicating. It would be very nice to know what Bat Woman was doing.. know the genetic sequences she last worked on before the outbreak in Wuhan. But that’s not gonna happen. The CCP locked it down. I guess we’ve seen the worst of covid. The new variants are likely to be less lethal per the usual course of events in the virus world… but can anyone say that for sure? Certainly not a jag off like Fauci…
The word “usually” scares the heck out of me. Covid 19 is inherently unusual, and mankind really has no experience with it. The assumption is that it will respond in a manner similar to that of a natural virus, and thus targeted vaccination will work. So far, this assumption appears to be flawed at best.
There is no evidence for COVID19 being a natural mutation of any existing virus – quite the opposite. As such, human beings are in real trouble as predictive models are suspect. With the flu, predictive models give statistically useful info in making the next year’s vaccine. With covid 19, it is shooting in the dark and hoping the bullet doesn’t rebound and kill you. So far, the situation is still tbd. Vaccines apparently work very for a few months and have more than normal serious consequences short term.
EXCELLENT ARTICle consistent with my personal research.