Pointing fingers at the United States, China’s state-controlled Xinhua news agency said the coronavirus originated from U.S. soldiers in an athletic competition in Wuhan, Hubei Province. China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said the U.S. army brought the coronavirus to Wuhan last October in a sports competition. “It might be the U.S. Army who brought his epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! U.S. owe us an explanation,” tweeted Lijian, giving China’s vast population more pure Communist Party propaganda. For over two months, Chinese officials kept the SARS CoV-2 outbreak quiet, letting it infect its citizens, causing thousands of deaths. Only after the coronavirus leaked to the global press Dec. 31, 2019, did China finally admit that it was dealing with an out-of-control epidemic, decimating its population around Wuhan.
China rejects the label that Covid-19, the deadly disease associated with the coronavirus, was homespun, made in China. Plenty of modern viral plagues carried the names of areas from which they originated, including Ebola named after an African river, Zika named after an African place and West Nile virus, named after a river in Egypt. But no, the China can’t own their homespun virus from their National Virology Institute in Wuhan. Chinese President Xi Jinping is now playing damage control, insisting that the epidemic has run its course in China, now that it’s spread to neighboring countries and the world. Xi showed up in Wuhan March 11 to show the world how safe it was in the coronaviurs epicenter, declared a pandemic March 12 by the World Health Organization [WHO]. China reports only 11 new cases of Covid-19, while the virus metastasizes around the planet.
Things got so bad in Italy with 17,660 cases and 1,266 deaths that 55-year-old Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte quarantined the entire 60 million nation March 9, dealing with 2,577 new cases. President Donald Trump invoked the Nov. 23, 1988 Stafford Disaster and National Emergency Act, to access $50 billion in funds to help beat back the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. With 2,269 active cases and 50 deaths, infectious disease specialists, like Director of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, can’t say what phase the eipidemic is in. Citing 592 new cases, Fauci agreed with Trump’s decision to invoke the Stafford Act. Vacines and effective anti-viral treatments are at least a year away, meanwhile aggressive containment efforts are now underway. Fauci believes that hygiene, social distancing, isolation and quarantine are the best steps to contain the virus.
When Wuhan’s coronavirus hit epidemic proportions, Chinese citizens traveled to various spots around the globe to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year. Little did anyone know they’d be spreading the latest plague to the rest of the world. By the time the Communist Party started to crack down on the epidemic, bodies were piling up in Wuhan faster than any of the 14 creamatoria to dispose of the infected corpses. Xi and China’s Communist Party are looking to blame anyone but themselves for shoddy safety procedures at Wuhan’s Virology Institute, the only bioweapons lab in China. With China signing on to the March 26, 1975 Biological Weapons Convention [BWC], what were they doing experimenting with deadly viruses on laboratory animals in Wuhan? Xi doesn’t want to admit that lax biosecurity at China’s national Virology Institute in Wuhan caused the current viral plague.
Chinese officials now say they’re a model for how to get containment over the coronovirus epidemic. Declaring martial law, quarantining large populations, shuttering factories, confining workers to their homes, banning all funerals and offering free cremations to victims of the deadly virus are just a few of the way China says it dealt with the latest outbreak. After at least two months of secrecy until the cat was out of the bag was China’s way of handling an out-of-control epidemic that crossed borders and spread to the world. WHO says Europe is now the epicenter of the global pandemic, prompting Trump to ban today all European flights into the United States. European Union Leaders blasted Trump for thinking so selfishly when the pandemic is a global problem, requiring a global solution. But what do EU leaders expect Trump to do: Voluntarily let the plague fly from European capitals into the U.S.?
Today’s pandemic was made in China and exported to the rest of the world. Over 110 countries have now been infected with the coronavirus, most likely leaked from Wuhan’s Institute of virology, either from a contaminated worker or selling infected laboratory animals into Wuhan’s commercial food chain. “Though the Covid-19 was first discovered in China, it does not mean that it originated from China,” said Zhong Nanshan, a scientist and Communist Party official Feb. 27. China looks for anyone to blame for the latest plague but itself for unleashing the worst viral plague on the world since the 1980s AIDS epidemic. China’s homespun virus has already caused $20 trillion in lost market wealth, likely pushing the U.S. and world economy into recession. Instead to pointing fingers, China should stop experimenting with deadly viruses and tighten up its bioscurity procedures in its labs.