Since China confessed to a spiraling SARS CoV-2 or novel coronavirus epidemic Dec. 31, 2019, the world wants to answer the question of how the epidemic started in Wuhan. Presenting multiple theories, China wants to ignore its role in the spread of the deadly virus that’s now infected over 140 countries, claiming that bats infected animals like Pangolins or civets eaten in China for medicinal purposes. China claimed the CoV-2 outbreak was some 10 kilometers away from Wuhan’s seafood market, suggesting that’s where the contamination took place. But no one associated with the seafood market came down with Covid-19, the viral infection that has flu-like properties but three times as lethal. On March 12, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian blamed the coronavirus outbreak on the U.S. military from an October 2019 athletic competition in Wuhan.
Pointing fingers at the U.S., China hopes to divert blame for what looks like a leak from its Institute of Virology bioweapon’s laboratory sometime in September or October 2019. Much speculation centered on a bioengineered virus, something that’s not supported by microbiologists examining the SARS CoV-2 genome, closely resembling SARS, MERS and other coronaviruses. Blaming the U.S. military, China hopes to score points with its benighted population, who lacks a free press or uncensored access to the Internet. Stoking unfounded rumors and spreading pure conjecture about the U.S. role in the coronavirus plays well to China’s propagandized population. Blaming its problems on the U.S., like other totalitarian regimes, gets Beijing off the hook for essentially killing thousands of Chinese citizens. When Lijian blamed the U.S. military for SARS CoV-2, the White House reacted.
Since 73-year-old President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, 2017, he’s been in a tug-of-war with Communist China, insisting that they stop manipulating their currency and infringing on U.S. copyright laws. Prior U.S. presidents let China slide, creating a whopping $500 billion trade deficit, shuttering U.S. manufacturing while China picked up the cheap labor slack. China’s worldwide appeal as a manufacturing hub involves unbeatable price-per-unit, offering the cheapest parts-and-labor on the planet. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo objected loudly to Yang Jiechi, director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China. “Secretary Pompeo conveyed strong U.S. objections to the PRC efforts to shift blame for Covid-19 to the United States,” said Pentagon Spokesman Morgan Ortagus. Pompeo knew that he was rocking the boat raising objections.
Pompeo raised objections as the world confronts the worst global pandemic since the 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak that infected 1.2 billion people worldwide, causing 14,286 deaths. Today’s Covid-19 pandemic has infected 182,695 cases with 7,173 known deaths. What concerns the World Health Organization [WHO] and U.S. Centers for Disease Control [CDC] the most is the high death rates for Covid-19, running worldwide at over 3%, three times the seasonal flu. Swine flu had a death rate of only .03%, one hundred times lower than Covid-19. SARS CoV-2 has a death rate paralleling the 1918 H1N1 Spanish Flu, that infected 500 million, killing 20-100 million. While no one expects Covid-19 to run wild like the 1918 Spanish flue, epidemiologist are concerned about the current death rate over 3%. State Department officials were incensed by Chinese disinformation.
China’s playing a dangerous propaganda game with the U.S. and the world, not taking ownership of the coronavirus. When you consider that all of Wuhan’s crematoria are running 24/7 disposing or corpses piling up at record numbers, it makes no sense that China has reported only 21 news cases. “The Secretary stressed that this in not the time to spread disinformation and outlandish rumors, but rather a time for all nations to come together to fight this common threat,” Ortagus said. Best evidence from credible reports from Wuhan indicate that the leak happened at China’s Institute of Virology sometime in September or October. Credible information suggests that lab workers sold infected laboratory animals into Wuhan’s commercial food chain, poisoning Wuhan’s population. There no evidence that the virus was engineered in Wuhan’s bioweapons laboratory, then leaked to the public.
China’s attempt to blame the U.S. for the coronavirus outbreak shows that the Communist Party doesn’t want to pay reparations once cases against China are litigated at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. With countries around the globe scrambling to contain the virus, China’s coronavirus has cost the world economy over $20 trillion and counting. National Institutes of Health 79-year-old Allergy and Infectious Disease chief Anthony Fauci said the virus could go on until July or August, causing catastrophic damage to the world economy. World governments must find how the coronavirus started to prevent another episode in the future. If China let its Virology Institute workers to sell infected lab animals into Wuhan’s food chain, the world needs to know. With over 182,000 cases, 7,100 deaths and $50 trillion in lost wealth, the world can’t allow this to happen again.
