Pushed by the press to do something to China for the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 pandemic, 73-year-old President Donald Trump refused to commit himself to punishing China. China refuses to come clean on what they know about how and when the coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China. “A mistake is a mistake,” Trump said, giving China some wiggle room to come forward with a full explanation of what happened. U.S. officials first heard about the SARS CoV-2 epidemic Dec. 31, 2019, told by the U.N.’s World Health Organization [WHO] said as late as March 20 that there was no human-to-human transmission, despite knowing from Dec. 31, 2019 that Wuhan in Hubei Province was dealing with a deadly respiratory infectious disease epidemic causing mass casualties. China not only hasn’t been forthcoming, they flat out blamed the U.S. military for the virus.
Trump’s wants the U.S. intel community to continue investigating the origin’s of the virus that points toward the Wuhan Institute of Virology bioweapons lab where it’s believed the coronavirus leaked into the Wuhan community. Wuhan’s Institute of Virology was a Level-4 biological weapons facility dealing with the most dangerous viruses including SARS and MERS, both had their own epidemics in 2003 and 2012, respectively. SARS nor MERS accounted for less than 2,000 deaths worldwide, nothing compared to the Covid-19 global pandemic that has 2,331,995 total cases and 160,767 deaths worldwide, far more virulent that recent epidemics. “But if China was knowingly responsible, there will be consequences,” Trump said today at his daily briefing. Growing evidence pins the coronvirus to Wuhan’s Institute of Virology where the deadly virus passed from lab workers or lab animals to humans.
What makes China’s explanation so suspicious is that Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Linjian accused the U.S. military March 14 of planting the coronavirus in Wuhan in October 2019. With outrageous propaganda like that, you know China has something to hide, suggesting that bats infected certain wild animals that were sold into Wuhan’s now defunct wet market where Wuhan residents buy exotic wild animals for consumption. When Trump talks about a mistake, he’s referring to the unlikely possibility that an infected lab worker spread the coronavirus to other people in Wuhan. While that’s possible, it’s more likely that infected lab animals were sold into Wuhan’s food chain by desperate lab workers looking to make a fast buck. Whether it’s human-to-human transmission or animal-to-human transmission, the virus didn’t come form the U.S. military.
Trump doesn’t buy the idea that a bat infected animals sold into China’s food supply. “They talk about a certain kind of bat but that bat is not in the area. If you can believe it, that is what they are down to, bats,” Trump said, not buying the “zoonotic” theory that bats exposed wild animals, like pangolins, to the virus, which in turn, was transmitted to humans via the food chain. Trump believes intel that leans toward the idea that the Chinese were experimenting with deadly coronavirus in Wuhan’s Institute of Virology when it somehow leaked to the public either through human-to-human contact or animal-to-human contact into the food supply. If China was experimenting with deadly viruses in Wuhan’s Institute of Virology, it violates the 1976 Biological Weapons Convention. Whatever happened in Wuhan, it had nothing to do with the U.S. military.
State Department immunologist Dr. Deborah Birx, on the Coronavirus Task Force said China’s data “was not realistic,” both in terms of total cases, new cases and deaths. British MI6 estimates China with 40 to 50 times the cases and deaths reported by Beijing’s Communist Party. “Does anybody really believe this number?” Trump asked with regard to China’s reporting about coronavirus cases and deaths. With U.S. the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic with 738,913 total cases and 39,015 deaths, China has wreaked untold damage on U.S. lives and the economy. While Wall Street has crawled back about halfway from its March 23 lows, the coronvirus has still upended the U.S. economy, feeling like the China took toll on the U.S. economy. Already in a recession, economists can’t tell how long or deep it will go, especially with “shelter in place” orders around the country.
U.S. officials are hot on the trail of finding out where the coronavirus originated in Wuhan. When Zhao Lijian blamed the U.S. military March 14 for planting the virus, you knew China was doing everything to cover it up. When you consider China reassured WHO in 2003 SARS epidemic that it would stop selling wild animals at its wet market, you know they were trying to control accidental viral outbreaks. This time around, it looks like something happened in China’s Level-4 security bioweapons laboratory. It’s far less likely that a bat infected pangolin or other wild animal was sold into Wuhan’s food supply. Whatever happened in Wuhan’s Institute of Virology, it involved a biosecurity breakdown letting the virus escape the lab through an infected lab worker or an infected animal. Reports of lab workers selling infected animals to wild animal brokers sounds more plausible.
