{"id":100555,"date":"2020-03-30T19:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100555"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:30:42","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-who-is-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/30\/coronavirus-outbreak-who-is-responsible\/","title":{"rendered":"CORONAVIRUS outbreak \u2013 Who is responsible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Everyone has a right to their opinion but a\nsubject as important as the present global outbreak requires some meaningful\ndebate and certain actions give clues to read between the lines to understand\nwhether the virus was something natural, something spread by accident or\nsomething purposely created. There is no patient zero found to date. But that\nis crucial to answering a plethora of questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 3 questions we must now answer is <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Is the virus natural<\/li>
  2. Is the virus something spread by accident \u2013 if so by\nwhom?<\/li>
  3. Is the virus something created to spread globally \u2013 if so\nby whom & why?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Something\nnatural<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When the virus first came to be known when a\nstrange pneumonia began to surface in China in November 2019, the Chinese had\nalerted the WHO of a strange flu affecting citizens of Hubei province\/Wuhan\ncity. Eventually, the WHO came to christen the virus as COVID-19. Ironically\nthat very month the US organized Event 201 a global pandemic exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The international media owned &\ncontrolled by West naturally went to town claiming the virus originated from\nthe seafood market in Wuhan and a plethora of animals and birds was attributed\nas being the cause. However, on 18 March China\u2019s chief medical advisor rejected\nthis notion. The virus did take place in Wuhan but Wuhan was not the source of\nthe virus.  A petition in March 2020\nclaimed the virus leak from Fort Detrick could have been the source for\ncovid-19. http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2020\/0321\/c90000-9670852.html<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fort Detrick was where the US Army biological\nwarfare lab is situated with 900 employees. According to NYT in 2009 research\nat the institute in Fort Detrick was suspended because it was storing pathogens\nnot listed in its database. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/…\/virus-biological-us…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The army institute also employed Bruce E.\nIvins, a microbiologist who was a leading suspect \u2014 but who was never charged \u2014\nin the anthrax mailings in 2001 that killed five people. Dr. Ivins died in\n2008, apparently by suicide\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/05\/health\/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    So the lab had been storing pathogens\nillegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It was round about the same period that the\nState saw mysterious respiratory disease affecting hundreds of Americans. The\nblame was put on e-cigarette vaping though that had been happening for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/…\/mysterious-vaping-lung…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/q13fox.com\/…\/a-statewide-outbreak-two-new…\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/…\/wisconsin-officials-12-cases…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The lab was suddenly shut down in August 2019\n– \u2018National security reasons\u2019 ensured Centre for Disease Control was denied\naccess to details. But it does raise the question whether the leak was\nresponsible for the early start of the flu season?  US flu season so far has affected 32million,\nhospitalized 310,000 and killed 18,000 from Jan to March 2020 alone! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2020\/02\/28\/americas-flu-season-toll-k-dead-m-sick\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With these numbers at hand to avert further\ncases shouldn\u2019t the US Govt have taken quick action to conduct corona tests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Simultaneously with the petition came the\nChinese Foreign Ministry spokesman\u2019s twitter claim that corona virus was brought\nto Wuhan by the US Army. How did that happen? Another article claims the virus went\nfrom Fort Detrick to e-cigarettes to Hawaii & then to Wuhan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2020\/03\/12\/chinese-official-says-us-army-may-have-brought-epidemic-wuhan.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Which means the US soldiers would have been\ncarriers. In fact 300 US military personnel attended the World Military Games\nin Wuhan in Oct 2019 \u2013 did they visit the Wuhan seafood market? They returned\nto the US only on 5 February 2020<\/strong> and\nwere kept for 2 weeks quarantine in Miramar California. By 12th<\/sup>\nMarch 3 US marines had tested positive. 280 reported confirmation includes\nmilitary, family members & contractors. As for 27 March 2020 California had\n4569 cases and 90 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/05\/more-than-300-evacuees-from-china-set-to-arrive-at-travis-afb-marine-corps-air-station-miramar\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \nhttps:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/mcas-miramar-based-marine-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/2284464\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Explore\/News\/Article\/Article\/2126589\/navy-marine-corps-leaders-provide-covid-19-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5 of these athletes evacuated from Wuhan were\neventually hospitalized with covid-19. Initially the reason for their hospitalization\nwas put to malaria and not covid-19. https:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2020\/02\/07\/cdc-5-evacuees-wuhan-travis-afb-hospitalized-coronavirus-symptoms\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There were also rumours of containers of\nbioweapons found inside the US consulate in Wuhan though no official statement\ncan verify authenticity of such allegations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What is interesting is that when locals in\nWuhan started showing signs of Covid-19 in November 2019 it coincided with the\npost-incubation period following the military world games in Wuhan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    No\nPatient Zero \u2013 only a contracted case<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The 1st<\/sup> covid-19 REPORTED case was\na 55year old male from the Hubei province on 17 November 2019 according to\nSouth China Morning Post. From whom did he contract the virus and was he\nactually the 1st<\/sup> to CONTRACT the covid-19 virus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But according to science journal Lancelot the\nfirst person to test positive had been exposed to the virus on 1st<\/sup>\nDecember 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2930183-5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.businessinsider.sg\/coronavirus-patients-zero…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fast forward to March 2020 \u2013 an article appearing on\nFORBES quoting Global Times claims a US military cyclist who took part in the\nmilitary games in Wuhan is responsible for bringing covid-19 to Wuhan. Global\nTimes claim is based on George Webb an American investigative journalist who\nsays the coronavirus was manufactured in a US military lab & brought to\nWuhan\/China by Maatje Benassi a 52year old racing cyclist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So the question that needs answering is \u2013 is US military\ncyclist Maatie Benassi patient zero?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Global Times asked the US Government to “release\nhealth and infection information of the U.S. military delegation which came to\nWuhan for the Military World Games in October,” and relieve all doubts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carltonreid\/2020\/03\/26\/chinese-state-newspaper-stokes-conspiracy-theory-that-first-covid-19-patient-was-us-cyclist\/#4406751428dd<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Though many claim the virus to be rooted in the seafood\nmarket in Wuhan of the first 41 cases 34% were not related to this market!\nAccording to Lancet Journal all 41 cases showed pneumonia in their CT scans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5\/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR1NpiXiq3F6th8B3fMlBYEtV7V_TaqIuzwHWtA7tl37YChDPR6nqwhQd8c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Further collaborating with the notion that the covid-19\ncould not have been form the Wuhan seafood market is the claim of a infectious\ndisease specialist of Georgetown University (Daniel Lucey) who says that\nincubation period & symptoms of infection & presence of infected did\nnot tally with those from the Wuhan market & those infected who had no\nlinks to the Wuhan market. This theory was accepted by a biologist from the\nScripps Research Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/01\/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally?fbclid=IwAR1Qp4vy1X1TqCtW6DA8_L1l5w6MEPzXypkZnJ8PQ0PH-_KDXOI7Ot2H_-I<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Then there is the Japanese couple who left on a 10 day\nvacation to Hawaii. The husband had shown no signs of virus symptoms when they\nleft Japan in late January 2020 but began developing symptoms. They returned to\nJapan on 7 February 2020. The couple tested positive. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/14\/us\/coronavirus-hawaii-japan.html?fbclid=IwAR0dL_fdXunTOARII6HZp0Tq4N6-iEbbY7Y9IRsRo2DYitclqmqKyzaXLiM<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Taking the countries most affected by covid-19 \u2013 China,\nItaly, South Korea, Iran, Spain, UK, France, Switzerland & US while China\n& UK showed two different variants of the 5 strains of the virus\n(bunyavirus, phlebovirus, nairovirus, tospovirus, and hantavirus) only in the\ncases in USA showed presence of all 5 genomes. How is this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    China however had shared with US the variants in China. http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-02\/07\/c_138763999.htm<\/a> The strain of covid-19 in Italy\ndiffers to that in China. Which explains why no one can link how a virus first\ndetected in Wuhan came all the way to Italy. So not only must we find Patient\nZero in China, we must find Patient Zero in Italy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It is interesting that covid-19 and SARS both were\ndiscovered in China but discovery in China does not necessarily mean it\noriginated in China. Here is the difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So we return to Fort Detrick where US has a biological\nwarfare lab which had been sealed for fears that deadly viruses could leak \u2013\nthe lab was suspended in 2009 too for illegally storing pathogens. Let us not\nforget that this was the same lab that was handling ebola, smallpox and 2001\nanthrax in which FBI\u2019s main suspect was Bruce Ivins a senior researcher Fort\nDetrick. The moment Ivins was to be charged \u2013 he commits suicide so nothing gets\nrevealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While the US claims corona is one of its biggest\nintelligence failures there are some puzzling developments before the corona\noutbreak in Wuhan. While the panic has resulted in country-wide lockdowns,\ncurfews leaving people stuck at home with no means of earning and some with no\njobs while entire global supply chains, manufacture and production have all\nbeen put on hold \u2013 the actions of a handful of people raise eyebrows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jeff Bezos, the world\u2019s wealthiest person has become\n$5.5billion richer selling 12% of Amazon\u2019s shares ($3.4b) held by him in\nFebruary. Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock also sold his shares saving losses of\n$9m, Lance Uggala CEO of HIS Markit also sold $47 of his shares before the\nstock markets spiraled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/mar\/27\/jeff-bezos-sold-34bn-of-amazon-stock-just-before-covid-19-collapse?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0LnzbBIuiKGMVjGw_J5I7YmxHO60PEh0VTLH071mxyINYuoywcmZnwI4w#Echobox=1585342120<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While the rich sold off\nbillions of dollars worth of their shares others resigned with 1480 CEOs resigning\nin 2019. Some of the CEOs of the biggest companies resigned \u2013 Boeing,\nMcDonalds, GAP, United Airlines, Well Fargo, Kraft Heinz, HP, Warner Bros, Colgate-Palmolive,\neBay, Nike. Then in January 2020 another 219 CEOs resigned and these CEOs\nincluded heads from Disney, IBM, LinkedIn, Mastercard, Credit Suisse. At no\ntime has there been such an exodus of CEOS from the corporate world and sold of\n$9.2b of shares in their own companies. Why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \nhttps:\/\/www.fort-russ.com\/2020\/03\/why-did-hundreds-of-ceos-resign-just-before-coronavirus-outbreak\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Not stopping there why\ndid Members of Congress also begin to sell their stocks just before the market\nwent down owing to corona? Most of the corporate boards are full of former\npoliticians or retired VIP state officials who still have a say in government. US\nSenate website gives details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Then you have the\nphilanthropists like Gates \u2013 who insists on corona testing and though WHO\nundertakes it, it is the Gates foundation that funds it! It is the same entity that\nconducted a mock pandemic in October 2019 at the John Hopkins Centre (Event\n201), though Gates & Co insist on vaccines, China managed to overcome the\nvirus by a simple use of vitamin C. Vaccines are not necessary! But when SARS\noutbreak emerged in 2003 leaving 774 dead and over 8000 sick, the patent for\nSARS vaccine is held by US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    However, the debate\ncontinues as to whether covid-19 is a natural or man-made virus and for what\npurpose it was spread or perhaps the result was not quite what was planned.\nWhat we do know is that it has caused pandemonium across the world with\nvirtually everything collapsing and its going to take a hell of a lot of\nplanning and unity to get the world and countries on track again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As for the question who\ndid it \u2013 is it US or China\u2026 that is like comparing a country that has used the\natomic bomb twice, illegally invades and bombs countries at will, sets up military\nbases all round the world, uses drones and assassinates opposition, carries out\nregime change, interferes in internal affairs of nations, bullies smaller\nnations over and above many other crimes against a rising eastern power that\nuses economic mutual development as a tool to not only raise its profile\nglobally but assists other countries to get their development on track as well.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The reader can ponder &\ndecide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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