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The '''2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak''' began in December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, which houses the only Chinese [[biosafety level 4]] facility. As of 19 February 2020, only Mainland China was listed as an area with known ongoing community spread of the disease.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200219092151/https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/areas-presumed-ongoing-community-transmission-2019-ncov</ref>
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}}A '''[[pandemic]] of [[COVID-19]]''' is ongoing globally after a [[virus]] outbreak in the city of [[Wuhan]], [[China]] in late 2019, where researchers identified a new coronavirus. The [[WHO]] later named the potentially fatal coronavirus "COVID-19".<ref>''[https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/events-as-they-happen "Rolling updates on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)"]''</ref> [[COVID-19/Origins|Its origins]] are a matter of ongoing debate.
  
== Official Narrative ==
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In March 2021, [https://www.newscientist.com/author/adam-vaughan/ Adam Vaughan] wrote an article in ''New Scientist'' entitled "How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like [[covid-19]] more likely" which describes how from habitat degradation to squalid animal treatment, our part in allowing “[[zoonotic]]” diseases to leap into humans is becoming ever clearer.<ref>''[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933240-800-how-our-abuse-of-nature-makes-pandemics-like-covid-19-more-likely/ "How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely"]''</ref>
  
[[File:Corona Virus - Daily Mail 2020-02-22 - 25064814-8032385-image-a-1 1582399348111.jpg|thumb|right|DailyMail.com, 2020-02-22 : [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8032385/Coronavirus-experts-say-NOT-rising-numbers-infections-fear.html ''Dramatic surge in UNTRACEABLE clusters of coronavirus cases around the world sparks dire warnings from disease experts that 'containment methods are not going to work'''].]]
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According to [[Oxfam]], the world's 10 richest men have seen their wealth double since the beginning of [[COVID]].<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60015294</ref>
  
{{YouTubeVideo |code=5cR_Y_TOGRI |align=right |caption=''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cR_Y_TOGRI Is CoVid-19 natural or man-made? Coronavirus a Dr Strangelove creation? Dr Chris Busby on 2019-nCoV]'' (11:47), by PublicEnquiry with [[Chris Busby]], 2020-02-12, on YouTube. ([https://www.bitchute.com/video/78Q6mSzOperJ BitChute archived]) }}
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==Origins==
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{{FA|COVID-19/Origins}}
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In late 2019 by [[Zhang Jixian]] noticed a cluster of severe infections linked to Huanan Seafood Market. On 30 December 2019 another Chinese doctor, [[Li Wenliang]], warned colleagues of his suspicions that they faced a hitherto unknown [[virus]] and alerted the world via the [[Internet]].  
  
{{YouTubeVideo |code=vWJBJq-tVsc |align=right |caption=''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJBJq-tVsc Coronavirus Cases Doubling Overnight In Many Countries]]'' (26:45), by Peak Prosperity, 2020-02-22, on YouTube.}}
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The Western {{ccm}} promoted the idea that the virus was of natural zoonotic origin, and originated in China, although independent voices cast doubt on both claims, noting that BSL4 laboratories including the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]] (WIV) had been working on "gain of function" for coronaviruses, and that numerous piece of circumstantial evidence suggested an emergence perhaps 6 months earlier, possibly in the US. In April 2020, corporate media hinted at intelligence findings that the virus was created in the WIV, while various pieces of evidence suggested that it was in late 2019, perhaps 3-4 months before the Covid-19 [[official narrative]].
  
In early January reports emerged that linked the origin of the virus to the local sea food market, which also sells meat from wild animals (bushmeat).<ref>https://www.cnet.com/how-to/coronavirus-explained-deaths-climb-over-2000-cruise-ship-cases-rise/</ref> At first the consumption of meat from snakes,<ref>https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/snakes-could-be-the-source-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china</ref> then later from bats was alleged to be the cause of the outbreak. While reporting in the {{ccm}} on the cause of the virus spread through consumption of wild meat was based on an assumption, the tone and intensity of the reporting could make believe that it is already accepted fact.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10828531/coronavirus-china-wuhan-bat-soup-influencer/</ref><ref>https://newatlas.com/science/why-deadly-viral-coronavirus-outbreaks-originate-bats/</ref><ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7938207/Chinese-travel-presenter-ate-bat-begs-public-forgiveness-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html</ref><ref>https://nypost.com/2020/01/31/deadly-coronavirus-may-have-originated-in-bats-researchers/</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2020.02.19-223941/https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/coronavirus-possibly-linked-to-bats</ref>
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==Containment efforts==
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[[image:COVID-19 spread by nation state logarithmic plot.png|450px|left|thumb|A logarithmic plot of virus cases numbers in different countries, after the 100th patient]]
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''[[The Guardian]]'' reported in March 2020 that [[Xu Zhiyong]], an activist who in early 2020 criticised the [[Chinese President]] [[Xi Jinping]]'s handling of the virus outbreak "faces years in jail for 'subversion'".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/china-activist-who-called-xi-clueless-on-coronavirus-faces-years-in-jail-for-subversion</ref> In January 2020, the Chinese policy changed from aggressive censorship, to aggressive containment efforts. Researchers{{who}} quickly published the gene sequence of the virus.{{cn}}
  
== Criticism ==
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===Timing===
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The virus was first detected right before the [[Lunar New Year]] extended vacation, a time of intense travel activity in China. 5 million people left Wuhan, a central hub for train travel,<ref>https://emergingmarkets.blog.franklintempleton.com/2016/02/18/wuhan-chinas-travel-hub/</ref> for their home village.
  
The timing, location and "focus group", the group of people on which the virus has the most impact, the Asian male,<ref>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full</ref> has let to speculation that this virus outbreak is a [[Biological weapon]] that was designed to target a specific ethnicity.<ref>https://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/146-two-birds-with-one-flu-coronavirus-weaponized-against-china-and-american-dissidents</ref><ref>https://cryptome.org/2020/02/CIA-biovirus-2019.pdf</ref> By that explanation the occurrence of the outbreak was further timed in sync with the Chinese new year and it's spring festival travel season, the Chunyun,<ref>http://archive.today/2020.02.19-234644/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun</ref> a time of intense travel activity in China and placed in Wuhan, a major central hub for train travel.<ref>https://emergingmarkets.blog.franklintempleton.com/2016/02/18/wuhan-chinas-travel-hub/</ref> The general believed incubation period with 2-14 days (mean incubation reported to be between 3 and 6,4 days), with later reports putting single outlier cases up to 27 days,<ref>[https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1180420.shtml Hubei’s Shennongjia region reports new COVID-19 case following 27-day incubation period]</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2020.02.23-192756/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incubation-period/</ref> is rather long and in the beginning often only with symptoms of a mild flu which let to the believe at first, that the virus is harmless and thus facilitated with some cases a further spread. When indeed the use of such a weapon has taken place, it would be possible for the adversary to utilise it again covertly if he wishes to prolong the lockdown period in China.  
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===Location===
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[[image:coronavirus_control_efforts_in_Iran.jpg|left|340px|Thumbnail|Containment efforts in [[Iran]]]
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The [[Wuhan Institute Of Virology]] (WIV), [[China]]'s only [[biosafety level 4]] facility, is close to the market where [[COVID-19]] was first reported. In 2016 researchers at the WIV reported "the isolation and characterisation of a novel bat coronavirus which is much closer to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in genomic sequence than others previously reported.
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<ref name=wuhancovid>http://english.whiov.cas.cn/Research/Research_Progress/201603/t20160311_160492.html</ref> The proximity of which could indicate that the virus may have been released from the WIV, or alternatively that it was developed elsewhere but released there in order to suggest that possibility.
  
== Signs and symptoms ==
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==Travel restrictions==
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[[File:Corona Virus - Daily Mail 2020-02-22 - 25064814-8032385-image-a-1 1582399348111.jpg|350px|thumb|right |DailyMail.com, 2020-02-22 : [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8032385/Coronavirus-experts-say-NOT-rising-numbers-infections-fear.html ''Dramatic surge in UNTRACEABLE clusters of coronavirus cases around the world sparks dire warnings from disease experts that 'containment methods are not going to work'''].]]
  
Those infected can show no symptoms, or have among other things: fever, cough or shortness of breath. Video footage out of China suggests that sometimes people loose consciousness or get weak in an instant and fall down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200203213045/https://metallicman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/f9cb1f4f422a8e02cb0529b5d867e5b8.mp4</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200215195958/https://metallicman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/d522001ed84c6fa1c00be4ebfbc0817d.mp4?_=2</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200215195958/https://metallicman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ad0a5bff08beae9282500febacaef240.mp4?_=3</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200215195958/https://metallicman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/47890.mp4?_=6</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200215195959/https://metallicman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/e75629a9724baceeeae89459829a7d56.mp4?_=7</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200215195958/https://metallicman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/@73499aa40eeef88709aba786ac223acc-1.mp4?_=10</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200215190547/https://www.unz.com/article/was-the-2020-wuhan-coronavirus-an-engineered-biological-attack-on-china-by-america-for-geopolitical-advantage Main article for the videos]</ref>
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===In China===
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The [[Chinese military]], on its website [http://eng.chinamil.com.cn eng.chinamil.com.cn], republished a report from [[China Daily]], saying the "fight against the epidemic is no less than a war".<ref>http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-02/19/content_9746505.htm saved at [http://archive.is/SwpbM Archive.is]</ref> Those who die in the line of duty will be honored as martyrs and their families will receive support by the government.<ref>http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-02/18/content_9745663.htm saved at [http://archive.is/AorqD Archive.is]</ref> An opinion peace from [[Global Times]] remarked that "decoupling between the industries of the both countries" is now, while it generally has been discussed for a while,<ref>[https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1171165.shtml Is the US seeking to decouple from China?]</ref> a possibility and wanted from China hawks in the Trump administration.<ref>[https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1180402.shtml Why the US can’t win new cold war it started]</ref>
  
=== Characteristics ===
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===Internationally===
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News of the outbreak lead to increased attention at international borders, with various countries prohibiting arrival from China and/or quarantining travellers. Containing spread was largely restricted to China, raising hopes that the virus could be contained as [[SARS]] was. However, the ability of the virus to be asymptomatic was initially not recognised, and virus outbreaks in [[Iran]], [[Italy]] and [[South Korea]] followed. By 25 February, community transmission of the disease was known to be ongoing not only in [[China]], but also [[Hong Kong]], [[Iran]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], [[Singapore]] and [[South Korea]]. In March it was understood to be ongoing in many countries, leading the [[WHO]] to declare it a pandemic.
  
# Highly contagious, with an R0 of around 3 or higher; varying by estimate.<ref>https://www.healthline.com/health/r-nought-reproduction-number</ref><ref>https://vitals.lifehacker.com/what-is-the-coronaviruss-r0-and-why-does-it-matter-1841264885</ref>
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==Failure of containment==
# A novel virus, so there's no immunity via previous exposure.
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By March 2020, many [[nation states]] followed the example of [[Italy]], declaring far reaching restrictions on travel and/or other activities due to a "[[state of emergency]]". These measures were intended to slow rather than halt the spread of the virus, to prevent too large a disruption at any one time - especially, to try to prevent [[hospitals]] from being overwhelmed by a spike in acute cases.
# Probability that those carrying the pathogen can infect others while staying asymptomatic, i.e. having no symptoms for a prolonged period of time, 14 to 24 days. (if that is possible is currently an ongoing discussion as cases are still being evaluated)<ref>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/paper-non-symptomatic-patient-transmitting-coronavirus-wrong</ref><ref>https://globalbiodefense.com/headlines/report-on-asymptomatic-spread-of-coronavirus-based-on-faulty-information/</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/22/coronavirus-asymptomatic-wuhan-woman-shows-why-outbreak-will-be-hard-to-stop</ref>
 
# Some carriers never become ill and so they have no idea they are infecting others. (relative new information - mid February 2020)<ref>https://www.businessinsider.de/international/coronavirus-asymptomatic-transmission-chinese-woman-relatives-2020-2/?r=US&IR=T</ref>
 
# The virus is extremely lethal to vulnerable sub-populations but not so lethal to the entire populace that it kills its hosts before they can transmit the virus to others.<ref>https://futurism.com/neoscope/coronavirus-outbreak-dangerous-elderly</ref>
 
# The virus can be spread by multiple pathways, including aerosols (droplets from sneezing/coughing), brief contact (with hotel desk clerks, taxi drivers, etc.) and contact with surfaces (credit cards, faucets, door handles, etc.). Ideally, the virus remains active on surfaces for prolonged periods, i.e. 7+ days.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/how-long-coronavirus-last-surfaces.html</ref>
 
# Those infected who recover may catch the virus again, as acquired immunity is not 100%.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/19/coronavirus-after-2000-deaths-can-you-get-virus-again/4804905002/</ref>
 
# The symptoms of the illness are essentially identical with less contagious and lethal flu types, so people who catch the virus may not know they have the novel pathogen.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html</ref>
 
  
== Chinese reaction ==
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==Economic impact==
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===Stock markets===
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On 29 February 2020, ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that "Stock markets globally lost about $5tn (£3.9tn) of value last week, as measured by the MSCI all-country index." Analysts at ING said:
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:“Even if China‘s factory production can recover in March, it will still face the risk of a low level of export orders. This is because the supply chain will continue to be broken, this time in [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], [[Europe]], and the [[US]], where COVID-19 has begun to spread.”<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/markets-fall-coronavirus-china-economy "Markets expected to fall further as coronavirus hits China's economy"]''</ref>
  
The [[Chinese military]], on its website [http://eng.chinamil.com.cn eng.chinamil.com.cn], has republished a report from [[China Daily]], saying the "fight against the epidemic is no less than a war".<ref>http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-02/19/content_9746505.htm saved at [http://archive.is/SwpbM Archive.is]</ref> Those who die in the line of duty will be honored as martyrs and their families will receive support by the government.<ref>http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-02/18/content_9745663.htm saved at [http://archive.is/AorqD Archive.is]</ref> An opinion peace from [[Global Times]] remarked that "decoupling between the industries of the both countries" is now, while it generally has been discussed for a while,<ref>[https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1171165.shtml Is the US seeking to decouple from China?]</ref> a possibility and wanted from China hawks in the Trump administration.<ref>[https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1180402.shtml Why the US can’t win new cold war it started]</ref> When necessary, the Chinese government employs heavy handed measures and detains people forcefully if they refuse to cooperate and be isolated in case they are suspected of being infected.{{cn}}
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===Travel===
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Travel restrictions have had a major impact on consumer behaviour and on business; shipping from China has been reduced by over 50%.{{cn}}{{when}} This unpredicted disruption has lead to global anxiety about shortages of goods.
  
== The Committee on the Present Danger: China ==
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==People==
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Professor [[Charles Leiber]] was charged on 28 January 2020 with two federal counts of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement to investigators regarding his participation in China's [[Thousand Talents Program]].
  
Brian T. Kennedy, chairman of the US deep state neoconservative think tank [[The Committee on the Present Danger: China]], has tweeted and re-tweeted<ref>https://twitter.com/BritravKennedy/status/1231297944634023936 saved at [http://archive.is/rM1wE Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1231311580853305344 saved at [http://archive.is/UIF8g Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/BritravKennedy/status/1221164214510702592 saved at [http://archive.is/v0QXL Archive.is</ref> a large number of Tweets,<ref>http://archive.today/2020.02.24-181210/https://mobile.twitter.com/BritravKennedy</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2020.02.24-182750/https://mobile.twitter.com/BritravKennedy?max_id=1227019861722685440</ref> some from corporate media with connections to the Committee, claiming the virus originates from a Chinese biological weapons program. This indicates that there exists a coordinated covert US propaganda effort to point the finger at the Chinese.
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In October 2022, former Chief Minister of [[Jersey]] [[John Le Fondré]] told [[ITV]] that he was told 500 people could die in the first wave. This was the equivalent of 0.5% of the islands total population.<ref>https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2022-10-15/500-could-die-jerseys-ex-chief-minister-recalls-early-covid-conversations</ref>
  
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ WorldOMeters.info/CoronaVirus]
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* [[SaidIt]] forum [https://saidit.net/s/WorldNews/comments/2xey/17_people_have_died_outside_china_from_the/ discussion on the WorldOMeters page]
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* [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8032385/Coronavirus-experts-say-NOT-rising-numbers-infections-fear.html DailyMail.com : ''Dramatic surge in UNTRACEABLE clusters of coronavirus cases around the world sparks dire warnings from disease experts that 'containment methods are not going to work''']
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* [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-coronavirus-outbreak-is-delivering-a-fresh-dose-of-recession-fear-to-the-stock-market-2020-02-22?mod=home-page MarketWatch.com ''Why the coronavirus outbreak is delivering a fresh dose of recession fear to stock-market investors'']
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* [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-update-more-than-76000-cases-2247-deaths-coca-cola-warns-on-impact-2020-02-21 ''Coronavirus update: more than 76,000 cases, 2,249 deaths, Coca-Cola warns on impact'']
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* DuckDuckGo search : [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Cynthia+5G+nanotech+virus Cynthia 5G nanotech virus]
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* [https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/corona-virus-fakery-and-the-link-to-5g-testing/ ''Corona Virus Fakery And The Link To 5G Testing'']
 
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== References ==
 
== References ==
 
 
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{{YouTubeVideo |code=vWJBJq-tVsc |align=right|width=300px |caption=''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJBJq-tVsc Coronavirus Cases Doubling Overnight In Many Countries]'' (26:45), by [[Peak Prosperity]], 2020-02-22, on YouTube.}}
== External links ==
 
 
 
* [https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ WorldOMeters.info/CoronaVirus]
 
** [[SaidIt]] forum [https://saidit.net/s/WorldNews/comments/2xey/17_people_have_died_outside_china_from_the/ discussion on the WorldOMeters page]
 
*** [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8032385/Coronavirus-experts-say-NOT-rising-numbers-infections-fear.html DailyMail.com ''Dramatic surge in UNTRACEABLE clusters of coronavirus cases around the world sparks dire warnings from disease experts that 'containment methods are not going to work''']
 
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Event.png "Accident"
COVID-19/Pandemic (“Pandemic”) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Covid pandemic.jpg
DateDecember 2019 - Present
LocationWorld
Blamed onWIV, China
Exposed byHelen Chu
Interest ofDido Harding, White House/Coronavirus Task Force
DescriptionAn outbreak of Covid-19, a mild respiratory disease, caused worldwide mass panic with almost totalitarian outcome.

A pandemic of COVID-19 is ongoing globally after a virus outbreak in the city of Wuhan, China in late 2019, where researchers identified a new coronavirus. The WHO later named the potentially fatal coronavirus "COVID-19".[1] Its origins are a matter of ongoing debate.

In March 2021, Adam Vaughan wrote an article in New Scientist entitled "How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely" which describes how from habitat degradation to squalid animal treatment, our part in allowing “zoonotic” diseases to leap into humans is becoming ever clearer.[2]

According to Oxfam, the world's 10 richest men have seen their wealth double since the beginning of COVID.[3]

Origins

Full article: COVID-19/Origins

In late 2019 by Zhang Jixian noticed a cluster of severe infections linked to Huanan Seafood Market. On 30 December 2019 another Chinese doctor, Li Wenliang, warned colleagues of his suspicions that they faced a hitherto unknown virus and alerted the world via the Internet.

The Western commercially-controlled media promoted the idea that the virus was of natural zoonotic origin, and originated in China, although independent voices cast doubt on both claims, noting that BSL4 laboratories including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been working on "gain of function" for coronaviruses, and that numerous piece of circumstantial evidence suggested an emergence perhaps 6 months earlier, possibly in the US. In April 2020, corporate media hinted at intelligence findings that the virus was created in the WIV, while various pieces of evidence suggested that it was in late 2019, perhaps 3-4 months before the Covid-19 official narrative.

Containment efforts

A logarithmic plot of virus cases numbers in different countries, after the 100th patient

The Guardian reported in March 2020 that Xu Zhiyong, an activist who in early 2020 criticised the Chinese President Xi Jinping's handling of the virus outbreak "faces years in jail for 'subversion'".[4] In January 2020, the Chinese policy changed from aggressive censorship, to aggressive containment efforts. Researchers[Who?] quickly published the gene sequence of the virus.[citation needed]

Timing

The virus was first detected right before the Lunar New Year extended vacation, a time of intense travel activity in China. 5 million people left Wuhan, a central hub for train travel,[5] for their home village.

Location

[[image:coronavirus_control_efforts_in_Iran.jpg|left|340px|Thumbnail|Containment efforts in Iran] The Wuhan Institute Of Virology (WIV), China's only biosafety level 4 facility, is close to the market where COVID-19 was first reported. In 2016 researchers at the WIV reported "the isolation and characterisation of a novel bat coronavirus which is much closer to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in genomic sequence than others previously reported." [6] The proximity of which could indicate that the virus may have been released from the WIV, or alternatively that it was developed elsewhere but released there in order to suggest that possibility.

Travel restrictions

In China

The Chinese military, on its website eng.chinamil.com.cn, republished a report from China Daily, saying the "fight against the epidemic is no less than a war".[7] Those who die in the line of duty will be honored as martyrs and their families will receive support by the government.[8] An opinion peace from Global Times remarked that "decoupling between the industries of the both countries" is now, while it generally has been discussed for a while,[9] a possibility and wanted from China hawks in the Trump administration.[10]

Internationally

News of the outbreak lead to increased attention at international borders, with various countries prohibiting arrival from China and/or quarantining travellers. Containing spread was largely restricted to China, raising hopes that the virus could be contained as SARS was. However, the ability of the virus to be asymptomatic was initially not recognised, and virus outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea followed. By 25 February, community transmission of the disease was known to be ongoing not only in China, but also Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. In March it was understood to be ongoing in many countries, leading the WHO to declare it a pandemic.

Failure of containment

By March 2020, many nation states followed the example of Italy, declaring far reaching restrictions on travel and/or other activities due to a "state of emergency". These measures were intended to slow rather than halt the spread of the virus, to prevent too large a disruption at any one time - especially, to try to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by a spike in acute cases.

Economic impact

'VIRUS OR A CON' #Plannedemic News

Stock markets

On 29 February 2020, The Guardian reported that "Stock markets globally lost about $5tn (£3.9tn) of value last week, as measured by the MSCI all-country index." Analysts at ING said:

“Even if China‘s factory production can recover in March, it will still face the risk of a low level of export orders. This is because the supply chain will continue to be broken, this time in South Korea, Japan, Europe, and the US, where COVID-19 has begun to spread.”[11]

Travel

Travel restrictions have had a major impact on consumer behaviour and on business; shipping from China has been reduced by over 50%.[citation needed][When?] This unpredicted disruption has lead to global anxiety about shortages of goods.

People

Professor Charles Leiber was charged on 28 January 2020 with two federal counts of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement to investigators regarding his participation in China's Thousand Talents Program.

In October 2022, former Chief Minister of Jersey John Le Fondré told ITV that he was told 500 people could die in the first wave. This was the equivalent of 0.5% of the islands total population.[12]

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Related Quotations

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"COVID-19/Response"“To minimize COVID-19] infection the UK is granting early release to all non-violent, non-Julian Assange prisoners.”Caitlin Johnstone4 April 2020
2020s“I once asked the question: is this pandemic, this coronavirus, a man-made phenomenon? I don’t know the answer yet, but I have my suspicions. Are politicians and others using this situation for their own purposes? You and I both know the answer to that question. You already see how it is used today... Doesn’t it seem to you that the influential forces of the world would like to remake the world, without a ‘war’ (Emmanuel Macron has already called it a war), through this so-called ‘corona-psychosis’, or ‘info-demic’? Many people are asking: ‘what will happen after the pandemic?’”Alexander Lukashenko3 April 2020
Article 19“Freedom of expression is the fundamental human right that enables us all to demand the highest attainable standard of health. Unlike any other year in recent history, 2020 has driven home just how vital access to accurate, reliable and timely information is, and continues to be, during a global health crisis.

When faced with such crises, governments have a fundamental duty to be transparent about their decisions, and a legal obligation to protect people’s lives. This means ensuring that health-care professionals have access to accurate global information about the disease, educating the public about the pandemic, and ensuring that health data is accessible to everyone – no exceptions. The Global Expression Report for 2021 reveals that rather than focusing on controlling the virus, protecting public health and improving access to information, governments have used the pandemic as an excuse to:

   Suppress critical information
   Implement states of emergency without proper limits 
   Place unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions on the media 

And by presenting a false choice between human rights and public health, governments have used a cunning tactic to shut down public discussion and any scrutiny of their decisions. In other words, they have wasted public money and valuable time using the pandemic to entrench their power.

As a result, these actions have prolonged the pandemic and cost lives.”
Article 19
Yvette D'Ath“If you don't want to be vaccinated stay home. Don't go out because if you want to go out, go on holiday, travel around this country and internationally, if you want to go out and enjoy the footy. If you want to hug a loved one, you want to shake hands again, then you need to get vaccinated.”Yvette D'Ath2021
Event 201“[M]y team has been monitoring the public response. And on various social media channels and cable networks, there's been some conspiracy theories that are around about the potential that pharmaceutical companies or the UN have released this for their own benefit... if conspiracy theories like this come up already, so we are on the edge of hysterical reactions.”18 October 2019
Event 201“The policy crisis for the board to consider in this meeting is this. How should national leaders, businesses and international organizations balance the risk of worsening disease that would be caused by the continued movement of people around the world against the risks of profound economic consequence of travel and trade bans?”18 October 2019
Event 201“To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction (...) We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.”24 January 2020
Event 201“it shouldn't be controversial to suggest our response should prioritize both lives and livelihoods. Absolutely. We need to save lives. We all know someone who's been affected by cats. But we literally cannot afford a heavy handed response that suffocates our economy. pragmatism is a wise choice. I mean, what exactly are the risks and benefits of slowing air travel of staying home from work, closing schools, disrupting supply chains, interfering with our reliable channels of communication and news? Sure, some of these steps can help slow caps but often only most - 3:00 - Generally and with serious costs, when this is all over some families, some cities will have suffered more from our interventions, then from CAPS.”18 October 2019
Event 201“My team has been monitoring the public response. And on various social media channels and cable networks, there's been some conspiracy theories that are around about the potential that pharmaceutical companies or the UN have released this for their own benefit. So as we move forward, obviously, trust in pharmaceuticals and government is very important at this moment. And so as we move forward with developing the right scenarios, we have to make sure that the public communication is a major part of that because of these conspiracy theories.”18 October 2019
Henry Kissinger“The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order”Henry Kissinger3 April 2020
Alexander Myasnikov“It’s all bullsh*t... It’s all exaggerated. It’s an acute respiratory disease with minimal mortality. Why has the whole world been destroyed? That I don’t know.”Alexander Myasnikov

 

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Document:COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the USArticle4 March 2020Larry RomanoffThe varieties of COVID-19 in Iran and Italy have been sequenced and declared to have no part of the variety that infected China and must, by definition, have originated elsewhere.
Document:Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear warArticleAndre DamonThe total devaluation of human life, the indifference to mass death in the pandemic and the recklessness with which American capitalism is rushing into conflict with Russia, reflect the views and social character of the American ruling class. This parasitic oligarchy feasts upon the impoverishment and exploitation of the working population.
Document:Hidden Alliance of former WEF Young Global Leaders working in LockstepArticle27 January 2022Nota Akhir ZamanJust listen to the President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, himself say the following: “I have to say when I mention names like Mrs Merkel, Vladimir Putin and so on they have all been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, but what we’re really proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, the President of Argentina and so on.
Document:Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the COVID-19 virusreport31 January 2020Jonathan Jay CoueyReport of a thorough investigation into the origins of the virus that caused the pandemic. Whilst the author is circumspect, the evidence presented points clearly to the virus being the product of laboratory engineering.
Document:Renowed German Mathematician and Professor of Statistics Slams Dramatization of Covid-19webpageJens Berger
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A statistical demolition of the assumptions underlying official models being used to manage the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Official Culprits

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ChinaThe most populous nation state in the world
Wuhan Institute of VirologyChina's only BSL4 facility, which carries out "gain-of-function" research, including creation of transgenic novel coronaviruses by combining SARS with HIV.
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References

Coronavirus Cases Doubling Overnight In Many Countries (26:45), by Peak Prosperity, 2020-02-22, on YouTube.