Posted on 03/22/2020 2:09:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
China, Chinese Virus, CNN, Corona virus,
In an article and TV segment yesterday, CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh and Vasco Cotovio argued that the Chinese virus pandemic was not the fault of China’s communist government or bats, but “human activity.” The big winner in this bizarre way of telling the story is China, which is launching a furious disinformation campaign to distance itself from blame for the pandemic.
According the CNN theory, the real problem is a global one. Through climate change and other means, natural habitats are being destroyed. This displaces animals such as bats. When the bats are displaced (and I’m not making this up), the bats get stressed out and are more susceptible to viruses they could otherwise fight off.
Here is the first mention of China, in the article’s fourth paragraph: “Scientists are still unsure where the virus originated, and will only be able to prove its source if they isolate a live virus in a suspected species — a hard task. But viruses that are extremely similar to the one that causes Covid-19 have been seen in Chinese horseshoe bats. That has led to urgent questions as to how the disease moved from bat communities — often untouched by humans — to spread across Earth. The answers suggest the need for a complete rethink of how we treat the planet.”
The next eight paragraphs are a zoology lesson on why bats breed viruses, then, finally in paragraph 12, we finally get to the subject of the Chinese wet markets, where experts believe the virus originated: “In the likely epicenter of the virus — the so-called wet-markets of Wuhan, China — where wild animals are held captive together and sold as delicacies or pets, a terrifying mix of viruses and species can occur.”
Woah, woah, woah. In 1,000 words we went from “Who knows where it started? It’s all of humanity’s fault anyway,” to “Oh, it probably started in markets that everyone has known for years are a huge problem China won’t address.”
There are a couple of things going on here. The first is a typical leftist fallacy in which any environmental issue requires not targeted measures, but wholesale change in how the entire world operates. The CNN authors declare “the need for a complete rethink of how we treat the planet.” Call it Green New Dealism.
But far worse and more pernicious is that CNN is carrying communist China’s water by deflecting blame from them and pretending that we are all equally at fault. Nowhere is the Chinese cover-up of the virus confirmed by the U.S. intelligence community mentioned. During the Russia probe, their word was gold.
China needs to be held accountable for its actions, not just as a matter of justice but also of public safety. If they are allowed to shirk blame with absurd lies about the U.S. Army bringing the virus to Wuhan, there is no reason to think their actions and inactions will change. By absolving China, CNN makes the task of making it tell the truth harder.
And it isn’t just CNN. A Vox explainer video on the Chinese virus had its title changed from “Why New Diseases Keep Appearing In China,” to “How Wildlife Trade Is Linked To Coronavirus.” A note under the video says the headline has been changed, but offers no explanation.
Meanwhile, The Daily Beast ran a breathless article about how the White House communications team is pushing back on Chinese propaganda and putting a strong focus on their lies and cover-ups. The category of the piece is “Blame Game.” It is absolutely appropriate and necessary for the United States to fight China’s lies. But for the good folks at The Daily Beast, it’s just Donald Trump trying to protect his own reputation.
Many in the media defend essentially erasing China from the Chinese virus story out of fears of racism against Asian Americans. This is a legitimate fear and something that everyone including in the White House should combat. But the answer can’t be to just give the Chinese government a pass.
Whatever one calls it for whatever reasons, the virus wracking the world is a product of China. The negligence of the Chinese government helped create it, and their cover-up sped the spread of what is now a global pandemic. The immediate question here is not how do we change our entire relationship to the planet, it is how do we make China start acting responsibly.
Chinese communist party propaganda, courtesy of the good people at CNN. /S
China certainly does not want countries to send Chinese students and workers in our companies back to China. They depend on the Chinese living in the West.
On an unrelated note, Molly Henneberg is getting some face time at FOX today.
I’m watching with the sound off and somehow I have the sense that if I turned it up she’d be speaking German.
Step spreading Chicom propaganda.
This was a bioweapon.
I’m calling it the coup wa flu
CNN hates Trump so much, they are willing to side with our worst enemies. Like back when Pelosi defended MS-13 animals when Trump referred to them as “animals”.
Psychovirapaths.
When Republicans screw up, they get the blame.
When Democrats screw up, Republicans gets the blame. When America can't get the blame, the whole world gets the blame.
Just leave the progressives blameless and no one gets hurt. At least no one important.
Indeed they do, and therein lies the problem.
Yeah they do. Infected with a bioweapon and everything. Filthy people. The sino-pologists say it's just the chicom government. No, it's also the people.
Hey, I’ve eaten at Chinese restaurants with Chinese friends, and the ones fresh from China order bizarre food. Here in the USA, that’s stuff like pigeon and chicken feet, fish heads, etc. In China it’s worse - they eat anything that was alive but we discard, like bats, mice, dog, snakes, etc. and I’m talking about discards like heads, guts and feet. Maybe it’s sanitary, maybe it’s not, but I’m not risking eating just anything because my Chinese friends suggest it. Calling it the Chinese Flu is fine.
President Xi Jinping’s The Yellow Peril ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Novel Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus, Chinobyl#2, The Yellow Peril, Made in China!
The cause of virulent viruses in China is the wet markets combined with wild animal farming a remnant of a former Chinese program to combat the ravages of commnist collective farm induced hunger. Now, the CCP won’t deal with the problem because wild animal products are viewed by CCP elites as ways to augment their virility.
I never saw so many Chinks at one college/university as I saw at Vanderbilt.
CNN: China (fake)News Network
Just waiting for Homeland to bust them for taking their cues from China. But not holding my breath for it.
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