Posted on 06/07/2021 9:33:31 AM PDT by raptor22
First of all, Wuhan is a place and not a race, and to identify the coronavirus by its place of origin, like naming the Ebola Virus for a river in Zaire, is not racist or xenophobic — it's merely accurate. There is no racism or xenophobia in labeling an infection "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" or calling something "Lyme Disease" after a nearby town in Connecticut.
What calling this latest virus the Wuhan Virus is is a reminder of the multiple contagions China has spawned and released on an unsuspecting world. Nor is connecting some very big, ugly, and obvious dots just another conspiracy theory to be dismissed out of hand.
From the beginning China has been less than forthcoming about this virus and resisted sharing critical data and access to WHO and CDC specialists. And have we forgotten Dr. Li Wenliang, the 33-year-old ophthalmologist based in Wuhan, the epicenter of the contagion, who tried to tell the world that China was hiding something malevolent, only to be silenced and imprisoned by Chinese authorities for allegedly fabricating lies about the disease's deadly potential?
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No. It was an attack on the West. An escape is too easy.
I agree. To paraphrase a famous democrat
In politics there are no coincidences, if it happened that way it was meant to happen that way—FDR
US election year and foreign country interference
+1000
We all know that cat would have been in the General Tsao’s Chicken.
I disagree. Since it is illegal to do gain of function research in the US, the “gubmint” just took the act on the road. They either gave the chinks cash or planned it with them to get Trump. It worked.
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