Posted on 08/06/2021 8:43:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Beijing struggles to suppress China's most broad-based COVID outbreak since the original wave that swept the globe in late 2019-early 2020, the CCP's ministry of propaganda is ramping up efforts to spread a conspiracy theory blaming COVID on the US military, CNN reports.
As we have previously reported, the conspiracy theory alleges that the virus originated at a military lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland. While that might seem outlandish to most Americans, plenty of Chinese citizens are taking the reports at face value. In fact, the reports have elicited enough of an impassioned response from Chinese citizens that half a million of them signed a letter to the WHO demanding an investigation into Fort Detrick.
During a news conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called for WHO to investigate both the Fort Detrick lab and a laboratory at the University of North Carolina led by US coronavirus expert Ralph Baric.
Spotting the tactics at play here isn't difficult. Beijing is trying to turn the push for another probe into the virus's potential origins inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology on its head, creating an inverted counter-narrative that accuses the aggressive Trump Administration of trying to tarnish China's global reputation via biological skullduggery.
And as with any effective conspiracy theory, it also contains a kernel of truth. Sen. Rand Paul has drawn attention to the NIH's involvement in financing 'gain of function' research at the WIV.
Still, top Chinese officials are slamming the WHO for even daring to suggest another investigation (which, by the way, looks unlikely to happen, not that it would matter, since the WIV has likely been thoroughly cleaned since the outbreak started almost 2 years ago). They've accused the agency, once criticized for blatantly kowtowing to Beijing during the opening months of the crisis, of "disregarding common sense and defying science."
Chinese propagandists have also latched on to another baseless theory originating in an obscure Italian tabloid, which also accuses the US military of spreading the coronavirus to Italy through a blood donation program: "Damning evidence! The coronavirus entered Europe from Fort Detrick via a US army blood donation program," screamed the headline of a widely read story published by the Communist Youth League, the youth branch of the CCP.
Ironically (considering the backlash in the US over President Trump calling COVID "the China virus") some in China have taken to calling COVID "the US virus".
Recent reports claim US intelligence has increasingly come around to the theory that the virus originated at the WIV and escaped via a leak.
Meanwhile, Chinese health authorities reported a growing number of new cases on Friday. Officials counted 124 confirmed new coronavirus cases for Aug. 5, the highest daily count in the current outbreak, fueled by a spike in locally transmitted infections. Authorities have imposed travel restrictions, imposed mandatory testing for millions, and even locked down some residential compounds. Beijing, meanwhile, continues to blame the latest delta-driven outbreak on foreigners, claiming it originated with the crew of a flight into Nanjing from Russia. New cases have repeatedly been blamed on travelers or foreigners, even as China maintains tight restrictions on foreigners entering the country.
Chinese people need to revolt.
China cannot escape responsibility for the release of the virus. But the USA cannot escape responsibility either.
Here’s why....
Dr. Fauci et al were involvement in gain of function research, which was eventually banned in the US. But He STILL wanted to continue the research. Therefore, he funded the continuation of the research in Wuhan with a grant given via the Ecohealth Alliance.
However, the virus DID escape in China, but the origin of the lab modified virus and the FUNDING for the continuation of the research came from the US Government.
The GOVERNMENT of the world’s two superpowers unleashed this plague on us.
This is supported by the dates including a US patent application in 2015 for a “vaccine” to combat a Novel Covid virus. The patent was rejected on the grounds that the mRNA “vaccine” did not meet the criteria or definition of the word vaccine.
So the whole issue and the virus has been known in the US going back to 2008 when the gain of function experiments started.
China cannot escape responsibility for the release of the virus. But the USA cannot escape responsibility either.
Here’s why....
Dr. Fauci et al were involvement in gain of function research, which was eventually banned in the US. But He STILL wanted to continue the research. Therefore, he funded the continuation of the research in Wuhan with a grant given via the Ecohealth Alliance.
However, the virus DID escape in China, but the origin of the lab modified virus and the FUNDING for the continuation of the research came from the US Government.
The GOVERNMENT of the world’s two superpowers unleashed this plague on us.
This is supported by the dates including a US patent application in 2015 for a “vaccine” to combat a Novel Covid virus. The patent was rejected on the grounds that the mRNA “vaccine” did not meet the criteria or definition of the word vaccine.
So the whole issue and the virus has been known in the US going back to 2008 when the gain of function experiments started.
By the way.... In the Spring of 2020 one circulating story was that the virus was a germ warfare virus engineered in the US in Fort Detrick, sent to a Canadian lab where its was stolen by some Chinese researchers, taken to Wuhan and accidently released due to sloppy containment issues.
The director of the Canadian lab died in Nairobi in mysterious circumstances at the end of 2019.
Was this trail ever substantiated or was it just another rumor spread around as people tried to cope with the unknowns?
And Ecohealth Alliance is British, is it not? This was either an international conspiracy or one of the worst man made disasters ever. Intentional or not, the CCP allowed it to be spread around the world and multinational corporations made a killing as their smaller competition was forced to close.
Too many people benefited from this either intentionally or by taking advantage of the situation.
“…Was this trail ever substantiated or was it just another rumor spread around…”
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Don’t know but, hell, why don’t you just continue spreading it around?
What happened to the fish market and Bat cave excuses?
“What happened to the fish market and Bat cave excuses?”
Who know
I do know that a whole segment of the population, especially the ones with pre-existing mental disorders have been driven batshit crazy, a lot of females too
RE: What happened to the fish market and Bat cave excuses?
No longer feasible as all scientific evidences point to the virus as MAN-MADE instead of occurring in nature.
RE: Don’t know but, hell, why don’t you just continue spreading it around?
I won’t if it cannot be substantiated.
I trust CNN more than the CCP. I’d be hard put to set the bar any lower.
Excellent post.
There are no clean hands, and Fauci’s hands are filthy.
Good… because it’s BS. The virus was developed in the Wuhan lab.
For the timeline , See: Timing exposes China’s weaponization of virus
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3982262/posts
Yes, they do.
What was their excuse for all of our pets that died from their lousy pet foods? Not to mention human baby deaths due to their sloppy and substandard food processing methods.
they tried. it didn’t go well.
Must save face? How bad were the virus cases in Baltimore? Not as bad as Wuhan I am sure.
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