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.
RE: How bad were the virus cases in Baltimore?
There were NO SARS-COV-2 cases in Baltimore that we know of in 2019.
The CCP’s origin claim is likely partially true: They stole tech (or at least know how) from scientists associated with Ft. Detrick.
As I understand it, there are 70 US patents on this spike protein virus going back to 2002.
RE: The CCP’s origin claim is likely partially true: They stole tech (or at least know how) from scientists associated with Ft. Detrick.
I mentioned that in Post #5 above.
“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.”
You might want to leave out “Novel Covid” next time since it’s easily spotted as a nonsense phrase that’s a mishmash of actual NIH jargon. Team Conspiracy needs to refine their game so that the kook tale sells better.
No, they are USA based. Peter Daszak is British, and he is the EHA guy who did research at WIV, then tried to cover up the leak. He also wrote the Lancet articles "debunking" the lab leak theory, and the Lancet published it despite massive conflicts of interest. Fauci was just the bag man, funneling money to WIV through Peter Daszak/EHA.
Once Jon Stewart explained with passionate theatrics how obvious the Wuhan lab is as the source, all kinds of experts were no longer afraid to say what they’d be thinking all along. No coincidence that after the Stewart declaration, laced with saber sharp humor a bunch of scientsts started going public that that’s what they think, too, rather than a bad bat in some soup, a theory with zero evidence.
We have all seen the the interview with the female Chinese virologist who worked in that lab closely with this research. She declares the virus that has felled people across the globe was being developed as a bio weapon in the Wuhan virology lab. Alas, Fauci made sure the flow of cash continued to the Wuhan lab, even when it had already become written U.S. policy not to give them any more money because the lab was no equipped to handle such risky work.
Fauci’s career has been focused on his hope of working with big drug companies to develop a working vaccine for a viral pandemic never before known.
Any more... I don’t trust the us fed gov any more than the communist chinese. I’m not so sure that there is ANY difference anymore. biden has been bribed to gills by the commies.
Faux-xi started it, then moved it to China.
Crimes against humanity.
This is not getting much ink out there.
Wonder why?
Fauci is my candidate for 1st to be arrested
invented at ft detrick under the NIH ... then moved to wuhan.
the progressives are hoping people keep focusing on china
Good God... so far fetched...
Mebe the CCP screwed up.
The CCP shutdown in country travel.
The CCP opened up travel from Wuhan to the rest of the world.
The CCP got everything backwards and imported the Kung Flu???
Oh Canada!
Bre-X, 1997
The company was on a tear, until the Canadian geologist jumped from his helicopter into a (???) lagoon of alligators.
Who knows who is in Fauxi’s email chain on continuing the gain of function research in Wuhan. Can it possibly be some of our own deep staters? Sure it can. Fauxi can, easily I imagine, justify his agency’s actions based on American domestic prodding he received. He also could have been a whistle blower and said no. But he is a creature of the permanent government in Washington D.C. and would not do that.
Memo to self when I am in power: All bureaucrats in all senior officer and management positions will be given single-term term limits of no more than six years. NO bureaucrat can be in office long enough to be a power in government. All government (and government positions) is either elected and if not elected become dictators.
The Chicoms own the swamp. Lock, stock and barrel.
“As I understand it, there are 70 US patents on this spike protein virus going back to 2002.”
Your understanding is wrong, and the critical word that makes it wrong is your words “this spike protein virus”. My understanding is they have patents on things from their research on corona viruses generally of which none were for the Covid-19 bug specifically.
“invented at ft detrick under the NIH ... then moved to wuhan.
the progressives are hoping people keep focusing on china”
Exactly . Bang on !
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