Posted on 04/02/2020 7:13:56 AM PDT by SJackson
The world has been sent reeling by the Coronavirus pandemic that has yet to run its course.
However, even though this deadly pandemic is still ongoing, it is not too soon to take stock of a number of critical issues. In point of fact, it is probably best to begin this process before the pandemic ends and the public permits this global crisis to fade from their minds as it fades from the news reports.
To begin with, as I noted in my previous article, Because of the Coronavirus, Borders Suddenly Matter. For all of the bogus slanderous claims hurled by the radical Left in the media and politics, securing borders against those infected with a dangerous virus is not a matter of racism and xenophobia - but survival.
Unlike most politicians, President Trump has the chutzpah to call things as he sees them. This, by itself, is enough to traumatize the Left. Trump has come to refer to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) by the term “China Virus,” sending many “journalists” into paroxysms of rage and disgust, claiming that referring to this virus that, in point of fact, originated in China, demonstrates that Trump is a racist.
Time for a reality check.
Various illnesses have traditionally been named for the locations where the diseases originated. The devastating Spanish Flu of 1918 was so-named because, it originated in Spain.
In 1972, at the beginning of my career with the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), I became infected with a very serious illness that was referred to as the London Flu. I was an Immigration Inspector at JFK International Airport at the time and consequently was exposed to a variety of pathogens brought to the United States by foreign visitors. I wound up in the hospital and nearly died, my fever maxed at more than 105 degrees. Some of my colleagues were similarly sickened by this particularly virulent illness.
The doctors and nurses who treated me all referred to my illness as the London Flu. I doubt that they disliked Brits or Londoners.
Clearly the mainstream media and the radical Left despise the President and on a nearly daily basis demonstrate an irrational response to virtually everything he does and says.
But could it be that their extreme abhorrence of the term “China Virus” has a more deep-seated origin? Perhaps it goes back to how they were educated in American colleges.
When misleading terms are used, such as the term “immigrant” instead of “alien” most write this off as being Politically Correct. In reality this is nothing short of Orwellian Newspeak and it must always be described as such.
Today. as we will see, many of Ameria’s premier universities are under the influence of the Chinese government and other governments that are hostile to the United States.
Chinese Aggression Against the U.S.A. manifests itself in many ways, especially through widespread espionage.
The Communist, totalitarian Chinese regime is extremely sensitive to the way that they are perceived around the world. They have infiltrated many universities around the United States for a number of significant purposes that include having their scientists, engineers, computer programmers and other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) professionals trained in the United States, and maintaining strict control over those students when they are in the United States.
Many Chinese students are coerced in spying on the United States when they secure “Optional Practical Training” by working for American companies.
It has been recently alleged by the U.S. Department of Education that China and other countries have been allegedly pouring billions of dollars into American Universities that went unreported by those universities, in violation of U.S. laws.
On February 12, 2020 the Department of Education (DOE) issued a press release: U.S. Department of Education Launches Investigation into Foreign Gifts Reporting at Ivy League Universities that included this subtitle:
Since July, the Department has uncovered more than $6 billion in unreported foreign gifts from countries including Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The DOE press release also included these excerpts:
The Department is also concerned Harvard University may lack appropriate institutional controls over foreign money and has failed to report fully all foreign gifts and contracts as required by law. This comes after Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was indicted for lying about his involvement with the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents Plan and admitting that Harvard lacks adequate institutional controls for effective oversight and tracking of very large donations.
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The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations described foreign spending on U.S. schools as “a black hole” because colleges and universities “routinely” fail to comply with the law, and reported foreign money can come with strings attached that might compromise academic freedom.
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Additional Information on the Department’s Section 117 Enforcement Actions:
- Since July 1, 2019, the Department’s enforcement efforts have triggered the reporting of approximately $6.5 billion in previously undisclosed foreign money.
- Ten schools, including Cornell University, Yale University, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, Texas A&M University, and Carnegie Mellon University reported approximately $3.6 billion in previously unreported foreign gifts.
- The Department has opened eight civil compliance investigations since June 28, 2019.
- The Department has reported its preliminary findings to Congress including:
- The largest colleges and universities are multi-billion dollar, multi-national enterprises using opaque foundations, foreign campuses, and other sophisticated legal structures to generate revenue that is intermingled with domestic sources of funding from tuition, grants, and the like.
- These colleges and universities actively solicit foreign governments, corporations, and nationals for funds although some donors are known to be hostile to the United States and may be seeking to project “soft power,” steal sensitive and proprietary research and development data and other intellectual property, and spread propaganda benefitting foreign governments.
At the beginning of the onslaught of the Coronavirus, President Trump quickly decided to bar the entry of nonimmigrant aliens from China to prevent the spread of the virus into the United States, invoking 8 U.S. Code § 1182(f), a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that he previously used to prevent the entry of aliens from countries associated with international terrorism and where our officials were unable to effectively vet those who sought entry into the United States.
As the disease spread through Europe, especially Italy, the President expanded the list of countries whose nonimmigrant citizens would be barred from entering the United States to try to slow the spread of the disease.
The Democrats, led by Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and the other “usual suspects,” attacked the President for being a racist and xenophobe. They should have used a different term, “Leader!”
Now many other countries around the world have taken similar measures. Dr. Anthony Fauci lauded Trump’s important decision stating that this single act, of closing our nation’s borders, has been one of the most effective measures take by Trump to help save lives in America.
For decades China has run roughshod over America.
Out of extreme corporate greed, the production of our essential pharmaceuticals has been shipped to China and other countries that do not have our best interests at heart, leaving America vulnerable. China has now threatened to stop the flow of vital antibiotics to the United States and has actually accused the U.S. Army of planting the Coronavirus in China!
President Trump is the first president, in decades, to stand up to this Communist dictatorship that openly boasts it plans to dominate the world. Trump’s actions have undoubtedly done much more than just ruffle some feathers in Beijing.
President Trump has gone on the offensive in his strategies to protect America and Americans.
Our nation has been rendered vulnerable to one of America’s most dangerous adversaries by corporations that seek cheap labor and no regulations and have moved production of vital supplies to China and other countries. To be able to do this, the corporations have pumped huge amounts of cash into the campaign coffers of politicians who need the money to win their elections. Not unlike prostitutes they will apparently do whatever it takes to satisfy their donors.
As I noted, in part, in a speech I gave in Washington several years ago:
The practitioners of the two oldest professions will assume any position, no matter how dangerous, ridiculous, uncomfortable or contrary to commonsense - for the right price!
The time has come to finally clean out the bordellos!
As Trump has pointed out, this will be a WIN for all the stuff he ran on.
Borders are IMPORTANT!
Making stuff here is IMPORTANT!
He institutes a travel ban and is roundly denounced as RAAAAAAAAACIST.
Three weeks later Justin Trudeau is doing it.
Biggest thing is that we have to get SERIOUS about DRAINING THE SWAMP and making government SMALLER and LEANER. The CDC fumbling along in typical bureaucrat mode resulted in lots of people dying here.
There is one lesson I’ve learned. Most people in the world can be easily manipulated and led. Throw in a dash of fear, and they will fall in line.
If I’ve learned this, some very bad people have learned this as well. This isn’t going to end well.
more than $6 billion in unreported foreign gifts from countries including Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirate...
Those ####s.
Some on the list are the bush’s best friends.
I want to cut off my right hand sometime for pulling the lever for him.
Trump has a lot to do the next 4.5 years.
not thrilled about his saying farmers need lots of foreign workers but maybe he has his reasons
Also don’t like some of the money in the stimulus going towards helping illegals and “refugees” but it’s a billion or 2 in a 2.2 trillion dollar package.
And Trump decides in the end who can come and who can’t.
well him and our esteemed judges
The Spanish Flu didn’t originate in Spain. It was first officially observed and recognized in the WW1 battlefields of France and Belgium, but wartime censorship did not allow for that to be mentioned - therefore the media of the time seized upon an outbreak in Spain to run coverage and that’s where the name started.
There have been numerous theories of where it actually started. Some recent scholarship (pre COVID-19) indicate that it may have come from China, gotten to North America with a party of Chinese contract laborers that were transported from West to East Coast, then shipped to England and thence to the rear areas in France.
It’s a small point in an otherwise good article, but when writers make simple mistakes like that, it shows they are uninformed or not willing to do a few minutes of reading. That always makes the entire article suspect in my mind.
One of the more intriguing and plausible explanations for the origin of the Spanish Flu is that it got started on US midwestern pig farms.
If you’re talking about the Haskell County, Kansas outbreak, that’s may have now been connected with Chinese laborers passing through the area.
https://www.statnews.com/2018/12/05/1918-spanish-flu-unraveling-mystery/
But in his study, Humphries reports that an outbreak of respiratory infections, which at the time were dubbed an endemic “winter sickness” by local health officials, were causing dozens of deaths a day in villages along China’s Great Wall. The illness spread 300 miles (500 kilometers) in six weeks’ time in late 1917.
At first thought to be pneumonic plague, the disease killed at a far lower rate than is typical for that disease.
Humphries discovered that a British legation official in China wrote that the disease was actually influenza, in a 1918 report. Humphries made the findings in searches of Canadian and British historical archives that contain the wartime records of the Chinese Labor Corps and the British legation in Beijing.
Sealed Railcars
At the time of the outbreak, British and French officials were forming the Chinese Labor Corps, which eventually shipped some 94,000 laborers from northern China to southern England and France during the war.
“The idea was to free up soldiers to head to the front at a time when they were desperate for manpower,” Humphries says.
Shipping the laborers around Africa was too time-consuming and tied up too much shipping, so British officials turned to shipping the laborers to Vancouver on the Canadian West Coast and sending them by train to Halifax on the East Coast, from which they could be sent to Europe.
Known carrier Chinese people were shipped through North America at the time. The Kansas outbreak is likely just something on that same chain.
We no longer need the public school system
Yes, what happened to the libertarian leaning Republicans, many of them on this site?
Keep the school bus drivers working, getting a check, and have then deliver the hot meals to all of their route !
As far as I can tell ... NO ONE IS DOING IT .... which proves the intent of the ineffectuality of the public school system.
They don't want your kids educated
Montgomery County, Maryland public school system is already doing that.
“MCPS is providing free breakfasts, lunches and dinner meals for children 18 years old and younger and all MCPS students (regardless of age) at more than 40 sites (including mobile sites) throughout the county. Additionally, MCPS school buses will distribute meals in several neighborhoods and county shopping centers.”
Thank You for that data
British soldiers in Etaples, France were showing signs of Spanish Flu was early as December of 1916.
Chinese Labor Corps workers were in France by mid-late 1916; the first contingent left China for Marseilles in July 1916.
France began importing Chinese laborers in 1916 but the actual members of the Chinese Labor Corps, a British group, did not leave not until 1917. And the outbreak of the “winter sickness” in China did not begin until the fall of 1917.
The (or at least *a*) “Winter Sickness” was known at least as far back as 1915 to Chinese officials; the British only became aware of it in 17-18. I, like many, consider the French shipments to be essentially part of the CLC. And they did emphatically have Chinese laborers imported to France by fall 1916.
What’s your source for the 1915 date?
“Purulent bronchitis” was reported at British army bases as far back as the winter of 1915, well before Chinese workers came to France.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3401475?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents
My initial source for that was family records and history (guess where half my family is from.) However, it has become known in the West as well - and there is now Western-examined evidence of it having been known by the Chinese as early as 1910-1911. Source for that: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098366?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents - See page 66 especially.
I generally quote 1915 because that’s the date I am absolutely certain of from my own family records (a whole bunch of them ended up dead) but as noted there is evidence it was known earlier.
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