Posted on 04/15/2020 1:07:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: There’s a fascinating piece today. I know a lot of you people believe that this virus is a communist Chinese, purposeful weapon. Admit it. Many of you people think this. I know it because I’ve had people say so. (interruption) You have no doubt…? (interruption)
Oh, yeah, I think there is doubt about it in some circles. You know, that some people playing around in a lab made a mistake, or is it a purposeful thing? I think there’s another way of look at this. Once Xi Jinping found out what he had, did he then use it to our detriment? A case could be made for that.
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RUSH: Now, let’s move on to the ChiCom story, because I have been asked by a tremendous number of people if I believe that the ChiCom government did this on purpose. In other words, is this a bioweapon that was created somewhere in a lab that the Chinese communist government deployed against its enemies to, in fact, create the circumstances under which we are living now: An economy shut down and in tatters — a $22 trillion economy shut down.
We did it ourselves. Sixteen million people and counting filing for unemployment. The federal Treasury, Federal Reserve printing money left and right — which, theoretically, is going to create all kinds of economic problems down the road. Now, I’ve resisted the idea that it was done purposefully as a weapon until I’ve seen or saw some evidence to the contrary.
I think the Chinese communists are capable of it, don’t misunderstand, and in my rummaging around to try to gather information on this, I came across a website called TheDiplomat.com, an Asia-Pacific website, and I want to read… I’d not heard of TheDiplomat.com. When I haven’t heard of a website, I’m a little — not suspicious, but I exercise even more care and caution that I’m not getting duped by a parody website or a phony baloney, plastic-banana, good-time, rock-and-roll website.
The piece is written by Ben Lowsen, L-o-w-s-e-n, and here’s how the qualifier at the end of the piece is written: “The views expressed in this [column] represent the personal views of the author and are not necessarily the views of the Department of Defense or of the Department of the Air Force.” So it’s an Asia-Pacific website, TheDiplomat.com, related to American military.
The headline of the piece: “Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?” and let me give you some pull quote highlights. Mr. Snerdley, you are in the school of thought that believes this is a weapon? (interruption) You do? (interruption) Okay. “At some point…” Again, this is Ben Lowsen — or Lowsen. I’m not sure how he pronounces it.
“At some point the Chinese Communist Party learned of the epidemic and made a decision to hide its existence…” He believes that they didn’t purposely weaponize anything. He believes that Xi Jinping and the ChiComs discovered what was going on in a lab or in a wet market, found out what this was, and made a decision to lie about it, to hide it, to pretend that it was nothing.
We’re talking last November and December. Mr. Lowsen here gives them such a benefit of the doubt. He believes that Xi Jinping and his ChiCom Politburo hoped the thing would “go away,” and that that is why they made a decision to hide it.
“Exposes in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and the Chinese mainland’s” state-controlled newspaper “show that the information that did flow out of China early in the crisis did so only because of the courage of individual Chinese people in the face of government repression.”
This would be the doctors, the lab researchers who tried to warn everybody about it but were shut down. “People in the Wuhan epicenter, however, began to get wise,” and scared because they saw what was happening to people. They were getting wise.
They were getting scared. “By the end of December 2019, forcing their government to say something. The authorities gave the impression of a nontransmissible disease already under containment.” This is where the Chinese lied. Now, the writer of the story thinks they did this hoping it would go away, that they lied about it, they knew what it was. They decided to hide its existence. And when they did speak, they said it’s noncontagious, nontransmissible and that we’ve got it under control.
“We know now this was entirely false, likely designed more to ease civil unrest than protect the people.” ‘Cause protecting the people is never a concern with communist governments. And do not doubt me. I don’t care whether you love AOC, I don’t care whether you love Crazy Bernie, love Che Guevara or Castro, communist governments do not care a whit about protecting the people. They do care about stamping down, tamping down, preventing civil unrest.
And so it is highly likely that the ChiComs lied about this and said that it was nontransmissible and they had it under containment to make sure people didn’t raise hell about it on the streets of Wuhan. Because if people had raised hell about it on the streets of Wuhan, that would have gotten out. Social media, phones, it would have gotten out. The Chinese communists would not have been able to suppress everything.
“The mayor of Wuhan even suggested that the central government prevented him from revealing details about the epidemic until January 20.” He knew all about it, but the ChiCom government, Beijing, refused to let him reveal details. “Considering the first public announcements came out of Wuhan on January 1, we can assume that Xi had a sense of the danger prior to that,” in December. We know he did.
“Clearly, downplaying the disease wasn’t working –” Saying that it’s nontransmissible or noncontagious wasn’t working because Wuhan was being devastated. So now it was time for the ChiCom Communist Party to get serious. “But how serious? Would it provide full cooperation to the international community? Would being seen as the source of this virus hurt its international image?” This is what they think about.
They did everything they could to hide the fact that this thing was theirs. They did everything they could to hide that it had a center that was Wuhan. And this says they didn’t cooperate because they didn’t want people to think there was anything to cooperate about. There is nothing to see here, was the ChiCom attitude.
Now, many of you still think, “Okay. That’s ’cause they weaponized it, Rush ” Okay, if you want to stick with that, do so, but there’s more here. “There was a darker dimension.” There always is when talking about communist governments. “The more Beijing cooperated, the less the disease stood to affect other countries. This includes countries China sees as a threat to its existence, like the United States. Why should China suffer the effects of a pandemic while others stayed safe — and increased their strength relative to China — based on China’s own costly experience?”
He’s asking this rhetorically. There’s no way if this thing was real, if it starts in a lab in Wuhan and if it is this deadly virus, his theory is there’s no way the Chinese are gonna allow this to stay in their country only. They’re gonna make sure they’re not the only ones affected by it. Now, this is still a distance from creating a weapon on purpose. His theory again here is that it happened, however it happened, in a lab, the wet market. They tried to suppress it. They tried to ignore it. They tried to act like there’s nothing to see here, not contagious, not transmissible.
But when all that failed because it was the exact opposite of what they were lying about, when they realized how deadly it was, the ChiCom government made a decision that they weren’t gonna be the only country affected by it because that would lead to a vast economic disadvantage. If they were gonna be hurt by this, then by golly, by gosh, other nations were gonna be.
Now, this theory — this is the way they think and act – “is inimical to human decency.” But, folks, they’re communist. You know, we have not taught communism properly in the schools in this country for at least 30 years, since the 1980s. And we have to consider that Xi Jinping and the ChiCom Politburo came up with a way to share the effects of this virus with everybody else in the world to make sure they were not the only ones damaged by it.
The way it’s written here: “Xi Jinping has produced the greatest program of ethnic cleansing in the world today. He has curtailed freedoms in China severely and is the father of the panopticon state. His incessant military buildup threatens neighbors while using economic and other subversive means to erode the sovereignty of countries around the world. We should not assume it was beyond his imagining to withhold a degree of support from the international community to ensure that China would not suffer alone.”
In other words, these are communists. They treat their own citizens horribly. They don’t care. If something like this is gonna wreck them, then they’re gonna make sure they’re not the only ones that suffer, either reputational damage — they don’t want it thought that these viruses emanate, originate in China. They don’t want that. And they don’t want any economic damage. So it’s a fascinating theory. And there’s more to it. However, we have to take an obscene profit time-out.
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RUSH: Let me share with you how this piece is concluded by Mr. Lowsen. He says: “None of this can prove whether or when Xi made a deliberate decision to withhold information in order to imperil,” the world so that the damage suffered in China would be spread around. Can’t prove it. “However, as a long-time student and admirer of China, it is with great sadness I must concede that such a state — and its increasingly paranoid leader — might very well provide less than full cooperation to stem the pandemic of the century in the crass pursuit of its own -” Look. He’s just covering his bases here.
There is no way that — and this theory is extremely valid. Look. A lot of people do believe that this is not Xi Jinping discovering one day that there’s this bad virus that might wipe out his country so he’s gonna make sure it wipes out others. There are people who think that they concocted this thing in the lab on purpose for the exact reasons and purpose — in other words, a brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed plan that we now see the results of, there are people that think that.
For those of you in the Drive-By Media, I’m not saying that ’cause I don’t know. I’m just sharing with you the theory of a ChiCom expert. And the theory, to me, resonates. It has a lot of ingredients that dovetail perfectly with how communists operate and how they think, how their number one objective in life is deceit. They lie to themselves and their people. The Soviet Union constantly told their own people that they were the dominant economic power of the world. They do nothing but lie constantly to people.
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RUSH: “China Didn’t Warn Public of Likely Pandemic for Six Key Days.” The ChiComs “Didn’t Warn Public of Likely Pandemic for Six Key Days.” Not Donald Trump didn’t warn. Not Donald Trump didn’t see. The ChiComs.
I don’t know if it was deliberately released but the economic bombs released because of the hype were definitely set off deliberately. China did itself no favors by obfuscating its situation.
I think it was more like, we’re getting hammered so the rest of the world is.
More likely Chinese stupidity.
I say the CCP and DNC colluded and decided to not let the crisis go to waste.
Prove me wrong!
Mhmm, yes, I thought that since the beginning. Tagline.
It could have been and accident but the ChiCOms made lemonade out of lemons.
Even though I believe it probably wasn’t developed as a bioweapon, I would say it was probably natural, found in bat and was released by mistake, however China kept it quiet or released false info and isolated the effected cities so it would not knock out their main production or capital city.
Even though they prevented potentially infected people from traveling within China, they did, however allow them to travel to other parts of the world. This was on purpose and now it seems like a bioweapon of some sorts, even though it wasn’t intended to be one.
I believe that is what happened.
This I believe is still an act of war
These people are nothing against God.
In the end, God wins.
Nah - it would have been way more deadly. I think it was a favor for the Democrat party.
I thought that was already settled.
It conveniently happened just before Chinese New Year when there is a lot of travel by Chinese. I read that 5 million residents of Wuhan fled the city. Italy struck hardest.
No I do not. The more information that comes out of China, the more this looks like a lab accident started it. Then that was made worse by the Chinese government trying to cover up how bad it was.
The Chi-Coms may or may not have weaponized it but the Democrat party certainly did. Here in America to bolster their hatred of all things American including our president.
What do you want to believe....that this was caused by a bat in water.....or an escaped experiment.... you decide
$3.7 million is United States funding for the Wuhan lab ended on September 30th, 2020.
Presumably layoffs ensued.
You going to throw the bats in the incinerator or sell them for soup.
RESEARCH ANIMALS HAVE BEEN SOLD BEFORE IN CHINA, ELICITLY AS FOOD.
Does that mean they win? I hope not
I still think it’s no coincidence that it happened during a presidential election year.
(Occam’s Razor.)
Expert: Chinese Scientists Sell Lab Animals as Meat on the Black Market
by John Hayward / 24 Feb 2020
EXCERPT:
They first blamed a seafood market not far from the Institute of Virology, even though the first documented cases of Covid-19 (the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2) involved people who had never set foot there. Then they pointed to snakes, bats and even a cute little scaly anteater called a pangolin as the source of the virus.
I don’t buy any of this. It turns out that snakes don’t carry coronaviruses and that bats aren’t sold at a seafood market. Neither, for that matter, are pangolins, an endangered species valued for their scales as much as for their meat.
The evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 research being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The virus may have been carried out of the lab by an infected worker or crossed over into humans when they unknowingly dined on a lab animal. Whatever the vector, Beijing authorities are now clearly scrambling to correct the serious problems with the way their labs handle deadly pathogens.
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