Pearl Harbor American Military killed: More than 2,300 killed!
9/11 fatalities: 2,996!
34,614 Deaths in America from the novel coronavirus in the United States! (Fox News, 17 April 2020)
Posted on 04/17/2020 1:59:23 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
My mom was not a model of ethnic sensitivity. Once she made me cringe when a bunch of visiting rural Cajuns (led by a friend of mine) took us out to New York City’s Little Italy. We couldn’t find a spot, so I suggested parking in neighboring Chinatown. Mom took a stand on principle. Absolutely not.
“Oh no,” she said, in her twangy, George-Costanza’s-mom Astoria accent. “I haven’t trusted those people since Pearl Harbor.” She’d been 14 when that happened, and her brother ended up getting wounded fighting at Normandy. Though not against … the Chinese.
I stepped in, pedantically, “But that was the Japanese! The Chinese were our allies! In fact, the oil boycott Roosevelt slapped on Japan in support of China likely provoked — ”
The rural Cajuns looked at each other. They’d expected big city New Yorkers to be a little bit … different.
“I don’t care,” Mom said, puffing a Marlboro, “they all look the same to me. Those people give me nightmares. They eat cats.”
“I … can’t argue with that,” I answered. And we didn’t park the car.
In whatever bubbling corner of Purgatory mom sweats out her sins, I know she’s cackling now. I can see her raising her eyebrows and saying, “They eat bats, too.” From a Research Lab, Not a Wet Market
But of course, she’d be wrong. (Again, Mom! Again.) The habit of eating virus-laced bats, or even endangered pangolins, apparently wasn’t the cause of the Wuhan flu’s transmission. The Coronavirus’ origins appear not to be nearly so innocent or quaint.
Fox News reports:
There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China’s attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
This may be the “costliest government cover-up of all time,” one of the sources said.
The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus – a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there – was bat-to-human and that “patient zero” worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.
The subsequent weeks were a black comedy of errors, as Communist bureaucrats covered their butts, silenced whistleblowers, jailed scientists, and lied to the world. In all of that, they had the help of the compliant World Health Organization. (No wonder President Trump has suspended funding to that organization.) And a timid, sold-out, or frankly pro-China Mainstream Media.
The Chinese response recalled the Soviet handling of Chernobyl, except a whole lot worse, since the stakes were higher. The radiation from that plant wasn’t going to spread from Ukraine to New York, London, and Rome. A Long Record of Lies
The Victims of Communism Foundation has produced a detailed timeline of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) actions surrounding the outbreak. The Foundation notes:
[T]he first case was recorded in Wuhan, China, on November 17, 2019 — a fact still not acknowledged by the PRC. Despite readily available information and a rapidly spreading outbreak, it took more than two months for the PRC to inform the world that the coronavirus was being transmitted among humans, which the regime finally admitted on January 20. The PRC knew about human-to-human transmission by late December, yet ordered the evidence destroyed. Such information was vital to preventing the global pandemic.
For a video account of how China mishandled the virus outbreak in order to cover up its true origins, watch this stunning, one-hour documentary from The Epoch Times. That paper is one of the few media outlets willing to subject the Communist regime to honest scrutiny.
Biological Warfare Against the World
But we haven’t even gotten to the really bad part of China’s behavior, the part that seems like a piece of biological warfare aimed at the rest of the world. Buried in Fox’s report we find the following shocking paragraph:
There were doctors and journalists who were “disappeared” warning of the spread of the virus and its contagious nature and human to human transmission. China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan.
Did you get that? Not only did the Chinese Communist regime know that the virus spread by contact, and lie about it. It shut down the infected province to travel inside China, but continued to send people from there all around the world.
The Communists shut down the infected province to travel inside China, but continued to send people from it all around the world.
Does that remind you of anything? Maybe old stories of U.S. soldiers giving smallpox-infected blankets to Indian tribes they hoped to wipe out? Or the German general staff shipping Lenin to Russia, to bring down its tottering regime in 1917, and knock it out of the war? China a Global Pariah State?
Elizabeth Vaughn at Redstate also noticed this incendiary assertion. She quotes the conversation between reporter Bret Baier and host Sean Hannity on Fox News, during prime time:
Hannity notes, “It certainly would speak volumes if they are not allowing people from Wuhan to travel to China or to any other areas of China, but they’re letting them travel internationally. That would mean they knew the risk was real. They protected their own country, but nobody else and we already know that they were not forthcoming.”
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Baier said, “My sources…they’ve been briefed on this and they seem pretty confident. The fact that they’re saying it like this is news in and of itself…We really want to see the evidence, the hard, direct evidence and we’ll see if we can get that.”
Vaughn concludes: “If it is proven that the CCP stopped air traffic to and from Wuhan to contain the spread of the virus, but continued to allow travel from Wuhan to foreign countries, it would be a game-changer. China will truly become a pariah on the global stage. I can’t imagine anything President Xi could say or do to redeem himself.”
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I’ll go further. If we can verify that China protected its own citizens from this virus, while sending those likely infected all around the world like human bioweapons … that’s an act of war.
And a much more infamous one than Pearl Harbor, in fact. At least that sneak attack targeted soldiers, not old people in nursing homes.
At this point, off in eternity, my mother lights a Marlboro from the purgatorial flames and blows a smoke ring. “I told you so.”
Looks like another accidental spill, so to spek: the virus "got out" again --- got out to the rest of China.
If we had simply not screwed Japan at Versailles, we might have been able to convince them to stop at Manchuria, let the Chinese figure out their own problems, allied with Japan, France, and the British, and left Hitler and Stalin to pummel each other into oblivion. That would have been better for Europe, and better for Asia. But hindsight is always 20-20, and Wilson in 1919 was too concerned with his legacy (just like Obama 100 years later) to let something as simple as 5-5-3 get in the way of his wonderful (/s) treaty.
Those were nationalist Chinese, not ChiComs. It would be the same as supporting Taiwan today.
Indeed. That’s why I say that Woodrow Wilson did more damage to this country than any other President, and it’s not even close.
We ended up helping Mao more than Chiang Kai-Shek.
Unfortunately true. My point was if you were comparing the sleeping partners, 1940 China is not the same as 2020 China.
We were more concerned with the Japs getting the British and Dutch colonies in Asia, than China.
It’s China’s Nanking Massacre of the world.
In reality,the USA should have warned China with a very thorough Nuke test like Japan got. In essence,the Chicoms nuked America already albeit zero physical damage and minimal death but the economic impact of NYC and other regions being economically vaporized and most of the population hiding from the fallout and radiation. They also “sunk” “unsinkable” Carriers and made a good portion of our military unemployable. The DNC is just loving it:”It’s so easy!”
Pearl Harbor American Military killed: More than 2,300 killed!
9/11 fatalities: 2,996!
34,614 Deaths in America from the novel coronavirus in the United States! (Fox News, 17 April 2020)
My prayer is that this will motivate people to avoid as much as possible purchasing Chinese mfg stuff.
Add that to the number of Americans killed by Chinese troops in The Korean War.
That is an excellent goal!
I didn’t know that Smithfield Hams was/is owned by the ChiComs until yesterday. I just cancelled that from our grocery pickup order for tomorrow.
No, not only no, but Hell no. This China Flu stuff is not a Pearl Harbor attack.
The planes smashing into the World Trade Towers & elsewhere never should have been compared to Pearl Harbor, but it was, at least in terms of the number of deaths. It was compared over and over to sell invading Afghanistan and Iraq in wars that had clear exit plans.
The Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor with their air armada that was clearly marked as military aircraft of Japan. Shortly thereafter they attacked other Pacific Islands including the invasion of the Philippines.
Unless there are little ChiCom banners on each China virus, it’s not an attack that can be compared to Pearl Harbor.
Now if someone suggested this flu is some Deep State conspiracy, I might buy into it. Comparing this to Pearl Harbor would be a Deep State ploy, just like the trade towers, to wage more war.
War or conflict Date Total U.S. deaths
Combat
Korean War 1950–1953 33,686
Don’t know how of our troops were killed by ChiComs.
Nah...just Forgive all our debt...or...we just don’t pay it.
No. I don’t think they’d intentionally infect their own population. What I think is most interesting about this China thing though is that it appears to me that they’ve given up trying to eradicate it an are now just planning to ride thru it. Assuming that the death rate is 5%, they have 1.4 billion people so that means 70 million dead. But that will leave them with 1.393 billion people so they don’t care. It will get rid of the weaker population And purify the gene pool. That’s what they are thinking.
Point number 1: "The first confirmed case is from November 17."
The original source: Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17
"...Some of the cases were likely backdated after health authorities had tested specimens taken from suspected patients.
"...Interviews with whistle-blowers from the medical community suggest Chinese doctors only realized they were dealing with a new disease in late December."
"...According to the government data seen by the Post, a 55 year-old from Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 on November 17."
The original source did not claim Chinese authorities knew in November. So as the story gets passed around from its source, it changes. It is going from a "maybe in November" to "they knew in November".Chinese doctors realized there was a outbreak in December, and think it started in November. That is different than knowing it started in November.
Point number 2: Bias confirmation.
"Did you get that? Not only did the Chinese Communist regime know that the virus spread by contact, and lie about it. It shut down the infected province to travel inside China, but continued to send people from there all around the world."
Communist governments cover things up. This is not new. China tried to cover up the 2002 SARS outbreak too, but a whistle blower let the world know about it.
Doctor who exposed Sars cover-up is under house arrest in China, family confirms
Dr. Yanyong exposed the CCP's cover up of SARs in 2002. Sound familiar?
Point 3: Questionable and historical events as evidence:
"Does that remind you of anything? Maybe old stories of U.S. soldiers giving smallpox-infected blankets to Indian tribes they hoped to wipe out? Or the German general staff shipping Lenin to Russia, to bring down its tottering regime in 1917, and knock it out of the war?"
The stories about U.S. soldiers giving blankets to indians goes to Ward Churchill, who was eventually sacked for plagiarizing another researcher's work to make that claim. While history often repeats is a axiom, which history is repeating is open to debate, and is not proof by itself of any individual argument.
Point 4: Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Restricting travel out of Wuhan to China made sense. But if they restricted travel from Wuhan to the rest of the world, that would include foreign nationals who could not get home. That would raise the question why international air travel was locked down. Now that it is out in the open, China is trying to spread conspiracies that the U.S. started it. That qualifies as stupid in my book.
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