Is China to Blame for the Coronavirus Pandemic?
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Time to Ban China
In light of yet another China virus outbreak, It’s time to ban China. As RealClearScience reports: The Asian Flu in 1956 killed between one and four million people worldwide. SARS in 2002 infected 8,098 and killed 774 in seventeen counties. H7N9 emerged ten years later to strike at
How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus
Jeff Kao Mia Shuang Li ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked??,” the soccer player posted on a replacement
Virus War Successful, but the Patient Died
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied financial analysis, business economics and politics, and he is one of the oldies more vulnerable to Wuhan. Viv Forbes BScApp, FAusImm, FSIA In their frantic attempts to delay the spread of the Wuhan virus, governments are sowing the seeds of economic depression and currency
The BFD Video: The Virus That Shames China
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The Globalists Have Suddenly Re-Discovered Borders
One remarkable consequence of the global Chinese Virus pandemic is that even the most ardent globalists are suddenly rediscovering that there are such things as borders – and that they matter. Mexico, which has relentlessly screeched blue murder about Trump’s determination to reinforce the US-Mexico border, suddenly announced that
A Country in Lockdown
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com First published 22nd March 2020 The global COVID-19 crisis is deepening. Within 12 weeks of the new coronavirus being detected in workers at a live animal market in China, 100,000 people around the world had caught the disease. Twelve days later that had
Beijing Running Scared of COVID-19 Backlash
China is mounting an impressive and so far successful propaganda war trying to reset perceptions that they are to blame for the global COVID-19 pandemic. They are, of course, being assisted by global media who, despite months of calling the virus variations of the Chinese virus, are now lambasting
Beijing Failed the World – Never Forget
It’s practically a re-run of HBO’s hit drama of last year, Chernobyl: an authoritarian regime magnifies what might have been a mere disaster into a potentially globe-threatening catastrophe, due to its obsessive secrecy and culture of cover-up, lies and blame-shifting. The only big difference
An Act of War?
In 1346 the Mongolian army brought the Black Plague to Europe. Laying siege to the Crimean port of Caffa, Jani Beg the leader of ‘the Golden Horde’ decided to catapult the infected corpses of his comrades over the city walls. Those citizens who escaped took the bacterium Yersinia Pestis back
The Case for Endgame C: STOP Almost Everything, Restart When Coronavirus Is Gone
John Daley Chief Executive Officer Grattan Institute This is longer than the usual Conversation article, so allow some time to take it in. Nobody likes talking about the COVID-19 endgame, but we need to choose one. The appropriate interventions – public health, government spending, and freedom of movement – all depend
A Real Emergency, Not a Fake One, Forces Change
What do you know? Pollution levels are down, the sky can be seen over China and the canals in Venice are cleaner than ever in living memory. And what brought this about? The coronavirus pandemic. A real emergency, where thousands have already lost their lives, forced us to change our
Trump Has Had Enough of Beijing’s Bullshit
For those too young to remember the actual events, last year’s mini-series Chernobyl was a horrifying lesson in what happens when a disaster meets an authoritarian state. Lies, cover-ups and incompetence combine to make the merely disastrous catastrophic. It’s a pattern that was borne out again