China Still Not Owning Up to Covid-19 Outbreak

 

As I write this blog, currently, there are nearly 230 million cases of the virus worldwide with a figure of 4,715,000 deaths. This awful pandemic has brought additional suffering to millions of people around the world. It has led to businesses collapsing and travel restrictions the likes of which we've never known before. It has ended up causing havoc in the sports, education, business and entertainment industries. Yes, we have vaccines but in many cases they are ineffective! Forgive me for banging on about it but this virus is here to stay and there could be more even dangerous variants in the near future.

It is approximately 20 months since we first learned that this horrible virus existed and seemingly emerging from the city of Wuhan, Xinjiang Province, in China. This is a fact! Since the outbreak it's fair to say that China, under the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has covered up the actual origins, initially stating that it sprung from bats and then from live animals in the so-called ‘wet markets’ in the city. It’s now known that the Institute of Virology labs in Wuhan were experimenting with what has been seen as ‘bio-weapons’, biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill. If one were to put two and two together one would assume that the virus escaped from these labs. But the CCP refute such allegations.

A recent report issued this month (September) by an exhaustive American Republican investigation more or less proves that the virus originated in one of the labs of the virology institute but how it escaped is still a bit of a mystery. If we say it leaked then the report would suggest a laboratory technician ‘caught’ the virus unknowingly and would be ‘patient zero’. Well, here’s my take on things. I suggest that the various lab machinery was maybe not 100% safe and that a technician contracted the virus and possibly went to the ‘wet market’ to buy food, etc. So he walks around the market touching counters, foodstuffs, handling other bits and pieces and just coming into contact with hundreds of people that day, transmitted the virus to dozens. They in turn within a 24-hour period would have transmitted the virus to family and friends. From here it spread like wildfire. So researchers reckon this outbreak would have taken place as far back as November 2019. The rest is history.

I would end this blog by stating that there are conspiracy theorists who are suggesting that when the outbreak happened, the CCP intentionally covered it up. Why? Because by February 12, 2020, we had the Chinese New Year, a time when thousands upon thousands of Chinese go on holiday not just to other parts of China but to destinations all over the planet. So there you have it, take it or leave it, but one thing is for certain, the Chinese government intentionally kept the outbreak a secret for weeks before ultimately admitting the virus was a deadly reality! To be honest I don’t think we shall ever find out the truth about what was eventually named the ‘kung-fu virus’!