Reactions to the Corona Virus Hint of a Wider Agenda

The western world has gone into a phase of unprecedented lockdown. Major airlines have ceased international operations. It is an open question is to whether or not they will be able to resume operations when and if the current draconian restrictions are lifted. In Australia, the Federal government has ceased to sit and the government has announced that this parliamentary closure will extend until at least August.
 
Quite why such a lockdown is necessary is unclear. No convincing explanation has been offered by the government and it is an extreme step that comparable nations in North America, the United Kingdom and all of Europe have found unnecessary. One of the most alarming consequences of this fundamental attack on the notion of Parliamentary accountability is that the decision was met with acceptance by the official Opposition and muted negative comment, if at all, by the major mainstream media.
 
Media coverage of the pandemic has been extraordinary. At least half of the nightly main television news bulletins have been devoted to coverage of the pandemic, although whether it actually adds to our degree of knowledge is at best debatable.
 
The statistics as to those affected, dying and recovery are presented each night like some grizzly football score. How accurate or complete those statistics are is a very open question. They are presented however as some form of immutable truth with nary a question as to their accuracy or reliability.
 
There are serious questions being asked as to the real origins of the current pandemic. We are constantly told by the mainstream media that it originated in China, and that “fact” is presented as something beyond question. The more we learn however, the less reliable that complacent assertion appears to be.
 
It is true that the first mainstream media reports of the virus came out of China’s Wuhan City, and urban agglomeration of some 12 million inhabitants. That reporting betrayed a number of assumptions that are difficult to sustain.
 
Where a virus is first reported does not automatically equate with where it began. One reason for this is that people being infected or dying are not necessarily correctly defined as to the cause of death or illness. This is particularly the case here with multiple instances of the illness were initially defined as the current illustration of the annual influenza epidemic which inflict and kill millions of people each year.
 
A second factor is that a virus can be imported into a country, either by accident or deliberately, by those acting for or on behalf of another nation. This is not idle speculation in the present case. There is now very good evidence that the virus was imported into the city of Wuhan at a time contemporaneous with the holding in that city of the quadrennial Military Games.
 
Representatives of more than 100 nations attended and participated in those games. The United States contingent was of particular interest for a number of reasons.
 
The first is that its soldier participants had their worst medal performance since the games were first held a half century ago, not winning a single gold medal and finishing well down the medal table.
 
The second factor was that the hotel where the United States military participants stayed was itself a hotbed of infection, recording more than 40 cases of employees and guests infected by the virus. This is a remarkable coincidence that challenges the laws of probability theory.
 
A third clue is the way the western media have reported the Chinese experience. They have given prominence to United States President Donald Trump’s description of the pandemic as the “Chinese virus”. We know from 100+ years of experience with the Spanish flu of 1919 how a false label can be used to define an entire country on a wholly false basis.
 
The record clearly shows that the Chinese government alerted the World Health Organisation as soon as they had established the reality of the virus they were dealing with. This was before most western countries had even acknowledged that there was a problem.
 
This suspicion has been reinforced in recent weeks by the reporting of western media of the actions of the Russian and Chinese government to provide assistance where it was asked for. The Italian government for example was refused assistance by its European Union “partners” and it was the Russians who flew in giant planes full of urgently needed medical supplies, taking a lengthy roundabout route because of obstructive flyover permission.
 
This assistance was greeted with a sneer by the western media who contrived to find some sort of Russian plot in a selfless humanitarian exercise. A similar result was seen in the media’s response to Chinese aid which was denounced as either medically inadequate or done with ulterior motives.
 
In neither case was that View shared by the governments involved, the medical staff of the overstretched and under resourced hospitals, or the citizens of those countries aided by the Russian and Chinese medical supplies.
 
The writer Dimitri Orlov, who recently returned to live in Russia after many years residence in the United States, had a cynical but arguably realistic view of the virus. On 8 April 2020 he had this comment to make on his website
 
“China has just taught the world a major masterclass in biowarfare defence. It doesn’t matter whether SARS-Covid-19 was concocted in a United States biowarfare laboratory or not. The point is, it could have been, because why else would the United States have bio- warfare laboratories scattered around the globe? And why were they collecting DNA samples from local populations except to target them using bioweapons? And so after some amount of uncertainty and vacillation China opted to treat the SARS-COV-19 outbreak as an act of war and won! Russia has followed suit, and although it is too early to declare victory it too is likely to score a win on the biowarfare front.”
 
I respectfully share Mr Orlov’s view. We also have the curiously unexplained events at the United States’ Fort Detrick biowarfare facility. In July 2019 the facility was forced to temporarily close, reopening at the end of the year. It is one of the literally hundreds of such United States facilities scattered around the globe.
 
What makes Fort Detrick of particular interest in the current context was that it was known to be working on a Covid-19 type biological weapon. That the United States had succeeded in developing such a weapon was publicly proclaimed by Johns Hopkins University in October 2019. The timing of this announcement, the problems at Fort Detrick and the outbreak of the coronavirus goes beyond mere coincidence.
 
The wall to wall media coverage of the outbreak in the western media nonetheless fails to raise these fundamental and clearly relevant points.
 
It is one of the grim ironies of the present pandemic that the United States may well turn out to be the principal victim, at least among western nations. Even there, some questions exist. We know from the published data thus far that 70% of the fatalities in the United States have been in the black population, that represent only 10% of the national population.
 
Television pictures showing mass graves being created in public parks will do little to assuage growing public concern that allegedly “the richest country in the world” cannot even properly treat or bury their own disadvantaged citizens.
 
The consequences of this pandemic are likely to be vastly greater than originally thought. The average citizen would do well to strap themselves in for what is going to be a very bumpy ride.

     西方世界进入了前所未有的封锁阶段，各大航空公司已停止国际业务。现在的问题是，如果取消目前的严厉限制，它们是否能够恢复运作。在澳大利亚联邦政府已经停止运作，政府已经宣布，这次议会关闭将至少延长到8月。
    目前还不清楚为什么有必要实行这样的封锁，政府没有给出令人信服的解释。北美、英国和整个欧洲的国家都认为没有必要采取这一极端做法。这种对议会问责制概念的根本攻击所产生的最令人震惊的后果之一是官方反对派接受了这一决定，主流媒体也没有发表任何负面评论。
    媒体对流行病的大范围爆发的报道非同寻常。至少有一半的晚间电视新闻报道是关于流行病的，尽管它是否真的提升了我们的知识水平还有待商榷。
    关于那些确诊、死亡和治愈人的统计数据每天晚上都像“灰熊队的足球”比分一样呈现出来。这些统计数据有多准确或多完整是一个非常开放的问题。然而，它们被描述为某种形式的不可改变的真理，其准确性或可靠性没有任何疑问。
    关于当前大流行病的真正起源，人们提出了一些严肃的质疑。主流媒体不断告诉我们，它起源于中国，“事实”是不容置疑的。然而，我们了解得越多，这种断言就越不可靠。
    的确，关于该病毒的第一次主流媒体报道来自中国的武汉市，约有1200万人口聚集在城市。该报告暴露了一些难以维持的假设。
   第一次报告病毒的地方并不自动等同于它的起点。其中一个原因是被感染或死亡的人不一定能正确定义死亡或疾病的原因。这里的情况尤其如此，这种疾病的多个实例最初被定义为每年造成数百万人死亡的年度流感流行的当前例证。 第二个因素是，一种病毒可以通过偶然或故意的方式，由代表另一个国家的人传入一个国家。在目前的情况下，这并不是无意义的猜测。现在有很好的证据表明，病毒是在武汉市举办四年一度的军事运动会的同时传入该市的。 来自100多个国家的代表参加了这些比赛。出于若干原因，美国特遣队特别感兴趣。 第一个原因是，自半个世纪前首次举办奥运会以来，其参赛士兵的奖牌表现最差，一枚金牌也没有获得，而且在奖牌榜上排名靠后。
    第二个因素是，美国军方人员下榻的酒店本身就是一个感染的温床，记录了40多个雇员和客人感染病毒的案例。这是一个惊人的巧合，挑战了概率论的定律。
   第三条线索是西方媒体报道中国经历的方式。他们强调了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普将这种流行病描述为“中国病毒”。我们从1919年西班牙流感100多年的经验中了解到，一个错误的标签是如何被用来在完全错误的基础上定义整个国家的。 记录清楚地表明，中国政府在世界卫生组织确定了他们正在处理的病毒的事实后，立即向其发出了警报。这是在大多数西方国家承认存在问题之前。
  最近几周，西方媒体报道了俄罗斯和中国政府应要求提供援助的行动，这进一步加深了这种怀疑。例如，意大利政府被其欧盟“合作伙伴”拒绝援助，而正是俄罗斯人乘坐装满急需医疗用品的巨型飞机，由于障碍性立交桥许可而采取了漫长的迂回路线。 西方媒体对这种援助嗤之以鼻，他们试图在一次无私的人道主义行动中找到某种俄罗斯的阴谋。在媒体对中国援助的回应中也看到了类似的结果，中国的援助被指责为医学上的不足或别有用心。 在这两种情况下，有关政府、过度紧张和资源不足的医院医务人员，或得到俄罗斯和中国医疗用品援助的那些国家的公民都不同意这一观点。
    作家德米特里·奥尔洛夫在美国居住多年后，最近回到俄罗斯居住，他对这种病毒有一种愤世嫉俗但可以说现实的看法。2020年4月8日，他在自己的网站上发表了以下评论: “中国刚刚向世界传授了一门生物战防御的大师课。SARS-Covid-19是否是在美国生物战剂实验室制造的并不重要。关键是，有可能是，否则美国为什么会有遍布全球的生物战实验室？除了用生物武器瞄准他们之外，他们为什么要从当地人口中收集DNA样本？因此，在经历了一些不确定和犹豫之后，中国选择将非典-Covid-19的爆发视为一场战争，并取得了胜利！俄罗斯也紧随其后，尽管现在宣布胜利还为时过早，但它也有可能在生物战方面取得胜利。” 我恭敬地同意奥尔洛夫先生的观点。我们在美国的德特里克堡生物战设施也有奇怪的无法解释的事件。2019年7月，该设施被迫暂时关闭，年底重新开放。它是散布在全球的数百个这样的美国设施之一。
    在当前背景下，德特里克堡特别有意思的地方在于，它被认为正在研制一种Covid-19型生物武器。2019年10月，约翰·霍普金斯大学公开宣布美国成功开发了这种武器。这一宣布的时机、德特里克堡的问题以及冠状病毒的爆发不仅仅是巧合。 尽管如此，西方媒体对疫情的报道并没有提出这些基本的、明显相关的观点。
    美国很可能成为主要受害者，至少在西方国家中是如此，这是当前流行病的严峻讽刺之一。即使在那里，也存在一些问题。我们从迄今公布的数据中得知，美国70%的死亡人口是黑人，仅占全国人口的10%。 电视画面显示，在公共公园里建造的万人坑无助于缓解公众日益增长的担忧，据称“世界上最富裕的国家”甚至不能恰当地对待或埋葬自己的弱势公民。这场大流行的后果可能比最初想象的要严重得多。普通市民最好把自己绑在安全带上，这将是一段非常颠簸的旅程。（作者观点不代表本网站观点）
(责任编辑：James O’Neill)