First, read this extract from one of Britain’s foremost mainstream newspapers, ‘The Independent’, from an article published on Sunday 15 November 2020:
‘Coronavirus has been circulating in Italy since September last year, researchers say.’
‘Coronavirus was present in Italy months before its outbreak is known to have started, according to new research.
Scientists have found Covid-19 antibodies in blood samples from as early as September last year. (Edit by me: September 2019)
The findings “may reshape the history of the pandemic”, they said.
Italy reported its first coronavirus cases in late January, after which an outbreak swept through the country, hitting northern areas such as the Lombardy region particularly hard.
Traces of coronavirus have also shown up in Italy’s water from December last year – suggesting the virus was circulating more than a month before the country’s first confirmed infection.’
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-anitbodies-covid-study-b1723243.html
And this from LIVESCIENCE:
‘COVID-19 may have arrived in US by December 2019‘
‘COVID-19 may have already arrived in the United States by December 2019, before the disease was even identified in China, a new study suggests.
The study researchers, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), analyzed more than 7,000 blood donations collected by the American Red Cross in nine states between Dec. 13, 2019 and Jan. 17, 2020. Of those, 106 samples tested positive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The findings suggest "SARS-CoV-2 infections may have been present in the U.S. in December 2019, earlier than previously recognized," the authors wrote in their paper, published Monday (Nov. 30) in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.’
Source: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-united-states-december-2019.html
I would be surprised if you heard about even one of the above instances of Covid-19 being present in 2019, well before any mention was made of Wuhan.
Of course neither article proves that the virus DIDN’T come from the lab in Wuhan and adds nothing to the debate about whether an animal to human transfer took place.
However, the reason you probably heard nothing about these reports is that they would tend to take the focus off of China. And this would be contrary to what must strongly be suspected was the central mission of the Trump administration and U.S. foreign policy both then and now, to use anything possible to weaken China by any means possible.
China represents an enormous economic threat to the USA. The USA’s global dominance and ability to exert power of command depends upon its economic strength. Without that economic strength behind it it cannot possible have the manipulative ability it now holds to defend what it calls its ‘national interests’. These ‘national interests’ are open to wide interpretation but certainly include and are most likely dominated by access to economic assets and political influence.
It must be obvious to most of us by now that the elites of the USA and its client states, most prominently the UK, are engaged in an economic and attendant propaganda war against China. There is hardly any attempt to hide this now, nor has there been for some time.
As with the similar ongoing war against Russia it has been almost exclusively one sided until quite recently. For a very long time previously both Russia and China simply took the flak and remained largely silent. Perhaps a muted statement of disagreement regarding one of the state-to-media channeled attacks was voiced which received next to no coverage in western mainstream news. However, this has changed in recent months.
You will hopefully have noticed that the responses from both Russia and China in recent months have become more robust, challenging the attacks against them in far more aggressive terms than at any time over the last many years. They have clearly decided that enough is enough after finally recognizing that no amount of trying to 'get along’ with ‘western partners’ (as Vladimir Putin used to call them) was going to change anything. That this was a war to the death by the West, no matter what it took and no matter what was said or done, it would continue.
Now we have Biden asking the U.S. intelligence community to look into whether the virus did indeed come from the laboratory in Wuhan or alternatively came from some animal to human transfer.
On the face of it this may seem innocuous to some but what is the likelihood of that being the case.
A previous investigation in the USA into the same question was terminated due to the conclusion that it was a waste of public funds. Where was there any great benefit to be found in doing this compared with the undoubted vast cost of doing so? And why rely on spooks to get to the bottom of it rather than virologists and others within the scientific community?
This brings back unhappy memories of Blair’s 'Dodgy Dossier’, a series of desperate attempts (including a student’s college thesis) to create a convincing report and PR campaign to “prove” there was a case for going to war with Iraq.
If it could be announced that a “definitive” answer had been found, as asked for by Biden, and that the answer was that Covid-19 had escaped from the Wuhan lab, or better still had been manufactured there and an escape engineered, this would suit the current U.S. foreign policy agenda very well.
Russia will not be dropped as a regime change target but my suspicion is that it will be put very much on the back burner now in order to concentrate the vast majority of resources on attacking China. China is after all, by far and away the primary threat to U.S. manipulative power worldwide.
There may even be some attempts to encourage discord between Russia and China, to entice Russia with certain positive developments such as the meeting arranged next month between Biden and Putin.
Whereas the Trump years were all about “Russia! Russia! Russia!” it is clear the Biden and Harris years will be almost (but not quite) exclusively about “China! China! China!”.
Any and all weapons, great and small against China will be used in what I believe will mirror the tactics used by the USA and its allies against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact in the Cold War. And quite likely in even more merciless fashion where the dirtiest tricks imaginable are deployed.
The current ridiculous and utterly scurrilous claim that the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide on the Uyghur population of Xinjiang is a prime example of what to expect.
The gloves are well and truly off on both sides now.
And Biden appears to be cooking up the latest weapon against China in his propaganda lab right now.
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