{"id":18150,"date":"2020-06-27T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18150"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:59:40","slug":"here-comes-covid-20-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18150","title":{"rendered":"Here comes COVID-20—FOR REAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19: China Reseeded with COVID-20<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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LARRY ROMANOFF<\/p>\n

From the date of the initial outbreak in Wuhan I watched carefully on a daily basis the dispersion and progression of the coronavirus in China and then abroad, collecting as much data as were available on each location. By late May of 2020, China had been infection-free for many weeks, the concern turning to the identification and quarantine of imported cases. At the same time, the US became once again \u2018the leader of the world\u2019, this time in virus infections and deaths, producing 20,000 to 30,000 new cases and around 1,000 deaths per day. At the time, American hostility toward China\u2019s success in stopping the virus was palpable, with many nasty media articles and White House accusations about China\u2019s false statistics and blaming China for \u201cspreading the virus\u201d to the US.\u00a0CNN<\/i>\u00a0stated, \u201cChinese state media has repeatedly touted China\u2019s effective measures in containing the virus as the number of infections and deaths surged abroad, contrasting its success with the failures of Western governments, especially the United States.\u201d[1]<\/a>\u00a0Clearly there was much surprise and bitterness at China\u2019s success and America\u2019s failure, this coated in a sticky layer of resentment based partly on a justified suspicion that the Chinese were not overly distressed at the Americans enjoying the fruits of their own labor.<\/span><\/p>\n

But even then I had a sense of an apparition, a version of Dickens\u2019 \u2018ghost of coronavirus past\u2019, accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling the Americans were sufficiently bitter (and vicious) to deny the Chinese their apparently easy victory. My fear was that the Americans would try to reseed China as they did Russia, and it would seem my fears were not unjustified. The new virus that broke out at the Xinfadi market in Beijing was a different strain than any previously existing in China, one that existed only in the US and Europe and could only have been brought in from the outside. And once again at a seafood market with no identifiable patient zero, no clear epidemiology (source and distribution) of a virus that did not exist in China. It almost had to be deliberately seeded, the odds against being infinitesimally small.<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of what I am calling COVID-20 (to differentiate it from the initial outbreak), China may have been fortunate to detect and corral this new pathogen before it could spread. The outbreak did expand to three other provinces but in single digits and the medical authorities have taken extreme action to prevent further spread since this variety \u2013 which again did not exist in China and had to be seeded from another country, appears to be much more contagious than the original COVID-19.[2]<\/a>\u00a0In response, Beijing has locked down everything and sent a group of experts to guide the fight against this new potential epidemic, so far with good success. Nucleic acid testing has been initiated on a massive scale, already many millions of people tested, and all those in contact with the Xinfadi market being in quarantine. Many residential compounds in the city strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving, with residents having their temperatures checked and reported on a daily basis, and their food and daily necessities delivered.[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Before this new outbreak, Beijing had been virus-free for nearly 60 days, meaning there were no local viruses and that this new pathogen was definitely an import (or an American export). On June 19, China\u2019s CDC experts, after intensive investigations of the Xinfadi market, announced what they termed \u201ca groundbreaking virus tracing discovery\u201d, which was that the strain of the new virus in Beijing was the same as that in much of Europe \u2013 but much older than those in Europe, and \u201chad been around for quite some time\u201d \u2013 and that can mean only that it came from the US because that was the source of all the original varieties many months ago.[4]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The investigators said they obtained so many positive samples that the entire market was \u201cseverely contaminated by the virus\u201d, but also that no one should form the conclusion that the market was the origin merely because the outbreak took place there. More importantly, they also said \u201cBeijing\u2019s outbreak gives us the opportunity to re-examine our previous speculation that the virus originated from wildlife\u201d, because unlike Wuhan, \u201cthe possibility of wildlife causing Beijing\u2019s latest outbreak is slim.\u201d Their conclusion was that \u201can infected individual or object contaminated with the virus entered the wet market, and the market only gave it an environment to multiply\u201d.[3]<\/a>\u00a0The authorities have already produced the genome sequence and are now establishing when and how the virus was likely imported into China, and how long was the transmission chain. There is no question this pathogen was brought into China \u201cby people\u201d, the question being the identity of those people and their purpose.[5]<\/a>\u00a0And, what better way to \u201cteach those smug Chinese a lesson\u201d and attempt to derail China\u2019s rapid economic recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia Re-seeded<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

There is something equally strange about the virus in Russia. For a long time, Russia had only a few infections, rising steadily by only five or ten per day, then suddenly it exploded, rising by 5,000, then 10,000 and 20,000 per day. Virus outbreaks don\u2019t normally manifest that way. The normal process upon an outbreak is a rapid acceleration in the number of infections until it peaks, as happened with all other countries. But with Russia, the infections were minor for a long time, steady at very low numbers, with all the indications of an unsuccessful epidemic, and the Russian government took strict measures to control the spread. The US government was clearly resentful at the failure of the virus to devastate Russia and the US media bemoaned the fact that Russia\u2019s death rate was so low. I would be very interested to see the genome sequences from the first infections in January and February, and for those happening in April and May. I haven\u2019t any definitive proof, but I am certain Russia, as China, was seeded again with another variety for a second attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Virus Distribution<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

But to return to our main point, it isn\u2019t necessary for us to determine the physical origin of the virus. We know the virus originated in bats; that much is confirmed, but the more important issue is the epidemiology, particularly the incidence and distribution. First of all, for China and most other nations originally infected, there were so many multiple and simultaneous sources that locating a patient zero was a hopeless task. Virus outbreaks, left to their own natural devices, do not behave in this fashion, but begin with one person in a tightly localised situation and provably spreading from that point. Equally distressing is that we have the truly unprecedented \u201ctwo waves\u201d of worldwide infections. For this, let\u2019s review my observations from an earlier article[6]<\/a>\u00a0and take a quick look at those two waves of infections that circled the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The First Wave simultaneously infected 25 nations within a few days centered on January 25. One month later, the Second Wave simultaneously infected 85 nations within a few days centered on February 25. A natural virus hasn\u2019t the ability to simultaneously (within three days) infect 85 different countries on all continents of the world. More peculiar is that these countries were not all infected with the same variety of the virus, and that most reported simultaneous outbreaks in multiple locations. Considering the above information in light of the basics of virus transmission, the only theory that fits all the known facts is that these waves resulted from many people leaving Fort Detrick on the same day carrying a pail of different live viruses, because those multiple varieties at the time existed only in the US. It could not possibly have resulted from air travel because that timing would have been scattered. When 85 countries experience a virus outbreak on virtually the same day, this can happen only with human assistance. The Americans have steadfastly refused to address this point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts on biological weapons are in unanimous agreement that eruptions in a human population of a new and unusual pathogen in multiple locations simultaneously, with no clear idea of source and cases with no proven links, is virtually prima facie evidence of a pathogen deliberately released, since natural outbreaks can almost always be resolved to one location and one patient zero. But with COVID-19 (or COVID-20), not one country out of 200 has been able to do this.<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be firmly noted that this new infection in Beijing is not a \u201csecond wave\u201d as termed by the Western media. This is an entirely new and different infection by a new virus and totally unrelated to anything prior, a strain of a new and different virus that was deliberately carried to Beijing and flooded in the Xinfadi Market. This infection is not related to COVID-19 but is the seeding of yet another biological pathogen in China, making that now seven different biological attacks on China in two years. And China has suffered others similar. One of the most notable was the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic \u2013 and which was extinct for decades \u2013 but which suddenly appeared in 1977 in both China and Russia causing a global pandemic, prompting immediate claims by the Americans that it \u201cescaped from a Chinese lab\u201d. But the only sensible explanation is that the H1N1 virus \u2018escaped\u2019 from the Americans because there were persistent reports that the US military had found or saved samples of the original \u2018Spanish Flu\u2019 virus and were attempting to re-activate it. There was never a shred of evidence that either China or Russia had anything to do with this, and both were taken entirely by surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is my view that the world needs to stop pretending that COVID-19 was an accident of nature. Consider China\u2019s recent experience. In addition to SARS \u2013 which was indisputably man-made, China has suffered repeated viral pandemics in the past two years. February 15, 2018: H7N4 bird flu. June, 2018: H7N9 bird flu. August, 2018: outbreak of African swine flu. May 24, 2019: massive infestation of armyworms. December, 2019: COVID-19. January, 2020: A \u201chighly pathogenic\u201d strain of bird flu. June, 2020: China is hit with COVID-20. Are we to tell ourselves it was merely a run of bad luck that China was the only nation in the world to be hit repeatedly with so many different biological pathogens in such a short time? And merely more \u2018bad luck\u2019 that China became the only country in the world that was domestically virus-free and was suddenly hit again with a foreign strain in another wet market? This assumption is too ridiculous to bother refuting.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that so much of our information today comes to us in a passive receptance from the mass media because one result is the loss of our ability to examine information critically and use our minds to assess the presentation. As an example, it was very clever for the Americans to use a wet market as a distribution point for a virus and for the media to give this point massive air time, because we instinctively associate such markets with at least a possibility of germs and bacteria and thus passively accept the claims as true without the necessary evidence and thus avoid using our brains as intended. Our assessment of wet markets as unsanitary may be correct, but common germs and bacteria are a very different thing from a coronavirus that makes its home in bats and has no business being in a vegetable market. It isn\u2019t important for our purposes to decide if COVID-19 was created in a lab; the important point is that a coronavirus has no means of transportation from bat caves in Sichuan to a market in Wuhan, nor the ability to mutate itself in such a way as to be energetically contagious to humans, and much less the conscious intelligence to choose China\u2019s largest passenger transportation hub as the distribution point and the Eve of the Chinese New Year as the best time to attack. For these, the coronavirus required a helping \u2018black hand\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Noose Tightens on the US<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

There is almost daily an increase in the volume of evidence that COVID-19 was circulating in the US far earlier than admitted, and serving as incriminating proof that the CDC\u2019s deliberate (and threatening) forbidding of testing was to bury this evidence. The most recent example is headlines in the US media on June 21, 2020, stating, \u201cOver 40 mysterious respiratory deaths in California could dramatically rewrite narrative of COVID-19\u201d in the US.[7]<\/a>\u00a0The\u00a0LA Times\u00a0<\/i>reported on \u201ca cluster of mysterious respiratory deaths\u201d beginning in December of 2019. The local news website\u00a0www.bakersfield.com<\/a>\u00a0stated this meant that COVID-19 was circulating in California \u201cway earlier than we knew\u201d. And let\u2019s not forget too quickly that Japanese tourists were infected in Hawaii in September of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

And on June 20, 2020, the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) revealed that they had discovered that COVID-19 was present in water samples dating back to mid-December of 2019. The results were confirmed by two separate labs that used two entirely different testing methods, and also showed that environmental wastewater from Milan, Turin and Bologna returned positive traces of the virus dating back to December if not earlier. Apparently, the RNA from COVID-19 does not readily dissolve or disintegrate in water and polymerase chain reaction testing allows scientists to identify the RNA after many months.[8]<\/a>[9]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t only Italy. Dutch researchers discovered COVID-19 RNA in a wastewater plant in the Utrecht, Netherlands, city of Amersfoort. French scientists detected \u201chigh concentrations\u201d of COVID-19 RNA in samples of sewage water from greater Paris that were obtained before Paris first recorded any deaths.\u00a0Sputnik News<\/i>\u00a0reported in May that a Paris hospital confirmed it had treated Amirouche Hammar, the country\u2019s first COVID-19 patient, on December 27, 2019 \u2013 one month before France\u2019s first announcement of infections and four days before the WHO China bureau was informed of a \u201cpneumonia of unknown etiology\u201d on December 31.[10]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Irish Mirror<\/i>\u00a0reported on June 19 that \u201cmany countries are beginning to use wastewater sampling to track the spread of the disease\u201d, scientists claiming these detections were \u201cconsistent with evidence emerging in other countries\u201d that COVID-19 was circulating around the world long before China reported its first cases, all of which would of necessity have had to have originated in the US and transported around the world. It is now beginning to appear that many countries were seeded at approximately the same time, perhaps in their water distribution systems. Following these discoveries, the ISS told\u00a0Reuters<\/i>\u00a0it intends to launch a new study of the wastewater of Italian tourist resorts. I suspect other nations will follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it would seem the\u00a0NYT, WSJ, WP, CNN, ABC, NBC, National Post, Globe & Mail<\/i>, have no knowledge of this. The Chinese and Europeans know, but the Americans and Canadians don\u2019t know because the owners of their major newspapers and TV networks don\u2019t want them to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Brief Update<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

If you look at the graph (courtesy of\u00a0CNN<\/i>), you can see the European infection pattern (in pink) and the American (in green). The Europeans followed China\u2019s protocols in varying degrees, and thus with varying degrees of success. Europe\u2019s infections peaked at around 30,000 per day then descended to around 2,000 near the end of June, while the Americans, led by a man who is living proof that democracy is the worst possible form of government, saw their infections peak at the same level, slightly decrease, then revert to 30,000 infections and around 1,000 deaths per day where they will now remain until the virus surges through the entire population. Twenty-six states are already experiencing dramatic spikes reaching new records each day, so Trump ordered the CDC to \u201cstop testing\u201d because it makes him look bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The next graphic is a list of the top ten nations for COVID-19 infections. Missing from this picture is a comparison I want to make about leadership and competence, to say nothing of intelligence. Shanghai is a city only two hours from Wuhan and, when the infections exploded, had no warning and almost no time to prepare, but acted so quickly and decisively that the city had only 26 infections and 7 deaths. Missing from the graphic is Canada, with a population very similar to Shanghai, and who, with months to plan and prepare, had 101,000 infections and 8,400 deaths. Canada\u2019s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is also living proof of democracy\u2019s vast failings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Americans elected a pathetic buffoon who lives in outer space, while the Canadians elected a bullied child so painfully unintelligent and indecisive his wife would have to tell him to call the fire department if his house were burning down. I would include here the Brazilians who, with excessive assistance from the Americans, elected an arrogant sociopath who said famously, \u201cIt\u2019s not my fault. What do you want me to do about it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In all three countries the leaderless pandemic results are the same, with infections and deaths likely increasing until at least the end of the year. China, with a population of more than 1.4 billion people, had about 80,000 infections and little more than 4,000 deaths, and stopped the virus cold in about three months. But according to the\u00a0NYT, WSJ, WP,<\/i>\u00a0and Canada\u2019s terminally-obnoxious\u00a0National Post<\/i>, the \u201cfree-market capitalist\u201d countries are God\u2019s first choice while \u201csocialist authoritarian\u201d China should incur yet more sanctions for all its mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai\u2019s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at:\u00a02186604556@qq.com.\u00a0He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/15\/asia\/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1191598.shtml<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/15\/asia\/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1192146.shtml<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a>http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202006\/15\/WS5ee6b33da310834817252ec9.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[6]<\/a>\u00a0COVID-19 \u2013 Two Major \u2018Waves\u2019 of Global Infection;\u00a0https:\/\/www.moonofshanghai.com\/2020\/05\/covid-19-two-major-waves-of-global.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1192389.shtml<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[8]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage-idUSKBN23Q1J9<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[9]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/coronavirus\/global\/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid19-was-there-in-december-2019\/news-story\/2fd865f7b12a33698f3e9ab2f15a35e3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[10]<\/a>\u00a0https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/europe\/202006191079667103-scientists-find-traces-of-sars-cov-2-in-italian-wastewater-predating-2019-wuhan-outbreak\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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