{"id":5956,"date":"2020-01-30T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2020-01-30T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:46:49","slug":"bioterrorism-is-this-why-the-bioengineered-coronavirus-was-released-in-wuhan-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5956","title":{"rendered":"BIOTERRORISM: Is this why the bioengineered coronavirus was released in Wuhan, China?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Wilbur Ross Says China&#8217;s Coronavirus Outbreak Will &#8220;Help Bring Jobs Back To America&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Anxieties about the knock-on impact to the global economy from the coronavirus outbreak, which appears on track to shave whole percentage points off China&#8217;s GDP, have pushed stock futures back into the red Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>But during an interview with Maria Bartiromo that aired on Thursday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross argued that the North American economy might benefit from the outbreak as companies &#8220;reevaluate their supply chains&#8221; to factor in emergent outbreak risk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=ZKteCFTT\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=ZKteCFTT\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=TtnNnlH1 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=TtnNnlH1 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=TtnNnlH1 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=TtnNnlH1 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=TtnNnlH1 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG?itok=ZKteCFTT 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2020.01.30wilbur.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ae61dc4f-82bf-4743-b174-f64280c7e1e5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Ross insisted that he didn&#8217;t want to appear insensitive, it&#8217;s pretty clear to him that the outbreak could help &#8220;accelerate the return of jobs to North America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, every American&#8217;s heart has to go out to the victims of the coronavirus.\u00a0<strong>I don&#8217;t want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate very malignant disease. But the fact is, it does give business another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain.<\/strong>\u00a0On top of all the other things &#8211; you had SARS, you had the African swine virus there, now you have this &#8211; it&#8217;s another risk factor that people need to take into account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America, some to the US and some to Mexico as well,&#8221; Ross said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Secretary Wilbur Ross says coronavirus will be good for [checks notes] American jobs: &quot;I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y4SbDIcTi4\">pic.twitter.com\/Y4SbDIcTi4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1222863896882679808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bartiromo conceded that Ross had made an interesting point.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1222863896882679808\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Ah, that&#8217;s a good point,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Bartiromo responds.<\/p>\n<p>While it might sound callous, we&#8217;ve heard this argument before:\u00a0<strong>Remember when all the sell-side research departments advised that Hurricane Harvey would help boost GDP in the ensuing quarters?<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter-insert\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-insert__left-section\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder, chaos&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid598680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ad_fdYFHYXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Look at all these little things, so busy now&#8221;&#8230;just some food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/wilbur-ross-says-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-will-help-bring-jobs-back-america\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/wilbur-ross-says-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-will-help-bring-jobs-back-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilbur Ross Says China&#8217;s Coronavirus Outbreak Will &#8220;Help Bring Jobs Back To America&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}