On March 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) investigation on the origin of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) that is raging around the world was finally released. The report, however, has been questioned by almost every expert in the world. Even WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is considered pro-Beijing, made a statement that he was not satisfied with the report and made a proposal for further investigation.
This report by the WHO organization makes four hypotheses about the origin of the new coronavirus, and lists four hypothetical possibilities. The experts’ dissatisfaction was directed mostly at these vague conclusions. The experts, of course, question the WHO claims in question mainly through very academic language and through various data and evidence. To us, the general lay public, the conclusions of this WHO report are, in fact, also very absurd.
Let’s assume a scenario. A tiger runs into the street and hurts passersby, so people demand an investigation into where the tiger came from? Since the tiger was first spotted on the street near a zoo, the question was raised as to why and how the tiger ran out of the zoo. The investigation resulted in four possibilities. The first is that the tiger ran out on its own, the second is that the tiger ran out through a vehicle transporting other animals, the third is that the tiger ran out from a nearby city, and the fourth is that there is a very low probability that the tiger ran out due to a mistake by the zoo management.
Obviously, the question is “Why are there tigers on the street?” And the answer that the tiger came from somewhere else is a completely irrelevant answer to the question. And there are a lot of logical gaps.
The WHO report on the origin of the new coronavirus has the same logical problems.
The report says that transmission of the virus to humans through an intermediate host is most likely, direct transmission of the virus from bats to humans is more likely, cold chain transmission (that is, transmission through frozen food imported from foreign countries) is less likely, and leakage of the virus from the P4 biological laboratory in Wuhan is extremely unlikely.
Three answers here are related to the origin of the virus, but the so-called cold chain transmission actually has nothing to do with the origin of the virus, because cold chain transmission is only the mode of transmission, not the origin of the virus.
But the WHO report even put this unrelated content as a conclusion in the report, its logic is confused to the extent that even we, amateurs in biology or virology, also find it really ridiculous.
Of course, such an investigation report is simply a report that the Chinese Communist Party has officially given to the WHO, which basically has lost all credibility. Even WHO Director General Tan Desai, nicknamed “Secretary Tan”, was not happy about it. According to Tan, WHO investigators who went to China to investigate the origin of the epidemic encountered difficulties in obtaining raw data. The researchers were forced to wait many more days before being finally granted access to Wuhan by the Chinese Communist government.
Fourteen governments, including the United States, issued a joint statement harshly questioning the WHO report. The statement said, “We would like to express our shared concern that international expert research on the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (which is the new coronavirus) has been severely delayed and that complete, original data and samples are not available.”
The statement continued, “We jointly support transparent and independent analysis and assessment of the origins of the new coronavirus outbreak without interference and undue influence. In this regard, we join others in expressing our shared concern about the recent WHO study in China. We also emphasize the importance of working together to develop and utilize a rapid, effective, transparent, science-based and independent process for the future international assessment of this outbreak of unknown origin.”
Given the various problems with the WHO report, it is entirely reasonable for countries to question it.
In fact, some WHO experts have revealed that the report was made by experts arranged by the Chinese government, and that the WHO personnel who went to China to conduct the investigation actually just accepted the investigation report and then listened to the Chinese experts’ explanations under the arrangement of the Chinese side. So, in short, the world’s challenge is not against WHO, but against the Chinese Communist government.
The COVID-19 virus outbreak first broke out from Wuhan in January 2020, and on January 26, the Chinese CDC said: a large number of novel coronaviruses were detected in samples collected on site at the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan, meaning that there was a close correlation between the outbreak in Wuhan and the South China Seafood Market.
However, by March 6 (2020), video from Wuhan showed that the CCP authorities had not only sealed off the market, but were conducting a full disinfection and stock destruction.
The Chinese Communist media outlet Huaxi Metropolis Daily reported that a large number of construction workers arrived at the South China Seafood Market starting on March 2 (2020). Wuhan Jianghan District Party Committee Propaganda Department staff assigned to the site confirmed that the field hoard would be disposed of, and said the main building would not be demolished, and that all disinfection work would be completed by 5 days.
At that time, there are netizens believe that this is to “destroy the body”, destroy the evidence. Others thought that “the purpose of destroying the evidence is to transfer the responsibility to other countries later!”
As expected, Zhong Nanshan, a senior expert at the Chinese Communist Health Commission, said, “In predicting the epidemic, we first considered China, not foreign countries, and now there are situations abroad where the epidemic first appears in China, not necessarily where it originated.” The Chinese communist diplomat then took to Twitter directly to accuse the Americans of bringing the new coronavirus to Wuhan in October 2019.
A Chinese netizen sarcastically said, “Of course it was the United States, because only in the United States did someone come into close contact with the bat over a long period of time. That person is: Batman.”
Of course, the netizen was telling a deliberately sarcastic official joke. There is no evidence or data to support the accusations made by Chinese Communist Party officials against the U.S. The only evidence is that there were American athletes participating in the Wuhan Military Games who had entered the hospital with the flu in Wuhan. But then, throughout 2020, the Chinese Communist Party media reported a number of news stories about so-called cold-chain-carrying viruses, with foreign imports of frozen fish, frozen shrimp, frozen meat, and frozen chicken, all of which tested for the new crown virus on their packaging. What’s more, the vast majority of infections officially announced in mainland China after the middle of last year were imported from outside the country.
Another issue in the WHO report that has been seriously questioned is the conclusion that the possibility of the virus leaking from the Wuhan laboratory is “extremely low”. Some experts pointed out that the WHO’s conclusion was not backed by any investigation, no data, and no evidence that the virus came from other sources, only the simple statements of official Chinese researchers. They say that the Wuhan P4 laboratory is strictly guarded and no leakage could have occurred. This is the entire basis for the WHO to make this conclusion.
The Wuhan P4 virus laboratory, located ten kilometers away from the South China Seafood Market, was therefore the biggest suspect as the originator of the new crown outbreak from the very beginning.
Last March, the journal Science published an article “Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally”, clearly referring to the novel The article, “Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally”, explicitly states that the new coronavirus originates from a different “place”, directly challenging the official Chinese Communist Party’s proposed origin.
A growing body of expert opinion and various analytical articles subsequently pointed to the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research as the source of the novel coronavirus, suggesting that its leakage led to the spread of the outbreak.
There is reason to suspect the Wuhan Virus Lab, as researchers at this lab, along with the CCP military, used to travel around from Hainan Island to Yunnan to capture bats in order to study the new coronavirus carried by bats. The team at the Wuhan Virus Lab has also published their research report.
Other unconfirmed sources also say that in September/October 2019, staff members at the Wuhan Virus Laboratory have been sickened, and family members have died from the infection, among other things.
NBC has a report saying that in October 2019, cell phone reception in and around the Wuhan P4 lab was almost zero, and traffic in the vicinity was halted in what was suspected to be a “dangerous accident.
The report, posted on the Internet with the words “MACE E-PAI COVID-19 ANALYSIS” printed on the cover, was provided by NBC investigative reporter Adiel Kaplan.
The report states that cell phone signals in and around the P4 laboratory in Wuhan have suddenly and dramatically decreased since October 11 last year (2019). The last previous activation of cell phone signals was on Oct. 6, indicating that a “dangerous incident” suspected of shutting down the lab may have occurred between the 6th and 11th.
Images show a complete shutdown of external traffic around the lab from Oct. 14 to 19, with roadblocks suspected to have been erected to prevent traffic and people from approaching the Wuhan P4 lab.
A number of former senior U.S. government officials, including Michael Pompeo and Peter Navarro, have said that the evidence available to the U.S. indicates that the new coronavirus was most likely leaked from the Wuhan virus laboratory.
The WHO report states that “the Wuhan virus laboratory has strict measures in place,” but how strict are these measures? The French, who helped the Chinese Communist Party set up the lab, are very skeptical. The French broadcaster reported that in 2015, 50 French researchers who were scheduled to work at Wuhan P4 did not go there because, in reality, the Wuhan P4 lab had been freed from the control of French scientists and contrary to the original intent of the Paris-Beijing cooperation agreement, and the Wuhan lab had only Chinese researchers, and no longer “had the critical and watchful eye of French researchers. The investigation report notes that from the beginning, the Wuhan P4 lab was only staffed by Chinese researchers.
From the outset, the investigation noted, doubts were expressed about the reliability of the Wuhan P4 lab. As the Washington Post reported earlier, members of the U.S. Embassy visited the site in January 2018 and warned that adequate security measures were not in place where the bat coronavirus was being studied.
Official Chinese Communist Party media had also reported on Feb. 16 about the lab’s failures, saying that researchers had thrown away lab materials after conducting experiments without specifically treating the biological materials. In addition, a number of researchers sold animals for experiments in the Wuhan market.
After the Wuhan outbreak, the Chinese Communist Party sent its military anti-biochemical special forces to take over this lab and collect all the lab’s experimental data, and then Xi Jinping presided over the passage of China’s first Biosafety Law.
All the world’s questions about this lab were dispelled by two lines that Chinese Communist Party officials shoved down the throat of WHO.
Chinese Communist Party officials blamed U.S. military personnel for bringing the virus, the so-called cold chain for carrying the virus into China, and the fact that a large number of infections in China were imported from outside China, but in fact the same two lines that the CCP shoved down the WHO’s throat had the same purpose, to get rid of responsibility.
In fact, there is only one government in the world that has ever been prepared to seriously hold the Chinese Communist government accountable, and that is the Trump administration.
However, the Trump administration is not holding the CCP accountable for the earliest origins of the virus in mainland China, but for the fact that the CCP authorities deliberately misled the international community by concealing the outbreak early on.
When the Wuhan outbreak broke in early 2020, the Chinese Communist Party did not notify the World Health Organization in a timely manner in accordance with international law, nor did it notify governments, and it not only prohibited foreign health experts from going to investigate, but also destroyed a great deal of early data and evidence. At the same time, however, the Chinese government protested loudly against foreign quarantine measures against China. At the time, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying criticized the U.S. for denying entry to Chinese tourists, saying that the U.S. had “ulterior motives” and was “leading the world in a bad way.
The Trump administration, and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have repeatedly stressed that the Chinese Communist Party should be held accountable, primarily for these issues, not for the fact that the virus originated in mainland China.
But in fact, holding the government accountable is more threatening to the Chinese government than holding it accountable for the origin of the virus, because the emergence of the new coronavirus infecting humans is still a relatively “natural process,” while the government’s failure to prevent the epidemic, especially the deliberate concealment of the global pandemic, is a denial of the Chinese communist system and the legitimacy of its authoritarian and totalitarian system. This is what really frightens the Chinese Communist Party and calls into question the legitimacy of its authoritarian and totalitarian system.
After Biden’s presidency, the U.S. has officially de-emphasized holding the CCP accountable, and according to Antony Blinken, the U.S.’s main task now is to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. I fear this is not the best, nor the most powerful, strategy.
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