A team of experts from the World health Organization is conducting an “investigation” into the source of the virus in Wuhan. I put the word “investigation” in quotes because it has been, and will be, greatly discounted.
It has been more than a year since the outbreak of the new crown, which infected more than 94 million people and killed 2 million, before WHO experts were able to arrive on the scene to investigate the source of the disease. Not to mention the ease of transportation and advanced technology available today, this pace of response is rare even during historical epidemics.
Both the Chinese government and the WHO have repeatedly stated that the investigation into the origin of the virus should not be politicized, but the fact that everyone knows is that if the matter had not been so politicized, how could such an anti-scientific, anti-human and anti-human act have occurred?
On March 13, 2014, the Ministry of Health of Guinea issued its first Ebola warning. That same day, WHO Regional Office for Africa staff officially activated the outbreak management system, according to the WHO website. Within days, the world’s top experts arrived on the scene and conducted a field visit to the source of the virus. Even so, the WHO, led by Margaret Chan at the time, was widely criticized, and she herself later admitted that she had handled the situation poorly and was personally responsible. Fortunately, the Ebola virus did not cause a global spread. It is inconceivable that the Guinean government managed to delay and prevent the experts from investigating, and that they were allowed to arrive on the scene only a year later after repeated negotiations and review of the list of experts.
We cannot therefore say that the arrival of international experts in Wuhan a year ago necessarily prevented the new coronavirus from being contained to a small extent. However, this does not in any way absolve the experts of responsibility for stopping the investigation.
The current WHO narrative is that a source investigation to solve the mystery of how the virus first jumped from animals to humans is essential to prevent another epidemic. However, this argument is itself self-censoring. It is clear against previous expert opinion that if the mystery is solved, it will help prevent the spread of the outbreak and help scientists develop a vaccine and treatment.
WHO Director-General Tan Desai has repeatedly cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party in lying and pleasing, while the Communist Party has repeatedly teased him. In January of last year, Tandezai quickly dispatched experts to Wuhan, thinking it was the same as other local investigations into the source of the disease. After meeting with Xi Jinping, he declared, “I want to commend China again and again for its actions that have really helped reduce the spread of the new coronavirus to other countries. However, China backtracked, and the experts who arrived in Wuhan were not allowed to go to the South China Seafood Market, which is believed to be the starting point for the spread of the virus, nor to the largest infectious disease hospital in the region.
In August, China agreed to allow two WHO experts to travel to China as an “advance team” to investigate. The two experts arrived in Beijing and after three weeks were still not allowed to go to Wuhan, so they went back home unhappy. This is unbelievable!
In response to questions about the repeated obstruction of international experts, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying justifiably said, “If you visit other people’s homes, you must agree on a specific time with them in advance, right?” In the face of thousands of deaths every day, a virus investigation is not a dinner invitation! Viruses are not your home grown children, and experts need to make appointments to bring gifts to wish them well. The New Coronavirus is a vicious enemy of all mankind and all investigations are imminent.
Three more international investigation teams are needed
Before the experts arrived in Wuhan, Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO Health Emergencies, said the trip was to understand the origins of the disease, not to find the culprit, and that the investigation was for science, not politics. The irony is that medical experts making such a statement are themselves not about science but about politics.
Medical experts are certainly not police officers, and medical investigations are not criminal investigations, but the two are not without intersection. Doctors usually have a responsibility to report crimes to the police when they discover them, let alone a major event involving millions of lives.
There is no need to keep the source of the virus a secret from experts and the public, but it is almost certain that if a suspected crime is found in this investigation, the expert panel, which has been repeatedly reviewed and negotiated by the Chinese government, will most likely not make it public.
What is certain is that, first, after the outbreak, Beijing and local governments concealed the outbreak and organized meetings and even “banquets for 10,000 people” as usual to facilitate the spread of the virus. Second, the Chinese government monitored and controlled the virus research. According to internal documents obtained by the Associated Press, the Chinese government is monitoring the results of scientists’ research and requires approval for any data or research to be published, according to a working group directly ordered by President Xi Jinping. For these two points, and the fact that international experts have been blocked from investigating for more than a year, the international community should set up three additional investigation teams to investigate.
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