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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Coronavirus: Information from Above, Information from Below


Exhausted health care workers sleep in their masks, or wear them for so long that the masks leave imprints on their faces. Image Source: @SDUIVF许超医生 via Chublic Opinion. You can read leaked doctors' WeChat messages here.

As numbers of infected people climb, assessments of the origin and treatment of the corornavirus are increasingly divided. On one side, we see the Chinese government, the WHO, and the MSM denying that the virus was lab-created, without clearly stating how the virus evolved, given that initially infected patients did not pass through the Wuhan wet market. Buzzfeed is one of the main sites which is attacking the bioweapon rumour.

John video 9 (4 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

Coronavirus Epidemic Update 11: Antiviral Drugs, Treatment Trials (Remdesivir, Chloroquine) (5 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

S1E4: Diagnosis... coronavirus? Podcast from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (5 February 2020). Podcast Source.

The MSM insistence on facts is selective. A focus on recent medical researchers' publications and the latest numbers and treatments sounds like a sane, rational approach (as above), except that there is some drama behind the scenes regarding published research on the coronavirus, as well as lack of clarity about numbers.

For one thing, medical research articles which challenge the central narrative are being removed. Note that the Indian paper from 31 January 2020, which linked this novel coronavirus to HIV, has been withdrawn. At the same time, the MSM reported that anti-HIV drugs are successfully treating the virus; a preliminary research paper supported that approach. In other words, there's no connection to HIV, but there's a connection to HIV. Anti-SARS drugs are also being used against the coronavirus.


Mainstream reporting plays down the seriousness of the pandemic, in an effort to prevent panic. MSM outlets are stating that the coronavirus is roughly as serious as the seasonal flu. Look deeper, though, and mainstream reports cautiously acknowledge that this is much worse. Despite these efforts to underestimate the virus's impact, Bloomberg reported on 4 February 2020 that a pandemic is now likely. There are serious dangers in under-reporting and playing down the threat now posed, because that leaves local governments, hospitals and citizens unprepared.


The WHO (which just asked for USD $675 million in additional funding) has been applauding the Chinese government for its valiant efforts against the virus and it accepts the Chinese government's stated numbers for deaths and infections. Health care workers are likewise celebrated for their courage in treating viral infections, which have personally endangered them.

Fires in Wuhan. Possible bodies being burned in mass graves in Wuhan. (5 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

An opposing narrative has emerged, mainly spread by alt-media and conspiracy theorists, as well as citizen journalists from China. There is a new video of late night fires in Wuhan, and citizens suspect that these are bodies being burned in mass graves. A Chinese citizen journalist hid outside a crematorium and counted the trucks going in at night; his footage is here. You can see an estimate of real death numbers, based on crematoria operating hours, here.


Taiwan News claims to publish 'real' numbers from Wuhan, via Tencent, and they are terrifying. This Taiwanese report is supported by a 5 February 2020 report from the Daily Mail, which states that Wuhan authorities are about to build eleven more hospitals. Smartphone footage of night-time spraying in Chinese streets is also scaring people.


Trucks spraying disinfectant, 1, 2, 3, 4, , 6, 7, holy shit 8. In WuHan from r/Coronavirus
Video Source: Reddit.

It is hard to confirm the veracity of first-hand accounts, although the Chinese government's crackdown on 'untruthful' or 'fear-mongering' vloggers may measure how truthful these people really are. You can read a long article about the uproar and crackdowns on Chinese social media, here.



So many Chinese in hazmats with body bags. from r/China_Flu




"Possibly from Wuhan No.5 Hospital (Unconfirmed). People in the hospital are speaking Wuhan Dialect." Hospital Footage (4 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

Conversation with a nurse (Jan 20-something) (4 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

"This is posted by Doctor Li Shaolei. It's a conversation he has with his college classmates who work in Wuhan." Doctor Recount Experience/Need Psychological Intervention (4 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

The Chinese government has arrested and threatened health care workers who expose conditions of the epidemic. Footage from inside Wuhan's new hospital which was built in a week reveals doors that lock from the outside and meal and medicine portals for each room. There are bars on the windows. Locals and viewers think the facility looks like a prison or a concentration camp. The new hospital will be run by the military, with army medics presiding over it. There are reports that patients seek to escape hospitals once the coronavirus testing and treatment process begins, suggesting that something about the medical process frightens them. You can see video, here, of a man being forced into a van to be quarantined. The public's negative reaction to the Chinese Communist Party is heating up and getting very political.


Everyone really needs to calm down. Too many Corona Boners in here. from r/Coronavirus

The circumstances divide people into two camps: Denial and Fear. When you read the arguments among Redditors on the above post, it is obvious that reactions to the coronavirus mirror the degree to which members of the public already trusted - or did not trust - the global system. A crisis in public confidence already existed. The epidemic now reveals the degree of that crisis. Some people still accept the 'because we said so' official narrative. Some people do not.



Huge numbers are reflected in the fact that Wuhan's exhibition centre has been converted into a makeshift hospital. Images Source: Reddit via imgur.

"Central China's Wuhan City, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, started Monday to build shelter hospitals with an estimated 3,400 beds for coronavirus patients suffering from mild symptoms of infection. CGTN reporter Sun Tianyuan is at one of the "Fang Cang" shelter hospitals that was formerly Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Center."Live: Visit Wuhan 'Fang Cang' shelter hospital探访武汉“方舱医院” (3 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube. You can see a Chinese citizen journalist's footage of this facility, here.


One cannot avoid the relentless trickle of information that contradicts the Chinese government's narrative. Even when Chinese official news reports try to put a positive spin on what is happening - as with the conversion of Wuhan's exhibition centre into a hospital - the situation looks really bad. That is why those with alternative views are being threatened, banned from social media and derided by the MSM. Alt-narratives suggest that the Chinese government have underestimated and concealed true numbers - or that the Chinese do not know the totals. The virus is not just a glorified walking pneumonia, as official media initially reported. It attacks the heart as well as the lungs. Thus, there will be a secondary wave of heart disease in the wake of this pandemic.


Too many questions with vague answers. from r/Coronavirus

Despite mainstream attacks on the social media and alt-media for the latter's hypotheses about the virus, it seems that MSM 'facts' are not clearly answering a host of questions. Why are there not enough test kits? Their unavailability helps the government manipulate reported numbers of infections. In the United States, the FDA opted to resolve that problem on 4 February 2020.

FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for the First 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diagnostic from r/Coronavirus

Another problem is that tests are imperfect. They can give false negatives, possibly also false positives, and results seem to vary according to where the swab was taken on the body. Moreover, the way health care workers are testing or not testing travelers is imperfect. A nurse in Ontario, Canada anonymously spoke on Reddit to reveal that his or her hospital's emergency department referred an admitted patient for coronavirus testing. The patient was not tested, because he or she had not traveled from Wuhan. The patient however had traveled from a suburb of Wuhan, or a town near Wuhan - yet this did not fall under the official area of geographic concern. The nurse was furious that the patient was released from the hospital untested. A 3 February 2020 report from CTV News states that tests for coronavirus in Ontario are dropping; under the circumstances, this does not necessarily inspire confidence.

There are similar Youtube accounts of ex-pat travelers slipping through checkpoints and leaving China to arrive in their home countries, where they promptly go shopping for groceries. The more responsible travelers then self-quarantine themselves. But it is safe to say that thousands upon thousands of people are slipping below official radars and that numbers are much higher than stated by monitoring bodies.

Another speculation: perhaps asymptomatic transmission does not take place; instead, over-the-counter medications mask the early, mild symptoms, which make symptomatic carriers look like asymptomatic carriers.

Administrative, MSM-based and politicized actions around the definition of coronavirus threats and control have thus demonstrated shortcomings on the part of authorities. As a result, puzzled people have gathered on social media platforms to determine the risks of public bathrooms; to ask if the homeless populations are at risk in US cities such as San Francisco, California or Austin, Texas. In December, 2019, the UK found that 1 in 200 people are now homeless. What will happen to rough sleepers if the virus begins to spread in London or other British cities?

People turn to online forums to ask if recovered, formerly infected people are now immune to the virus; they chat about weird alternative treatments and prepping; and they ask if this year's seasonal flu, which started in September 2019, wasn't really the flu, but was in fact this coronavirus. They share gossip, such as the rumour that Camp Ashland in Nebraska, USA, is going to be used as a quarantine facility. All such voices risk censorship and platform bans for daring to spread fear-mongering information.

I'm sure it's a total coincidence that a HIV specialist linked to a rampant disease speculated to contain HIV traits died. I'm sure there are no special interests in the CDN or Chinese gov which might want someone like that silenced. 🤔 Anyone else feeling sleepy...? 💤 from r/Coronavirus

Even level-headed bloggers and vloggers are convinced that the virus was a lab-engineered bioweapon or vaccine experiment gone wrong. You can read an in-depth account of the Wuhan lab's activities, here. Even if you don't believe the bioweapon rumour, you should read that investigative outline to understand why other people do. An anon found that Google Maps has moved the location of the Wuhan Insitute of Virology
as of 29 January 2020:
"UPDATE — JANUARY 29, 2020: What’s also odd, and outright suspicious, is that as of January 29, 2020, the location of Wuhan Institute of Virology (where the National Biosafety Laboratory is headquartered) on Google Maps has inexplicably moved since I first viewed it on January 24, 2020 and published this article on January 27, 2020. Its new location is now over twice the distance from the claimed epicenter of the novel coronavirus, Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Even its satellite imagery of the original site has been altered as well. Good thing I took screenshots."
"A Google Map Image captured Jan. 24, 2020 of Huanan Seafood market 8.6 miles distant from Wuhan Institute of Virology, where China’s only Level P4 Biosafety Laboratory is headquartered." Image Source: archive.is.

"Another Google Map Image captured Jan. 29, 2020 displaying Wuhan Institute of Virology now strangely moved approximately 15 miles southwest of its original location. What a difference five days make, eh?" Image Source: archive.is.

"Side-by-side comparison of original Google Maps location of Wuhan Institute of Virology, captured by screenshot on Jan. 24, 2020, and its altered location as of Jan. 29, 2020. What’s going on here?" Image Source: archive.is.

"A Google Maps Satellite Image captured January 24, 2020, clearly showing the urban Wuhan Institute of Virology situated across the street from the humongous China Earthquake Administration building." Image Source: archive.is.

"Another Google Maps Satellite Image captured January 29, 2020, now showing the Wuhan Institute of Virology completely camouflaged in a patch of forest in a rural area 15 miles southwest. What gives, Google?" Image Source: archive.is.

A dominant conspiracy theory locates the virus's origin at Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory in Manitoba, Canada. This is the conspiracist's view of what occurred - note that this view is absolutely denied by all respectable authorities and media:
"Wuhan Institute of Virology is also connected with the recent, major scandal in Canada where two Chinese virologists working at Canada’s only Pathogen Level 4 virology laboratory, the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg were caught stealing and smuggling some of the most deadly viruses on earth, including the Ebola virus, back to China. The suspects — a Chinese couple, virologist Dr. Xiangguo Qui and biologist Dr. Keding Cheng — are now believed to be connected to China’s biological warfare program. Her husband, Dr. Qiu, was head of the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies Section in the Special Pathogens Program at the NML. Dr. Keding Cheng, also affiliated with the NML, specifically the “Science and Technology Core,” is primarily a bacteriologist who shifted to virology. According to Zero Hedge, “the couple is responsible for infiltrating Canada’s NML with many Chinese agents as students from a range of Chinese scientific facilities directly tied to China’s Biological Warfare Program, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Chengdu Military Region.

And guess what one of the stolen viruses was? Yup, coronavirus. On May 4, 2013, NML’s Scientific Director Frank Plummer received a shipment of coronavirus from a Dutch virologist, who in turn had received it from an Egyptian virologist treating a Saudi Arabian who contracted it. The Canadian lab grew stocks of the virus, and then experimented upon animals to see what they could infect with it. It is from this stash of reserves that the coronavirus was stolen and smuggled by Dr. Qui, Dr. Cheng, and by alledged Chinese Biological Warfare Program agents recruited from the Wuhan Institute of Virology who were disguised as virology students at the University of Manitoba.

Similarly, and perhaps connected, is the recent indictment of Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Prosecutors claim he had a contract with Wuhan Institute of Virology. Reports CBS, “It appears China paid Lieber hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years for his involvement with the Chinese entities and for his work on research for Chinese gain,” said U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling.” Lieber lied about his links to Wuhan Institute of Virology, report Tonya Alanez and Travis Andersen of the Boston Globe. “Federal authorities said Charles Lieber, a prominent nanoscientist and a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from his Chinese connections.” Details about the extent of Lieber’s illicit and illegal conspiracy with the institute have yet to emerge. So this means, significantly, that not only are there Chinese nationals allegedly being recruited from Wuhan Institute of Virology to penetrate foreign P4 biosafety laboratories abroad and smuggle the spoils back home, but it also appears Americans and Canadians may be complicit in aiding the Chinese biowarfare program.

In short, although there are actually two laboratories in Wuhan linked to the Chinese biowarfare program — only one is certified for coronaviruses and only one is caught in the midst of all the recent international espionage intrigue — the new Pathogen Level 4-rated National Biosafety Laboratory at Wuhan Institute of Virology. And whether this enigmatic facility is a philanthropic, health services-related institute, a covert, biological warfare research installation, or some combination of the two — remains to be officially disclosed."
Incidentally, the former director of the Winnipeg lab, Frank Plummer, just died in Africa: "No confirmed cause of death has yet been released." He had recently undergone brain surgery to treat his alcoholism, which seems like an extreme response to an addiction. With all due respect to him and his family, it is fair to ask - under the potential circumstances - whether he had a reason for drinking so much.

Also, an Egyptian researcher at Cairo University, Abdo Elfiky, had published a now-retracted paper on a coronavirus cure, based on a cheaper anti-viral and Hepatitis C treatment, Sofosbuvir (Abdo Elfiky, "Sofosbuvir Can Inhibit the Newly Emerged Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China," (Preprints with the Lancet, Powered by SSRN),‎ 28 January 2020). Elfiky is rumoured in unconfirmed social media chatter to have just disappeared.

CA Lab (involved in nCov to China) Director Frank Plummer DIES; Research by Egypt Doctor Reporting Cure with Sofosbuvir (costs 90% less there than in US) Disappears from r/nCoV


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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Politics, Ideology, and the Technosphere 3: Autobiography, Social Media and the Banality of Revolution


Image Source: Aleteia.

I have a new post up at The Dragonfly:

Autobiography, Social Media and the Banality of Revolution

The post continues my discussion on the new Internet politics. It explains how banal information transforms politics and society, as I put it:
"There is something strangely revolutionary and Kafkaesque about being able to topple governments by telling the emperor what you ate for breakfast."


See my related posts at The Dragonfly.

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Sunday, February 2, 2020

New Post at The Dragonfly: Lessons from Dune in Pandemic Survival


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I have a new post up at The Dragonfly:

The Golden Path of the Divine Masculine

The post explores the idea that the coronavirus epidemic raises questions about humanity's survival and it examines the Dune books' formula for that survival, the 'golden path.' I discuss the golden path already afoot in virtual communities. I also comment on the challenges which this viral outbreak poses to the principles of the current order.

"The spice must flow." Image Source: Reddit.


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Saturday, February 1, 2020

Coronavirus: The Bird Flu, HIV, Nanotech, and 5G Connections


Image Source: Twitter.

Most of the latest reports on the coronavirus deal with the genome research, symptoms, spread, and recovery and death rates of the virus. A scary, non-peer-reviewed article (here), based on clinical data coming out of China, places the Ro at 4.08!

There is a growing emotional toll in the quarantined zones. Some complaints by Chinese locals are reaching social media, as with this man, who leaked footage from Wuhan hospitals and was arrested - or this woman, who lost one or more family members. The translation and commentary on her video are here. Popular dissatisfaction with the Chinese Communist Party is brewing, even as the Wuhan coronavirus hospitals are nearing completion.

Unconfirmed: Wuhan Hubei China Coronavirus Latest | What's Going On? | Video Footage Dump/Archive Part 5 武汉冠状病毒 (1 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube. More leaked videos here and here.

Translation: "RFA said (in a translated tweet): '[Latest Situation of Wuhan Fifth Hospital] Some Wuhan citizens entered Wuhan Fifth Hospital on February 1st and found many patients who died of pneumonia. The corpses were packed directly to the crematorium. Paramedics are busy rescuing the dying patient.'"










Bird Flu in Hunan Province

At the same time, in Hunan province, south of Wuhan's Hubei province, there has been an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu; over 17,000 chickens were slaughtered at one farm to stop the spread of the virus.


Bat Flu: HIV and Henipah (Hendra-Nipah) Virus Connections


An Indian team has linked this version of the bat-sourced and snake-sourced coronavirus to HIV; the non-peer-reviewed paper is here. The results have not yet been reproduced elsewhere. Researchers have generally focused on bats in this field because they can carry several deadly viruses without dying: Ebola, SARS, Nipah, and the coronavirus.

Incidentally, there is a small Nipah virus outbreak in India and Bangladesh now, due to local consumption of raw fruit juices contaminated with infected bat urine.

Other quarters have linked this novel coronavirus to SARS and Ebola. This may explain why HIV and Ebola therapies are being used on infected patients who have the coronavirus. A failed Ebola drug (Remdesivir) may be implemented to treat the coronavirus.

The Henipah virus was shipped with Ebola from the Canadian Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory to Beijing on 31 March 2019. Protocols were ignored (CBC later claimed protocols were followed) in the virus transfer and promoted an RCMP investigation. Note that the Chinese researcher, Xiangguo Qiu, at the centre of this controversy was dismissed in Winnipeg, but not charged. She helped develop ZMapp, the Ebola vaccine.

This rumour arises amid crackdowns on social media "misinformation." On 27 January 2020, the CBC published a weird story denying any wrong-doing on the part of this scientist, despite an earlier article stating she was under investigation. The CBC's larger concern seems to be that the Winnipeg story will lead to public distrust of authority and Sinophobic racism. They interviewed Fuyuki Kurasawa, director of the Global Digital Citizenship Lab at York University:
"The broader damage is that there grows a mistrust toward both government authorities, public health officials, the media, authoritative sources of media, and there there becomes a social media environment where speculation, rumour and conspiracy theories take over and wash out the factual information that is being promoted online."
This hand-wringing over misinformation and racism on social media simply muddies the waters. It pushes authoritative discourse management and identity politics without really getting to the bottom of what happened last year between the Winnipeg lab and Chinese labs.

Nor does the MSM crackdown on the alt-media rule out a bioengineered virus, which passed through the wet market of Wuhan, but did not originate there. There is something very strange going on and it is obvious that the public are not being told the whole truth.

Unconfirmed: Wuhan Coronavirus Pneumonia - Chaos at a hospital in Wuhan (1 February 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

If the virus is a bioweapon, medical staff and researchers must be informed. If it is a bioweapon and they are not informed, then we can only conclude that the deaths which ensue are deliberately caused.

Only one conspiracy theory site I have seen connects the coronavirus to the Nipah virus. The same site stated that the Chinese Hongmen (洪門), also known as the 'Heaven and Earth' secret society, have vowed to hunt down and kill any engineers of the coronavirus, if it was indeed engineered. You can see videos depicting the Hongmen, here, and immediately below.

Chinese Secret Society [Heaven and Earth Society] | Real Stories | THE SHIFT (21 March 2019). Video Source: Youtube.

Espionage and Nanotech

What is less discussed, or outright denied, is the potential of bio-espionage. Buzzfeed is one of the American online outlets currently condemning Zero Hedge for doxxing of one of the scientists at the Wuhan lab over this possibility. The Guardian also absolutely denied that the virus is a bioweapon, based on a Washington Post survey of "expert" opinions.


Nevertheless, bioweapons and bio-espionage do exist and it is fair to ask if they are a factor in this epidemic. It is easy to deny the possibility based on lack of evidence. Obviously, intelligence agencies operate secretly by definition. They are not going to provide evidence to the press and public.

In 2017, CNN reported that a bioweapons danger came from China's ally, North Korea. In response, the Trump administration formulated a National Biodefense Strategy in 2018, to be administered by the US Department of Health and Human Services. You can read the 2018 strategy statement, here.

Press Briefing with Members of the President's Coronavirus Task Force (31 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

The coronavirus epidemic unfolds against a backdrop of Chinese spies running amok globally. Harvard Professor Charles Lieber was just arrested in relation to his activities in Wuhan (and will be freed on USD $1 million bail). The Chinese paid Lieber USD $50,000 per month plus USD $1.5 million to set up a lab in Wuhan. Lieber is also an expert on nanotechnology.

The Lieber arrest prompted the social media conspiracist Joseph P. Farrell to ask grimly if there was a connection between nanotech development and bioweapons.

Even China's Thousand Talents Plan, which funds and recruits foreign scientists, does not prove that the coronavirus has anything to do with bioweapons or bio-espionage. Neither does a recent arrest over attempted Chinese smuggling of biological materials at Boston University. However, the links below confirm a general situation in which many individuals, countries and corporations are fending off, or falling under the sway of, Chinese intelligence.


5G, Drones, Surveillance


Drones are flying over Chinese communities, checking that people are wearing their masks. There is an online rumour that 5G was rolled out in Wuhan first as a test city, and that 5G causes virus-like symptoms and depresses immune systems. The MSM have denied this possibility as misinformation.

Venture Beat and RCR Wireless News were much more optimistic, claiming that 5G-powered gear lets doctors remotely diagnose the virus. In fact, the coronavirus epidemic is a terrific opportunity to test 5G capabilities in the implementation of remote medical treatment:
"Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, 5G’s potential for remote medical services was largely theoretical, as carriers and practitioners spoke of the future prospect of performing remote surgeries or offering diagnoses to patients in far-flung areas. The use of 5G communications to enhance practitioner safety in circumstances such as this, where a virus’ transmission characteristics and other vectors remain unclear, is fairly new but represents a highly practical test of the high-bandwidth wireless technology.

China’s adoption of 5G has outpaced many other countries thanks to a combination of government subsidies and top-down coordination, as well as significant availability of locally produced 5G networking hardware. While domestic companies such as ZTE and Huawei have been restricted or prevented from supplying 5G gear in some countries — a ban that nearly led to ZTE’s collapse in 2018 — their hardware has since enabled Chinese carriers to launch 5G services in somewhere between 30 and 50 cities — no easy feat given the country’s size and population. The country expects to have 5G in every prefecture-level city by the end of this year."
In other words, this disaster is aiding the rapid entrenchment of the new 5G networks, while the notion that that 5G entrenchment might exacerbate health problems associated with the disaster is dismissed as highly speculative.


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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Genocide in a Jar: Playing God with the Coronavirus


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A Freudian Slip

After a harrowing week of reports about an emerging pandemic, culminating with the WHO declaring a global public health emergency, it is time to be honest. The Chinese government-supported news outlet, CGTN, reported on 28 January 2020 that an Australian lab became the "first lab outside China to create - to recreate - the virus."

That statement could be read different ways. One way of reading it is that the news anchor is referring to Chinese researchers creating the virus ahead of the Australians and the Chinese were copying its appearance in the wild. Another way of reading it is that the virus was synthesized in China in the first place.

Pandemics, Evolution, and Playing God

Spanish Flu: a warning from history (30 November 2018). Video Source: Youtube.

It used to be that pandemics were about natural evolution, of humans and other species. We see this in history. The bubonic plague, smallpox, the 1918 flu epidemic were evolutionary disease events. They arose from natural conditions and the afflicted masses perceived the scourge in terms of divine, not political, will.

In today's secular age, politics replaces God, and science has been bent to serve the aims of politics. Pandemics can be less about nature, science and medicine - and more about politics. What you see in the current media struggle to control the coronavirus narrative is a debate on whether or not this epidemic is actually a political event and whose politics will be served by it.

In this sense, it is wrong to assume that anti-scientific sentiment hails solely from ignorant, God-fearing quarters. The criticism of science bent to serve political agendas is less a criticism of scientific ideas and methods than it is an attack on certain political agendas.

For example, anti-vaxxers are portrayed in the mainstream as anti-rationalist morons and religious lunatics. A deeper probe into the anti-vax sub-culture reveals people who may accept the basic medical concept of vaccination, or who at least understand it, but who remain suspicious of the political or ideological aims of vaccinators.

Scoff if you will, but these paranoids do live in a post-Holocaust world and they seem to have understood that point better than most. They know that a genocidal political culture can potentially arise in any state. No matter how uninformed they otherwise are, they are not wrong. When they lean toward personal fascism, these types may deny the history of the Holocaust. However, as I have explained in another post, it is on the ironic basis of the Holocaust and subsequent modern genocides that even neo-Nazi Holocaust-deniers know that a state can turn on its citizens and engineer a genocide.

When we discuss these inflammatory questions, the true debate gets lost behind the immediate outrage, the issue of the day. The true debate now is whether the nation state can and should evolve into a global state and to what degree, and whether either of these geopolitical entities - national or global - is ever mobilized to be systematically harmful toward its citizens. Behind this concern, we know that a core ideology drives every state architecture, and that set of goals may differ from the state's overt civic values and politics. Again, in a post-Holocaust environment, it is fair to ask if a state entity, no matter what virtues it claims to uphold, is actually driven by a malevolent core ideology.

Beyond these worries are the roles played by science and technology. These latter fields make certain actions available to state and political agents, where before those options did not exist.

The Georgia Guidestones express a real agenda of mass depopluation, supported by the guidestones' makers, who are unknown. Image Source: pinterest.

Discussion about the coronavirus is entering a difficult phase because it reflects all these issues: national jurisdictions and international communities; core Realpolitik ideologies versus overtly expressed political ideals; science and technology pressed into the service of a core Realpolitik ideology as well as overt politics.

The atmosphere of debate on these issues must not be one simply of top-down narrative authority by mainstream officials, experts and journalists. In the Information Age, they cannot simply insist they are right because they are authoritative. They have to prove that they are telling the truth.

At the heart of the matter is the question of whether this virus arose naturally or whether it is a weaponized, synthesized Frankenvirus, as reported by the Washington Times on 26 January 2020. If it is the latter, then how it was approved and released must be revealed. People everywhere would be absolutely right to demand immediate investigation of the current international and national political orders which permitted such an outcome: no one, anywhere, should be able to develop a 'genocide in a jar.'

If that possibility exists in this case, it is up to the media to thoroughly investigate every possible bit of evidence in that regard. If the bioweapons story is not true, then it has to be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is not true. It should not be simply, sloppily and reflexively denied by the MSM, 'because we said so' in order to maintain social order.

Again, there are justifiable reasons for worrying about bioweapons now. In the past, there were examples of diseases being weaponized and used against targeted populations, as with smallpox blankets being given to indigenous peoples in colonial America and Canada.

However, as far as I know, there were no historical examples of bio-engineered diseases. Before certain scientific and technological advances, we could not have made a 'genocide in a jar'. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention reveals that we now have that capacity and it is not a comforting thought. Pretending that this reality does not exist and that a state or similar powerful entity cannot act along these lines is dishonest and dangerous.

Whether they are right or not, there are good reasons why people believe the Washington Times story that this epidemic is not a natural evolutionary event, but rather that this is a Frankenvirus, which can lie dormant in the body for days, and which seems to combine elements of coronaviruses, SARS and Ebola. And lo and behold, two months ago - as the pro-conspiracy site Zero Hedge found - that was precisely the focus of research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Postdoc job ad (18 November 2019). Image Source: Zero Hedge. Click to enlarge.

Dr. Joseph Farrell, an Oxford-educated conspiracist and author, discusses the above job ad. NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM JAN 30 2019 (30 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

This public suspicion has not been helped by the MSM suddenly moving in lockstep as of 28 January 2020 to control the narrative merely on the basis of their official media authority. As the MSM outlets work together to discredit the social media rumour that this virus is a bioweapon, they reinforce the public belief that there is a conspiracy afoot.

If we lived in a normal world, the MSM would ask whether bio-espionage and viral labs (especially the 50 odd level 4 labs around the world) are properly regulated and discover whether they are violating the Biological Weapons Convention. They would not quote 'experts' who say that they are confident that the Wuhan lab is following rules, merely because they 'think so.' They would ask why the FBI has arrested and charged a prominent Harvard scientist for lying about kickbacks he received to work and recruit scholars for the Wuhan lab. The same story was reinterpreted elsewhere as: Chinese Biowarfare Agents At Harvard University Caught Smuggling Viruses. You can read the affidavit here.

In a normal world, the MSM would ask why the policies for regulating risky virus experiments, in which scientists tweak viruses to make them more dangerous, were suddenly under review in the United States as of 24 January 2020.

In a normal world, the MSM would investigate the internal policies of big corporations when they hold pandemic gameplays a few months before an actual pandemic breaks out.

If we lived in a normal world, the MSM would not admonishing the justifiably riled public for daring to think for itself when a dangerous epidemic has arisen under sketchy, unclear circumstances. An MSM with backbone and real standards would look again China's competitive scientific community. It is well known that this community has by-passed, bent or broken normal humane research rules in order to gain a global competitive edge for its country.

It is no secret that China has more relaxed rules and the Chinese are engaging in Franken-research. There is an atmosphere that anything can be done with new scientific and technological capabilities. For the morally-challenged scientist with tone-deaf human intuition, working in China is an opportunity to play God.

In 2018, Foreign Policy shrugged its shoulders and stated: "China will always be bad at bioethics." Oh! That's all right then. The NYT confirmed that China is a hotbed of scandalous biomedical experiments. There was the full body transplant, with a head transferred to a new body! There are crazy cloning projects, including cloned primates. Last year, the Chinese created human-monkey hybrids.

In 2018-2019, the whole scientific community criticized China's anti-HIV genetically-altered CRISPR babies, which "seriously violated" regulations. The Chinese government has been fined for unauthorized collection of human DNA.

When four lone bioethics experts appealed to the journal Nature in 2019 to press the Chinese government for more oversight of risky bio-experiments, hundreds of Chinese researchers protested. After this demand for a "reboot" of biomedical regulations, the Chinese government did establish a national medial ethics committee to review "high risk biomedical technologies" in May of 2019. But all indications are that it was business as usual and everyone just pressed ahead. This "rogue science" is not a China-only problem, as western researchers are cross-pollinating with Asian researchers and western scientists are taking advantage of China's lax biomedical regulations and covert funding. This is an established fact, according to stories emerging from Canada and America.

In this context, it is not unreasonable to imagine that the embarrassing potential truth of a Chinese bioweapon, a 'genocide in a jar,' has been developed and unleashed. While research is often shared between labs, the burden of proof that there has been no wrongdoing in research at the Wuhan lab, no associated international interests, and no bio-espionage lies with the Chinese government, any involved researchers, and with the WHO and the MSM. The burden of proof does not lie with the beleaguered global public who have to start stockpiling masks, food, water, goggles, and gloves because of this possible outrage.

For the bioweapons theory to be disproven, we would have to have access to WHO, CDC, Chinese, Canadian and American scientific records, along with worldwide intelligence archives, which will not be happening any time soon. Given that problem, the notion that the MSM have the right to simply deny uncomfortable stories and rumours because it is for our own good is as condescending and authoritarian as it is morally questionable in a time of crisis. The public are not the problem here, and they never were. The problem lies with those who see themselves as above and beyond the public, who think they can play God.

資源緊缺，疫情緊急 | 陳秋實大年初六中午焦慮總結報導（“公民記者陳秋實武漢疫區採訪實錄”系列10） [Shortage of resources, emergency outbreak | Summary report of Chen Qiushi ’s anxiety at noon on the sixth day of the new year] (29 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube. The same video with English subtitles is here.

Debated Virus Origins from Bioweapons Lab

Harvard virologist “speculates” Wuhan Virus came from lab #Coronavirus (29 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube.
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Police Barricade Family In Apartment That Visited Wuhan "The sign says something like 'This is a returnee family from Wuhan, not approach!'" (28 January 2020) Video Source: Live Leak.

Extreme Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation

  • Biorxiv: non-peer-reviewed preliminary study, with a tiny infected group of eight people, of which one was an Asian male. Results on this limited paper gave rise to unsupported, completely unproven conspiracy theories that this virus is bio-engineered to attack Asian males and to leave those of European descent unharmed: "we analyzed the ACE2 RNA expression profile in the normal human lungs. The result indicates that the ACE2 virus receptor expression is concentrated in a small population of type II alveolar cells (AT2). Surprisingly, we found that this population of ACE2-expressing AT2 also highly expressed many other genes that positively regulating viral reproduction and transmission. A comparison between eight individual samples demonstrated that the Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung." Ethnic bioweapons are a known potential international issue, but are not discussed in a public square already obsessed with identity politics. The possible existence of ethnic bioweapons confirms a vast gulf between the way the world actually operates and the way we are told (and like to think) it operates.
  • Project Zyphr and US Genocide super-rumours, mainly driven by anti-Zionism
  • Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism feature in unfounded fears that the coronavirus was not only lab-engineered, but somehow released from the Wuhan facility by Israeli agents
  • Supposed CIA whistleblower: "This is not a coronavirus. It is the Nipah virus. Caused by fruit bats. There are cycles of much more virulent strains of the Nipah virus. The WHO (with whom I do research) knew about this in August of 2018. It is zoonotic."

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Coronavirus Air Travel Perils: Toronto


Coronavirus New footage (29 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube. The publisher of the video stated: "This [Air Canada] plane just landed in Canada Toronto seven passengers have corona virus symptoms and fever plane is in quarantine no one is allowed off footage from a friend in China"

Amid news stories of international flights canceled in and out of China, here is an indication as to why. This is rumoured smartphone footage from an Air Canada flight earlier tonight (29 January 2020), which landed in Toronto from China. Several passengers have coronavirus symptoms and someone is on a gurney. No one is allowed off the plane. None of this is confirmed yet by the MSM, the airline, or the Canadian government.

Addendum (31 January 2020): Some commenters suggest this flight dated from 22 January 2020. No information about this footage is confirmed.


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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Coronavirus Conversations


About the reddit post (25 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

A 14-year-old student in Macau, China has begun posting videos about her daily life during the lunar New Year's holiday and she remains at home due to the coronavirus store and business closures. The new vlogger announced her channel on Reddit: "I just wanted to make this video to show that I'm not fake." Oh, the irony, when today the WHO and major news outlets announced a desire to stifle social media conversations and to eradicate all sources of coronavirus disinformation, except of course, themselves.

You can see the human benefit of international social media discussion here. The girl states that Chinese people who eat exotic animals like pangolins do so because it is illegal and expensive. She states that in China, wildlife consumption is a statement of personal influence and wealth. As for the atmosphere in her city, "You can actually feel the fear. ... People are really panicking. ... At least in Macau we are still pretty safe." They store food, water, and masks and stay inside their apartments and houses. She holds live Q and A chats and she and her young social media counterparts compare notes from around the world to try to understand the epidemic. She thinks that the new Chinese generation will be better than her predecessors.

She has heard a lot of conspiracy theories from the Internet, including the rumour that the virus did not come from a wildlife market but was engineered in a Wuhan bioweapons lab. "I hope that's not true, because if that is true, I don't know what to do." She's not alone in that regard.

Why chinese people like to eat wild animals (27 January 2020). Video Source: Youtube.


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