Dakota Beacon

China lied, the world died.  But they didn’t lie all by themselves.  They were joined by the World Health Organization, which, for some reason, they have been able to largely manipulate.  

Immediately, when word seeped out of a new and dangerous virus in China, the communist government there denied that this bat virus was transmitted between humans.  The WHO loudly proclaimed this as well. Authorities in Taiwan, familiar with the tactics of the oppressor across the strait, learned early that the virus was contagious - highly contagious - among humans and that China was lying.  They sought to inform the WHO, knowing that this kind of virus could spread rapidly. The WHO, controlled by China, brushed aside these entreaties to take seriously the danger. WHO continued to put it out that the Chinese virus was not all that serious and other nations bought into the scam.

The Chinese knew early in December that the virus was being transmitted from human to human.  By January 1, doctors there were sounding the alarm. Dr. Wen-Liang was one. He noted that a version of SARS seemed to be infecting patients he was seeing.  He was summoned by the authorities, forced to recant and became infected himself. Six days after being diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus he died of the disease.  Japan was the first country to discover that this disease had spread beyond China. All this time, the WHO parroted the claims of the Chinese government. Here is an interesting figure:  On January 1, the same day that Dr. Li was hauled before the authorities, accused of “spreading rumors”, lab samples were ordered destroyed and testing was ordered to stop and that same day, 175,000 people traveled by air out of Wuhan.  To put that in perspective, in the first quarter of 2019, 13,267 people flew from there - or about 4,422 per month. They traveled throughout the world, many of them to America.  

Everyone knows by now what China did - or at least part of what China did.  This virus was found and developed in the Wuhan bioweapons. Whatever its intention, this much we do know.  Then, once it escaped sometime in November, it began infecting humans. It was known by December 1, that a man who had shopped at the market had transmitted it to his wife who had not been there.  Now it was established that it was transmittable between humans. Still China denied it and still the WHO echoed their false claims, while praising the Chinese health authorities. By January 6, the United States offered to send medical experts to China but this was declined.  No surprise there. Now that the Chinese are trying to claim that they aren’t having more cases, they have shipped all the media and journalists out of the country. Just in case they might forget and tell the truth.

China had the collaboration of the WHO in its program of lies.  These lies have cost thousands of lives around the world, destroyed the world’s economies within a matter of weeks.  

There are different responses to this.  Some are so overwhelmed in the moment that they can’t take on what to do about China.  Others, such as Atlantic's Peter Beinart, seems to believe that our tangle with the virus is a result of our having broken our more friendly relations with China.  His position is difficult to reason out. If he believed that this was not purely accidental and not a hostile act, what difference would it have made whether we were on great terms with China or not?  If, indeed, China had the power to do this (and it would certainly appear that they did) then deRensis’s idea that we must mend our ways and kowtow to China and step up our trade and relations with the criminals who run China, seems both morally and intellectually bankrupt.  Would this mean that we should henceforth collude with China in its various geopolitical designs?  

Still others believe that the magnitude of the result of China’s prevarication, at best, or perhaps worse, more criminal intent, merits a more serious consequence for that rogue government.  Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha of the Indian Army, Kashmir, has called China’s conduct “criminally negligent” and calls for censure.  Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn has called on China to forgive a portion of our debt as a consequence of the loss we are experiencing.  I would say this is very timid. The cost of this pandemic, both in America and world-wide, not to mention the heartbreak of losing tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, children, friends, spouses, co-workers, leaders, is unreckonable.  I would say they would be lucky if all they did was call it even and go home without a beating.  

When you read an objective account and timeline of the course of this issue, from its early stages, it becomes more and more clear that China was not acting in good faith with anyone - their own people included.  They either duped or co-opted the WHO to act as their agent in lying to the world about the nature of this virus, about its course. While China ordered samples and research destroyed which might have been helpful in addressing this, the WHO was singing their praises and running interference for them.

It should be obvious that unless we want to collude with a criminal government, we should write off the Atlantic’s approach, because that is what it would be.  No civilized nation should be using bioweapons (that said, we will need to develop defensive bioweapons apparently).  We should expand on Senator Blackburn’s quite proper take on it and demand nothing less than wiping out any debt - and perhaps even bill them.  We should end the kind of relationship which has made beggars of us, not go back to it on our knees. We should withdraw all support for the World Health Organization.  They have proven to be useless - that is, unless you are a rogue government controlling them, in which case they are a great help in deceiving other countries to the detriment of world health.  We support them to the tune of approximately 19%. This is outrageous. Taiwan, who went ahead, having been shunned by the WHO, and prepared their country and their people for the onslaught, are doing better than almost any other nation.  It would seem that whatever 19% amounts to is wasted money that we could have spent on our own supply of masks (domestically made), drug research, sufficient numbers of ventilators or any of the other things we needed to protect Americans.  

In the future we need to take seriously the warnings of people like Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), who was urging a travel ban into the U.S. by January 22.  This ban should not have been restricted to people coming from China - it should have been a blanket ban, and that means Americans who found themselves overseas as well.  If a virus does not respect race or citizenship, it certainly made no sense to allow Americans to travel back and forth. If that were the case we needn’t have banned travel at all and we would not be dealing with a pandemic now.  The fact is that Americans, like Chinese citizens, can infect others.  

Post script:  Ezra Levant had an interesting video yesterday which indicates the origin of the virus.  We should encourage everyone to view it.

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