China’s Coronavirus – How the Western Media Spin the News -- February 05, 2020

China’s Coronavirus – How the Western Media Spin the News

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, February 05, 2020

Region: Asia, USA

Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

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Reporting from Shanghai

It is not possible to understand the situation of China’s new coronavirus infections without some context. Let’s place ourselves in the position of patient and physician. If you develop a headache, what is your first thought? Do you say to yourself, “My god, I have a brain tumor and I will die”? Not likely. Similarly, if you report your headache to a doctor, his range of thoughts is unlikely to involve your immediate demise. Both parties assume the event is merely one more common and typical occurrence and, barring unusual symptoms that indicate additional testing, the physician’s advice would most likely be to “take two aspirins and call me tomorrow”.

This was essentially the circumstance in China with the new coronavirus. The initial symptoms of the first patients were quite mild, seemingly no more than a typical winter flu and thus of no special concern. It was only after about two weeks, when the symptoms became more severe and patients required hospitalisation, that medical experts realised they were dealing with a new contagion.

COVID-19 Marketing in the USA: Misinformation, Incompetence and Buffoonery

COVID-19 Marketing in the USA: Misinformation, Incompetence and Buffoonery

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, March 10, 2020

Region: USA

Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

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The content of this article will make little sense to you. The purpose in your reading it is to appreciate how little sense it makes.

The WHO described worldwide virus cases passing the 100,000-mark as a “somber moment”.

The AFP screamed “Quarter of Italians on lockdown as virus sweeps globe.” (1)

South Korea urges cooperation as epidemic rages across region. (2)

“France inexorably heading toward a coronavirus epidemic” (after 3 deaths). (3)

“Don’t travel on cruise ships due to coronavirus risk, State Department urges”. (4)

COVID-19 “Worldwide Epidemic of Biblical Proportions”

COVID-19 “Worldwide Epidemic of Biblical Proportions”

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, March 06, 2020

Theme: Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

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This is becoming increasingly crazy. The Western media hype is intolerable with its fear-mongering. What is driving this?

In most countries, a few people or a few hundred people have been infected with this virus, and a dozen or so countries have seen a handful of deaths. Many more people die each year from simple influenza.

Two years ago, the US had 45 million flu infections, more than 300,000 thousands hospitalised, and 61,000 deaths. Why wasn’t that considered an epidemic? All those infections and deaths weren’t even noticed by the media. But 100 infections and 10 deaths from a coronavirus is sufficient to request $8 billion in funds and curtail air transport. This year in the US, more than 10,000 have died of the flu, but ten people out of 330 million have died from the coronavirus and we have a pandemic.

In most infected countries the statistics are quite similar: about one person will die of each million of population.

Iran, with 80 million people, has less than 100 deaths, roughly one out of each million of population. Statistically, this is nothing. The only curiosity about Iran is that the virus seems to attack primarily the political leaders of their Parliament.

Italy has roughly 50 deaths out of 50 million of population, roughly one in a million. So what? More people die from from eating bad pizza or falling off bridges, but all the schools and universities are closed.

Korea is similar. Out of 50 million people, 40 deaths. Roughly one in a million. Where is the pandemic?

On this basis, China appears to be the worst with about two people dying out of each million. (3,000 deaths from 1.5 billion population). Probably more mothers-in-law are strangled each year.

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Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.

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Why Is the US Apparently Not Testing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus?

Why Is the US Apparently Not Testing for the COVID-19 Coronavirus?

"Testing for coronavirus is not available yet in New York City."

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, March 06, 2020

Region: USA

Theme: Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

All reports are that the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is not testing for the new coronavirus COVID-19, and that reliable tests in any case do not exist in the US. This is an area bereft of rational explanation.

The US may have many thousands of coronavirus infections, but no one knows because the CDC are not testing for them.

The CDC produced a series of test kits that produced wildly random results, positive or negative, followed by instructions to discard the test kits as unreliable. (1) Several U.S. states said the new coronavirus test kits did not work, while others said they were totally unreliable. (2) New York City reported the government-issued tests are faulty and “cannot be relied upon to provide an accurate result”. Those faulty kits were also shipped all over the world, but to my knowledge the CDC have relayed that information to no one outside the US.

China’s Coronavirus. “We Cannot Rule Out Man Made Origin of these Infections”

China’s Coronavirus. “We Cannot Rule Out Man Made Origin of these Infections”

A Russian Appraisal

By Larry Romanoff and Igor Nikulin

Global Research, February 17, 2020

Region: Asia, Russia and FSU

Theme: History, Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

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Introductory Note

In earlier articles I related the opinions of biochemists and bio-warfare specialists on the circumstances justifying suspicion of a virus being created in a lab and deliberately released in a foreign country as a means of either low- or high-intensity warfare, or as merely a means of destabilising a nation and perhaps severely damaging its economy, with the loss of life being an added plus. The US is the country that appears most devoted to biological warfare, though a number of other nations are eager participants, including the UK and Israel.

I would remind readers here of the statement from PNAC, in a report titled, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”, that

“Advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare … to a politically useful tool.” (1)

China’s Coronavirus – How the Western Media Spin the News

China’s Coronavirus – How the Western Media Spin the News

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, February 05, 2020

Region: Asia, USA

Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

ENGLISH  ESPAÑOL

Reporting from Shanghai

It is not possible to understand the situation of China’s new coronavirus infections without some context. Let’s place ourselves in the position of patient and physician. If you develop a headache, what is your first thought? Do you say to yourself, “My god, I have a brain tumor and I will die”? Not likely. Similarly, if you report your headache to a doctor, his range of thoughts is unlikely to involve your immediate demise. Both parties assume the event is merely one more common and typical occurrence and, barring unusual symptoms that indicate additional testing, the physician’s advice would most likely be to “take two aspirins and call me tomorrow”.

Fake News and “The Naked Government”: Jessica Lynch and the US Invasion of Iraq

Fake News and “The Naked Government”: Jessica Lynch and the US Invasion of Iraq

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, January 24, 2020

Region: Middle East & North Africa, USA

Theme: History, Media Disinformation

In-depth Report: IRAQ REPORT

In the 1950s there was a TV series in the US titled ‘The Naked City’, composed from stories drawn from the lives of various residents. Each episode began with the words, “There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This is one of them.”

Today, in terms of fake news and fabricated events, we could direct a new TV series titled ‘The Naked Government’, each episode beginning with the words, “There have been 8 million news events faked and fabricated by the naked government. This is one of them.”

Jessica Lynch was a 19-year-old US Army clerk who served in Iraq during the 2003 US invasion. Her military vehicle was hit by a grenade, and crashed. Lynch was seriously injured, with a broken leg and hip, and some of her comrades were killed. But Jessica, being a typical American hero, crawled out of her vehicle while fighting the intense pain from her broken bones and, with one automatic weapon in each hand, she stood erect with both guns blazing, mowing down enemy soldier after enemy soldier, until all her ammunition was exhausted and she surrendered to unconsciousness from the pain. Jessica was shot multiple times, captured and repeatedly stabbed, then was taken prisoner and carried off with all her broken bones and bullet holes to a dirty Iraqi hospital where she was chained to a bed and held for eight days by vicious Iraqi guards who slapped and abused her and raped her.