June 21, 2020
It was amusing to watch the emergence of this debate
on the US-China stage. The Chinese were understandably unwilling to be blamed
for the emergence of a virus in which they had no part, and thus reacted
strongly to accusations the virus originated in a Wuhan lab. The Americans
proved to be even more terrified at the possibility of scientific proof that
the virus escaped from one of their bio-labs, and resorted to the only weapon
they had which was to turn up the volume on blaming China. There were two main
reasons for this state of affairs: (1) The US was the only country known to
contain all the varieties that were being spread worldwide. (2) The US is the
only nation in the world known to have repeatedly used biological weapons on other
countries, beginning with North Korea and never ceasing. Of even more damning
consequence is the known locations of about 400 American bio-weapons labs
spread throughout the world, to say nothing of the pathetically-lax institution
at Fort Detrick. (1) (2) (3)
Moreover, Trump recently claimed he could kill the
entire population of Afghanistan within days. "Afghanistan would be wiped
off the face of the Earth. It would be gone and this is not using nuclear. It
would be over in - literally, in 10 days." Biological weapons would seem
the only alternative. Hemorrhagic Fever and Hantavirus worked for the US in
North Korea; perhaps also Afghanistan. (4) (5) (6) Mr. Trump later denied
intention to carry out his threat, but let's dispense with the fiction of the
US having no biological weapons and that Fort Detrick and the 400 foreign
labs are performing only benevolent "peace medicine" functions.
If it were China with the above history and SARS, MERS, AIDS, EBOLA, bird flu,
swine flu, and COVID-19 first erupted in the US, the Americans would claim this
as 100% proof that China was responsible. It cannot be a surprise that much of
the world today is naturally tending to lay these outbreaks at America's
doorstep.
But returning to our topic of man-made COVID-19 or
COVID-20, it seems everyone has been a little too eager to dismiss the
possibility (or probability) of these viruses having a (human) helping hand.
