Well done.

At some point, survival is going to demand that people realize culture and habits matter.

Also, I have nothing but tremendous sympathy and sadness for the victims and their families in China. It's awful. Saying it originated there, pointing out how, and looking at what we should do better, is intelligence, not racism.

I looked at my 13 year old daughter when she was telling me weeks ago about the Chinese bat that started it all (yes, even the kids get some things) and said, "Never let your teachers tell you that all cultures are equal or the same." The culture of America started with the tolerant capitalism of the Dutch, mixed with the Godliness and handiness of the Puritans and then became an amalgamation of all of the best Hugonots (French middle class) and other adventurous, hardy people who came here and created, invented and prospered. Our culture isn't perfect, but we sure have the best DNA available!

Wuhan disease is an engineered, Red Chinese Bioweapon that escaped their BSL-4 Lab in Wuhan. That explains why, unlike ANY other Coronavirus, there is a long segment of HIV-1 genetic material inserted into the middle of it's genetic sequence. The Chinese Docs knew immediately they were in deep excrement and personally tried HIV drugs in a desperate attempt. That the Communists are now trying to blame the United States for their Bioweapon is proof in my book. The Communists always blame others for what they themselves do, as established by Joseph Stalin.

I read another interesting take on this. The level-4 lab in Wuhan where these viruses are engineered and studied have employees making very little money, like elsewhere in China. A while back they arrested one employee who had been selling the research animals outside the lab, "to create a little extra income". These are animals infected with different test viruses and bacterium and should be disposed of as bio-hazardous after their use. But the culture and economy of China creates the desire for it's citizens to try to achieve revenue, no matter the cost to lives. Life is cheap in a cruel evil tyrannical dictatorship like China.

i read the same thing,and that makes the most sense. they say it's the elite chinese that are into this exotic wet market system,they think by eating all these different animals gives them some kind of super powers or some king of nonsense.

The rumor I heard and why China is blaming the US Military is that China actually stole the virus from the USA [Fort Detrick] and had been trying to weaponize it in their Wuhan Lab and it got out thru sloppiness or the reason below.

Coronavirus: Chinese Espionage Behind Wuhan Bioweapon.

Focus is on China’s only Biosafety Level 4 Lab at the epicenter of the breakout in Wuhan.

The biowarfare espionage behind the Chinese government’s
Wuhan lab is now coming to light with a federal indictment being unsealed on Tuesday.

***Now, the Department of Defense & NIH (National Institute of Health) have indicted
*** Harvard professor Charles Lieber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology and two Chinese nationals — one,

***a researcher at Boston University Yanqing Ye, an officer with the Chinese military, the other

***Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China.

The Harvard professor appears to have been paid an amazing amount of money by the Chinese government to help establish the Wuhan lab and is alleged to have lied to investigators about his activities.

***The Harvard espionage indictments follow the discovery of Chinese nationals stealing virulent viruses from Canada’s only Biosafety Level 4 Lab and shipping them to the Wuhan lab.

***Harvard professor Charles Lieber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology, charged with hiding China ties.

***Also are charges against Boston University researcher, Yanqing Ye, accused of lying about her ties to the Chinese military as a lieutenant in the People’s Liberation Army.

And then there’s the smoking gun of the Wuhan laboratory’s job posting to work on bat virus infection with Ebola & SARS-Coronavirus.

Biology knowledge is preferred but strong English skills are the main requirement.

They’re looking for a few good spies.

"The deadly disease originated in one of China’s disease-breeding, barbaric, 'wet markets,' as they are called."

Deadly diseases are literally being bred in a bioweapons lab operated by the ChiCom military not far from the wet market. The truth is that no one other than the ChiComs knows whether it was the wet market or the death lab that unleashed the virus.

Or workers at the lab selling off used "animals" for food in the wet market.

https://nypost.com/2020/02/...

I could so see this as an accidental escape of an engineered virus from a dodgy virology/'germ-warfare' lab.

I think you mean:
I could see this as an "accidental" escape....
It's not clear if you are being ironic or stressing accidental to emphasize that you really think it was an accident.

Maybe, it landed in a meteor, or aliens brought it from another Earth, or you farted it out.

You do realize that he is being sarcastic and appears to be saying exactly what YOU are saying...that it's a bioweapon intentionally released on the world by China. When he says "accidentally" he is stressing it to be ironic, like putting it in quotes. Or so I assumed when I read it.

Granted, your explanations are improbable. But the virus is here.

Just a fairy tale. Nobody can pinpoint any of the transmission from animal to human.

I’m sure the person didn’t fess up. But ultimately the secrecy and incompetence of the Chinese regime was more than sufficient to make this much worse than it had to be.

The virus wasn't bred in the matket. It exists in nature and was carried to humans in some manner. The wet market story is as real as Hansel and Gretel or The Cat in the Hat.

So humans in continuous close proximity to animals in less than hygienic condition is an unlikely source?

i believe globalists, together with Dicktator Xi, paid to have this virus engineered. It is literally everything they ever dreamed of to take out a common enemy - Donald Trump. Don't deny the pissed-offness of the globalists. And none of them care about people.
https://www.amgreatness.com... and all the links

Well, as long as you "believe" it...

How smart do lib notions of increased population and urban density, open borders, lax immigration control, mass transit, off-shore global outsourcing, UN controls and reusable bags and straws look now? All issues Trump is right about.

The CDC spends its time on more important things like Gun Control and Transgenderism.
It doesn't bother much with the STD pandemic (nor do even the conservative or alternative media outlets for some reason).

China is a dirty, third world hole once you get away from the spruced up city epicenters. Went there for business once, don't ever want to go back again.

City centers. The other plague going around these days is a drumbeat of misuse of the word 'epicenter'.

China is 3.7million square miles. How many million did you cover on your single business trip?

Didn’t have too. Once outside of the Beijing and Shanghai city centers it was like night vs day.
Which presumably got worse as you got further away from these two cities.

With its constant caterwauling about various phobias, racism, and open borders, the Marxocrats and their voters, Big Enemydia, much of Big Academia, and much of Big Legal are intent upon turning the USA into a “wet market”.

Informative without bombast. Thank you.

Back in 2003, I did a workshop for some of the people at work and, to get them to think more broadly other than just the problem at hand, I had them think about "knowns", "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns". Knowns are obvious and known unknowns aren't that hard; summer here in the Northern Hemisphere will generally be warm but the actual temperature on July 12th is unknown today. As an example, back in 1998 here in Wyoming, we had a ¼" if frost the morning of July 12th.

However, in the workshop I realize known that I had made a mistake in calling the SARS outbreak an "unknown unknown". Epidemics and pandemics have originated in China for millennia. No, east Asia is not the sole source of disease but that area has had it's share of plagues. So SARS and SARS-CoV-2 are really known unknowns. So because of it's culture and form of government, It is just a matter of time for the next pandemic to originate and spread from CHINA.

All useless twaddle.

And your useless point is?

My mom had asian people move into her neighborhood. Never once said hello or tried to assimilate. Spoke only in native language. They even hung freshly caught fish on the common handrail of both residences to "dry" in the sun. The flys were horrendous.
My grandparents were all immigrants and practices of europe were not brought over.
Our wanting to be so inclusive will kill us all.

we live in an affluent neighborhood and had some chinese move in across the street several years ago. no fish on the balcony rails, but their behavior is similar. backed into our mailbox, put a bumper sticker over the dent on the back of their vehicle and then lied to our faces about it. had another encounter, and after our reaction (they apparently thought that they could be rude to us without getting a reaction), they were afraid to even look at us anymore, which has helped. praying that after this current fiasco, we restrict trade with china to the extent that they have to return to wherever it is they originated. their drive to get ahead seems to dull every other aspect of their character.

"If only travel from China had been stopped earlier, the poor old people from the Life Care home might be alive, and the coronavirus would not be multiplying exponentially among us."

Not really. The spread could be slower, but that's not necessarily true. Contagious diseases spread, that's what they do.

The flaw in this story is there are thousands upon thousands of people in America now who are just as infected as the alleged visitor from Wuhan. Yet, where are all the deaths associated with those individuals? Do you really think nobody else carried the virus into another nursing home, or dozens of nursing homes? Why hasn't the Life Care scenario been repeated in every state?

Something was different at Life Care and the nearby Evergreen hospital where so many people died. The problem is, nobody wants to find out.

Excellent article. Thank you.