This was not the first time the Chinese foreign ministry suggested the COVID-19 pandemic started in America. On March 12, 2020, another ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, stated in a tweet that coronavirus patient zero was in America, making official what Chinese government sources had been suggesting for some time. His tweet also indicated the U.S. Army brought the disease to Wuhan, a city of 11 million and the capital of Hubei province. China is trying to throw serious shade on America. Yet there is no mystery why Beijing, without evidence, is smearing the U.S. The Chinese regime is attempting to avoid responsibility for the greatest crime of the century. China has crucial things to hide: the origin of the novel coronavirus – the pathogen causing COVID-19 – and Beijing’s (deliberate) spreading of this pathogen to every corner of the planet.
wacky multiple-origin thesis of Wang Peiyu of Peking University’s School of Public Health. Beijing, despite coming up with a multitude of baseless theories, has already made up its mind on one thing. As China’s top epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou, told NBC News this January, “COVID-19 started outside China.” China has crucial things to hide: the origin of
the novel coronavirus – the pathogen causing COVID-19 – and Beijing’s (deliberate) spreading of this pathogen to every corner of the planet.
To prove this contention, Beijing has embraced every report stating that SARS- CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, had been found outside China before the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019. Yet China’s propagandists ignored evidence that the disease showed up in China months earlier. This February, World Health Organization (“WHO”) investigators revealed that as early as October 2019 in the Hubei province, there were about 92 patients who had been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms suggesting COVID-19. Moreover, a Harvard Medical School study, based on satellite imagery of hospital parking lots, indicates the first cases started showing up in China in August 2019, before this virus was detected elsewhere. And prior detections of SARS-CoV-2 outside China are by no means proof that COVID-19 had non-Chinese origins. Sean Lin, a
WHERE DID THE CORONAVIRUS BEGIN?
Beijing initially pointed to Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the novel coronavirus was initially detected, as the source of the disease. The theory was that the disease jumped from bats to humans in the unclean market stalls. Since then, Chinese officials have insinuated or outright stated that, in addition to America, either Italy, Spain, or India was the source. Beijing has also promoted the notion that the disease came to China from frozen food packaging and that the coronavirus arose in a number of continents. The Communist Party’s Global Times has even pushed the
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