As
readers will recall from the earlier article , Japanese and Taiwanese
epidemiologists and pharmacologists have determined that the new coronavirus
almost certainly originated in the US since that country is the only one known
to have all five types – from which all others must have descended. Wuhan in
China has only one of those types, rendering it in analogy as a kind of
“branch” which cannot exist by itself but must have grown from a “tree”.
The Taiwanese physician noted
that in August of 2019 the US had a flurry of lung pneumonias or similar, which
the Americans blamed on ‘vaping’ from e-cigarettes, but which, according to the
scientist, the symptoms and conditions could not be explained by e-cigarettes.
He said he wrote to the US officials telling them he suspected those
deaths were likely due to the coronavirus. He claims his warnings were ignored.
Immediately prior to that, the
CDC totally shut down the US Military’s main bio-lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland,
due to an absence of safeguards against pathogen leakages, issuing a complete
“cease and desist” order to the military. It was immediately after this
event that the ‘e-cigarette’ epidemic arose.
Screenshot
from The New York Times August 08, 2019
We also had the Japanese citizens infected in September of 2019, in
Hawaii, people who had never been to China, these infections occurring on US
soil long before the outbreak in Wuhan but only shortly after the locking down
of Fort Detrick.
Then, on Chinese social
media, another article appeared, aware of the above but presenting further
details. It stated in part that five “foreign” athletes or other personnel
visiting Wuhan for the World Military Games (October 18-27, 2019) were
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The article explains more clearly
that the Wuhan version of the virus could have come only from the US because it
is what they call a “branch” which could not have been created first because it
would have no ‘seed’. It would have to have been a new variety spun off the
original ‘trunk’, and that trunk exists only in the US. (1)
There has been much public
speculation that the coronavirus had been deliberately transmitted to China
but, according to the Chinese article, a less sinister alternative is possible.
If some members of the US team at the World Military Games (18-27
October) had become infected by the virus from an accidental outbreak at Fort
Detrick it is possible that, with a long initial incubation period, their symptoms
might have been minor, and those individuals could easily have ‘toured’ the
city of Wuhan during their stay, infecting potentially thousands of local
residents in various locations, many of whom would later travel to the
seafood market from which the virus would spread like wildfire (as it
did).
That would account also for the practical impossibility of locating the
legendary “patient zero” – which in this case has never been found since there
would have been many of them.
Next, Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease expert at Georgetown
University in Washington, said in an article in Science magazine that
the first human infection has been confirmed as occurring in November 2019,
(not in Wuhan), suggesting the virus originated elsewhere and then spread to
the seafood markets. “One group put the origin of the outbreak as early as 18
September 2019.” (2) (3)
Wuhan seafood market may not
be source of novel virus spreading globally.
Description of earliest cases
suggests outbreak began elsewhere.
The article states:
“As confirmed cases of a
novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far
focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the outbreak. But
a description of the first clinical cases published in The Lancet on Friday
challenges that hypothesis.” (4) (5)
The paper, written by a large
group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about
the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has
been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
In the earliest case, the
patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood
market, the authors report. “No epidemiological link was found between the
first patient and later cases”, they state. Their data also show that, in
total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace. “That’s a big number,
13, with no link”, says Daniel Lucey . . . (6)
Earlier reports from Chinese
health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient
had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019 – and those reports simply said “most”
cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January. (7)
“Lucey says if the new data
are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019 –
if not earlier – because there is an incubation time between infection and
symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in
Wuhan – and perhaps elsewhere – before the cluster of cases from the city’s
now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December.
“The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace”,
Lucey asserts.
“China must have realized the
epidemic did not originate in that Wuhan Huanan seafood market”, Lucey told
Science Insider. (8)
Kristian Andersen is
an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed
sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin. He said the scenario was
“entirely plausible” of infected persons bringing the virus into the seafood
market from somewhere outside. According to the Science article,
“Andersen posted his analysis
of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a virology research
website. It suggests they had a “most recent common ancestor” – meaning a
common source – as early as 1 October 2019.” (9)
It was interesting that Lucey also noted that MERS was originally
believed to have come from a patient in Saudi Arabia in June of 2012, but later
and more thorough studies traced it back to an earlier hospital outbreak of
unexplained pneumonia in Jordan in April of that year. Lucey said that from
stored samples from people who died in Jordan, medical authorities confirmed
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This would provide impetus for caution among the public in accepting the
“official standard narrative” that the Western media are always so eager to
provide – as they did with SARS, MERS, and ZIKA, all of which ‘official
narratives’ were later proven to have been entirely wrong.
In this case, the Western media flooded their pages for months about the
COVID-19 virus originating in the Wuhan seafood market, caused by people eating
bats and wild animals. All of this has been proven wrong.
Not only did the virus not
originate at the seafood market, it did not originate in Wuhan at all, and
it has now been proven that it did not originate in China but was brought to
China from another country. Part of the proof of this assertion is that the
genome varieties of the virus in Iran and Italy have been sequenced and
declared to have no part of the variety that infected China and must, by
definition, have originated elsewhere.
It would seem the only possibility for origination is the US because
only that country has the “tree trunk” of all the varieties. And it may
therefore be true that the original source of the COVID-19 virus was the US
military bio-warfare lab at Fort Detrick. This would not be a surprise, given
that the CDC completely shut down Fort Detrick, but also because, as I related
in an earlier article, between 2005 and 2012 the US had experienced 1,059
events where pathogens had been either stolen or escaped from American bio-labs
during the prior ten years – an average of one every three days.
Notes
(3) Science; Jon Cohen; Jan.
26, 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally
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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