Japan, China and Taiwan Reports on the Origin of
the Virus
The Western media quickly took
the stage and laid out the official narrative for the outbreak of the new
coronavirus which appeared to have begun in China, claiming it to have
originated with animals at a wet market in Wuhan.
In fact the origin was for a long
time unknown but it appears likely now, according to Chinese and Japanese
reports, that the virus originated elsewhere, from multiple locations, but
began to spread widely only after being introduced to the market.
More to the point, it appears
that the virus did not originate in China and, according to reports in Japanese
and other media, may have originated in the US.
Chinese Researchers Conclude
the Virus Originated Outside of China
After
collecting samples of the genome in China, medical researchers first
conclusively demonstrated that the virus did not originate at the seafood
market but had multiple unidentified sources, after which it was exposed to the
seafood market from where it spread everywhere. (1) (2) (3)
According
to the Global Times:
A new
study by Chinese researchers indicates the novel coronavirus may have
begun human-to-human transmission in late November from a place other than the
Huanan seafood market in Wuhan.
The
study published on ChinaXiv, a Chinese open repository for scientific
researchers, reveals the new coronavirus was introduced to the
seafood market from another location(s), and then spread rapidly from the
market due to the large number of close contacts. The findings
were the result of analyses of the genome data, sources of infection, and the
route of spread of variations of the novel coronavirus collected throughout
China.
The
study believes that patient(s) zero transmitted the virus to workers or sellers
at the Huanan seafood market, the crowded market easily facilitating further
transmission of the virus to buyers, which caused a wider spread in early
December 2019. (Global Times, February 22, 2020, emphasis added (2)
Chinese medical authorities –
and “intelligence agencies” – then conducted a rapid and wide-ranging search
for the origin of the virus, collecting nearly 100 samples of the genome from
12 different countries on 4 continents, identifying all the varieties and
mutations. During this research, they determined the virus outbreak had begun
much earlier, probably in November, shortly after the Wuhan Military Games.
They
then came to the same independent conclusions as the Japanese researchers –
that the virus did not begin in China but was introduced there from the
outside.
China’s top respiratory
specialist Zhong Nanshan said on January
27
“Though the COVID-19 was
first discovered in China, it does not mean that it originated from China”
“But
that is Chinese for “it originated someplace else, in another country”. (4)
This
of course raises questions as to the actual location of origin. If the
authorities pursued their analysis through 100 genome samples from 12
countries, they must have had a compelling reason to be searching for the
original source outside China. This would explain why there was such difficulty
in locating and identifying a ‘patient zero’.
Japan’s Media: The Coronavirus
May Have Originated in the US
In February of 2020, the
Japanese Asahi news report (print and TV) claimed the coronavirus originated in the US, not
in China, and that some (or many) of the 14,000
American deaths attributed to influenza may have in fact have resulted from the
coronavirus. (5)
A
report from a Japanese TV station disclosing a suspicion that some of those
Americans may have unknowningly contracted the coronavirus has gone viral on
Chinese social media, stoking fears and
speculations in China that the novel coronavirus may have originated in the US.
The
report, by TV Asahi Corporation of Japan, suggested that the US government may have failed to grasp how rampant the virus
has gone on US soil.
However,
it is unknown whether Americans who have already died of the influenza had
contracted the coronavirus, as reported by TV Asahi. (People’s Daily, English, February 23, 2020,
emphasis added)
On
February 14, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said they
will begin to test individuals with influenza-like-illness for the novel
coronavirus at public health labs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,
Chicago, and New York City.
The TV Asahi network
presented scientific documentation for their claims, raising the issue that no
one would know the cause of death because the US either neglected to test or
failed to release the results. Japan avoided the questions of natural vs.
man-made and accidental vs. deliberate, simply stating that the virus outbreak
may first have occurred in the US. The Western Internet appears to have been
scrubbed of this information, but the Chinese media still reference it.
These
claims stirred up a hornet’s nest not only in Japan but in China, immediately
going viral on Chinese social media, especially since the Military World Games
were held in Wuhan in October, and it had already been widely discussed that
the virus could have been transmitted at that time – from a foreign source.
“Perhaps
the US delegates brought the coronavirus to Wuhan, and some mutation occurred
to the virus, making it more deadly and contagious, and causing a widespread
outbreak this year.” (People’s Daily, February 23, 2020) (1)
Shen Yi, an
international relations professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, stated that
global virologists “including the intelligence agencies” were tracking the
origin of the virus. Also of interest, the Chinese government did not shut the
door on this. The news report stated:
“Netizens
are encouraged to actively partake in discussions, but preferably in a rational
fashion.”
In
China, that is meaningful. If the reports were rubbish, the government would
clearly state that, and tell people to not spread false rumors.
Taiwan Virologist Suggests the
Coronavirus Originated in the US
Then, Taiwan ran a TV news program on February,27,(click here to access video (Chinese), that
presented diagrams and flow charts suggesting the coronavirus originated in the
US. (6)
Below
is a rough translation, summary and analysis of selected content of that
newscast. (see map below)
The
man in the video is a top virologist and pharmacologist who performed a long
and detailed search for the source of the virus. He spends the first part of
the video explaining the various haplotypes (varieties, if you will), and
explains how they are related to each other, how one must have come before
another, and how one type derived from another. He explains this is merely
elementary science and nothing to do with geopolitical issues, describing how,
just as with numbers in order, 3 must always follow 2.
One
of his main points is that the type infecting Taiwan exists only in Australia
and the US and, since Taiwan was not infected by Australians, the infection in
Taiwan could have come only from the US.
The basic logic is that
the geographical location with the greatest diversity of virus strains
must be the original source because a single strain cannot emerge
from nothing. He demonstrated that only the US has all the five known strains
of the virus (while Wuhan and most of China have only one, as do Taiwan and
South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, Singapore, and England, Belgium and
Germany), constituting a thesis that the haplotypes in other nations may have
originated in the US.
Korea
and Taiwan have a different haplotype of the virus than China, perhaps more
infective but much less deadly, which would account for a death rate only 1/3
that of China.
Neither
Iran nor Italy were included in the above tests, but both countries have now
deciphered the locally prevalent genome and have declared them of different
varieties from those in China, which means they did not originate in China but
were of necessity introduced from another source. It is worth noting that the
variety in Italy has approximately the same fatality rate as that of China,
three times as great as other nations, while the haplotype in Iran appears to
be the deadliest with a fatality rate of between 10% and 25%. (7) (8) (9)
Due to the enormous amount of
Western media coverage focused on China, much of the world believes the
coronavirus spread to all other nations from China, but this now appears to
have been proven wrong. With about 50 nations scattered throughout the world
having identified at least one case at the time of writing, it would be very
interesting to examine virus samples from each of those nations to determine
their location of origin and the worldwide sources and patterns of spread.
The
Virologist further stated that the US has recently had more than 200 “pulmonary
fibrosis” cases that resulted in death due to patients’ inability to breathe,
but whose conditions and symptoms could not be explained by pulmonary fibrosis.
He said he wrote articles informing the US health authorities to consider
seriously those deaths as resulting from the coronavirus, but they responded by
blaming the deaths on e-cigarettes, then silenced further discussion. …
The
Taiwanese doctor then stated the virus outbreak began earlier than assumed,
saying, “We must look to September of 2019”.
He
stated the case in September of 2019 where some Japanese traveled to Hawaii and
returned home infected, people who had never been to China. This was two months
prior to the infections in China and just after the CDC suddenly and totally
shut down the Fort Detrick bio-weapons lab claiming the facilities were
insufficient to prevent loss of pathogens. (10) (11)
He
said he personally investigated those cases very carefully (as did the Japanese
virologists who came to the same conclusion).. This might indicate the
coronavirus had already spread in the US but where the symptoms were being
officially attributed to other diseases, and thus possibly masked.
The prominent Chinese news
website Huanqiu related one case in the US where a woman’s
relative was told by physicians he died of the flu, but where the death
certificate listed the coronavirus as the cause of death. On February 26,
ABC News affiliate KJCT8 News Network reported that a woman recently told the
media that her sister died on from coronavirus infection. Montrose, Colorado
resident Almeta Stone said, “They (the medical staff) kept us informed that it
was the flu, and when I got the death certificate, there was a coronavirus in
the cause of death.” (12)
We
cannot ascertain the number of such cases in the US but since the CDC
apparently has no reliable test kits and is conducting little or no testing for
the virus, there may be others.
***
Just for information
In
the past two years (during the trade war) China has suffered several pandemics:
- February
15, 2018: H7N4 bird flu. Sickened at
least 1,600 people in China and killed more than 600. Many chickens
killed. China needs to purchase US poultry products.
- June,
2018: H7N9 bird flu. Many chickens
killed. China needs to purchase US poultry products.
- August,
2018: outbreak of African swine flu.
Same strain as Russia, from Georgia. Millions of pigs killed. China needs
to purchase US pork products.
- May
24, 2019: massive infestation of armyworms in 14 province-level regions in
China, which destroy most food crops. Quickly spread to more than 8,500
hectares of China’s grain production. They produce astonishing numbers of
eggs. China needs to purchase US agricultural products – corn, soybeans.
- December,
2019: Coronavirus appearance puts China’s economy on hold.
- January,
2020: China is hit by a “highly pathogenic” strain of bird
flu in Hunan province. Many chickens died, many others killed.
China needs to purchase US poultry products.
The
standard adage is that bad luck happens in threes, not sixes.
Notes
(9)
Coronavirus has Mutated, Iran attacked by a Different Strain from Wuhan
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