Corona & Cover Up
Timir Basu
CORONA Pandemic is the curse of Chinese Capitalism. This is the worst crisis people are witnessing after Second World War. The crisis is global but so far the so called international communityhas failed to meet the challenge globally. In some parts of the world it borders on silent genocide. After Italy, Iran, France and Spain, it may be the turn of the Indian Sub-continent to get bogged down in the quagmire of COVID-19. If Pakistan gets infected epidemically, the possibility of which is enormous because of Pakistan’s active participation in China’s notorious OBOR , the sub-continent will see regular procession of the dead, as it was the case during Plague epidemic, Malaria epidemic in the yesteryears. Pakistan is already spreading this deadly virus to the Middle East. Religious fanatics are the potential source of spread of the Pandemic.
In 2015, the Chinese Institute of Virology, Wuhan, identified a deadly CORONA Virus that could spread from horseshoe bats to humans . Two years later, in 2017, a study found 73 CORONA Viruses in 1067 bats in China.
A year later, the matter was discussed in a meeting convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in early 2018. Dr Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist and president of the New York - based Eco-Health Alliance, present at that meeting, pointed out that an outbreak of such an epidemic was predictable and preventable. Nothing more than that was discussed at the meet. No preventive measures were suggested. Nor did they talk about the impending human catastrophe.
In December 2019, Dr Li Wen Liang, 34---a Chinese scientist who spoke out of the danger before China informed the WHO----was reprimanded by Police and his life was made miserable by the Communist Party cadres. And Dr Li, the whistle blower, finally died in February. Now they have tendered apology to his bereaved family. Apology or no apology Li won’t return to trouble the Chinese authorities.
Li is dead. But there remain a lot of questions to be answered. Why did it take so much time for governments across the world to react and take precautionary measures? Why was the WHO reluctant to ban international borders till the 31 January even when they in the first week of January that this was a global pandemic. They did not even advise the World Travel Organisation against global travel.
Why did Trump travel to India when he had the full knowledge about the virus and the possibility of an epidemic? Why did Modi react so slowly and so casually? Then Britain took it easy as if nothing will happen. Iran too responded very slowly. Only Iran knows why. Now they have released 85,000 prisoners. This is the other side of the story----a mullacracy that does not tolerate minimum dissent. This slow, reluctant reaction, indicates that this is a colossal failure of global governance, a historic failure that has led to this pandemic.
Surprisingly South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore, despite being neighbours of China, have succeeded in containing the disease. And North Korea being the next door neighbour of China is completely free from COVID-19.
The human to human spread of the virus, known as the novel corona began in Wuhan, China. The technical name of the virus was SARS-COVE-2, which causes a disease named COVID-19. Some people believe that the virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, albeit the Chinese scientists associated with Wuhan deny the allegation. There can be no denying that there may be some connection between the manufacture of biological weapons by China and accidental spread of this virus It is next to impossible to get any idea of hidden military programme of China. And the Americans have been doing all the dirty work since the days of Vietnam war. They killed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, mostly children and women, by spraying cholera germs. Some people also believe that due to obnoxious food habit of Chinese people the virus has reached the human body causing the pandemic. There are grains of truth in it. Agri-Business and industrial farming have promoted such obnoxious food habits. Multi-nationals are now destroying jungle animals. Nobody is safe in their domain.
In 2002, an infection called SARS , in which thousands of people around the world were infected and 773 people died, also started in China. If they cannot export revolution, they can always export virus, killer virus. ‘Socialism’ with Chinese characteristics is showing its ugly face. There is almost unanimity that the virus is from China. And the Chinese Government cannot avoid responsibility that the pandemic is due to their callous and reluctant approach to the problem.
The infection has spread to 189 countries throughout the world, but Italy and Iran have been the worst hit. According to a report, China’s grandiose world shaking programme of ‘One Belt, One Road (OBOR)’, seems to be a major contributor to the spread of this infection in Italy and Iran. Italy and Iran are paying the price for doing business with China. For these two countries OBOR linkages are almost certain. It does not matter whether the Chinese deny it or not. Italy and Iran are two major stakeholders in China’s OBOR projects. Italy has opened its infrastructure to transport and even four major ports to Chinese investment. Lombardy and Tuscany are the two regions with the highest Chinese investment. The first case in Italy was reported in February. Having failed to break the US sanctions chains Iran reportedly joined China’s OBOR initiative for construction of 2 thousand mile long rail tracks crossing western China to Tehran and to Turkey in Europe. What is more Chinese Engineers and technicians are renovating Iran’s ailing nuclear power plants. The Chinese workers or Businessmen visiting Iran are said to be the carriers of this deadly virus, now spreading the pandemic throughout Iran. To some extent India is lucky in the sense it did not join China’s OBOR otherwise pandemic could have done havoc in the country by this time. But already about 1000 Indians are infected by the virus, 33 are dead. And bad news is likely to spread like wild fire in the coming weeks.
Italy, a nation of only 60 million people now accounts for 36 per cent the world’s CORONA Virus deaths. The shadow of the virus is lengthening across Africa, the Middle east and Indian sub-continent too. India is said to be currently in the second phase of the Corona Virus spread and next two or three weeks may be very crucial .
One whistle blower is dead. Maybe someone else will come forward to reveal the truth in the future about virology and biological weapons programme of China . Strangely enough, America has not said a word or two about biological weapons. What they said -- Trump actually said it---was nothing more than innocuous----‘it was Chinese virus’. At the time of writing the number of infected people reaches to about 4 lakh and total death more than 14,616. Only good news is that Wuhan has somehow turned around even under the most severe situation. But the rest of the world is reeling under the deadly threat from COVID-19. Cuba has sent its doctors and medical students to 37 countries. People around the world are looking forward to Cuba for quick remedy. America does not take Cuba into account and Cuba continues to suffer under severe American sanctions. Strangely, India does not make any contact with Cuba, albeit Cuba’s world class medical service can save the situation.
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Apr 29, 2020
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