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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Wuhan Virus Escaped from a Chinese Lab
2020-03-17
[American Thinker] First of all, Wuhan is a place and not a race, and to identify the coronavirus by its place of origin, like naming the Ebola Virus for a river in Zaire, is not racist or xenophobic ‐ it's merely accurate. There is no racism or xenophobia in labeling an infection "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" or calling something "Lyme Disease" after a nearby town in Connecticut.

What calling this latest virus the Wuhan Virus is is a reminder of the multiple contagions China has spawned and released on an unsuspecting world. Nor is connecting some very big, ugly, and obvious dots just another conspiracy theory to be dismissed out of hand.

From the beginning China has been less than forthcoming about this virus and resisted sharing critical data and access to WHO and CDC specialists. And have we forgotten Dr. Li Wenliang, the 33-year-old ophthalmologist based in Wuhan, the epicenter of the contagion, who tried to tell the world that China was hiding something malevolent, only to be silenced and imprisoned by Chinese authorities for allegedly fabricating lies about the disease's deadly potential? He would later die of the disease he tried to warn us about and the Chinese tried to keep under wraps:
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Coronavirus to the back of the head?

Think there is a lot of that going on.

I'm not sure escaped is the right word here. Carried Out?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-03-17 10:41  

#4  i'm sure the Chinese government will have Dr Li Wenliang reappear publicly if enough people demand it. He might be taller, older, have a different accent, not remember details of his pre-Wohan life, but these are factors of being infected and to point these things out is racist.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-03-17 08:11  

#3  What calling this latest virus the Wuhan Virus is is a reminder of the multiple contagions China has spawned and released on an unsuspecting world.

For those who need a "reminder."
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-03-17 06:06  

#2  He is no longer infected, the chinese government cured him with lead injected in the brainstem.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-03-17 06:04  

#1  He would later die of the disease he tried to warn us about and the Chinese tried to keep under wraps:

Coronavirus to the back of the head?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-17 05:42  

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