The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs; China’s Deadly Coronavirus-Lie Co-Conspirator — the World Health Organization

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By National Review. It is understandable that many would be wary of the notion that the origin of the coronavirus could be discovered by some documentary filmmaker who used to live in China. Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube videos, contends he has identified the source of the coronavirus — and a great deal of the information that he presents, obtained from public records posted on the Internet, checks out.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in China indeed posted a job opening on November 18, 2019, “asking for scientists to come research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats.”

The Google translation of the job posting is: “Taking bats as the research object, I will answer the molecular mechanism that can coexist with Ebola and SARS- associated coronavirus for a long time without disease, and its relationship with flight and longevity. Virology, immunology, cell biology, and multiple omics are used to compare the differences between humans and other mammals.” (“Omics” is a term for a subfield within biology, such as genomics or glycomics.)

On December 24, 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology posted a second job posting. The translation of that posting includes the declaration, “long-term research on the pathogenic biology of bats carrying important viruses has confirmed the origin of bats of major new human and livestock infectious diseases such as SARS and SADS, and a large number of new bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified.”

Tye contends that that posting meant, “we’ve discovered a new and terrible virus, and would like to recruit people to come deal with it.” He also contends that “news didn’t come out about coronavirus until ages after that.” Doctors in Wuhan knew that they were dealing with a cluster of pneumonia cases as December progressed, but it is accurate to say that a very limited number of people knew about this particular strain of coronavirus and its severity at the time of that job posting. By December 31, about three weeks after doctors first noticed the cases, the Chinese government notified the World Health Organization and the first media reports about a “mystery pneumonia” appeared outside China. (Read more from “The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs” HERE)

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China’s Deadly Coronavirus-Lie Co-Conspirator — the World Health Organization

By New York Post. The fog of war obscures much about the novel coronavirus pandemic. But two facts seem absolutely certain. First, China’s Communist authorities have lied, concealed and misled about the origins of the epidemic and the toll of the virus in China. Second, the World Health Organization has acted as Beijing’s handmaid. . .

We shouldn’t be surprised that the Beijing regime lies about the epidemic: It lies about, well, ­everything. From economic data to air pollution figures, the Communist Party doctors information to protect and promote itself. . .

Which brings us to the WHO’s malfeasance in this affair. The WHO should have known at the outset that it was dealing with a bad-faith actor in Beijing. Yet ­instead of immediately insisting upon access, openness and transparency from China, WHO leadership followed the Chinese lead and at times even took the Chinese line.

The very fact that truth-seekers are left counting urns is an indictment not only of the Beijing ­regime, but also of the WHO. To help stem the pandemic, the WHO should have been tirelessly pressing China to tell the truth.

Far from sounding an alarm, however, the UN outfit was ­impassive while Beijing stonewalled international health ­authorities for weeks. Indeed, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the Chinese regime for its “transparency” in the crisis. Tedros, ­recall, was Beijing’s candidate for WHO chief and owes his job to China’s campaign for him at the United Nations. (Read more from “China’s Deadly Coronavirus-Lie Co-Conspirator — the World Health Organization” HERE)

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USPS May Shut Down by June Without Emergency Action

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The unofficial motto of the United States Postal Office is: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night deters these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

However, the motto says nothing about working through a global pandemic. The USPS is facing two severe problems as the outbreak continues: a lack of funding and a lack of protective equipment for employees. . .

Despite people sending and receiving more packages during quarantine, the amount of regular mail sent, which makes up more than 57 percent of annual revenue, is dropping daily. . .

Should the Postal Service close due to bankruptcy or massive infection, the consequences would be severe. Last year, they shipped more than 1 billion prescriptions to patients across the country. That number is only expected to rise as people continue to get sick.

The Treasury Department is preparing to cut millions of stimulus checks in the coming weeks. Without emergency intervention to keep the Postal Service afloat, there could be no one to deliver them. (Read more from “USPS May Shut Down by June Without Emergency Action” HERE)

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430,000 Flew Directly From China Since January; 40,000 Since ‘Shutoff’

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The surgeon general, Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, announced on Sunday that this week would be our Pearl Harbor or 9/11 moment in dealing with the coronavirus. But if that is the case, wouldn’t we at least deal with China in 2020 the same way we immediately dealt with the cause of the Japanese invasion and the terrorist hijackers after 1941 and 2001 respectively?

While we are confined to our homes, it appears that 40,000 people have come here from China since the supposed shutoff. It’s unclear how many were Americans or Chinese nationals and from which parts of China they came, but according to the New York Times, they included “other authorized travelers,” and many came in with “spotty screening.”

The Times reports that since New Year’s Eve, 430,000 people have arrived in the U.S. on direct flights from China. All but 40,000 came in before the shutoff on February 2. ABC News reports that if you go back as far as when the virus is now known to have surfaced, not when our government officially became aware of it, that number is as high as 760,000. According to the NYT, thousands of them came directly from Wuhan.

The bulk of the passengers, who were of multiple nationalities, arrived in January, at airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Newark and Detroit. Thousands of them flew directly from Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, as American public health officials were only beginning to assess the risks to the United States.

New York and Detroit have especially been hot spots for the coronavirus outbreak.

Sens. Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley called for a shutoff much earlier in January, as did yours truly, which could have prevented more of the spread.

It’s truly shocking how some of the same liberals pushing for an indefinite suspension of the Bill of Rights and long-term home confinement for Americans to this day won’t support a shutoff in the future and indeed opposed a shutoff when it would have mattered.

Which brings us to the 800-pound gorilla in the room, the question our government will not ask: When did COVID-19 really start in the U.S., and how pervasive was it from December until March?

The “experts” can’t have it both ways. If this virus spreads like wildfire, as they are constantly warning, then it is utterly impossible that it did not spread at least as early as January, with so many Chinese and American travelers coming directly from China, including from Wuhan.

“Nineteen flights departed Wuhan in January for New York or San Francisco — and the flights were largely full, according to VariFlight,” reports the Times. “For about 4,000 travelers, there was no enhanced screening.”

Even after the shutoff, according to the Times, “about 60 percent of travelers on direct flights from China in February were not American citizens.” This means that, after initially bringing in the virus a month or two earlier, we kept reloading the gun to reinforce the spread throughout the country leading into March.

This doesn’t even begin to account for all those who came from China with stopover flights in places like Tokyo or Vancouver. As the Times reports, many passengers the paper spoke to made it clear there was no mandatory exam or quarantine, just advisories and questioning.

Thus, the same people who failed us miserably and refused to shut off travel from China, which is not a civil right, now have the nerve to tell us we must shut down the entire country and quarantine after they have long spread the virus everywhere beyond the ability of quarantines to help. It’s like bailing water from a sinking boat while continuing to enlarge the hole!

Nowhere is this more evident than in Queens, New York. Why does Queens account for more deaths per capita than anywhere in the country – nearly 10 percent of the national total? Well, it has many Chinese immigrants, some of whom the New York times documented as recently having traveled back from China in January.

Julie Kelly of American Greatness chronicles how some zip codes in Queens are seeing a 60 percent positive rate in coronavirus testing, with Elmhurst Hospital taking the brunt of the patients, given its proximity to Chinatown. Obviously, the population density aggravates the spread, but there is no doubt that the initial outbreak was brought in through travel from China that should have been shut off by our government. On February 9, Chinatown held a massive lunar new year celebration, with people jammed shoulder to shoulder in the streets of Queens. The local politicians, serving at the altar of political correctness, sought to allay fears of any public health concerns.

Weeks after brave Chinese doctors risked their lives to warn the world of the calamity in Wuhan, this was the attitude of New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot, knowing that thousands flew in directly from Wuhan for the new year and new college semester. “The importance of events like this is to share with New Yorkers the reality that there is some things that we know, some things we don’t know and we are still learning,” Dr. Barbot said. “The risk for New Yorkers of the coronavirus is low, and our preparedness as a city is very high. While it is understandable that people feel anxious, that is no way shape or form an excuse for them to use that as an opportunity to spread misinformation, to spread racist ideas because that is currently the greatest risk to New Yorkers.”

Those of us who believe a complete lockdown is counterproductive in all ways are accused of not caring enough about lives. Yet long after I had called for getting serious on coronavirus, Rep. Nydia Velazquez encouraged people to attend the packed Chinese lunar new year celebrations.

“I expect that more consumers will walk through the doors like nothing is happening, because really nothing is happening,” she said. Now she has contracted the virus herself. I wish her a full and speedy recovery.

Thus, the very people who helped import the virus and then spent two months blithely carrying on with large packed events are now lecturing us on the need to shut down even small businesses that follow CDC guidelines. Don’t worry, it’s all backed up by science. (For more from the author of “430,000 Flew Directly From China Since January; 40,000 Since ‘Shutoff’” please click HERE)

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Shutdown, Not Coronavirus, Is Causing Loss of Medical Personnel (VIDEO)

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How many people will die because state governments are issuing erratic orders to suspend vital medical procedures?

Call it common core science being dictated by common core math of the erratic models and simulations from Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. Most medical care is shut down in the country to deal with the flow of COVID-19 patients predicted by their models. Then when those models fail to materialize and hospitals are empty from the mythical surge, outside of a few hot spots, medical personnel are furloughed and we are left with the worst of both worlds.

We are told by our new dictators that destroying the entire country from head to toe was worth it in order to save lives of those afflicted with COVID-19, mainly in the New York City area. But what if, in addition to the destroyed jobs and economy and all the lives being lost as an indirect result of the virus, we are also directly destroying lives of other health care patients who cannot get care because of the overbroad and arbitrary shutdown?

In nearly every state, “elective” medical care has been shut down. Now, that might make sense in New York City, where you want to marshal your medical resources to combat COVID-19. But in most other parts of the country, not only are they not overrun with patients, but thanks to the government’s circular logic of shutting down other medical care, they have no patients and are now furloughing staff. At a time when we need to build up our medical personnel, we are actually cutting them, in addition to keeping many Americans in pain.

I have a relative in Cleveland, Ohio, who needs a hip replacement and is in tremendous pain. Thanks to Gov. Mike DeWine’s arbitrary order, such a procedure is deemed “non-essential,” and he must suffer in pain, even though there is plenty of room in the Cleveland Clinic and University hospital systems. Other Cleveland hospitals are already furloughing staff. Oh, and he can’t get enough pain medication because of the state’s other arbitrary edict of cutting off pain medication, while allowing sanctuary cities, which are hubs for illicit drug trafficking, to continue to thrive.

In 2017, liberals estimated that between 28,000 and nearly 100,000 people per year would die if Republicans partially repealed Obamacare. Their rationale was that Republicans would cause many people to be denied critical care, which would eventually lead to death. Obviously, their vision of socialized medicine equaling health care access is convoluted, but their broader principle was actually correct. If people are denied basic preventive care, it will lead to more fatalities. Which is why so much of Obamacare was focused on preventive care.

So, the question is why don’t leaders like Dr. Anthony Fauci recognize this principle when it comes to gratuitously shutting down nearly all medical care aside from COVID-19 treatment – even in areas without a surge of coronavirus illnesses and hospitalizations? For a man who is so fond of simulations and projections, has he calculated how many people will die from a lack of medical care as a result of the unconditional shutdown he so passionately advocates? Moreover, has he simulated how many critical medical personnel will be lost as a result of shutting down their livelihood?

Last week, Boston Medical Center announced it was furloughing 700 employees, 10 percent of its workforce. After Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear ordered the suspension of “elective” surgeries, Appalachian Region Healthcare, the largest hospital chain in eastern Kentucky, laid off 500 employees. Nurse anesthetists are being laid off in Pennsylvania and in other states, even though they are critical to intubating COVID-19 patients. Hundreds of health care workers in Huntington, West Virginia, were laid off, even though there are barely any COVID-19 patients in the state’s hospitals.

Family practice physicians and specialists are seeing their practices disintegrate. According to a HealthLandscape and American Academy of Family Physicians report, 60,000 family practices will close or significantly scale back, and 800,000 of their employees will be laid off by June. That is roughly 43 percent of the workforce nationwide in family medical practices.

Remember how subways can remain open with thousands of people cramming into rail cars, but small offices must close.

Also, last week, the U.S. Navy deployed the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy to New York City and Los Angeles respectively to deal with what the doomsday crowd was predicting as a hospital bed shortage. They have a combined staff of 1,800 medical personnel and 1,000 beds that have all been pulled away from treating other illness. Yet only 15 individuals have been treated so far on the Mercy and just three on the Comfort, even though it’s in New York City.

And speaking of the military, my former colleague, Jordan Schachtel, obtained a video of a VA hospital in Waco, Texas, which is not accepting veteran patients and is instead telling them to call in their concerns via telephone. They must be slammed with COVID-19 patients, right? Wrong. The hospital is empty.

It’s becoming clear that we cannot simply rely on the misguidance from federal officials and the capricious and arbitrary edicts of governors put in place under murky circumstances two or three weeks ago. It’s time to reassess the definition of “elective” medical care and to recalibrate our entire response to coronavirus. Otherwise, more people will die in the long run because of the cessation of medical care. State legislatures must reconvene and rein in these lawless edicts. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are still God-given rights and must be protected now more than ever. (For more from the author of “Shutdown, Not Coronavirus, Is Causing Loss of Medical Personnel” please click HERE)

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Food Prices Are Surging After Virus Upends Supply Chains

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By Northwest Georgia News. As the coronavirus pandemic penetrates more deeply into global supply chains, prices for key staples are starting to soar in some parts of the world.

Rice and wheat — crops that account for about a third of the world’s calories — have been making rapid climbs in spot and futures markets. For countries that rely on imports, this is creating an added financial burden just as the pandemic shatters their economies and erodes their purchasing power. In Nigeria, for example, the cost of rice in retail markets soared by more than 30% in the last four days of March alone.

It’s unclear what the biggest drivers were for the retail prices, whether it was a trickle-down effect from grain futures or local logistical choke points or panic buying, or a combination. . .

There are also signs that price gains could be making their way to consumers for some foods in the U.S. Wholesale egg prices rose to a record as grocers boosted orders by as much as six times normal volumes. Beef also surged, though some of the gains have eased in the last week.

Wheat and rice are the world’s most consumed food crops. Staple-crop prices have a long history of fueling political instability. During the spikes of 2011 and 2008, there were food riots in more than 30 nations across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. (Read more from “Food Prices Are Surging After Virus Upends Supply Chains” HERE)

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As COVID-19 Spreads, Commodity Markets Rumble

By Mongabay. . .Across the world, countries are virtually shutting down in hopes that severe restrictions on movement and commercial activity inside their borders will slow the spread of the disease. The economic impact of these measures has already led some economists to predict a crisis to follow that could rival the 2008 recession — or worse.

Commodity markets are already starting to feel the squeeze, as producers anticipate an economic downturn that could last for months or longer. And economists say it may only be the beginning.

“It is obviously a little early to tell,” Sven Wunder, principal scientist at the European Forest Institute, said in an email to Mongabay. “Just one month ago, we were still at all-time US stock markets highs. But we could well see a game-changing 1929 type of watershed moment for the world economy.”

Economic crises have historically had a major impact on the environment. Reduced demand for commodities like timber, vegetable oil, and beef can alleviate pressure on forests, and extractive industries are less likely to invest in exploration or new projects during a recession. The precipitous decline in oil prices this year, for example, has already cut exploration budgets in Brazil by 20%.

So far, the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on commodity markets have been mixed. The price of timber dropped by nearly half in March on expectations of a slowdown in construction, and palm oil is down by nearly 15% since the beginning of 2020, partly due to a dramatic decline in oil prices that has reduced demand for biofuels. On April 2, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said that food prices have dropped overall, including a 12% decline in the vegetable oil price index. (Read more from “As COVID-19 Spreads, Commodity Markets Rumble” HERE)

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Joe Biden and His Wife Omit Hunter Biden’s Love Child From List of Grandchildren (VIDEO)

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Former Vice President (and presumptive Democratic nominee) Joe Biden seems confused about the number of grandchildren he has. Last week, he told Jimmy Fallon he has five. On Sunday night, his wife Jill Biden said they have six. In reality, the Bidens have seven grandchildren, at least biologically. The former veep appeared to miss the memo after his youngest son Hunter Biden welcomed a child into the world late last month, but it appears both Uncle Joe and his wife Jill are deliberately excluding another child from the list.

Last Wednesday, the presumptive Democratic nominee appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. He told the host, “I have five grandchildren. Every single day I either talk to them or we text. I’ve got family scattered around like I suspect everybody does.”

The proud grandpa apparently forgot Hunter Biden’s new baby boy, born over the previous weekend, The Washington Examiner reported. . .

In May 2019, Hunter Biden, 49, married Melissa Cohen, 33, in a surprise wedding — six days after meeting her. Cohen gave birth to a son in late March. Joe Biden has not acknowledged the birth, nor did he attend the couple’s wedding, although he did thank Cohen for “giving my son the courage to love again.”

Joe Biden’s statement to Jimmy Fallon and Jill Biden’s “correction” raise a host of questions. Did Joe Biden deliberately omit the newborn from his list of grandchildren? Did he forget a child born just days previously? Do he and his wife deny the existence of Hunter Biden’s love child because his or her existence is politically inconvenient? (Read more from “Joe Biden and His Wife Omit Hunter Biden’s Love Child From List of Grandchildren” HERE)

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Fight Between Pelosi and Mcconnell Over Next Stimumlus Bill Getting Heated

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Almost before the ink is dry on Trump’s signature on the $2 trillion stimulus bill, Democrats are agitating for another one.

Indeed, another infusion of cash in the economy and more checks to Americans may become necessary. But Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans want to wait and see some of the effects of the first stimulus bill before entertaining another.

The Hill:

The two leaders, whose public relationship has been tense in recent weeks, are taking different tactics on follow-up legislation and sparring through the media on next steps to address the devastating economic and health effects of the pandemic.

The mixed messaging, which comes as lawmakers are out of town until at least April 20, underscores the looming challenge of keeping the congressional response to the coronavirus bipartisan. The first three bills passed with overwhelming support on both sides of the aisle.

That’s not likely this time. Pelosi wants to front-load the next stimulus bill with all sorts of goodies for unions and special interest groups. (Read more from “Fight Between Pelosi and Mcconnell Over Next Stimumlus Bill Getting Heated” HERE)

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China’s First Confirmed COVID-19 Case Traced Back to November

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The first case of someone in China suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, can be traced back to November 17, according to government data seen by the South China Morning Post.

Chinese authorities have so far identified at least 266 people who were infected last year, all of whom came under medical surveillance at some point.

Some of the cases were likely backdated after health authorities had tested specimens taken from suspected patients.
Interviews with whistle-blowers from the medical community suggest Chinese doctors only realized they were dealing with a new disease in late December. . .

According to the government data seen by the Post, a 55 year-old from Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 on November 17.

From that date onwards, one to five new cases were reported each day. By December 15, the total number of infections stood at 27 – the first double-digit daily rise was reported on December 17 – and by December 20, the total number of confirmed cases had reached 60. (Read more from “China’s First Confirmed COVID-19 Case Traced Back to November” HERE)

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Schiff’s Dereliction of Duty Regarding Communist China

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. . .Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, Schiff has been at the forefront of investigating the administration and the president with an avidity that approaches, even surpasses—if that is possible—monomania.

In doing so, he has been a font of disinformation that might make the KGB blush. First was the bogus Russia probe and the lies surrounding the FISA court, then came the endless impeachment over an ambiguous phone call and, as of last week, his proposal for a “9/11”-style commission to study the U.S. response to the virus, no doubt with the president in the crosshairs.

But, as usual, Schiff is barking up the wrong TDS tree, this time to the extent of dereliction of his duty as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).

The investigation by his committee that should be undertaken is the role of China—specifically the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), because this pandemic wasn’t the work or fault of the Chinese people—in deliberately deceiving the world about the provenance and extent of the novel coronavirus. . .

What interests me, however, is why Schiff and his colleagues in the Democratic Party and the media choose to focus their attention away from this monumental threat and, as if sublimating in the traditional Freudian sense, onto Trump. (Read more from “Schiff’s Dereliction of Duty Regarding Communist China” HERE)

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Surgeon General Warns That This Week Will Be ‘Our Pearl Harbor’ Moment

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U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Jerome Adams issued a dire warning Sunday to Americans as the coronavirus outbreak has yet to hit its expected peak, but did offer a glimmer of hope in terms of when the situation could improve and how.

Adams looked at the trajectories of the virus in China and Italy – both significantly ahead of the U.S. – and the exponential rise in American cases, predicting that the worst is about to come.

“Well, it’s tragically fitting that we’re talking at the beginning of Holy Week because this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly,” Adams told “Fox News Sunday,” comparing it to historic national tragedies. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized. It’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that.”

Adams then explained that despite what has happened in China and Italy, American individuals and government officials “have a power to change the trajectory of this epidemic.” He pointed to how an aggressive response can mean that an end could be in sight in the coming weeks.

“And so, I want Americans to understand that, as hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel if everyone does their part for the next 30 days,” he said, referring specifically to Washington and California, which have seen improvements. (Read more from “Surgeon General Warns That This Week Will Be ‘Our Pearl Harbor’ Moment” HERE)

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