COVID-19/Pandemic
World
| File:Covid pandemic.jpg | |
| Date | December 2019 - Present |
|---|---|
| Location | World |
| Description | An outbreak of Covid-19, a mild respiratory disease, caused worldwide mass panic with almost totalitarian outcome. |
| Blamed on | WIV, China |
A pandemic of COVID-19 is ongoing globally after a virus outbreak in the city of Wuhan, China in late 2019, where researchers identified a new coronavirus. The WHO later named the potentially fatal coronavirus "COVID-19".[1] Its origins are a matter of ongoing debate.
In March 2021, Adam Vaughan wrote an article in New Scientist entitled "How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely" which describes how from habitat degradation to squalid animal treatment, our part in allowing “zoonotic” diseases to leap into humans is becoming ever clearer.[2]
According to Oxfam, the world's 10 richest men have seen their wealth double since the beginning of COVID.[3]
Origins
- Full article: COVID-19/Origins
- Full article: COVID-19/Origins
In late 2019 by Zhang Jixian noticed a cluster of severe infections linked to Huanan Seafood Market. On 30 December 2019 another Chinese doctor, Li Wenliang, warned colleagues of his suspicions that they faced a hitherto unknown virus and alerted the world via the Internet.
The Western commercially-controlled media promoted the idea that the virus was of natural zoonotic origin, and originated in China, although independent voices cast doubt on both claims, noting that BSL4 laboratories including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been working on "gain of function" for coronaviruses, and that numerous piece of circumstantial evidence suggested an emergence perhaps 6 months earlier, possibly in the US. In April 2020, corporate media hinted at intelligence findings that the virus was created in the WIV, while various pieces of evidence suggested that it was in late 2019, perhaps 3-4 months before the Covid-19 official narrative.
Containment efforts
The Guardian reported in March 2020 that Xu Zhiyong, an activist who in early 2020 criticised the Chinese President Xi Jinping's handling of the virus outbreak "faces years in jail for 'subversion'".[4] In January 2020, the Chinese policy changed from aggressive censorship, to aggressive containment efforts. Researchers[Who?] quickly published the gene sequence of the virus.Template:Cn
Timing
The virus was first detected right before the Lunar New Year extended vacation, a time of intense travel activity in China. 5 million people left Wuhan, a central hub for train travel,[5] for their home village.
Location
[[image:coronavirus_control_efforts_in_Iran.jpg|left|340px|Thumbnail|Containment efforts in Iran] The Wuhan Institute Of Virology (WIV), China's only biosafety level 4 facility, is close to the market where COVID-19 was first reported. In 2016 researchers at the WIV reported "the isolation and characterisation of a novel bat coronavirus which is much closer to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in genomic sequence than others previously reported." [6] The proximity of which could indicate that the virus may have been released from the WIV, or alternatively that it was developed elsewhere but released there in order to suggest that possibility.
Travel restrictions
In China
The Chinese military, on its website eng.chinamil.com.cn, republished a report from China Daily, saying the "fight against the epidemic is no less than a war".[7] Those who die in the line of duty will be honored as martyrs and their families will receive support by the government.[8] An opinion peace from Global Times remarked that "decoupling between the industries of the both countries" is now, while it generally has been discussed for a while,[9] a possibility and wanted from China hawks in the Trump administration.[10]
Internationally
News of the outbreak lead to increased attention at international borders, with various countries prohibiting arrival from China and/or quarantining travellers. Containing spread was largely restricted to China, raising hopes that the virus could be contained as SARS was. However, the ability of the virus to be asymptomatic was initially not recognised, and virus outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea followed. By 25 February, community transmission of the disease was known to be ongoing not only in China, but also Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. In March it was understood to be ongoing in many countries, leading the WHO to declare it a pandemic.
Failure of containment
By March 2020, many nation states followed the example of Italy, declaring far reaching restrictions on travel and/or other activities due to a "state of emergency". These measures were intended to slow rather than halt the spread of the virus, to prevent too large a disruption at any one time - especially, to try to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by a spike in acute cases.
Economic impact
Stock markets
On 29 February 2020, The Guardian reported that "Stock markets globally lost about $5tn (£3.9tn) of value last week, as measured by the MSCI all-country index." Analysts at ING said:
- “Even if China‘s factory production can recover in March, it will still face the risk of a low level of export orders. This is because the supply chain will continue to be broken, this time in South Korea, Japan, Europe, and the US, where COVID-19 has begun to spread.”[11]
Travel
Travel restrictions have had a major impact on consumer behaviour and on business; shipping from China has been reduced by over 50%.Template:Cn[When?] This unpredicted disruption has lead to global anxiety about shortages of goods.
People
Professor Charles Leiber was charged on 28 January 2020 with two federal counts of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement to investigators regarding his participation in China's Thousand Talents Program.
In October 2022, former Chief Minister of Jersey John Le Fondré told ITV that he was told 500 people could die in the first wave. This was the equivalent of 0.5% of the islands total population.[12]
External links
- WorldOMeters.info/CoronaVirus
- SaidIt forum discussion on the WorldOMeters page
- DailyMail.com : Dramatic surge in UNTRACEABLE clusters of coronavirus cases around the world sparks dire warnings from disease experts that 'containment methods are not going to work'
- MarketWatch.com Why the coronavirus outbreak is delivering a fresh dose of recession fear to stock-market investors
- Coronavirus update: more than 76,000 cases, 2,249 deaths, Coca-Cola warns on impact
- DuckDuckGo search : Cynthia 5G nanotech virus
- Corona Virus Fakery And The Link To 5G Testing
References
- ↑ "Rolling updates on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)"
- ↑ "How our abuse of nature makes pandemics like covid-19 more likely"
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60015294
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/china-activist-who-called-xi-clueless-on-coronavirus-faces-years-in-jail-for-subversion
- ↑ https://emergingmarkets.blog.franklintempleton.com/2016/02/18/wuhan-chinas-travel-hub/
- ↑ http://english.whiov.cas.cn/Research/Research_Progress/201603/t20160311_160492.html
- ↑ http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-02/19/content_9746505.htm saved at Archive.is
- ↑ http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-02/18/content_9745663.htm saved at Archive.is
- ↑ Is the US seeking to decouple from China?
- ↑ Why the US can’t win new cold war it started
- ↑ "Markets expected to fall further as coronavirus hits China's economy"
- ↑ https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2022-10-15/500-could-die-jerseys-ex-chief-minister-recalls-early-covid-conversations