One of the main Chinese Communist party newspapers floated the theory last week that COVID did not start inside a wet market in Wuhan, where the disease was first identified.
The Financial Times reported that the People’s Daily newspaper presented “fringe theories” that “all available evidence” indicates the virus was brought into the city, which is in the Hubei Province.
The CCP newspaper cited one of the top epidemiologists at China’s Center for Disease Control, who said, “Clues all point to imported cold chain seafood being the outbreak’s origin.” Wu Zunyou, the epidemiologist, told the Beijing News earlier this month that the initial outbreak seemed to be isolated to the market’s frozen seafood section.
The WHO said it would investigate the origins of the outbreak and hopes to begin its research inside the wet market in Wuhan. Nature reported it is widely believed the virus started in bats, and it is unclear when the virus made its jump to humans.
Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for public health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, told the FT it is still unclear how the virus spread from animal to human. He said, “Everything is still very fuzzy… very unclear.”
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, told Nature that trying to find an animal with this particular strain of coronavirus is like attempting to find a “needle in the world’s largest haystack.”
She continued, “It will be key for the investigators to establish a collaborative relationship with scientists and government officials in China.” The Nature report said it could take years before such information is available.
The report said a WHO team attempted to sample some of the frozen animals at the market but was unable to find any evidence of the virus except in samples from drains and sewers.
TREND FORECAST: Regardless if facts and verifiable data of where or who launched the virus become available, among the general population of most nations, the blame for the virus will be placed on China. And, anti-Chinese sentiments will continue to grow as Western economies decline and China’s continues to grow.
As Gerald Celente has forecast: The business of China is business, the business of America is war. The 20th century was the American Century, the 21st century will be the Chinese.
