World Affairs Brief, February 28, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.

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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

China is claiming the CovID-19 epidemic has peaked and new cases are declining, but only the mainstream media believes that. The millions of people in and around Wuhan China, who have been under mandatory lock down for over a month, are in panic mode or mourning the losses of people who have died and been hastily cremated. Listen to this video of the screams and howls at night in the various high rise apartments.

Here are also two realistic background videos by a South African reporter who lived for many years in China with a Chinese wife. He documents the politics and lifestyle as well as the health and sanitation problems outside the main cities, which explains why disease is so prevalent there.

Stock Market investors don’t believe we are past the worst as stocks continued the decline that started in earnest this week. The DOW has already lost 4,000 points in four days. Apple stock has been particularly hard hit as most of their phones are made in China.

The Plunge Protection Team is busy injecting huge amounts of money into Wall Street banks in order to stop the plunge, but signs are everywhere that the global supply chain is going to see massive shortages in products as China continues to quarantine millions of Chinese workers.

The upside is that the financial world is starting to rethink the wisdom of investing in China, and we may see the beginnings of a major shift to other cheap labor markets in Asia, outside of China. That would be a good thing for slowing China’s quest for military superiority over the West.

But the biggest news is that the virus is spreading to other countries including Korea, Japan and Italy who were the hardest hit this week. Japan has even closed all of its public schools. Here is a typical mainstream virus tracking site that puts out the Chinese statistics, which are not accurate. However, Western governments’ reporting is more accurate, so the list of nations with their current caseload of CovID-19 cases is something to watch. South Korea has admitted 60 more cases, making a total of 893.

What is worrisome to the medical community is that there is little or no immunity established in humans after having the virus. You can get it again, and some have died after being infected the second time. The common cold is also a kind of corona virus, and you can get it again and again. However, the CovID-19 virus has been weaponized with a function to enhance spreading, and that is why it is so contagious.

President Trump announced on Wednesday that “everything is under control” in the US and not to worry. “ “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low,” he bragged. However, It is really too early to tell what will happen in this country if the virus starts to spread rapidly. It is a political risk for the president. If it turns bad, he will be partially blamed for not having taken a more serious position.

Trump has put VP Mike Pence in charge of the crisis, which has drawn a lot of criticism given his lack of experience in medical matters. Even worse, the White House has prohibited any government health experts from speaking about the coronavirus unless they have Mike Pence’s approval. That’s going to cause a lot of resentment inside the CDC and other agencies.

In any case, the establishment medical system is woefully under-prepared to handle a mass pandemic, even with more federal funds. The Democrats are already criticizing Trump’s “meager” $2.8B emergency funding to prepare for a pandemic. They want at least $8B.

Frankly, no matter how much money they throw at the establishment medical system, it is not going to be as effective as the alternative treatments and herbal remedies that really work—which you won’t have access to if you go to a hospital or are put into a mass quarantine. Hospitals only focus on anti-viral drugs which have lots of side effects and questionable results. Worse, they often prescribe antibiotics which damage the human intestinal tract flora–often permanently.

Right now, the government is mandating isolation of people coming back into the US from Asian country affected by the virus. It is both a good and bad policy. It does work, but it also causes a lot of innocent well people to become exposed. Those that are forced into large group quarantines like those on the cruise ship stuck in Japan, are bombarded with a closed air ventilation system that guarantees they are going to get constant exposure to the disease. Hundreds quarantined on the cruise ship came down with the virus.

So, whatever you do, don’t go on vacation where you stay in hotels that can be put on lockdown, subjecting you to bad air. That is happening in various resort places around the world. Don’t fly on airplanes, lest when you land, you all get herded into a group quarantine because one passenger turns up with a fever. …