World Affairs Brief, March 6, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
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THE ONGOING CORONAVIRUS THREAT
There are a flood of stories floating around the net blaming the coronavirus on the US, but I am not buying it. Most of the sites reporting this are left-wing, and pro-Russia and China, but as the free China website, EpochTimes.com points out, all these sites lead back to one original Chinese study which obviously has every motive for shifting blame to the US.
Another false piece of evidence is that some of the American deaths are people who never traveled to China. But, as in the first cases in Germany, they worked at places where people had traveled to China and brought back the disease. As the disease spreads, it has already escaped the pool of people who contracted it in China.
Critics also point out that the death rates are higher in Iran, a constant target of US dirty tricks, than anywhere else. Even some in the Iranian leadership are blaming the US for the outbreak. That doesn’t make it so. The Iranians who brought the virus to Iran had traveled to China. There is no denying that China’s Wuhan Bio4 lab was and still is busy cooking up deadly viruses with which to attack the West.
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