Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The World Health Organization and the Chinese Government

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/02/china-coronavirus-who-health-soft-power/

How the WHO Became China's Coronavirus Accomplice

>>>"Most critically, Beijing succeeded from the start in steering the World Health Organization (WHO), which both receives funding from China and is dependent on the regime of the Communist Party on many levels. Its international experts didn’t get access to the country until Director-General Tedros Adhanom visited President Xi Jinping at the end of January. Before then, WHO was uncritically repeating information from the Chinese authorities, ignoring warnings from Taiwanese doctors—unrepresented in WHO, which is a United Nations body—and reluctant to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” denying after a meeting Jan. 22 that there was any need to do so.<<<<

Bill Gertz on the Wuhan Bio Lab

Bill Gertz, a long-time China expert, wrote a March 30, 2020, article providing background on the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/30/china-researchers-isolated-bat-coronaviruses-near-/

>>>"Chinese government researchers isolated more than 2,000 new viruses, including deadly bat coronaviruses, and carried out scientific work on them just three miles from a wild animal market identified as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic."<<<<

It strikes me that those who blindly accept the mainstream narrative that there is no reason to look at a Wuhan laboratory performing bat coronavirus research are putting a lot of blind faith in the security protocols of Chinese biological laboratories.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Smoke of China

By David Wrolson

After being shouted down on a public forum for wanting to look at the China angle on the Coronavirus. I am creating this blog to look at areas of China that interest me. I am motivated to start the blog by the recent coronavirus that started in China. So, I expect that most of my early posts will focus in that direction.

I am especially fascinated by the coincidence involved in the presence of a biological lab performing coronavirus on bats in Wuhan. So I plan to focus on that in many of my early posts.

In my view, the possibility of a lab accident can't be ruled out.

Re-The name of the blog.

I started a blog a few years to look at a hunting trip that I took to Africa and possibly develop a book from that.

By fortunate accident, the name of that blog is "The Smoke of Africa."

http://thesmokeofafrica.blogspot.com/

 I did not realize at the time how expandable the "Smoke" empire would be.

A couple of years ago, I started a blog to look at areas of the Sioux Indians that interested me. The name of that blog is "The Smoke of the Sioux"

http://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com/

After that, I started another blog to write about things of general interest that I wanted to write about. I have not been very active there, but I might take things there in a conservation direction in the future. The name of that blog is "The Smoke of a Thousand Campfires."

https://thesmokeofathousandcampfires.blogspot.com/