Planet lockdown

[CharlesHarris]

This quarantine in place has given me ample time to consider things. Over the past twenty years we have had four pandemics. They are Ebola, SARS, MERS, and Covid-19 of these only one Ebola originated in Africa. The other three all originated in China, a coincidence? Perhaps. But Ian Fleming who wrote the James Bond novels, before turning to spy fiction was an officer in British Intelligence. In one of his novels, the title of which I forget, wrote something quotable, it is “Once is chance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action.”

The question I ask myself is why is China wasting precious resources to develop weapons of mass destruction? I am sure the US intelligence agencies are pondering these.

I also wonder why our biased news media and the Democratic Party is not asking the same questions? It would appear that both the Democrats and the liberal press are more interested in winning the presidential election and installing a mentally challenged president than protecting the populace and the economy? I find it hard to believe that the duly elected Representatives and Senators are impeding the President’s actions to restore normalcy. I consider such actions criminal.

Of course it could be explained by freaks of nature and sloppy practices in the Wuhan, if you care to believe that. The traditional paddy system of rice cultivation in much of China and Southeast Asia has resulted in numerous viruses having been transmitted from ducks to humans when the ducks defecated in the wet paddies where the farmers waded, either replanting the rice seedlings or picking the rice. That cave full of bats in Yunnan Province seems to be the source of a these virulent coronavirus mutations.

I have no idea why that should be the case but it is what it is. I'm not inclined to believe that it is mere coincidence.