OPINION:
Communist China exported the COVID-19 virus to the United States and the rest of the world, and so is primarily responsible for the millions of deaths, virus-related ailments and economic hardship now in the world.
A National Natural Science Foundation of China study (which was subsequently removed from the Internet by the Chinese government) stated that researchers in two laboratories in Wuhan, China, had been gathering bats infected with the novel coronavirus since 2012, and they were experimenting with bats that could spread the virus to human beings. In 2015 the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted further experiments on bats capable of infecting human beings with the novel coronavirus. On Nov. 18, 2019, the institute posted job openings for post-graduate students to study the novel coronavirus in bats and humans. In particular, the openings emphasized the experiments would involve letting the virus lie dormant in some people for a long time without symptoms. It is noteworthy that China has a history of students working in laboratories and becoming infected.
Subsequently, one researcher was bitten by a bat and another worker was secreted on by a bat. The director of the laboratory got the virus and died, and it was covered up by the Chinese authorities. These laboratory workers then infected people in the surrounding population of Wuhan and the virus took off from there.
Communist China might not have foreseen the possibility of the virus escaping from the Wuhan laboratories. However, China, with its strictly controlled society, had to know it could lock down the country and bring the virus under control, but the open societies of most other countries, including the United States, were not conducive to locking down. Furthermore, China experimented with a virus capable of mass infection and being asymptomatic in people, which weaponized the virus.
Communist China owes the world pandemic reparations payments in the many tens of billions of dollars. It, along with other countries, must conduct in-depth reviews of the safety and security procedures in virus laboratories, and implement any necessary changes to ensure that viruses cannot escape from laboratories. China in particular must stop experimenting with viruses, because doing so poses an ongoing health and security threat to the world. It should be sanctioned for developing and unleashing a biological weapon of mass infection on the world.
DONALD MOSKOWITZ
Londonderry, N.H.
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