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from American Thinker
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, EXTREME RIGHT BIAS, LOW, News and Opinion BlogCOVID-19: The Security Implications
Assuming that the explanations coming from the Chinese government have no credibility, the true origins of COVID-19 are not yet known. This has encouraged a great deal of online idle speculation, including conspiracy theories ranging in terms of Chinese deception from low to high: (1) tainted "wet market" bat meat; (2) tainted "wet market" bat meat originating from the Wuhan Institute of Virology; (3) a laboratory accident, (4) an intentionally concealed laboratory accident; (5) a bioterror attack by a rogue individual; and (6) intentional bioterror attack by a belligerent regime. Not knowing whether this event is a zero-level national security threat versus a high-level national security threat is a direct function of our not having sufficient information, the blame for which can be firmly placed on the Chinese government and its failure to provide critical information at critically important times. This lack of credibility is alarming because there is a direct inverse relationship between Chinese credibility and the conspiracy theory continuum, such that the lower the credibility of the Chinese government, the greater the likelihood that the true origin of the virus is higher on the continuum.
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, UK
Finland to begin randomised coronavirus antibody testing
Finland will start tracking the spread of the new coronavirus in its population with randomised antibody tests, its public health authority said on Tuesday. ... “The main aim of the research which will begin now is to get up-to-date information on how large a proportion of the population has formed antibodies that indicate an earlier encounter with the coronavirus,” the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare said in a statement. “By assessing the occurrence of antibodies in the population, we can track to what extent the epidemic has spread among different age groups and in different areas.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis
There are many lessons to be learned from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. But one is already clear: China needs to be isolated from the civilized world until its behavior improves. We are in the current situation, with deaths and economic devastation worldwide, because China handled this outbreak with its trademark mixture of dishonesty, incompetence and thuggery. Were China a more civilized nation, this outbreak would have been stopped early, and with far less harm, inside and outside of China.
These are the trade-offs we make when we depend on billionaires to save us
Now more than ever, the coronavirus crisis has Americans living in tech billionaires’ world. There is something deeply frightening about relying on billionaires to save us in this crisis. But what if we have no better choice? The US government has repeatedly proven to be sluggish at best and impotent at worst at controlling the carnage of the coronavirus crisis. American deaths are now over 10,000, officials are comparing this week to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, and at times it can feel like there are no leaders who can help. But saviors, of a sort, loom: billionaires — and tech billionaires in particular.
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from USA Today
There are many lessons to be learned from the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. But one is already clear: China needs to be isolated from the civilized world until its behavior improves. We are in the current situation, with deaths and economic devastation worldwide, because China handled this outbreak with its trademark mixture of dishonesty, incompetence and thuggery. Were China a more civilized nation, this outbreak would have been stopped early, and with far less harm, inside and outside of China.
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from Vox
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, Media/News Company based in Washington, D.C.
Now more than ever, the coronavirus crisis has Americans living in tech billionaires’ world. There is something deeply frightening about relying on billionaires to save us in this crisis. But what if we have no better choice? The US government has repeatedly proven to be sluggish at best and impotent at worst at controlling the carnage of the coronavirus crisis. American deaths are now over 10,000, officials are comparing this week to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, and at times it can feel like there are no leaders who can help. But saviors, of a sort, loom: billionaires — and tech billionaires in particular.
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