lewrockwell--2020-06-26--As a UC Berkeley Professor And a Person of Color, I REFUSE TO SERVE The Democratic Party And #BLM –

As a UC Berkeley Professor And a Person of Color, I REFUSE TO SERVE The Democratic Party And #BLM – And so Should You

This anonymous letter was allegedly sent to several history professors at the UC Berkeley .
Its authenticity has been confirmed by one of the professors mentioned in it , Kentucky State University Assistant Professor of Political Science Wilfred Reilly , who says he was sent a copy of the letter along with Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell .
The Department of History at UC Berkeley has denounced it and said it “ has no evidence it was written by a History faculty member.
” We are publishing the letter as it first appeared online .
An anonymous letter , purportedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calling out things impossible to openly discuss on campus , including the Democratic Party co-opting Black Lives Matter and the suppression of dissenting voices .
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California , Berkeley .
I have met you both personally but do not know you closely , and am contacting you anonymously , with apologies .
I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job , and likely all future jobs in my field .
What ’ s Race Got ... Elder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity , but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them .
In the extended links and resources you provided , I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system .
The explanation provided in your documentation , to the near exclusion of all others , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black community are caused by whites , or , when whites are not physically present , by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains , souls , and institutions .
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices , including from within the black community itself , such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly .
These people are not racists or ‘ Uncle Toms ’ .
They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques .
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism , white supremacy , and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians .
Instead , it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws , or its worrying implication of total black impotence .
This hypothesis is transforming our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ space for dissent outside of a tightly policed , narrow discourse .
A counternarrative exists .
If you have time , please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email .
Overwhelmingly , the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal ( as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates ’ undeniably moving article ) or it is transparently motivated .
As an example of the latter problem , consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans .
This proportion is often used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-black .
However , if we use the precise same methodology , we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black .
Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men ?
I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed , and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties .
Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict .
This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet , I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department ’ s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘ white man ’ s burden ’ and to promote a narrative of white guilt .
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist , why is it that Asian Americans , Indian Americans , and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans ?
This is a funny sort of white supremacy .
Even Jewish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I think it ’ s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews .
And yet , these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews .
None of this is addressed in your literature .
None of this is explained , beyond hand-waving and ad hominems .
“ Those are racist dogwhistles ” .
“ The model minority myth is white supremacist ” .
“ Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime ” , ad nauseam .
These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , intended to silence and oppress discourse .
Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are , common to suppressive regimes , doctrines , and religions throughout time and space .
They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department .
The Ten Things You Can ... Elder , Larry Best Price : $ 14.50 Increasingly , we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM ’ s problematic view of history , and the department is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In particular , ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position .
Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position , which is no small number .
I personally don ’ t dare speak out against the BLM narrative , and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration , tenured professoriat , the UC administration , corporate America , and the media , the punishment for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time of widespread economic vulnerability .
I am certain that if my name were attached to this email , I would lose my job and all future jobs , even though I believe in and can justify every word I type .
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people .
There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims , no public silences , no heartfelt letters from the UC regents , deans , and departmental heads .
The message is clear : Black lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black violence is expected and insoluble , while white violence requires explanation and demands solution .
Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is .
No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence , who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence .
This is especially bitter in the Bay Area , where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions , to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors , as this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) home invaders .
Home invaders like George Floyd .
For this actual , lived , physically experienced reality of violence in the USA , there are no marches , no tearful emails from departmental heads , no support from McDonald ’ s and Wal-Mart .
For the History department , our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth : it is a rejection of it .
The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining , slavery , and other injustices is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for historians , therefore , to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn ’ t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively .
Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11 , as have Chinese Americans more recently .
However , both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices — as do Nigerian Americans , who incidentally have black skin .
It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies .
However , no real discussion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our department .
The explanation is provided to us , disagreement with it is racist , and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct .
This is a mockery of the historical profession .
Most troublingly , our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention , and the Democratic Party more broadly .
To explain what I mean , consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter , an organization UCB @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mailers .
All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities , an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates .
Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden ’ s 2020 campaign .
This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run .
Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades ; the ‘ systemic racism ’ there was built by successive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elder , Larry Buy New $ 9.99 The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community , exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race , all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery , resentment , poverty , and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives .
And yet , donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey , who saw their cities devolve into violence .
This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our department , by a political party .
Even worse , there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles .
I refuse to serve the Party , and so should you .
The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us , and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed , purposefully ignored , or perversely celebrated .
We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes , carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual , real , modern-day slavers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers , is in favor of BLM .
Sony , an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves , many of whom are children , is in favor of BLM .
And so , apparently , are we .
The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity .
Fiat lux , indeed .
There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘ race hustlers ’ : hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ academic jobs and advancement , or personal political entrepreneurship .
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth , we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople .
Their activities are corrosive , demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life .
Many of their voices are unironically segregationist .
MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today .
We are training @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history .
As the PRC , an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US , I ask you : Is this wise ?
Are we really doing the right thing ?
As a final point , our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd .
Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach .
He terrorized the women in his community .
He sired and abandoned multiple children , playing no part in their support or upbringing , failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being .
He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer , a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors .
And yet , the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A man who hurt women .
A man who hurt black women .
With the full collaboration of the UCB history department , corporate America , most mainstream media outlets , and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA , he has become a culture hero , buried in a golden casket , his ( recognized ) family showered with gifts and praise .
Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent , abusive misogynist .
A generation of black men are being coerced into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worst specimen of our race and species .
I ’ m ashamed of my department .
I would say that I ’ m ashamed of both of you , but perhaps you agree with me , and are simply afraid , as I am , of the backlash of speaking the truth .
It ’ s hard to know what kneeling means , when you have to kneel to keep your job .
Cop Under Fire : Moving ... Sheriff David A. Clark ... Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 2.99 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of my argument above , but for the record , I write as a person of color .
My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd .
We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race .
The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM , that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life , is richly familiar to us .
I sometimes wonder if it wouldn ’ t be easier to deal with open fascists , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me a subhuman , and who are unlikely to share my race .
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating .
No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies .
A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites .
No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , especially if whites run out of guilt , or indeed if America runs out of whites .
If this had been done to Japanese Americans , or Jewish Americans , or Chinese Americans , then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today .
The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race .
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message .
I do not support BLM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grievance agenda and the Party ’ s uncontested capture of our department .
I do not support the Party co-opting my race , as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview , claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic .
I condemn the manner of George Floyd ’ s death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform .
However , I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist , a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history .
Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations .
Like us , she is free .
The statements , views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT .

This anonymous letter was allegedly sent to several history professors at the UC Berkeley. Its authenticity has been confirmed by one of the professors mentioned in it, Kentucky State University Assistant Professor of Political Science Wilfred Reilly, who says he was sent a copy of the letter along with Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. The Department of History at UC Berkeley has denounced it and said it “has no evidence it was written by a History faculty member.” We are publishing the letter as it first appeared online.
An anonymous letter, purportedly by a UC Berkeley professor, is calling out things impossible to openly discuss on campus, including the Democratic Party co-opting Black Lives Matter and the suppression of dissenting voices.
Dear profs X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field. What’s Race Got ... Elder, Larry Best Price: $46.85 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.
In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or ‘Uncle Toms’. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email.
Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black. Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department’s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘white man’s burden’ and to promote a narrative of white guilt.
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”.“Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department. The Ten Things You Can... Elder, Larry Best Price: $14.50 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.
I personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.
No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices — as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.
Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the ‘systemic racism’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations. The New Trump Standard Elder, Larry Buy New $9.99 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you. The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.
There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘race hustlers’: hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist. MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?
As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.
And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species. I’m ashamed of my department. I would say that I’m ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It’s hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job. Cop Under Fire: Moving... Sheriff David A. Clark... Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $2.99 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
It shouldn’t affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites. No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party’s uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd’s death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


lewrockwell--2020-06-26--COVID-19: China Reseeded with COVID-20

COVID-19: China Reseeded with COVID-20

From the date of the initial outbreak in Wuhan I watched carefully on a daily basis the dispersion and progression of the coronavirus in China and then abroad , collecting as much data as were available on each location .
By late May of 2020 , China had been infection-free for many weeks , the concern turning to the identification and quarantine of imported cases .
At the same time , the US became once again ‘ the leader of the world ’ , this time in virus infections and deaths , producing 20,000 to 30,000 new cases and around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time , American hostility toward China ’ s success in stopping the virus was palpable , with many nasty media articles and White House accusations about China ’ s false statistics and blaming China for “ spreading the virus ” to the US .
CNN stated , “ Chinese state media has repeatedly touted China ’ s effective measures in containing the virus as the number of infections and deaths surged abroad , contrasting its success with the failures of Western governments , especially the United States.
” Clearly there was much surprise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and America ’ s failure , this coated in a sticky layer of resentment based partly on a justified suspicion that the Chinese were not overly distressed at the Americans enjoying the fruits of their own labor .
But even then I had a sense of an apparition , a version of Dickens ’ ‘ ghost of coronavirus past ’ , accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling the Americans were sufficiently bitter ( and vicious ) to deny the Chinese their apparently easy victory .
My fear was that the Americans would try to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it would seem my fears were not unjustified .
The new virus that broke out at the Xinfadi market in Beijing was a different strain than any previously existing in China , one that existed only in the US and Europe and could only have been brought in from the outside .
And once again at a seafood market with no identifiable patient zero , no clear epidemiology ( source and distribution ) of a virus that did not exist in China .
It almost had to be deliberately seeded , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Under Fire : Moving ... Sheriff David A. Clark ... Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 2.99 In terms of what I am calling COVID-20 ( to differentiate it from the initial outbreak ) , China may have been fortunate to detect and corral this new pathogen before it could spread .
The outbreak did expand to three other provinces but in single digits and the medical authorities have taken extreme action to prevent further spread since this variety – which again did not exist in China and had to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be much more contagious than the original COVID-19 .
In response , Beijing has locked down everything and sent a group of experts to guide the fight against this new potential epidemic , so far with good success .
Nucleic acid testing has been initiated on a massive scale , already many millions of people tested , and all those in contact with the Xinfadi market being in quarantine .
Many residential compounds in the city strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving , with residents having their temperatures checked and reported on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and daily necessities delivered .
Before this new outbreak , Beijing had been virus-free for nearly 60 days , meaning there were no local viruses and that this new pathogen was definitely an import ( or an American export ) .
On June 19 , China ’ s CDC experts , after intensive investigations of the Xinfadi market , announced what they termed “ a groundbreaking virus tracing discovery ” , which was that the strain of the new virus in Beijing was the same as that in much of Europe – but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ had been around for quite some time ” – and that can mean only that it came from the US because that was the source of all the original varieties many months ago .
The investigators said they obtained so many positive samples that the entire market was “ severely contaminated by the virus ” , but also that no one should form the conclusion that the market was the origin merely because the outbreak took place there .
More importantly , they also said “ Beijing ’ s outbreak gives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speculation that the virus originated from wildlife ” , because unlike Wuhan , “ the possibility of wildlife causing Beijing ’ s latest outbreak is slim.
” Their conclusion was that “ an infected individual or object contaminated with the virus entered the wet market , and the market only gave it an environment to multiply ” .
The authorities have already produced the genome sequence and are now establishing when and how the virus was likely imported into China , and how long was the transmission chain .
There is no question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by people ” , the question being the identity of those people and their purpose .
And , what better way to “ teach those smug Chinese a lesson ” and attempt to derail China ’ s rapid economic recovery .
There is something equally strange about the virus in Russia .
For a long time , Russia had only a few infections , rising steadily by only five or ten per day , then suddenly it exploded , rising by 5,000 , then 10,000 and 20,000 per day .
Virus outbreaks don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The normal process upon an outbreak is a rapid acceleration in the number of infections until it peaks , as happened with all other countries .
But with Russia , the infections were minor for a long time , steady at very low numbers , with all the indications of an unsuccessful epidemic , and the Russian government took strict measures to control the spread .
The US government was clearly resentful at the failure of the virus to devastate Russia and the US media bemoaned the fact that Russia ’ s death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be very interested to see the genome sequences from the first infections in January and February , and for those happening in April and May .
I haven ’ t any definitive proof , but I am certain Russia , as China , was seeded again with another variety for a second attempt .
pandemic : The Great In ... Banks , John M. Buy New $ 14.45 But to return to our main point , it isn ’ t necessary for us to determine the physical origin of the virus .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that much is confirmed , but the more important issue is the epidemiology , particularly the incidence and distribution .
First of all , for China and most other nations originally infected , there were so many multiple and simultaneous sources that locating a patient zero was a hopeless task .
Virus outbreaks , left to their own natural devices , do not behave in this fashion , but begin with one person in a tightly localised situation and provably spreading from that point .
Equally distressing is that we have the truly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infections .
For this , let ’ s review my observations from an earlier article and take a quick look at those two waves of infections that circled the globe .
The First Wave simultaneously infected 25 nations within a few days centered on January 25 .
One month later , the Second Wave simultaneously infected 85 nations within a few days centered on February 25 .
A natural virus hasn ’ t the ability to simultaneously ( within three days ) infect 85 different countries on all continents of the world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not all infected with the same variety of the virus , and that most reported simultaneous outbreaks in multiple locations .
Considering the above information in light of the basics of virus transmission , the only theory that fits all the known facts is that these waves resulted from many people leaving Fort Detrick on the same day carrying a pail of different live viruses , because those multiple varieties at the time existed only in the US .
It could not possibly have resulted from air travel because that timing would have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a virus outbreak on virtually the same day , this can happen only with human assistance .
The Americans have steadfastly refused to address this point .
Experts on biological weapons are in unanimous agreement that eruptions in a human population of a new and unusual pathogen in multiple locations simultaneously , with no clear idea of source and cases with no proven links , is virtually prima facie evidence of a pathogen deliberately released , since natural outbreaks can almost always be resolved to one location and one patient zero .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not one country out of 200 has been able to do this .
It should be firmly noted that this new infection in Beijing is not a “ second wave ” as termed by the Western media .
This is an entirely new and different infection by a new virus and totally unrelated to anything prior , a strain of a new and different virus that was deliberately carried to Beijing and flooded in the Xinfadi Market .
This infection is not related to COVID-19 but is the seeding of yet another biological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seven different biological attacks on China in two years .
And China has suffered others similar .
One of the most notable was the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic – and which was extinct for decades – but which suddenly appeared in 1977 in both China and Russia causing a global pandemic , prompting immediate claims by the Americans that it “ escaped from a Chinese lab ” .
But the only sensible explanation is that the H1N1 virus ‘ escaped ’ from the Americans because there were persistent reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saved samples of the original ‘ Spanish Flu ’ virus and were attempting to re-activate it .
There was never a shred of evidence that either China or Russia had anything to do with this , and both were taken entirely by surprise .
The Invisible Enemy Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ 26.94 It is my view that the world needs to stop pretending that COVID-19 was an accident of nature .
Consider China ’ s recent experience .
In addition to SARS – which was indisputably man-made , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the past two years .
February 15 , 2018 : H7N4 bird flu .
June , 2018 : H7N9 bird flu .
August , 2018 : outbreak of African swine flu .
May 24 , 2019 : massive infestation of armyworms .
December , 2019 : COVID-19 .
January , 2020 : A “ highly pathogenic ” strain of bird flu .
June , 2020 : China is hit with COVID-20 .
Are we to tell ourselves it was merely a run of bad luck that China was the only nation in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many different biological pathogens in such a short time ?
And merely more ‘ bad luck ’ that China became the only country in the world that was domestically virus-free and was suddenly hit again with a foreign strain in another wet market ?
This assumption is too ridiculous to bother refuting .
It is unfortunate that so much of our information today comes to us in a passive receptance from the mass media because one result is the loss of our ability to examine information critically and use our minds to assess @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was very clever for the Americans to use a wet market as a distribution point for a virus and for the media to give this point massive air time , because we instinctively associate such markets with at least a possibility of germs and bacteria and thus passively accept the claims as true without the necessary evidence and thus avoid using our brains as intended .
Our assessment of wet markets as unsanitary may be correct , but common germs and bacteria are a very different thing from a coronavirus that makes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ business being in a vegetable market .
It isn ’ t important for our purposes to decide if COVID-19 was created in a lab ; the important point is that a coronavirus has no means of transportation from bat caves in Sichuan to a market in Wuhan , nor the ability to mutate itself in such a way as to be energetically contagious to humans , and much less the conscious intelligence to choose China ’ s largest passenger transportation hub as the distribution point and the Eve of the Chinese New Year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For these , the coronavirus required a helping ‘ black hand ’ .
The Noose Tightens on the US There is almost daily an increase in the volume of evidence that COVID-19 was circulating in the US far earlier than admitted , and serving as incriminating proof that the CDC ’ s deliberate ( and threatening ) forbidding of testing was to bury this evidence .
The most recent example is headlines in the US media on June 21 , 2020 , stating , “ Over 40 mysterious respiratory deaths in California could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US .
The LA Times reported on “ a cluster of mysterious respiratory deaths ” beginning in December of 2019 .
The local news website www.bakersfield.com stated this meant that COVID-19 was circulating in California “ way earlier than we knew ” .
And let ’ s not forget too quickly that Japanese tourists were infected in Hawaii in September of 2019 .
And on June 20 , 2020 , the Italian National Institute of Health ( ISS ) revealed that they had discovered that COVID-19 was present in water samples dating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results were confirmed by two separate labs that used two entirely different testing methods , and also showed that environmental wastewater from Milan , Turin and Bologna returned positive traces of the virus dating back to December if not earlier .
Apparently , the RNA from COVID-19 does not readily dissolve or disintegrate in water and polymerase chain reaction testing allows scientists to identify the RNA after many months .
Stand or Fall in the P ... Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ 10.95 And it wasn ’ t only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a wastewater plant in the Utrecht , Netherlands , city of Amersfoort .
French scientists detected “ high concentrations ” of COVID-19 RNA in samples of sewage water from greater Paris that were obtained before Paris first recorded any deaths .
Sputnik News reported in May that a Paris hospital confirmed it had treated Amirouche Hammar , the country ’ s first COVID-19 patient , on December 27 , 2019 – one month before France ’ s first announcement of infections and four days before the WHO China bureau was informed of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on December 31 .
The Irish Mirror reported on June 19 that “ many countries are beginning to use wastewater sampling to track the spread of the disease ” , scientists claiming these detections were “ consistent with evidence emerging in other countries ” that COVID-19 was circulating around the world long before China reported its first cases , all of which would of necessity have had to have originated in the US and transported around the world .
It is now beginning to appear that many countries were seeded at approximately the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distribution systems .
Following these discoveries , the ISS told Reuters it intends to launch a new study of the wastewater of Italian tourist resorts .
I suspect other nations will follow .
And it would seem the NYT , WSJ , WP , CNN , ABC , NBC , National Post , Globe & Mail , have no knowledge of this .
The Chinese and Europeans know , but the Americans and Canadians don ’ t know because the owners of their major newspapers and TV networks don ’ t want them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the graph ( courtesy of CNN ) , you can see the European infection pattern ( in pink ) and the American ( in green ) .
The Europeans followed China ’ s protocols in varying degrees , and thus with varying degrees of success .
Europe ’ s infections peaked at around 30,000 per day then descended to around 2,000 near the end of June , while the Americans , led by a man who is living proof that democracy is the worst possible form of government , saw their infections peak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then revert to 30,000 infections and around 1,000 deaths per day where they will now remain until the virus surges through the entire population .
Twenty-six states are already experiencing dramatic spikes reaching new records each day , so Trump ordered the CDC to “ stop testing ” because it makes him look bad .
The next graphic is a list of the top ten nations for COVID-19 infections .
Missing from this picture is a comparison I want to make about leadership and competence , to say nothing of intelligence .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Wuhan and , when the infections exploded , had no warning and almost no time to prepare , but acted so quickly and decisively that the city had only 26 infections and 7 deaths .
Missing from the graphic is Canada , with a population very similar to Shanghai , and who , with months to plan and prepare , had 101,000 infections and 8,400 deaths .
Canada ’ s Prime Minister , Justin Trudeau is also living proof of democracy ’ s vast failings .
The Americans elected a pathetic buffoon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Canadians elected a bullied child so painfully unintelligent and indecisive his wife would have to tell him to call the fire department if his house were burning down .
I would include here the Brazilians who , with excessive assistance from the Americans , elected an arrogant sociopath who said famously , “ It ’ s not my fault .
What do you want me to do about it ?
” In all three countries the leaderless pandemic results are the same , with infections and deaths likely increasing until at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with a population of more than 1.4 billion people , had about 80,000 infections and little more than 4,000 deaths , and stopped the virus cold in about three months .
But according to the NYT , WSJ , WP , and Canada ’ s terminally-obnoxious National Post , the “ free-market capitalist ” countries are God ’ s first choice while “ socialist authoritarian ” China should incur yet more sanctions for all its mistakes .
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review .

From the date of the initial outbreak in Wuhan I watched carefully on a daily basis the dispersion and progression of the coronavirus in China and then abroad, collecting as much data as were available on each location. By late May of 2020, China had been infection-free for many weeks, the concern turning to the identification and quarantine of imported cases. At the same time, the US became once again ‘the leader of the world’, this time in virus infections and deaths, producing 20,000 to 30,000 new cases and around 1,000 deaths per day. At the time, American hostility toward China’s success in stopping the virus was palpable, with many nasty media articles and White House accusations about China’s false statistics and blaming China for “spreading the virus” to the US. CNN stated, “Chinese state media has repeatedly touted China’s effective measures in containing the virus as the number of infections and deaths surged abroad, contrasting its success with the failures of Western governments, especially the United States.” Clearly there was much surprise and bitterness at China’s success and America’s failure, this coated in a sticky layer of resentment based partly on a justified suspicion that the Chinese were not overly distressed at the Americans enjoying the fruits of their own labor.
But even then I had a sense of an apparition, a version of Dickens’ ‘ghost of coronavirus past’, accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling the Americans were sufficiently bitter (and vicious) to deny the Chinese their apparently easy victory. My fear was that the Americans would try to reseed China as they did Russia, and it would seem my fears were not unjustified. The new virus that broke out at the Xinfadi market in Beijing was a different strain than any previously existing in China, one that existed only in the US and Europe and could only have been brought in from the outside. And once again at a seafood market with no identifiable patient zero, no clear epidemiology (source and distribution) of a virus that did not exist in China. It almost had to be deliberately seeded, the odds against being infinitesimally small. Cop Under Fire: Moving... Sheriff David A. Clark... Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $2.99 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
In terms of what I am calling COVID-20 (to differentiate it from the initial outbreak), China may have been fortunate to detect and corral this new pathogen before it could spread. The outbreak did expand to three other provinces but in single digits and the medical authorities have taken extreme action to prevent further spread since this variety – which again did not exist in China and had to be seeded from another country, appears to be much more contagious than the original COVID-19. In response, Beijing has locked down everything and sent a group of experts to guide the fight against this new potential epidemic, so far with good success. Nucleic acid testing has been initiated on a massive scale, already many millions of people tested, and all those in contact with the Xinfadi market being in quarantine. Many residential compounds in the city strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving, with residents having their temperatures checked and reported on a daily basis, and their food and daily necessities delivered.
Before this new outbreak, Beijing had been virus-free for nearly 60 days, meaning there were no local viruses and that this new pathogen was definitely an import (or an American export). On June 19, China’s CDC experts, after intensive investigations of the Xinfadi market, announced what they termed “a groundbreaking virus tracing discovery”, which was that the strain of the new virus in Beijing was the same as that in much of Europe – but much older than those in Europe, and “had been around for quite some time” – and that can mean only that it came from the US because that was the source of all the original varieties many months ago.
The investigators said they obtained so many positive samples that the entire market was “severely contaminated by the virus”, but also that no one should form the conclusion that the market was the origin merely because the outbreak took place there. More importantly, they also said “Beijing’s outbreak gives us the opportunity to re-examine our previous speculation that the virus originated from wildlife”, because unlike Wuhan, “the possibility of wildlife causing Beijing’s latest outbreak is slim.” Their conclusion was that “an infected individual or object contaminated with the virus entered the wet market, and the market only gave it an environment to multiply”. The authorities have already produced the genome sequence and are now establishing when and how the virus was likely imported into China, and how long was the transmission chain. There is no question this pathogen was brought into China “by people”, the question being the identity of those people and their purpose. And, what better way to “teach those smug Chinese a lesson” and attempt to derail China’s rapid economic recovery.
Russia Re-seeded
There is something equally strange about the virus in Russia. For a long time, Russia had only a few infections, rising steadily by only five or ten per day, then suddenly it exploded, rising by 5,000, then 10,000 and 20,000 per day. Virus outbreaks don’t normally manifest that way. The normal process upon an outbreak is a rapid acceleration in the number of infections until it peaks, as happened with all other countries. But with Russia, the infections were minor for a long time, steady at very low numbers, with all the indications of an unsuccessful epidemic, and the Russian government took strict measures to control the spread. The US government was clearly resentful at the failure of the virus to devastate Russia and the US media bemoaned the fact that Russia’s death rate was so low. I would be very interested to see the genome sequences from the first infections in January and February, and for those happening in April and May. I haven’t any definitive proof, but I am certain Russia, as China, was seeded again with another variety for a second attempt. pandemic: The Great In... Banks, John M. Buy New $14.45 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
Virus Distribution
But to return to our main point, it isn’t necessary for us to determine the physical origin of the virus. We know the virus originated in bats; that much is confirmed, but the more important issue is the epidemiology, particularly the incidence and distribution. First of all, for China and most other nations originally infected, there were so many multiple and simultaneous sources that locating a patient zero was a hopeless task. Virus outbreaks, left to their own natural devices, do not behave in this fashion, but begin with one person in a tightly localised situation and provably spreading from that point. Equally distressing is that we have the truly unprecedented “two waves” of worldwide infections. For this, let’s review my observations from an earlier article and take a quick look at those two waves of infections that circled the globe.
The First Wave simultaneously infected 25 nations within a few days centered on January 25. One month later, the Second Wave simultaneously infected 85 nations within a few days centered on February 25. A natural virus hasn’t the ability to simultaneously (within three days) infect 85 different countries on all continents of the world. More peculiar is that these countries were not all infected with the same variety of the virus, and that most reported simultaneous outbreaks in multiple locations. Considering the above information in light of the basics of virus transmission, the only theory that fits all the known facts is that these waves resulted from many people leaving Fort Detrick on the same day carrying a pail of different live viruses, because those multiple varieties at the time existed only in the US. It could not possibly have resulted from air travel because that timing would have been scattered. When 85 countries experience a virus outbreak on virtually the same day, this can happen only with human assistance. The Americans have steadfastly refused to address this point.
Experts on biological weapons are in unanimous agreement that eruptions in a human population of a new and unusual pathogen in multiple locations simultaneously, with no clear idea of source and cases with no proven links, is virtually prima facie evidence of a pathogen deliberately released, since natural outbreaks can almost always be resolved to one location and one patient zero. But with COVID-19 (or COVID-20), not one country out of 200 has been able to do this.
It should be firmly noted that this new infection in Beijing is not a “second wave” as termed by the Western media. This is an entirely new and different infection by a new virus and totally unrelated to anything prior, a strain of a new and different virus that was deliberately carried to Beijing and flooded in the Xinfadi Market. This infection is not related to COVID-19 but is the seeding of yet another biological pathogen in China, making that now seven different biological attacks on China in two years. And China has suffered others similar. One of the most notable was the H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic – and which was extinct for decades – but which suddenly appeared in 1977 in both China and Russia causing a global pandemic, prompting immediate claims by the Americans that it “escaped from a Chinese lab”. But the only sensible explanation is that the H1N1 virus ‘escaped’ from the Americans because there were persistent reports that the US military had found or saved samples of the original ‘Spanish Flu’ virus and were attempting to re-activate it. There was never a shred of evidence that either China or Russia had anything to do with this, and both were taken entirely by surprise. The Invisible Enemy Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $26.94 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details)
It is my view that the world needs to stop pretending that COVID-19 was an accident of nature. Consider China’s recent experience. In addition to SARS – which was indisputably man-made, China has suffered repeated viral pandemics in the past two years. February 15, 2018: H7N4 bird flu. June, 2018: H7N9 bird flu. August, 2018: outbreak of African swine flu. May 24, 2019: massive infestation of armyworms. December, 2019: COVID-19. January, 2020: A “highly pathogenic” strain of bird flu. June, 2020: China is hit with COVID-20. Are we to tell ourselves it was merely a run of bad luck that China was the only nation in the world to be hit repeatedly with so many different biological pathogens in such a short time? And merely more ‘bad luck’ that China became the only country in the world that was domestically virus-free and was suddenly hit again with a foreign strain in another wet market? This assumption is too ridiculous to bother refuting.
It is unfortunate that so much of our information today comes to us in a passive receptance from the mass media because one result is the loss of our ability to examine information critically and use our minds to assess the presentation. As an example, it was very clever for the Americans to use a wet market as a distribution point for a virus and for the media to give this point massive air time, because we instinctively associate such markets with at least a possibility of germs and bacteria and thus passively accept the claims as true without the necessary evidence and thus avoid using our brains as intended. Our assessment of wet markets as unsanitary may be correct, but common germs and bacteria are a very different thing from a coronavirus that makes its home in bats and has no business being in a vegetable market. It isn’t important for our purposes to decide if COVID-19 was created in a lab; the important point is that a coronavirus has no means of transportation from bat caves in Sichuan to a market in Wuhan, nor the ability to mutate itself in such a way as to be energetically contagious to humans, and much less the conscious intelligence to choose China’s largest passenger transportation hub as the distribution point and the Eve of the Chinese New Year as the best time to attack. For these, the coronavirus required a helping ‘black hand’.
The Noose Tightens on the US
There is almost daily an increase in the volume of evidence that COVID-19 was circulating in the US far earlier than admitted, and serving as incriminating proof that the CDC’s deliberate (and threatening) forbidding of testing was to bury this evidence. The most recent example is headlines in the US media on June 21, 2020, stating, “Over 40 mysterious respiratory deaths in California could dramatically rewrite narrative of COVID-19” in the US. The LA Times reported on “a cluster of mysterious respiratory deaths” beginning in December of 2019. The local news website www.bakersfield.com stated this meant that COVID-19 was circulating in California “way earlier than we knew”. And let’s not forget too quickly that Japanese tourists were infected in Hawaii in September of 2019.
And on June 20, 2020, the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) revealed that they had discovered that COVID-19 was present in water samples dating back to mid-December of 2019. The results were confirmed by two separate labs that used two entirely different testing methods, and also showed that environmental wastewater from Milan, Turin and Bologna returned positive traces of the virus dating back to December if not earlier. Apparently, the RNA from COVID-19 does not readily dissolve or disintegrate in water and polymerase chain reaction testing allows scientists to identify the RNA after many months.
Stand or Fall in the P... Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $10.95 (as of 04:56 UTC - Details) And it wasn’t only Italy. Dutch researchers discovered COVID-19 RNA in a wastewater plant in the Utrecht, Netherlands, city of Amersfoort. French scientists detected “high concentrations” of COVID-19 RNA in samples of sewage water from greater Paris that were obtained before Paris first recorded any deaths. Sputnik News reported in May that a Paris hospital confirmed it had treated Amirouche Hammar, the country’s first COVID-19 patient, on December 27, 2019 – one month before France’s first announcement of infections and four days before the WHO China bureau was informed of a “pneumonia of unknown etiology” on December 31.
The Irish Mirror reported on June 19 that “many countries are beginning to use wastewater sampling to track the spread of the disease”, scientists claiming these detections were “consistent with evidence emerging in other countries” that COVID-19 was circulating around the world long before China reported its first cases, all of which would of necessity have had to have originated in the US and transported around the world. It is now beginning to appear that many countries were seeded at approximately the same time, perhaps in their water distribution systems. Following these discoveries, the ISS told Reuters it intends to launch a new study of the wastewater of Italian tourist resorts. I suspect other nations will follow.
And it would seem the NYT, WSJ, WP, CNN, ABC, NBC, National Post, Globe & Mail, have no knowledge of this. The Chinese and Europeans know, but the Americans and Canadians don’t know because the owners of their major newspapers and TV networks don’t want them to know.
A Brief Update
If you look at the graph (courtesy of CNN), you can see the European infection pattern (in pink) and the American (in green). The Europeans followed China’s protocols in varying degrees, and thus with varying degrees of success. Europe’s infections peaked at around 30,000 per day then descended to around 2,000 near the end of June, while the Americans, led by a man who is living proof that democracy is the worst possible form of government, saw their infections peak at the same level, slightly decrease, then revert to 30,000 infections and around 1,000 deaths per day where they will now remain until the virus surges through the entire population. Twenty-six states are already experiencing dramatic spikes reaching new records each day, so Trump ordered the CDC to “stop testing” because it makes him look bad.
The next graphic is a list of the top ten nations for COVID-19 infections. Missing from this picture is a comparison I want to make about leadership and competence, to say nothing of intelligence. Shanghai is a city only two hours from Wuhan and, when the infections exploded, had no warning and almost no time to prepare, but acted so quickly and decisively that the city had only 26 infections and 7 deaths. Missing from the graphic is Canada, with a population very similar to Shanghai, and who, with months to plan and prepare, had 101,000 infections and 8,400 deaths. Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is also living proof of democracy’s vast failings.
The Americans elected a pathetic buffoon who lives in outer space, while the Canadians elected a bullied child so painfully unintelligent and indecisive his wife would have to tell him to call the fire department if his house were burning down. I would include here the Brazilians who, with excessive assistance from the Americans, elected an arrogant sociopath who said famously, “It’s not my fault. What do you want me to do about it?”
In all three countries the leaderless pandemic results are the same, with infections and deaths likely increasing until at least the end of the year. China, with a population of more than 1.4 billion people, had about 80,000 infections and little more than 4,000 deaths, and stopped the virus cold in about three months. But according to the NYT, WSJ, WP, and Canada’s terminally-obnoxious National Post, the “free-market capitalist” countries are God’s first choice while “socialist authoritarian” China should incur yet more sanctions for all its mistakes.
Notes:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1191598.shtml
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/asia/coronavirus-beijing-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192146.shtml
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202006/15/WS5ee6b33da310834817252ec9.html
COVID-19 – Two Major ‘Waves’ of Global Infection; https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/05/covid-19-two-major-waves-of-global.html
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192389.shtml
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage-idUSKBN23Q1J9
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.