Coronavirus Aka Covid-19 A Panic Pandemic?

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When President Donald Trump at his daily press conference on Wednesday 18 March 2020 used the phrase ” ••• the Chinese flu” it was a déjà vu moment. In 1919 it was the then US President who called the flu epidemic that killed 50 million people worldwide the “Spanish Flu” only because it killed the leading member of Spain’s Royal. Family. The so-called “Spanish flu” originated from a farm in Kentucky, USA and a farmworker who joined the US Military and took it to the trenches in France.

If anything, it should have been the “American Flu”, but that would not have been good for the US Public Relations Machine post World War One.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his press conference on Thursday 19 March 2020 gave a semblance of Pandora’s Box saying that “we can beat this flu thing in 12 weeks if all pull together and follow the direction of our experts.”

As of Thursday, 19 March 2020 worldwide, there are some 207,000 retarded cases of Coronavirus and just over 8,600 deaths. Most of the deaths are in China, Italy and Spain. What is interesting to note that in, the whole of the African Continent, there are only 640 recorded cases and zero deaths. Of course, that figure might change, but it seems that Covid-19 is attracted to China, Italy and Spain. There are recorded cases in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the mortality numbers are unfortunately rising. However, China, Italy and Spain are bearing the brunt of the ‘attack’.

There are just under 8,000,000,000 people in the world. And a virus that has inhabited to date 207,000 in under three months should not be of any real concern.

Consider the facts and figures: –

Since January 2020 deaths from Tuberculosis has been placed· at 314,000

Since January 2020, deaths from HIV/AIDS. has been placed at 154,000

Since January 2020 deaths from Seasonal Flu has been placed at between 58,000 – 130,000

Since January 2020 deaths from Malaria has been placed at 80,000

Again, deaths from Coronavirus is 8,600

When one considers the facts and the evidence, as opposed to conjecture and speculation, the question that requires an immediate reply from all governments is simple: why all the panic?

The advice from experts are relatively easy to follow: –

*    Move around as much as possible in your’ house or garden

*    Get fresh air regularly but do not leave your house

*    Drink plenty of water

*    Take paracetamol to “alleviate” the symptoms

*    Stay busy with activities in the house

*    Clean your toilet thoroughly each time you use it

Those instructions do not seem to be from any kind of illness. Infection or disease that can remotely cause: –

*    Europe to close its borders

*    The USA/Canada to close its borders

*    Suspend flights worldwide

*    Keep citizens worldwide in a form of home detention

*    Wipe the Stock markets worldwide

*    Close all sports worldwide

 Burt Bacharach wrote:  “What’s it all about Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live?”

What is known about Coronavirus that has achieved such a turmoil with journalists using superlatives galore in the damages caused by this virus?

What are required are facts and not scare stories. It is evident from the facts that tuberculosis kills many more people than Covid-19 because the deaths reported are from 9 January 2020. What is actually known about this crown-like pipsqueak that has placed the entire world on hold?

Corona is Latin for Crown, and the coronavirus is aptly named because when the virus is, viewed using electron microscopy, crown-like spikes are protruding from its surface which literally ‘snatch’ human cells. Once in the grip and bound to the cell, the spikes uncoil puncturing the cell wall so the virus can enter. Once in the cell, the virus releases a fragment of genetic material called ribonucleic acid (RNA), and the infected cell then responds by making proteins that foil or frustrate the immune system’s attempts to attack it and as the infection progresses the cell machinery is ambushed and forced into making copies of the virus. They then target the protein molecules that make up the spike. The virus is hard to provide conventional vaccines such as those for Ebola and Zika because Covid-19 mutates rapidly. That is why flu vaccines have a seasonal lifespan.

What scientists have developed leads to the production of an essential vaccine which can be quickly, easily and cheaply tweaked to combat the genetic information from any newly emerged virus.

In theory, it should thus be relatively easy to find a solution, and it follows that as President Trump has announced a miracle has happened.

So, what is this miracle and all in record time?

The Sar’s virus raged through, yet again, China in 2002-2004 and the Mers virus raged through Saudi Arabia in 2012. China and Saudi Arabia? Investigative journalists will have to look at the relationship between China-USA/UK in 2002-2004 and Saudi Arabia-USA/UK in 2012. Many questions will require proper explanations after proper research is carried out.

In 2002 when another strain of coronavirus (yes- it has been around a long time) it took almost two years for the U.S. health officials to start human testing for a vaccine. No one asked why the USA should want to look for a vaccine when Sar’s was limited mostly, if not solely, to China. Could it be that the USA sought to profit on a calamity?

Why such interest in vaccines? What is a vaccine? Well, a vaccine works by pushing the body’s immune system to recognise micro-organisms, including bacteria and viruses that cause disease. What a vaccine does is it tricks (defrauds if necessary) the body into thinking it is under attack. As with most vaccines, a dead or live form of the virus is grown inside living cells in a laboratory, then introduced into the body by injection. The immune system recognises the virus as “enemy” and creates extra proteins called antibodies to fight it off. If then a real virus attacks the body it is ·instantly recognised and attacks it.

The interesting aspect to all of this is quite concerning. On January 10, 2020 scientists in China cloned the new coronavirus that originated (accepted but not conceded) in Wuhan and published online a map of all its 30~000 plus genetic material or ‘letters’ of its genetic code.

This is now the concerning factor: – other scientists around the world were all able to grow their synthetic version of the virus using the codes that the Chinese had posted online. That should have been solely for scrutinising it and trying to identify any potential weakness, but who knows?

By placing the information online, the Chinese tantamount gave to all and sundry a recipe for an atomic virus bomb. The Chinese did it with good intentions, but as all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

China is now, it says, out of trouble with coronavirus and no new domestic cases are being reported whereas Italy and Spain are suffering the brunt of the mortality rates. So, what is being done concerning a solution? Both Trump and Johnson have announced discoveries of a vaccine which should soon be in circulation.

There are about 40 companies – the list is growing daily – of companies and institutions worldwide working 24/24 to develop a vaccine for commercial use.

Moderna is Boston (USA) based and strangely backed by, yes you guessed it, UK investment, which has started human trials. The UK’s Chief Scientific Officer has expressed how quick and significant progress is being made in the UK with a vaccine. CureVac from Germany has attracted the attention of the USA owing to Trump offering unlimited funding if the vaccines were made available exclusively” to the USA. CureVac has been promised 80 Million Euros from the European Commission and 50 Million Euro’s from Bil and Melinda Gates Foundation to produce a vaccine quickly.

Novavax, a US-based biotech company, is developing a new vaccine by tweaking those developed by the two previous coronaviruses, namely Sars and Mers.

President Trump has undertaken that Covid-19 vaccine will be ready before, yes before, the presidential elections in November 2020.

What a political goal that is which will for certain secure re-election. It will also secure the United States of America victory over the whole world without going to a state of war.

Whoever gets their first in the vaccine manufacture controls the world. That is what we are led to believe.

That, however, will only work if we all believe that we are in such a danger that we need the cavalry to rescue us. You only need saving if you think you are going to die.

Moderna’s share price has already hit the roof, so they are winners regardless. Strange to know that Moderna’s vaccine research was funded by the Oslo based Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations a three-year-old partnership of governments (including the UK) industry and charities that were formed post-Sars/Ebola/Mers/Zika. The funding for Moderna and three other research facilities including one at Oxford University comes to some £2 billion.

With an average retail cost of between £500 – £1000 depending on how rich the country is and with a world population of 8 Billion it is easy to see the commercial sense.

Sars/Zika/Ebola/Mers were only local issues, yet they altered much around the world. But they were still only local issues. Ebola did not hit the UK or Italy. · A nurse contracted it but not in the UK.

Within days of the UK coming out of Europe and with a newly elected Conservative Government, it faced the “Covid-19” crisis. The whole world has been shut down owing to a virus that we are asked to help alleviate it paracetamol, costing some 20 pence for 16 tablets. Can an ant really down a rubber tree plant?

Not by itself. What had to occur was that the whole world had to be indoctrinated into the “Goebbels” methodology of public relations. Make the public believe that there is an enemy, and they will fight it for you.

To do that all other news had to be culled. So, all sporting events were called off worldwide, and the Japanese who want to go ahead with the Olympics are labelled serial killers on social media.

There is no more talk on terrorism, Syria, Iraq, Isis, crime, and on the plus side, the environment is greener.

All the world news is about coronavirus 24/24 and as any good psychologist will tell you it is tantamount to catching the “Stockholm Syndrome” and the consequences thereof!.

Two countries that seem to be more “in the know” as to how to deal with the covid-19 are the USA and the UK. Both Trump and Johnson are very cool, calm and confident, notwithstanding that China, Italy and Spain have to deal with the dead.

The big question is how many copy that formula and grew in laboratories covid-19 virus? Who stands to profit from any vaccine and who has funded the search for the vaccine?

Once some answers are forthcoming, and the panic stops then, and only then, can some form of normality be restored and any wrongdoings be prosecuted.

As an after-thought, look at the countries affected mostly -and the -relationship with the USA/UK: – China, Iran, Countries within the EU?