There has been some controversy over what to call the disease causing the current pandemic. The 'scientific' names are COVID-19 or SARS-2, after the SARS outbreak of 2003, which, just coincidentally, also originated in China. Some people just want to use those. Others, hearkening back to the Spanish flu of 1918 or the Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968, have taken to calling it the Chinese virus or the Wuhan flu (catchy, but it's NOT the 'flu'!).
This second group has been denounced as racist by many, despite the fact that I don't recall accusations of 'racism' being hurled in 1968. However, racist or not, this second group misses the mark badly. To call it the Chinese virus or the Wuhan virus (or flu) is an insult to the people of China and the citizens of Wuhan.
They are not responsible for the pandemic! The Chinese Communist Party is. The CCP realised a pandemic was developing on January 13. In a secret meeting on January 14, it decided not to disclose the information, until January 20. The move has cost the world 247,306 deaths so far, with 2,643 of those being added in the past 24 hours. On April 15, 2020, the Associated Press announced that it had obtained from unnamed Chinese sources, and verified as authentic, documents confirming that the CCP, under personal instructions from President Xi Jinping, waited six days, from January 14 to January 20, before disclosing information about the CCP virus pandemic. These six days were crucial, both for China and the world. It was during these six days that the city of Wuhan tried to break a Guinness world record by hosting the largest potluck banquet ever, attended by more than 40,000 families, and millions traveled from the city in preparation for the Chinese New Year festivities. Without the six-day delay, this would not have happened, and the epidemics might have been contained in Wuhan, without spreading through the whole world.
Did you get that? The first case of what was later identified as CCP virus was detected in Wuhan on November 17, 2019, and in December local doctors started contacting the authorities, telling them that a new deadly coronavirus was at work, and posting their findings on the Internet. As a result, they were arrested on 1 January. This intimidated the doctors in Wuhan, who failed to report new cases, even if they were well aware of them.
Then, after realising they had an epidemic on their hands, they allowed a gathering of over 40,000 people to come together in the epicentre of the epidemic!
Don't blame the Chinese people or the citizens of Wuhan. It's not their fault. The fault lies squarely at the feet of the Chinese Communist Party, proprietors and operators of the largest slave compound known in the history of mankind!
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