COVID-19 and its Associated Controversies
The Coronavirus Pandemic from Microbiology to the oval office- The Reality, Myth, Intention, and Politics
Originally Published by Being Well on Medium
It has been clear right from the start since the introduction of COVID-19- that this socio-politically decorated organism is here to stay. The coronavirus pandemic has set its reputation on the global stage. It should probably not have happened, but it has, given the world leadership attitude.
In February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus pandemics that have so far affected over 17 Million people worldwide with over 600,000 fatalities (July 39th 2020) since it the first recorded case in 2019.
Today- besides its health implications, Coronavirus pandemics is testing the limits of every society in the world. This moment in history is the epitome of what we call the repetition of the 1930’s Dustbowl phenomenon that crippled the U.S. economy for generations to come.
Covid-19 Myths and Facts
There are countless theories as to how COVID-19 has evolved and where it originated. Still, one thing is sure is that there is overwhelming evidence that this novel organism did not just jump from primates into humans overnight. We can also see from independent sources with reasonable evidence that Administrations in the United States and China, with the help of selected scholars, have been involved throughout the Coronavirus evolution.
The governments, with the support of some corporate entities, seem to keep the lid while economically and politically benefiting from this turmoil. The latter metaphorically resembles fishing from the Murky Waters.
Media also perpetuates the claims that substantiate government involvement in COVID-19 evolution, be it through Gain of Function research (GOF) or not as Myths. Keeping what said before this in mind, I do not intend to perpetuate any false information neither provide you with the hard-solid facts.
However, all I would like to convey is the various opinions and let you be the judge of your perception.
When was Coronavirus first Detected?
Coronavirus by its self is the identifying terminology given to a big family of different viruses with similar morphology, some of which cause the common cold in people, others infect animals, including bats, camels, and cattle.
The SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, however, seems to have originated in bats, which allegedly made the jump to humans at one of Wuhan’s open-air “wet markets.” The latter is where shoppers buy fresh meat and fish, including animals killed on the spot.
Still, the Wuhan market didn’t sell bats at the time of the outbreak, even though the most prevailing theory points to the bats as the host of the novel virus before it made its way into humans. Here means that there must be more to the COVID-19 history than what we are told.
Conferring to the South China Morning Post, a 55-year-old person from Hubei, China, is the first patient to have incurred COVID-19 dating back to Nov. 17, 2019. That was followed by one of the earliest cases from December 1st, 2019, in a patient who had no link to that open market,
The Coronavirus before November 2019
There is another prevailing theory that the COVID-19 did not originate from the Wet seafood market in Wuhan. For the reasons that, according to a publication in Lancet, The 2019-nCoV infection caused collections of severe respiratory illness analogous to severe acute respiratory syndrome and was associated with ICU admission and high mortality, were not necessarily linked to the Chinese market.
The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still an open question. The virus shares 96% of its genetic material with a virus found in a bat in a cave in Yunnan, China, a convincing argument that it came from bats. Further research indicates one of the closest known ancestors of the virus that causes Covid-19 emerged in bats amid 40 and 70 years ago.
White house knows what the Coronavirus is because they have studied it for decades
Sometime between 2011 and 2014, the United States administration funded the National Institute of Health (NIH), Harvard Scientist Charles Libre, the NIH, CDC, a Wuhan lab, and Tony Fauci’s NIAID fund this NAZI-originated bio-warfare technology. In 2015 scientists at the University of North Carolina collaborated with virologists from Wuhan, China on GOF experiment on bat coronaviruses. This research was considered so dangerous by scientists and U.S. officials that in 2014 the U.S. paused GOF research.
Regardless of the origin of COVID-19, GOF research is a menace to everyone’s wellbeing. These laboratories leak deadly bio-weapons and must be closed down.
Gain-of-function (GOF) research involves experimentation that directs increase the transmissibility or virulence of the coronavirus.
One day after the U.S. exceeded China to become the country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency updated its appraisal of the origin of the COVID-19 virus, reflecting that it was accidentally released from an infectious diseases lab.
The report was corroborated by two U.S. officials, revealing that U.S. intelligence revised its January assessment, concluding that the outbreak probably occurred naturally to now include the possibility that the new coronavirus emerged “accidentally” due to “unsafe laboratory practices” in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
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The Government is not without blame!
Governments may not have “directly” caused the coronavirus pandemic; however, they must have contributed or at very least knew imminent potential COVID-19 breakout.
The administration must have known how the virus behaves but refuses to share it with the world. The reluctance to share such information is probably nothing to do with the actual morphology of the virus but must have to do with the fact that it will uncover details that are classified. For instance, according to the report, it is most probable that the Pentagon and U.S. Department of Defense have already Knew Years before The COVID-19 breakout. Such a pandemic was an imminent threat. Allegedly, in 2017 Pentagon warned the White House about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds; however, the Trump administration seemingly refused to act on that report.
Denis Kaufman, the presiding head of the Infectious Diseases and Countermeasures Division at the Defense Intelligence Agency at the time, stressed that U.S. intelligence was aware of the dangers of coronaviruses for years. So, the reason why the government ignored to act on this issue and why they tried to cover up the threat of COVID-19 by itself is of great significance. After all, the innovators of the problem know the best on the damaging effects of the problem, and it is more plausible that they are also closer to the solution.
Based on what described earlier, the Coronavirus family of viruses is not new to our realm. However, the COVID-19 strain is probably a couple of decades old.
According to a report by Reuters in March 2020, the White House had ordered federal health officials to treat important coronavirus meetings as classified. That perceived as an unusual step that restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the pandemic.
According to some undisclosed officials, dozens of detailed discussions about the before-mentioned topics withheld from public access. The latter primarily included the scope of infections, quarantines, and travel restrictions held since mid-January in a high-security conference room at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). The Staffers without security clearances, including government experts, were excluded from the interagency meetings, which included video conference calls, the sources said. Those mentioned above by itself raise the question of- why a pandemic treated as a confidential matter.
Do we know, or don’t we not?
The irony of all that is said is not as the administration is failing to address the pandemic using a practical strategy today, as it is if they are willing to open the door to a room full of unethical or let’s call it classified information. Or let’s say they want to shoot themselves in the foot?- or furthermore, are they willing to jeopardize this opportunity that is a potential for making a big buck out of chaos; just like people, the members of “the Good Club” would line to profit under the name of philanthropy.
Undoubtedly, the administration and corporate intention amidst the coronavirus pandemic is an utterly multifaceted one. However, if we look deeper, it might as well be a symbiotic phenomenon between large corporations and administrations. I call it neo-feudalism.
Business or not business, politics or not, the virus did not find itself merely by jumping from bats to humans. There is an overwhelming indication that the virus was the subject of gain of function manipulation even though at the time, it was not a direct threat to the human being. And that high-security laboratory, with the participation of Fauci. And many others experimented on the otherwise nonvirulent virus decades before the pandemic.
The vaccine dilemma and the coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the associated panic, has created the perfect environment for vaccines. It has even made some of the corporate executives and founders to pursue alternative ways to make big money such as surveillance programs, and COVID-19 contact tracing apps.
There is also no doubt that there are only a few pharmaceutical industries that have curbed the vaccine market, and China is their most significant target. Furthermore, the giant corporations will always need the help of government agencies to endure. So, it is reasonable to shoulder that there are many strings attached to the COVID-19 secret that places the bureaucracy sphere at the center of all scandal and many other interests at stake.
Another unsettling issue around the coronavirus infection is the possibility of its mutation capability that the virus can reverse its mutation, thus maintaining its virulence. And the other concern is that it is too unstable for the vaccine to maintain effectivity long enough to result in “herd immunity.” While at it, this creates the best opportunity for Bill Gates Quantum dot personal tracking technology promotion.
The Hydroxychloroquine and the Coronavirus
What holds for vaccines also applies to Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The latter medication is relatively cheap and old medicine. It has been used for the treatment of malaria for over half a century. Concerning COVID-19, there have been consistent reports that it is sufficient for the treatment of the Coronavirus infection, primarily when used in combination with Azithromycin and Zinc.
It is also worth to realize that this medication has specific rare but potential side effects. And we also recognize that the messages around the use of Hydroxychloroquine is mixed and public media is not helping it either.
Like many other subjects, the HCQ is also extremely politicized; to the extent that governments have prohibited physicians from prescribing it. Such dictatorship and tyranny against the clinical judgment demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Department of Health and Human Services; however, current personalized healthcare; and how medical societies are failing physicians and the patients.
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Yes indeed- HCQ may or may not be an effective treatment for COVID-19; however, given the risk-benefit ratio and unpredictability of the infectious agent, there is no reason to halt the prescription to COVID-19 when prescribed liberally for much less lethal disease like Rheumatoid Arthritis. Just thinking about this makes me wonder- what is the intention behind this controversy.
Politics or no politics
Let us just connect the dots!
The current evidence could not have transpired within the last three months or even six months. Governments must have known these long before the public became aware of the problem. It is also likely that virus has been spreading around.
Physicians out there would understand that not every time a patient with a presumed viral infection would be subjected to a virology test to find the exact type of the virus causing the disease. The latter is due to two reasons: one-cost issue, Two- isolating the virus would not generally change the course of the treatment.
That is mere because even most of the existing antiviral medications with a few exceptions have only supportive roles rather than a one-hundred percent cure rate. That takes me to my other point: how an administration, politician, or entity would be for or against HCQ use for COVID-19 infection if the virus were merely nonexistent eight months ago?!
It is reported in many sources that the country’s health secretary was notified of a possible pandemic as he admitted later. Instead of acknowledging it, he failed to take that warning seriously. It’s an instant that feels ragged from the headlines about the current coronavirus crisis. But the year was 2005, not 2020, Just about the period when two consecutive administrations contemplated defunding the GOF experimentation program. So- there must be something wrong with this picture.
The Take-home Message
There are many questions we have and many answers we won’t get, but we all have eyes, ears, and minds to perceive and analyze. Today- trusting mainstream media resembles lowering yourself into a deep well with the enemy rope. We live in an era when People are swayed to live in an enigma and keep giving governments their lifeline and hope for the best. In the end, all they can do amidst the COVID-19 crisis is to claim the ownership of their responsibility.
Let us treasure- we can’t change others how they behave, especially that of the passive mainstream. But- we, the grassroots of the society, can change ourselves without jeopardizing the interests, health, and wellness of others while shutting the door on the collective opportunists. Hence, “the Golden Rule” shall always prevail.