N.Y. Times Lies to Say WHO Investigators Dissatisfied w. Chinese Cooperation

 

 

Chinese scientists refused to share raw data that might bring the world closer to understanding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, independent investigators for the W.H.O. said on Friday. … Chinese officials told the team that they did not have enough time to compile detailed patient data and only provided summaries. The W.H.O. scientists said they were continuing to press their counterparts in China for the raw data and other information. … The news that Chinese officials did not share raw data with the W.H.O. experts was reported earlier by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and The Wall Street Journal. … It is unclear how fully the Chinese government — which remains in firm control of research into the origins of the virus — will cooperate.

 

Facts that contradict those assertions were simply ignored by the NYT. 

 

Four members of the WHO team were quoted, Two were Thea Kølsen Fischer and Peter Daszak.

 

On February 13th, the Moon of Alabama blogger reposted tweets that day from both:

 

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Linking the NYT propaganda piece Peter Daszak refuted its basic tone:

Peter Daszak @PeterDaszak - 11:27 UTC · Feb 13, 2021

Quoting Daszak's tweet Thea Fischer pitched in:

To which Daszak responded:

 

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Furthermore, the Times’s dishonesty about what the WHO team said wasn’t the Times’s only problem, because there have been at least two scientifically credible findings that have been reported alleging that this coronavirus had actually occurred in Europe before December 2019. (As will be noted below, the Wall Street Journal’s article noted that “WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the U.N. agency hadn’t ruled out any hypothesis. ‘I want to clarify that all hypotheses remain open and require further study,’ he said in a meeting with diplomats on Thursday.”But the NYT seems to have been determined to provide its readers a contrary impression.)

 

The Times’s article stated that

 

 

Here are two such instances “outside China,” and they were not “pretty light”: 

 

 

Also casting doubt that this virus originated in China, is — though less clear — this report, from a “contributor” to Wired, in Italy, on 16 November 2020

 

 

 

If “more than 10% of the Italian population … had antibodies against Sars-Cov-2 already at the end of summer 2019,” then it was already an epidemic in Italy — and this was months before the virus was even so much as being first noticed in China.

 

Were Spain or Italy where the virus had actually originated?

 

As-of 1 April 2020, the countries that had the highest “Tot cases/1M pop” (Covid-19 intensity) were all micro-states, under 700,000 population and highly dependent upon tourists: Vatican 7,491; San Marino 6,955; and Andorra 4,866. All of those are micro-nations within Italy. The number for Italy itself was 1,750. The number for Spain was 2,052. Luxembourg — a micro-nation between Belgium, France, and Germany — was 3,479. By the time of 1 May 2020, these numbers had become: Vatican 13,733; San Marino 16,769; and Andorra 9,642. Italy was 3,398. Spain was 5,125. Luxembourg was 6,045. The number for China was only 58. If the virus had been spreading first undetected in China late in 2019, then why was it spreading like wildfire now only in European micro-nations — especially Italian ones — early in 2020? Could it have been spreading first in Europe, but only detected first in China? Not if the owners of the New York Times and other U.S.-and-allied propagandists are ‘reporting’ about the matter.

 

The Times’s allegation that “the Chinese government … remains in firm control of research into the origins of the virus” is a bald-faced lie, to be accepted (or assumed) only by ignorant and misinformed (perhaps willinglymisinformed) people. If the virus originated outside of China, then (obviously) “the Chinese government … [cannot even possibly be] in firm [or any] control of research into the origins of the virus.” ‘News’-reporting like the NYT does there is deceptive trash that’s clearly designed to mislead.

 

Though many ‘news’-media simply assume that the virus somehow became created in China, whether or not that assumption is correct is scientifically an open question, at present. To imply otherwise is deceptive, in a way that suggests an ulterior motive (for aggression — sanctions, military invasion, etc. — against China). ‘News’-media such as the New York Times serve as propaganda-operations to provide the U.S. Government with excuses for neoconservative actions, examples of which have been America’s actions against and destroying Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries that have been targeted for U.S. take-over or control. ‘News’-media like this might as well be controlled by the same investors who control corporations such as Lockheed Martin or ExxonMobil — the main beneficiaries of U.S. aggressions.

 

 

The U.S. said it saw no alternative source [in other words: the U.S. wants pretext for sanctions or even war against China.] and called for greater transparency from China [but ONLY from China].

 

WHO faces a hostile U.S. Government, which is seeking reasons to turn the screws against China even harder than Trump had done. Whereas the New York Times is 100% behind the U.S. Government — just as it was regarding the invasions against Iraq 2003, Syria, the 2014 coup against Ukraine, etc. — the Wall Street Journal isn’t quite that untrustworthy and sanctions-and-war-mongering. But, still, it’s propaganda, not entirely trustworthy, as mainstream news-reporting needs to be in any authentic democracy. It needs to be authentically independent of the Government, no mere propaganda-agency for it. If it has any slant, that needs to be against the Government — not for it. If the public aren’t skeptical of their Government, then it’s no democracy, and accountability for bad rulers is non-existent.