I had a very disturbing phone call last Thursday evening. I was talking to the chief nursing officer of the Bemidji hospital in Norther Minnesota..
She got back late. On Wednesday she got home late about 7.30 PM and then got called back as an emergency about an hour later, and was there until the early hours of the morning. The Bemidji hospital is under the Sanford Health System out of Sioux Falls, SD. They were recently acquired by Intermountain Health out of Utah. The nursing supervisor told me that the whole health systems had IT had been seriously disrupted by and attack from China. There operations were seriously interrupted and they could not make contact with medical staff and other crucial services were interrupted. She told me that Microsoft were assisting. She told me that other health systems and other businesses had been seriously affected.
I go hold of my son David, who works extensively with Internet security. He knew nothing about it.
Subsequently he has sent me
this article about the problem, from a highly reliable source, that I find very disturbing. Apparently 30,000 organizations in the US were seriously affected. The Microsoft Email system was the target of the attack, and through which entry was gained to spy on, and disrupt IT systems.
China in my view is now a rogue state. I and others, do not ascribe to the pandemic as being in anyway the sole cause of the severe disruption in semiconductor and other electronic component supply problems from China. As you will be aware from this forum supply of electronic devices, is rapidly becoming in shorter and shorter supply. Vehicle assembly lines in Europe and the US are slowing fast and in many cases halted. This is especially true in Europe.
The UK government is taking this seriously and studies and steps are under way to see how quickly these manufacturing processes can be commenced in the UK. This is now regarded as an urgent matter of national security.
The US needs to do the same. I think there must have been behind the scenes maneuvering to keep this serious and developing situation out of the public domain. I'm surprised how hard it was to find out what is really going on.
This brings me back to the Pandemic and China's involvement. The UK scientists say they were in no way given adequate access in China. So the WHO report is a whitewash, as I suspected. The fact is that there has been no credible link found to animal migration to humans, as a source. By now this should be obvious, if that had occurred. After all this time no animal reservoir has been found. So that leaves a lab accident or deliberate release of a created novel virus as the most likely source.
If you look at how things are developing, it is China's favor over time. So all potential causes of this pandemic are now on the table.
I'm certain our hobby and interests are and will be increasingly adversely affected by these events for a considerable period of time.
