I've followed all the recent attention in the news media, about renewed interest in the idea that SARS-CoV-2 must have been caused by Chinese sloppiness, malevolence, or both. This has been discussed at great length before. Those ideas were dismissed, not because they could be positively ruled out, but because we have zero evidence for or against them. To be clear, China made certain that no evidence got out to the rest of the world about their initial experiences with the virus. And yes, China is a rogue nation, intent on furthering it's goals by an arms race, including nuclear weapons, and god knows what else.
I've read over the various arguments about why we should focus on China's role in the pandemic, but I don't see anything convincing, or even highly suspicious. I only see rehashed speculation, much of it irrelavent, some of it irresponsible.
I don't understand why there is renewed attention on this subject. No new evidence has appeared, and it is highly unlikely to be found. The only explanation that makes any sense at all to me is that this old story has been stirred up because there is little else to talk about. Some of the news media clearly miss the days when The Orange Peril could provide daily outrages to write about. I wonder if the recent news attention about UFOs has happened for similar reasons.
Knowing who might be blamed for the pandemic has nothing to do with how we must deal with it, or with future pandemics. We must vaccinate our nation's people – the sooner the better. All this diversion in the press, avoids that really important topic. Quit looking for foreigners to blame. Instead, roll up your sleeve and get the vaccine shot.
GO-NAD, you probably already know this, but some brief history of 20th century experimentation with biological warfare should be said: During WW2, Japan conducted large scale experiments with various virus, bacteria, and poison gases. They produced large amounts of these agents, and tested them on POWs (Manchurian, Chinese, British, and American). These agents were quite lethal. But the Japanese concluded that these agents could not be used as weapons as there was no reliable way to control their spread in the field.
After the war, when the US occupied Japan, we were more interested in obtaining their biological warfare data than we were interested in prosecuting and punishing Japanese war criminals. So was the Soviet Union. After the war, both nations, as well as the UK, developed their own chemical & biological warfare research groups to continue with what they learned from Japan. Of course, it was kept top secret, and was always explained away as a 'defense' against chemical & biological warfare agents developed by a potential enemy. I don't doubt that the Chinese also do this. But I don't believe they're fools. They also know damn well how difficult these agents are to control if used as weapons.
