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Saturday, March 21, 2020

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Watch Australian News Media Do What American Media Will Not – BLAME CHINA For The Spread The Coronavirus

“They (China) willfully allowed the spread of the coronavirus.”
So says some among the Australian news media in recent days – doing what most in the U.S. media refuse to do – blame the world’s most powerful communist regime of unleashing a bio-terror disaster upon the world.

And don’t forget, President Trump has been warning about the China problem for years – and most recently was among the very first to enact a China traveling ban during the beginnings of the global spread of the virus. It was a bold and decisive move that has since no doubt saved American lives and afforded our government time to prepare for the worst that was soon to come. Many in the U.S. media criticized the president for that life-saving decision. Some went so far as to call it racist. These same media figures said was he doing too much, then they said he was doing too little, and most recently, they have actually defended China and attacked the president, leading more and more Americans to wonder whose side are the media in this country actually on?

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Deny The Left Control Of Language And Its Meaning...

Coronavirus Is the Chinese Government’s Curse Upon the World

The World Health Organization and other sensitive souls have instructed us to stop referring to the new strain of the coronavirus as the “Wuhan” or “Chinese” flu because of the racist connotations.

I’m disinclined to curb my speech to placate Chinese propagandists, and it seems to me the aversion to those terms is less about racism than about averting blame. But in the spirit of comity, and avoiding disparaging an entire nation, I’m happy to call it the ChiCom Flu moving forward.

There are many traditional naming conventions that don’t really make that much sense. Somewhat weirdly, for example, we often name diseases after the people who “discover” them—Hodgkin’s disease after Thomas Hodgkin, Parkinson’s disease after James Parkinson, and so on.

But naming viral diseases after places—Guinea worm, West Nile virus, Ebola, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, etc.—is probably just intuitive. Viruses “come” from someplace, after all, and thus people gravitate to those names. I doubt we came up with “Lyme disease” because of some deep enmity toward Connecticut.

Anyway, “COVID-19” or “H1N1” don’t exactly roll off the tongue.

The latter was, until very recently, widely referred to as the “Spanish flu,” a virus that killed around 675,000 Americans and tens of millions of others around the world in the early 1900s.

“Spanish flu” has now retroactively fallen into disfavor as well. And to be fair, there is some historical evidence that the virus may actually have originated in China or France, so if we must call it the French flu moving forward, so be it.

But while the Spanish have a good case to be annoyed, the Chinese government does not.

As Jim Geraghty notes, the communist Chinese have been far more effective in stopping the spread of information about the coronavirus than in stopping the spread of the coronavirus itself. Today, for example, China expelled most American journalists from the country.

Early on, the communists destroyed samples and suppressed vital information that could have helped mitigate the damage of this new strain of the coronavirus.

The government also silenced doctors who warned about the disease. Some were censured for “spreading rumors” or sharing test results with colleagues, and some were forced to write self-critical public letters—a Marxist mainstay—admitting that the warning “had a negative impact.”

The Chinese communists probably let 5 million people leave Wuhan without screening, according to...