Xi Jinping

Back on March 17, I speculated that the COVID-19 pandemic could have been Xi Jinping’s payback to Donald Trump for the Orangeman’s throwing sand into the gears of China’s economic juggernaut ... see: Conspiracy? Have I changed my mind?

Far from it. I am now even more convinced that there were many conspiratorial elements to this pandemic:

- The fact that this virus outbreak’s timing was much too convenient to benefit China ... right after the Phase 1 trade deal had been signed. And this pandemic gives Xi an easy excuse for not living up to its terms.

- The fact that China, early on, stopped travel in and out of Wuhan to other parts of China ... but did not stop flights to the rest of the world. As a result, millions fled Wuhan to many of the countries now crippled with medical crises and economic devistation.

- The fact that this Level-4 Virus Lab near Wuhan had been investigating coronaviruses and had been previously indicated by US inspectors as not living up to accepted Level 4 standards ... meaning the virus outbreak could be easily explained, purposeful or not.

- The fact that China swore in January that COVID-19 could not be passed from person-to-person ... and got its lickspittle, the W.H.O. director, to backup this bogus claim.

- The fact that China hoarded critical medical supplies and drugs early on in this pandemic ... not only for themselves, but to then sell to the stricken nations at inflated prices.

- The fact that virus samples at that critical lab have been destroyed, the lab documents scrubbed, knowledgeable scientists “disappeared” ... and China has waged a misinformation campaign and refused to allow US investigators to visit that lab to investigate.

Am I right?

Afterthought': If I were a real cynic, I would point out how many liberals and lefty media types have leapt to China’s  defense ... always a bad sign.