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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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Spread of Wuhan Coronavirus Delta variant in China (Bloomberg)
The atmosphere in Washington with regard to things like masks and
vaccinations is so toxic and vitriolic that it's almost unbearable to
watch.
The situation with masks is especially confusing, since the "science"
about the effectiveness of different types of masks is ambiguous, and
some children are unable to breathe wearing masks.
The Delta variant of Covid-19 was first detected in India. It is now
spreading rapidly within the United States and other countries. It
threatens to get much worse in the fall, and to force more lockdowns,
including school closures. The reason is that the Delta variant is
twice as effective as the original virus in spreading from person to
person.
So you should be prepared, Dear Reader, for a fall and winter that's
worse than last year. You may be forced into lockdowns and school
closures that you don't want.
Making judgments about Covid variants is well outside my skill set, so
I won't attempt it. However, I've provided some credible mostly
non-ideological sources at the end of this article, and you can read
through those sources for information.
The most important news is that there are additional variants coming.
The "Delta Plus" and "Lambda" variants are spreading in other
countries, but their potential effect in the United States is not yet
known.
Some experts are predicting far more dangerous variants on the
horizon. Again, making a judgment about these is outside my skill
set, but there are articles referenced below that tell you about them.
I'm not going to tell you, Dear Reader, to wear masks or get
vaccinated. That's not my place. But I am going to tell you to make
contingency plans for yourself and your family in case these new
dangerous variants start spreading. Follow the motto of the Boy
Scouts and always "Be Prepared" for what comes next.
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**** Delta variant spreads across China
****
Xi Jinping gave several speeches last year, claiming that the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) had won a historic battle against Covid (Wuhan
Coronavirus) and that this proved the superiority of the Chinese
Communism to Western democracies, which were still struggling with the
virus.
This year, the CCP and Xi Jinping are facing the possibility of major
humiliation, as the Delta variant spreads across China. The CCP is
doing everything possible, including mandatory testing and lockdowns,
to kill off the virus. If they're successful, it will be another
great victory for the CCP. But if they fail, then it may threaten the
leadership of Xi Jinping.
In my previous newsletter, I referenced a plan presented by Chinese
General Chi Haotian in a speech just as he was retiring in 2003. That
was a plan to solve China's perennial problem of overpopulation. His
solution is to colonize other lands, specifically the United States,
by defeating it with nuclear weapons, and then using biochemical
weapons to "clean up America" and kill any people left behind. so that
the Chinese can take over. (See "31-Jul-21 World View -- Wuhan Coronavirus -- Thinking the Unthinkable"
)
This plan is completely insane from the Western point of view, which
honors individual human life. The Falun Gong paper Epoch Times, which
first leaked the full text of the speech in 2005, refers to it as the
"Doomsday Crazy Gambling Plan" and to the CCP as the "Gongshi Blood
Company."
However, in the Chinese culture, which does NOT value individual human
life, this plan is quite reasonable, since a way must be found to
solve the problem of overpopulation. Mao Zedong had said that he
would gladly sacrifice half of China's population if it meant killing
all the Americans.
Whether Chi Haotian's speech was authentic and valid has been the
subject of a lengthy debate in the Generational Dynamics forum,
starting around here: http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62949#p62949
So that brings us back to Covid-19, the Wuhan Coronavirus. We now
know with almost complete certainty that the virus was developed in
the Wuhan Virology Lab, and that it escaped, either accidentally or
intentionally, at some point prior to September 12, 2019, which was
the date when the Wuhan Virology Lab deleted its Virus Database in the
middle of the night.
Once the virus started spreading through the Wuhan population, China's
then actions are clear. There was a deep coverup. The CCP encouraged
travel to and from Wuhan from anywhere in the world, except within
China itself. This was deliberate, and it spread the virus to 180
countries, while protecting China.
It's now believed that the CCP thought that they could release the
virus into the world, while protecting China, and completely escape
blame, and furthermore, claim credit as the first and best country to
defeat the virus.
In my opinion, this plan has backfired badly. Releasing the virus
into the world was apparently some kind of "beta test" to develop
technology of using biological weapons. This is insane, but in the
Chinese culture which values an individual human life as being worth
zero, this is quite possible. Instead, China is being universally
blamed for spreading the virus. Furthermore, mutations of the virus,
including the Delta variant, are spreading across China, humiliating
Xi Jinping and the CCP in two ways: They prove that China did NOT
defeat the virus in 2020, and they expose the weakness of China's own
locally developed vaccines, Sinovac and Sinopharm.
There are many things that the Chinese Communists do that are insane
by Western standards. For example, of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward
(1958-59), possibly the stupidest policy of any country in the history
of the world, killed tens of millions of innocent people for no reason
at all, destroying China's economy for decades. Since then, the
Tiananmen Square massacre or the massive torture, beating, and
enslavement of millions of Uighurs have all been insane policies.
But those are Western culture judgments. In the Chinese culture, the
Great Leap Forward may not have been a disaster after all. Today, the
population of China is 1.4 billion. If 50 million Chinese were killed
today, you would still have 1.4 billion people.
The Wuhan Virus Event backfired badly on the CCP. To save face, Xi
Jinping may have to do something drastic. We can only wait to see.
Sources:
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, China, Wuhan Coronavirus, Covid-19,
Wuhan Virology Lab, General Chi Haotian,
Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong,
Delta variant, Delta Plus variant, Lambda variant,
Xi Jinping, Chinese Communist Party, CCP,
Sinovac, Sinopharm
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading much faster than expected
- Delta variant spreads across China
****
**** Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading much faster than expected
****
Spread of Wuhan Coronavirus Delta variant in China (Bloomberg)
The atmosphere in Washington with regard to things like masks and
vaccinations is so toxic and vitriolic that it's almost unbearable to
watch.
The situation with masks is especially confusing, since the "science"
about the effectiveness of different types of masks is ambiguous, and
some children are unable to breathe wearing masks.
The Delta variant of Covid-19 was first detected in India. It is now
spreading rapidly within the United States and other countries. It
threatens to get much worse in the fall, and to force more lockdowns,
including school closures. The reason is that the Delta variant is
twice as effective as the original virus in spreading from person to
person.
So you should be prepared, Dear Reader, for a fall and winter that's
worse than last year. You may be forced into lockdowns and school
closures that you don't want.
Making judgments about Covid variants is well outside my skill set, so
I won't attempt it. However, I've provided some credible mostly
non-ideological sources at the end of this article, and you can read
through those sources for information.
The most important news is that there are additional variants coming.
The "Delta Plus" and "Lambda" variants are spreading in other
countries, but their potential effect in the United States is not yet
known.
Some experts are predicting far more dangerous variants on the
horizon. Again, making a judgment about these is outside my skill
set, but there are articles referenced below that tell you about them.
I'm not going to tell you, Dear Reader, to wear masks or get
vaccinated. That's not my place. But I am going to tell you to make
contingency plans for yourself and your family in case these new
dangerous variants start spreading. Follow the motto of the Boy
Scouts and always "Be Prepared" for what comes next.
****
**** Delta variant spreads across China
****
Xi Jinping gave several speeches last year, claiming that the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) had won a historic battle against Covid (Wuhan
Coronavirus) and that this proved the superiority of the Chinese
Communism to Western democracies, which were still struggling with the
virus.
This year, the CCP and Xi Jinping are facing the possibility of major
humiliation, as the Delta variant spreads across China. The CCP is
doing everything possible, including mandatory testing and lockdowns,
to kill off the virus. If they're successful, it will be another
great victory for the CCP. But if they fail, then it may threaten the
leadership of Xi Jinping.
In my previous newsletter, I referenced a plan presented by Chinese
General Chi Haotian in a speech just as he was retiring in 2003. That
was a plan to solve China's perennial problem of overpopulation. His
solution is to colonize other lands, specifically the United States,
by defeating it with nuclear weapons, and then using biochemical
weapons to "clean up America" and kill any people left behind. so that
the Chinese can take over. (See "31-Jul-21 World View -- Wuhan Coronavirus -- Thinking the Unthinkable"
)
This plan is completely insane from the Western point of view, which
honors individual human life. The Falun Gong paper Epoch Times, which
first leaked the full text of the speech in 2005, refers to it as the
"Doomsday Crazy Gambling Plan" and to the CCP as the "Gongshi Blood
Company."
However, in the Chinese culture, which does NOT value individual human
life, this plan is quite reasonable, since a way must be found to
solve the problem of overpopulation. Mao Zedong had said that he
would gladly sacrifice half of China's population if it meant killing
all the Americans.
Whether Chi Haotian's speech was authentic and valid has been the
subject of a lengthy debate in the Generational Dynamics forum,
starting around here: http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62949#p62949
So that brings us back to Covid-19, the Wuhan Coronavirus. We now
know with almost complete certainty that the virus was developed in
the Wuhan Virology Lab, and that it escaped, either accidentally or
intentionally, at some point prior to September 12, 2019, which was
the date when the Wuhan Virology Lab deleted its Virus Database in the
middle of the night.
Once the virus started spreading through the Wuhan population, China's
then actions are clear. There was a deep coverup. The CCP encouraged
travel to and from Wuhan from anywhere in the world, except within
China itself. This was deliberate, and it spread the virus to 180
countries, while protecting China.
It's now believed that the CCP thought that they could release the
virus into the world, while protecting China, and completely escape
blame, and furthermore, claim credit as the first and best country to
defeat the virus.
In my opinion, this plan has backfired badly. Releasing the virus
into the world was apparently some kind of "beta test" to develop
technology of using biological weapons. This is insane, but in the
Chinese culture which values an individual human life as being worth
zero, this is quite possible. Instead, China is being universally
blamed for spreading the virus. Furthermore, mutations of the virus,
including the Delta variant, are spreading across China, humiliating
Xi Jinping and the CCP in two ways: They prove that China did NOT
defeat the virus in 2020, and they expose the weakness of China's own
locally developed vaccines, Sinovac and Sinopharm.
There are many things that the Chinese Communists do that are insane
by Western standards. For example, of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward
(1958-59), possibly the stupidest policy of any country in the history
of the world, killed tens of millions of innocent people for no reason
at all, destroying China's economy for decades. Since then, the
Tiananmen Square massacre or the massive torture, beating, and
enslavement of millions of Uighurs have all been insane policies.
But those are Western culture judgments. In the Chinese culture, the
Great Leap Forward may not have been a disaster after all. Today, the
population of China is 1.4 billion. If 50 million Chinese were killed
today, you would still have 1.4 billion people.
The Wuhan Virus Event backfired badly on the CCP. To save face, Xi
Jinping may have to do something drastic. We can only wait to see.
Sources:
- A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming, Scientists Say (Newsweek, 4-Aug-2021)
- Nextstrain - Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution (Nextstrain.org)
- As new COVID variants emerge, is herd immunity impossible? (Al-Jazeera, 11-Aug-2021)
- Here are the main COVID variants and everything you need to know about each (NY Daily News, 11-Aug-2021)
- Explainer: Beyond Delta, scientists are watching new coronavirus variants (Reuters, 11-Aug-2021)
- COVID-19: New deadlier coronavirus variant that could kill one in three 'a realistic possibility', SAGE warns (Sky News, Australia, 31-Jul-2021)
- China records 94 more locally transmitted cases, including 41 in flood-ravaged Henan province (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 9-Aug-2021)
- China Punishes Dozens of Officials as Delta Outbreaks Spread (Bloomberg, 9-Aug-2021)
- Covid: Is China's vaccine success waning in Asia? (BBC, 19-Jul-2021)
- China: How Delta threatens a prized zero Covid strategy (BBC, 6-Aug-2021)
- Infectivity and immune escape of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest Lambda (Medrxiv, 1-Jul-2021)
- Trump CDC Director Robert Redfield Warns More Dangerous Variant Than Delta Coming in Fall (Newsweek, 11-Aug-2021)
- China: Delta variant steps up infection rates (Medical News Today, 10-Aug-2021)
- With the Delta variant spreading is China’s ‘zero tolerance’ Covid approach over? (Guardian, London, 4-Aug-2021)
Related Articles:
- Wuhan Coronavirus -- Thinking the Unthinkable (31-Jul-2021)
- Coronavirus coverup unravels in US as China threatens Australia (01-Jun-2021)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, China, Wuhan Coronavirus, Covid-19,
Wuhan Virology Lab, General Chi Haotian,
Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong,
Delta variant, Delta Plus variant, Lambda variant,
Xi Jinping, Chinese Communist Party, CCP,
Sinovac, Sinopharm
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