I wanted to cover something else today. But then I thought it important that readers knew about the latest evidence that the Covid-19 Chinese Coronavirus plague didn’t come from the Wuhan ‘wet market’ as the BBC and C4 News and most UK media claim.
Today I feature an article from Tuesday’s Washington Post.
You have to remember that the Washington Post loathes President Trump and was probably (I haven’t checked this) one of the cheerleaders when the US media started accusing Trump of being a xenophobe and racist when Trump referred to Covid-19 as the “Wuhan flu” and “Chinese flu”.
The article is pretty clear. In 2018 some US institutions were helping fund research done at the Biosafety Level-4 Wuhan Institute of Virology into viruses carried by bats. As part of this international cooperation, some US officials visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018 and were alarmed by what they saw. They sent at least two ‘sensitive’ diplomatic cables back to the US warning that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was a major health hazard due to inadequately trained staff and woeful hygiene practices and that these could lead to an accidental leak of a SARS-like virus into the human population.
They also expressed concerns that dangerous viruses were being studied at the Biosafety Level-2 Wuhan Centre for Disease Control. A corrupt, dirty Chinese Biosafety Level-2 facility is probably about as hygienic as your local Chinese takeaway, if that.
I don’t think we need any more proof that the Chinese Covid-19 Coronavirus plague was accidentally leaked from a Chinese virus research lab due to slovenly hygiene practices by the dirty, corrupt, lying Chinese.
Time to demand hundreds of billions in reparations from the lying, corrupt, dirty, disease-ridden Chinese?
This is probably the most important news story this year. Yet we can be a hundred million percent sure that it won’t get a mention on the Sinophiliac, West-hating, Trump-loathing BBC and C4 News nor in the Times or the Guardian.
Breaking news from John Sopel – BBC North America correspondent
The BBC has just received some urgent breaking news from the Clinton News Network (CNN). An American skydiver, who forgot his parachute, has died from Covid-19. President Donald Trump is clearly to blame for not warning people about the dangers of Covid-19 when skydiving without a parachute:
In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s intrepid and unbiased North America correspondent, (IMHO) Trump-loathing John Sopel, Democrat House speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded “We need to impeach President Trump. This is yet another example of how President Trump’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis is killing innocent Americans”.
OK, the above report is a spoof. But it’s not far from reality. After all, remember a couple of weeks ago when President Trump mentioned an anti-malarial drug, Hydroxochloroquine, as a possible treatment for the Chinese Covid-19 plague? And remember when a US couple noticed that their fish-tank cleaner contained something like Hydroxochloroquine and drank some killing the husband and putting the wife into intensive care? Well this was how the mainstream US Trump-loathing media reported that incident – blame Trump!!!
Yup, in the eyes of the progressive, Trump-loathing mainstream media Trump was guilty of not warning people not to drink fish-tank cleaner.
BBC’s deranged hatred of Trump?
This week the mainstream media excitedly reported that Trump had lost his temper with journalists at the daily news briefing. Here’s the BBC’s John Sopel – the BBC’s North America correspondent – still throwing his toys out of his pram because he (it seems to me) detests Trump and is still pissed that the adorable Hillary Clinton didn’t become president:
About half-way down the BBC website article (link above) there’s a short video titled “Jon Sopel tackles President Trump at Monday’s press briefing”. In my view Sopel’s behaviour is disgraceful. He spits out his questions showing his obvious contempt or even hatred for President Trump and keeps interrupting when the US president tries to answer. Sopel would never have dared to behave like that with Saint Obama.
Given the hostility of journalists like Sopel and, of course, CNN’s (IMHO) repulsive, grandstanding Jim Acosta, I’m amazed that Trump manages to maintain his composure. I’d have gone down and planted a bunch of fives in Sopel’s and Acosta’s smug, know-it-all faces.
But Trump manages to stay fairly cool as supposed ‘journalists’ scream out their supposed ‘questions’ which are really just an avalanche of bile and hatred.
Lefty hypocrite liars?
What must be even more frustrating for Trump is the lying hypocrisy of the mainstream media and lefty progressives. They now all accuse Trump of endangering Americans’ lives by doing too little to late to fight the Chinese Covid-19 plague.
But remember when Trump imposed a ban on flights from China at the end of January? Then the media and Democrats accused him of being a racist and xenophobe. On January 31st, President Trump announced restrictions on travel to and from China in response to Coronavirus. HHS Secretary Alex Azar declared a Public Health Emergency and Joe Biden called it “Hysterical Xenophobia” and “Fear Mongering”.
And when Trump started to propose social distancing, the mainstream media and Democrats accused him of over-reacting. One of Trump’s fiercest critics, Bill De Blasio, Democrat Mayor of New York seems to have forgotten that he (De Blasio) originally claimed that the Chinese plague was not particularly contagious and was “no worse than a common cold”.
After Trump in January declared a “humanitarian and security crisis” during a primetime Oval Office address, Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer said Trump was working to “manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration.”
Party leader Tom Perez also called it “manufactured.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., described it as a “‘crisis’ that doesn’t exist.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted at the time that “we’re not falling” for the “fake crisis”.
Here’s a very short video of Pelosi and De Blasio and other Democrat (IMHO) scum accusing Trump of inaction in the face of the Chinese Covid-19 plague. But the video juxtaposes the Democrats’ criticism with their claims at the start of the Chinese plague that Trump was exaggerating and over-reacting..
So, a major reverse ferret from the progressive, no-borders, hug-a-Chinaman Democrats and their slavishly obedient anti-Trump media.
As Private Eye would probably write – “pass the sick bag, Alice”
If you’ve watched any of the UK Government’s daily briefings, you’ll be aware of the Government’s agenda – scare people into remaining in their homes. One of the ways the Government does is this is to present a daily chart showing the cumulative number of deaths in hospital from the Chinese Covid-19 plague:
We keep being told that we are on a similar trajectory to Italy, France and Spain.
This is probably meant to terrify us into obedience.
The Government also announces the number of daily deaths. But what it never shows is the daily trend. Given that the Government keeps telling us that they can’t relax any part of the lockdown till deaths peak and then start to fall, you’d have thought that the most important figures we should be shown are the daily trends in hospital deaths?
Here are the deaths in hospital figures for April so far:
April 1 – 563: April 2 – 569: April 3 – 684: April 4 – 708: April 5 – 621: April 6 – 439: April 7 – 786: April 8 – 938: April 9 – 881: April 10 – 980: April 11 – 917: April 12 – 737: April 13 – 717
Looking at these daily figures, one could start to think that the peak for deaths was on April 10 (980 deaths) and that the deaths figure has been falling since then – 980 to 917 to 737 to 717. But, of course we would need at least another week’s figures to confirm if the last four days do constitute a trend.
The Government’s problem is that, if it were to admit that deaths might have peaked four days ago, people would start to relax and stop obeying the lockdown rules. So instead, the Government keeps telling us that we haven’t yet reached the peak and that we have to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.
Meanwhile, arithmetically-challenged journalists, who all seem to have studied on the same mathematics course as Diane Abbopotamus, haven’t noticed the downward trend because they’re too busy trying to throw merde at the Government for not acting fast enough, for not providing sufficient PPE, for not buying enough ventilators and for not possessing the 20/20 hindsight that our brilliant journalists have.
And, of course, none of the journalists putting questions at the daily briefings ever mention the filthy, lying, corrupt Chinese government’s lies, cover-ups and responsibility for this global catastrophe. They’re much more interested in trying to discredit the UK Government.
Until the outbreak of the Chinese Covid-19 plague, none of us thought very much about how the utterly corrupt, putrid World Health Organisation (WHO) spends the billions it receives from us every year. But now, the WHO has been rightly ridiculed for its worse than pathetic reaction to the Chinese Coronavirus plague.
In mid-January, approximately six weeks after the virus had been discovered in Wuhan, the WHO repeated the dishonest claim from the lying, corrupt Chinese government that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. On 21 January, as countries outside China were reporting their first cases, the WHO retreated to its comfort zone and put out a long Twitter thread about the dangers of vaping, including pseudo-scientific claims about e-cigarette fluid burning people’s skin and secondhand vapour posing a mortal threat to bystanders.
In early February, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries not to close their borders to people travelling from China because it might “have the effect of increasing fear and stigma”. Weeks later, he was still insisting that “our greatest enemy right now is not the coronavirus itself. It’s fear, rumours and stigma.” Tedros said nothing about the stigma of travel bans on 28 March when China sensibly closed its own borders to prevent a new outbreak, although he did manage to take a phone call from Lady Gaga.
As late as 27 February, the WHO was still claiming that “there does not appear to be widespread community transmission“, and it was not until 11 March that the WHO officially declared a pandemic. Tedros had previously resisted using the word because he feared it could create “unjustified fear and stigma”. Moreover, WHO officials have praised the lying, corrupt, totalitarian Chinese government for being “remarkably transparent” and have asserted that the world owes China “gratitude and respect” for its response to the outbreak.
Here’s our friend Tedros grovelling to his boss China’s ruler for life Xi Pingpong:
No doubt they were meeting to discuss how to cover up China’s guilt in unleashing the Chinese plague from one of its Wuhan research labs and how to blame the USA instead.
I could go on about how the WHO has grovelled to China and taken its orders from its Chinese master when failing to deal with the Covid-19 plague. But I’ve found an even better story of the WHO’s bias and incompetence:
Margaret Chan, is a Chinese-Canadian health expert. She was Tedros’s predecessor and served as WHO Director-General from 2006 to 2017 while being the Special Representative for China (or something like that). When returning from a two and a half day visit to North Korea (China’s BFFL), Chan praised North Korea for its medical services and for not having the levels of obesity that were a growing problem in many other Asian countries. In particular she attacked an Amnesty International report which criticised North Korea calling it “unscientific and outdated”
Chan also claimed that North Korea’s health system was “the envy of the developing world”. Perhaps the noble Ms Chan ‘forgot’ about the at least three million of North Koreans who have died of starvation and the eleven million North Koreans out of a population of about 22 million who are suffering from malnourishment and thus stunted growth?
In fact, I think there’s only one North Korean – the Great Leader himself – who ever gets more than enough to eat:
But as North Korea is China’s BFFL, you could hardly expect the WHO to do anything other than heap praise on the ghastly hell-hole that is North Korea.
The WHO is utterly corrupt, self-serving and a glove puppet of the lying, dirty, disease-ridden Chinese. Quite rightly, President Trump has proposed withholding funding to the WHO. In the same week, the useless UK government announced it was sending the WHO an extra £200m to help fight the Chinese plague that the WHO’s grovelling subservience to China was responsible for turning what should have been a minor outbreak into a massive worldwide catastrophe.
The Chinese Covid-19 plague which was accidentally leaked from a Chinese research lab in Wuhan has highlighted how dependent most Western countries have become on the corrupt, dirty, lying, disease-ridden Chinese.
China takes over the world?
Under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese companies have completely devastated most Western manufacturing and high-tech companies by deliberately and methodically undercutting Western companies sector by sector. At the same time, Chinese companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party have been aggressively buying up large parts of the Earth’s natural resources and ports across the world as China tries to monopolise the Earth’s natural resources and trade routes. I have previously shown how China has cornered the market in ‘rare earth metals’:
Moreover Chinese companies (basically the Chinese Communist Party) own stakes in 13 European ports:
In addition the Chinese Communist Party has managed to grab ownership of ports in Third-World countries by making loans to those countries that can never be paid back and so those ports’ ownership will be ceded to the Chinese Communist Party.
All this is part of the lying, dirty, corrupt Chinese Communist Party’s long-term strategy of controlling world trade through its new Silk Road programme:
Selling out Britain?
I have also shown how the dirty, corrupt, lying Chinese Communist Party has taken stakes in many major UK companies:
And now we find that Chinese companies will be building our new nuclear power stations and a Chinese company, Huawei, closely connected to the Chinese military establishment, will be providing much of our 5G network. As one US senator warned, allowing Huawei into the UK’s 5g network was like “allowing the KGB to build the UK’s telephone network during the cold war”.
While the four other members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence network – the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have (I think) all banned Huawei from their 5G networks, the UK has apparently decided to allow Huawei’s participation.
It should be noted that some quite influential Establishment figures just happen to be on the Board of Huawei UK. I think they are all wonderful people. But not everybody shares my opinion:
When he was appointed as Chairman of the Huawei UK Board, Lord Browne said: “It is an honour to serve as the first independent Chairman of Huawei’s Board in the UK. In a short period of time, Huawei has become a global leader in technology and one of mainland China’s largest investors in the UK. I have worked in China and with Chinese businesses for the past 40 years, and continue to be impressed by the corporate sector’s ambition and potential. I am delighted to be leading this Board as it supports Huawei’s next phase of growth.”
But there may be cynics who believe that Browne and his Huawei UK Board are selling out our country while filling their own pockets with Chinese money.
I don’t have any ‘big story’ today. So if you haven’t already read it, I propose that you look at yesterday’s blog about the coming Chinese takeover of our economies as that’s quite an important story that hasn’t been mentioned on any mainstream media
Can simulating a fever help protect against the Chinese plague?
Given that we’ve all suddenly become medical experts, virologists and epidemiologists, I thought I’d air my own uninformed views.
We know that the body’s defence mechanism against viruses consists of two main functions – creating antibodies to fight the virus and raising the body’s core temperature – apparently the higher core body temperature makes it more difficult for the virus to replicate.
An early morning temperature higher than 37.2 °C (99.0 °F) or a late afternoon temperature higher than 37.7 °C (99.9 °F) is normally considered a fever, assuming that the temperature is elevated due to a change in the hypothalamus’s setpoint. Lower thresholds are sometimes appropriate for elderly people. The normal daily temperature variation is typically 0.5 °C (0.90 °F), but can be greater among people recovering from a fever.
Normally with a virus-related fever the core body temperature will increase from 37.8c to close to 39c. We also know that in a sauna one’s skin temperature will rise to around 40c to 41c. But one’s core body temperature will also increase by just over 1c to around 39c. Thus a sauna can simulate one of the body’s defence mechanisms against a virus – an increased core temperature.
We also know that during the first 5 or 6 days of a Chinese Covid-19 plague infection, most people are asymptomatic. Thus their body hasn’t yet started to raise its core temperature. Does this mean that anyone infected could theoretically slow down the virus’s replication rate during the asymptomatic first phase of infection and therefore seriousness of the later symptoms by taking say 2 to 3 very hot saunas a day?
Anyway, as my wife works in healthcare, I’m bound to catch the Chinese plague sooner or later. And as I usually take two saunas a day after exercise in the morning and afternoon, I’ll soon be able to test my own great theory.
Comparing Coronavirus deaths to other epidemics
Here’s a rather jolly simulation comparing deaths from the Chinese Covid-19 plague to deaths from other major diseases (click on the headline below to launch the simulation):
And finally, the first 3 to 4 minutes of this video give yet more examples of the US progressive media’s totally deranged hatred of President Donald Trump:
As we struggle to survive the Chinese Covid-19 plague, we might risk failing to prepare for some unwelcome consequences.
One of these is that many Western companies will emerge from the lockdown on their knees or even bankrupt. This will present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for anyone with cash to buy up these companies and their assets at rockbottom prices.
But with the West in economic meltdown and Western governments spending tsunamis of money to offset some of the worst effects of the Chinese Covid-19 plague, there aren’t any Western countries which will emerge with loads of cash to spend.
But what about China? China holds trillions in Western debt. And China is awash with cash from having deliberately and methodically destroyed most of Western manufacturing sector by sector. What’s to stop Chinese companies (all of which are controlled by the corrupt, predatory, power-hungry Chinese Communist Party) from swooping into Europe and the USA and buying up huge numbers of crippled businesses at bargain basement prices?
In Australia, there’s a government body called Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB). Its remit is to assess any major takeover of an Australian business by a foreign company to see if this may harm Australia’s national strategic interests. Over the last five years the FIRB has, reportedly, just been a toothless, self-serving bureaucracy which has only rejected about five of over 10,000 foreign takeovers. This has allowed foreign companies – mainly Chinese companies – to buy huge numbers of Australian businesses especially in property, agriculture and food production and in the natural resources sector.
In Europe, most of us are unaware just how much is owned by Chinese companies (controlled, of course, by the corrupt, predatory, power-hungry Chinese Communist Party). For example, Chinese investors have bought about 40 per cent of Bordeaux vineyards put up for sale in recent years, and an estimated 160 French wine estates are now Chinese-owned, nearly all in Bordeaux. And many people have recently learnt to their surprise that there may be over 300,000 Chinese working in the Italian textile and fashion industry for companies that look Italian and sound Italian but are actually owned by Chinese companies. The label “Made in Italy” should probably be changed to “Made by Chinese Workers for Chinese Companies in Italy”.
The Chinese Covid-19 plague has woken up the Australian government to the threat that, as Australian companies struggle because of the Chinese Covid-19 plague, this presents the Chinese government using Chinese companies with a possible bonanza – grab what’s left of Australian industry, property and agriculture at bargain-basement prices. To try to prevent a Chinese smash, grab and takeaway, the Australian Government has lowered the threshold for FIRB reviews to zero dollars (I don’t know what it was before) and told the FIRB to grow a set of balls. But it may be too late as China already owns much of Australia and Tasmania – one thing that struck me on my last visit to Australia was the huge number of Chinese in the main cities.
Meanwhile here in the UK, every time a foreign company buys up some British assets, we’re told this is good for us as it’s “foreign investment”.
But is selling off key assets to foreigners really beneficial for Britain? For example, now most of our energy and water companies are foreign-owned. They have deliberately loaded themselves up with debt while paying massive dividends to their foreign owners. Moreover, any profits they do make are immediately shipped offshore – UK households are making the foreign owners of our water and energy companies very rich indeed.
The Chinese now own what’s left of British Steel and recently completed the purchase of Sunseeker Yachts. Here is an outdated (from 2015) list of some other Chinese ‘investments’ in UK companies:
As we crawl out of the economic hole we have been pushed into by the Chinese Covid-19 plague, will our Government have the sense and courage to protect British businesses and prevent them being snapped up by cash-rich Chinese companies controlled by the corrupt, predatory, power-hungry Chinese Communist Party? I think you all know the answer to that question – especially as many leading and influential Establishment figures have lucrative positions on the Boards of Chinese-owned companies.
I’m not for a moment suggesting that the release of the Chinese Covid-19 plague was deliberate economic warfare. I’m sure the virus was accidentally leaked due to poor hygiene practices at either the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control or the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But I’m also certain that the dirty, corrupt, lying, power-hungry Chinese will not let an opportunity like this go to waste and we can expect a massive Chinese smash, grab and takeaway of many major Western businesses over the next few months.
Here’s a 16-minute clip from an Australian TV programme trying to get to grips with this coming problem:
What to say about the Chinese Covid-19 plague that hasn’t already been said a thousand times by a thousand experts and supposed ‘experts’?
Is hospitalisation almost a death sentence?
First the numbers. We know that comparing the total number of cases by country is meaningless as it depends on the amount of testing done in each country. However, the emerging rule of thumb seems to be that of every 1,000 people struck down by the Chinese plague, about 200 will have to be hospitalised. Of the 200 hospitalised around 66 will be able to leave after treatment, while the other 134 will have to go on ventilators. Of the 134 on ventilators, around half will die and the other 67 will be discharged after 8 to 10 days on a ventilator. But many of those who survive ventilation will have suffered major damage to vital organs like their lungs, heart, kidney etc. So, if you or anyone you know goes onto a ventilator, you have a greater chance of dying than if you placed your money on red or black on a casino roulette table.
Don’t mention Taiwan
One of the more sickening aspects of the Chinese plague is that nobody dares mention one of the countries which has been most successful in containing the virus – Taiwan. In fact, on the maps shown by World Health Organisation (WHO) bureaucrats, Taiwan doesn’t even exist. Why? Because China has a stranglehold over the WHO and China, of course, claims that Taiwan is part of China and not an independent country:
Trump was right again and again and again……
Here’s a bit of good news. Donald Trump is considering withholding American funding to the WHO because of the WHO’s grovelling submission to Chinese interests. When the WHO was claiming there was no pandemic and therefore no need to reduce international travel, Trump already put a ban on flights from China. At the time all the media started howling and screaming “racist” and “xenophobe”. But now it seems Trump (as usual) was right all along:
Don’t expect the truth from the BBC or C4 News
From what I can see, the BBC and C4 News try day after day to find some group which has supposedly been “let down by the government” during the Chinese plague crisis. But they never show any interest in issues like finding out how the Chinese plague really started, how the Chinese government lied and lied and lied and covered up thus losing the world the opportunity to control the Chinese plague and whether we should be demanding reparations from China for all the damage done to our country.
Normally I like to base my blog on firm facts and figures – often facts and figures that media like the UK-hating BBC and C4 News never report. But today’s blog is purely based on speculation.
Public Health England (PHE) clowns not funny
Last week, we were told that Public Health England was failing abysmally to reach even 10,000 tests a day. In part, this was put down to PHE’s bureaucratic stranglehold on the process, and many private sector testing companies and Universities complained that they had offered their services weeks ago but had heard nothing back from PHE. We also had the fiasco of PHE requesting to borrow a specific type of machine for their new “Mega Lab” in Milton Keynes – but the machine they were looking for was not widely used in the UK. In fact, one private lab in Oxford had 109 machines, but only one of the type PHE were requesting. One presumes other machines would have been usable if PHE had been prepared to RTFM!
This was the first sign that treatment of the Chinese Covid-19 plague was being hampered by useless, power-grabbing, incompetent, bureaucratic buffoons at PHE – buffoons more interested in their own careers, salaries and pensions than the health of anyone in England.
Testing, testing – oooppss, not testing
Then came the sorry story of the anti-body tests – the tests that are used to establish whether someone has had the Chinese plague and therefore has built up anti-body resistance that would allow them to return to work.
We’re told that these tests only work with the most serious cases of the Chinese plague and that (fortunately for us) the geniuses at PHE are working intensively to improve these tests. Given that these tests appear to come from the lying, filthy, corrupt, disease-ridden Chinese, one can well believe they’re total crap. But given the way PHE bureaucrats seem to reject anything that doesn’t come from their own useless £2bn-a-year bureaucracy, one could still have a lingering suspicion that doubts about the anti-body tests could also be due to PHE’s bureaucrats’ automatic blocking of any new idea or initiative.
Don’t give them medicine!
Then I came across this letter in the Sunday Telegraph from two days ago:
SIR – The chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has banned doctors from treating Covid-19 with anything other than paracetamol and, in severe cases, oxygen.
Colleagues have rightly condemned this response, which ignores the experience of doctors overseas. Professor Whitty’s position is that British doctors may not use therapies that have not undergone double blind controlled trials here. This could condemn many thousands to avoidable death through a failure to recognise that different rules should apply when patients are dying at such a rate.
The drug, hydroxychloroquine, is well-known, with a well-understood side-effect profile. It is safe. It also has a recognised mode of action in preventing replication of the virus. Comparison of the death rates in South Korea and Italy strongly suggests that it works to dramatically reduce the death rate. Evidence from India is similarly encouraging.
What sort of society do we live in when professors of rheumatology and consultants in respiratory medicine can only object anonymously? It is distressing that colleagues are too scared for their professional positions that they cannot advocate for their patients. Right or wrong, we have a duty to profess that which we believe to be true. To do otherwise brings into question our role in society. Are we doctors or are we civil servants?
Dr Steven R Hopkins
Lincolnshire”
I don’t know if this letter is genuinely from a doctor or whether the claims it makes are accurate. But the claims in the letter do seem to fit a pattern of behaviour of Britain’s health bureaucrats – reject, reject, reject. Medical authorities in other countries have fast-tracked various existing drugs for approval for treating the Chinese Covid-19 plague. For example, the US FDA has fast-tracked hydroxychloroquine and, I think, several other treatments. But, from what little I understand, UK authorities will not authorise the use of existing drugs (Ivermectin? Remdesivir?) already approved for other conditions until full clinical trials have been completed.
This is a well known pathology among supposed ‘experts’ and professionals, called the Semmelweis Reflex – a ridiculous, close-minded response to having prevailing orthodoxy challenged:
The term derives from the name of a Hungarian physician, Ignaz Semmelweis, who discovered in 1847 that childbed fever mortality rates fell ten-fold when doctors disinfected their hands with a chlorine solution before moving from one patient to another, or, most particularly, after an autopsy. (At one of the two maternity wards at the university hospital where Semmelweis worked, physicians performed autopsies on every deceased patient.)
Semmelweis’s procedure saved many lives by stopping the ongoing contamination of patients (mostly pregnant women) with what he termed “cadaverous particles”, twenty years before germ theory was discovered.
Though I guess most of us would see the Semmelweis Reflex as being the same as the “not invented here syndrome”.
If Britain’s healthcare bureaucrats are (as the Sunday Telegraph letter suggests) blocking possible treatments, this would be a failure to put patient outcome at the centre of decision making (what good those drug trials for people suffocating to death in an ICU right now?) – give them whatever it might take to stop them dying FFS – and therefore constitutes a form of abuse and a disgraceful and cowardly failure to live by the hippocratic oath.
I don’t normally read the Mail on Sunday as I’m totally uninterested in endless Harry and Meghan stories and supposed ‘exclusives’ about various other publicity-desperate z-list celebs and their ‘amazing’ new diets or ‘fabulous’ homes or whatever. But yesterday the Mail on Sunday actually produced some real journalism.
In a “China in the dock” 5-page special, there were the following articles:
Finally, a mainstream media newspaper has mentioned the hitherto unmentionable – Did the virus leak from a research lab in Wuhan?
This is a story that the mainstream media has shied away from and which, up till now, could only be found on websites like The Durden Despatch and Snouts-in-the-trough. The laboratory leak theory was also mentioned in one Sunday Times article this weekend, but disappointingly the Sunday Times Insight team seems to have avoided the issue.
In another article the Mail on Sunday proposed that Britain and other countries demand reparations from the filthy, lying, corrupt, disease-ridden Chinese for the damage done to our countries by the Chinese Covid-19 plague:
But don’t hold your breath. Our cowardly leaders are terrified of upsetting the Chinese and many members of the Establishment have lucrative positions on the boards of Chinese state-owned companies.
Then there was an article exposing how we’ve almost allowed ourselves to become a Chinese colony totally dependent on stuff produced in China:
But if you want an example of a true Chinese colony, just go to Australia. You’ll be amazed at the number of Chinese in most of Australia’s major cities, the number of supposedly Australian companies owned by the Chinese Communist Party and the amount of Australia’s food industry under Chinese control. Moreover, in January a Chinese property company owned by the Chinese Communist Party bought up hundreds of tons of healthcare equipment in Australia – face masks, protective equipment, hand gel etc etc – and shipped the whole lot back to China before China admitted the extent of the Chinese Covid-19 plague. So when Covid-19 hit Australia, Australians were somewhat surprised to find out there was a shortage.
And even more satisfying, there was an article revealing how the Director General of the tragically-misnamed World Health Organisation, Ethiopian Tedros Ghebreyesus, was (as far as I could understand) a lying, devious, self-serving sh*t totally controlled by the Communist Party of China.
When he was Health Minister in total sh*t-hole Ethiopia, Tedros allegedly covered up three cholera epidemics in his home country. On becoming head of the World Health Organisation, the noble Tedros proposed that his chum, mass murderer Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, be appointed a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation. And now it’s clear that Tedros Ghebreyesus’s grovelling subservience to China has helped the Chinese cover up the pandemic, has slowed down the world’s response and has probably led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths and massive unnecessary economic devastation. Meanwhile, China gets rich selling us the medical supplies we no longer make.
Moreover, under Tedros Ghebreyesus’s leadership, the World Health Organisation has made absolutely no attempt to investigate how the Covid-19 plague really started.
David Craig, on April 16th, 2020
