Is COVID-19 a bioweapon? Is it a biological weapon deliberately released by the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party in order to achieve its global objectives? The debate hasn't really gone there. But I think it needs to. Why not?
If the virus leaked out of the Wuhan lab, there are two ways that could happen. The first one, of course, is an accidental leak; oops, the virus got out. But the other is they wanted the virus to get out. And that cannot be written off without looking into it. That's what I'm calling for.
Early in 2020, almost a year and a half ago, Debbie and I were on a long plane flight from California, I believe, to Texas after doing a speaking event. And Debbie was on the WiFi, and she said, "Hey, take a look at this!" And she showed me a video. This was really before the lockdowns, before the global awareness of COVID. But it was a scene in China, and you saw a group of Chinese people in full hazmat suits. And they were going into the apartments of Chinese families and dragging people out by force. Those people were screaming, "Please, please!" One guy was holding onto one leg, another guy to another leg; they were pulling these people out and tossing them into vans. And then you would see these same Chinese guys in hazmat suits walking through the streets with huge, it seemed like leaf blowers, but they were fumigating the streets.
It was an eerie scene; it's a scene out of "Apocalypse Now." And Debbie was discombobulated and disturbed by this. And she asked, "What's going on? This is not normal." And I agreed, but I didn't really make too much of it. But I'm thinking about that scene, one of the most, to me, arresting images, of COVID in retrospect, because it almost seems like, at a time when the world didn't know much about COVID (it knew about it but didn't know much about it, there was no talk at that time of a global pandemic), it seems like the Chinese knew what they had on their hands. They knew what they were dealing with.
This, of course, raises the question, was this part of something that they orchestrated or planned? When I look at all the talk surrounding the investigations of the origin of COVID-19 now, it seems that there are two possibilities: either this emerged naturally out of a wet market, or it leaked accidentally out of the Wuhan lab. Those are the two options.
Here is the important article I've cited before by the two leading scientists Steven Quay and Richard Muller from The Wall Street Journal – "The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak." And think of that title, "The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak." They go on to point out that the virus looks to be manmade. But they seem to assume that if it was manmade, it is a leak. In other words, it came out inadvertently. They don't even seem to consider the possibility that this could have been done deliberately.
Now, why do people make deadly viruses? Well, I can think of three reasons.
One, they're doing it to find cures for disease. Two, they're doing it because they can, out of you may say, the kind of idle scientific curiosity that proverbially killed the cat. We can do it. So, let's do it. We'll worry about the risks later. Or three, as a bioweapon.
The Chinese have had, no one denies, a biological weapons program. In fact, they've had one since the mid-1980s. The New York Times published an article in 1993 talking about how China is building up its bioweapons program, a highly clandestine program initiated by the Communist Party and its leadership.
So, we have to look at the two competing theories. Either it was an accidental leak, or it was a bioweapon. It seems to me that the best argument for a leak is the idea that the virus got out in Wuhan. That would seem to suggest a leak; why? Because if it were really deliberate if it was a bioweapon, why release it in your own country? We seem to mean that the Chinese would be more likely to say, "Hey, listen, let's take this over and release it in the Netherlands. It'll get out over there and spread from there, and it'll be more difficult to trace to us."
But I think that this way of thinking, although it seems plausible, is actually a little bit naive. Why? Because it now turns out that you can look at the virus itself and see inside of the genetic code of the virus, a signature that suggests it's manmade. So the Chinese, if this were a bioweapon, would know this. And they would know that if they release it in the Netherlands, people would say, "Whoa, wait a minute, this was a manmade virus! Well, who's making these deadly viruses? The leading place in the world: Wuhan, China!" So, in other words, then you would know it was released deliberately.
Now, here's the advantage of having it released in Wuhan, from the Chinese point of view. You can make a deliberate release of the virus look like a leak. If the virus got out in Wuhan, if it kills a bunch of Chinese, people are going to say, "Well, gee, obviously it leaked out. There was some kind of negligence." So even though China is responsible, it's one thing to be responsible for negligence. It's a whole other thing to be responsible for something deliberate.
Here's the point.
It's a little hard for many people to believe. In fact, Fauci said recently, I'm paraphrasing, "The Chinese have every interest in cooperating. They have every interest in disclosing what happened here." He's assuming that they wouldn't dream of releasing this virus deliberately. But I think that is Fauci naivete, Fauci stupidity.
Why? Because communist governments have never hesitated to kill a whole bunch of their own people. They mainly kill their own people. Even if you look at the socialist government in Nazi Germany, the National Socialists, and you think of the Jews, the other Jews were seen by Hitler as not, you know, "they're aliens," but they were Germans. Stalin killed millions of his own people, millions of Russians. Mao killed millions of Chinese. So this idea that "the Chinese would never dream of killing some of their own people," they certainly would if their leadership was inoculated. If the leadership had the vaccine in advance, if the leadership had a way of protecting them, that's who they care about. This was also true in the Soviet Union. They cared about their own inner circle, their own nomenklatura; they didn't care about anyone else.
It would seem to me that there are three good reasons for the Chinese to want to use COVID-19 as a bioweapon if they could.
One, to get rid of Trump. Trump was a menace as far as the Chinese were concerned. Look at the timing of the virus. It was almost like a political and scientific nuclear bomb dropped in the middle of the 2020 election year.
Two, to deliver a body blow to the world economy, and particularly to the U.S. economy. The U.S. has been essentially the world's superpower, but think of what happens if the U.S. is essentially blown up from within. And if the Chinese are able to take a blow but recover much more quickly. That is, in fact, what has been the case.
And the third is to thin out the Chinese population. The Chinese don't exactly have a shortage of people. This is a virus that disproportionately affects old people who would otherwise be wards of the state.
So, if you think this kind of diabolical reasoning is impossible for a socialist government, impossible for a communist party, well, it's time to learn a little bit of history.