Revisiting China: Did a Pandemic really start in Wuhan?

Revisiting China: Did a Pandemic really start in Wuhan?

I’m including the conclusion below while suggesting, if interested, that you read entirely

Conclusion

Having examined the data regarding Covid cases and deaths in China in the first three months of 2020, we observed that the lockdown of Hubei province was followed by a very slight surge in Covid cases and deaths. Both had fizzled out by the time the WHO declared a pandemic. In consideration of these facts, we find:

no evidence that the Chinese lockdown had any impact on the trajectory of either Covid cases or deaths.
no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was highly transmissible.
no evidence that Covid was unusually lethal.
no evidence that anything significant happened in China as a result of Covid (other than the lockdown itself).
nothing that can support the WHO’s decision to consider Covid a pandemic.

Unless the SARS-CoV-2 virus somehow changed its virulence depending on either ethnicity or regional boundaries,[21] we find no reason to think that Covid should have been more lethal in any other country than it was in China. As such, we conclude that there was nothing worthy of being called a pandemic in 2020. Finally, since Covid did not spread out of Wuhan despite five million travellers to other Chinese provinces (a “super-spreader” event of epic proportions), we find no reason to think that it spread out of Wuhan to other countries either.

In the summer of 2019 ( an unusual time for respiratory outbreaks)

Fairfax County health officials said they don’t yet have a cause of the respiratory illness that sicked more than 60 residents at a Northern Virginia senior living community.

The outbreak at Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield began June 30. Sick residents had symptoms such as coughs, fevers and pneumonia.

Three people have also died, but Dr. Benjamin Schwartz of the Fairfax County Health Department said Wednesday afternoon that those who died were “older” and had complex health problems. Officials don’t yet know the extent to which the respiratory illness contributed to their deaths, he said.

There were some that tied this outbreak to Fort Dietrick

July 2019, an unknown respiratory illness outbreak happened in Virginia, U.S. patients’ symptoms included fever, cough, body ache, wheezing, and general weakness, according to ABC News. The disease sickened dozens of residents and killed at least two people at Greenspring Retirement Community in Springfield. An expert said it was less likely for a respiratory outbreak to happen in July than in the winter.

One month later, the deadly germs research lab was shut down in a U.S. Army biological laboratory in Fort Deitrick, one hour’s drive from the Greenspring Community.

Speculation over COVID-19’s origin continues to grow, with some people demanding that the U.S. government disclose more information on the lab’s closure that may be connected to the outbreak.

However, the Centers for Disease Control CDC could not provide more specific details due to “national security reasons,” the New York Times reported.

The first alleged case of Covid was identified in the US in January of 2020- But did he contract this virus in China? Given the number of days he was in the US after he returned?
I don’t know?

On January 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever.

You can read about his case at the link above-

He contracted pneumonia after 5 days of hospitilization

““ concern about hospital-acquired pneumonia”
“His oxygenation levels had dropped off“

Our case patient initially presented with mild cough and low-grade intermittent fevers, without evidence of pneumonia on chest radiography on day 4 of his illness, before having progression to pneumonia by illness day 9.

I tend to wonder if this was connected more to the patient being inactive- Oxygenation is lower when one is sedentary or lying down. And hospital acquired pneumonia is a distinct possibility.
So many bacteria and virus float around the hospital- c difficile. MRSA etc.,

And then there is Ukraine

UN in NY: “Network of 30 biological laboratories formed in Ukraine”- GoF Research

Russian embassy in US blames Washington for trying to manage epidemics

I’d previously theorized that China may have interpreted Covid as bio warfare, responding harshly to the appearance of the virus. Giving the US and other alleged democracies the justification to engage in the same harsh measures.

I still think that China may have reacted for the reason above. Considering the information in the PANDA article bio warfare explains the Chinese response particularly if the virus originated at Fort Dietrick or in the Ukraine.