Where would Chinese “Pearl Harbor” come?

"Pearl Harbor", well the current Pandemic already sounds like a fit for a Pearl Harbor like scenario. Hundreds of thousands dead, economy crippled, people in panic, State of emergencies, all without having to fire one shot. If COVID 19 really did leak from a lab in Wuhan which more evidence shows it is, then the CCP may have unintentionally already started the "Pearl Harbor". That being said, a Biological attack on a country is an ideal way to completely cripple a country without having to fire a shot militarily. It is hard to beat an enemy you can't see.

Well there's zero evidence the Coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab.

If COVID-19 was a sinister plan hatched by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, then why launch it in Wuhan? Why not New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, Los Angeles, Seoul, etc.? Certainly they would have the means. Why start the attack within their own borders? Makes no sense. If the Russians were to launch a bio-war would they start it in Moscow, with the hope it would spread globally to hurt their geopolitical foes? Ridiculous!

As the US recognized in the late 1960s, biological warfare cannot be controlled. You could as many, if not more, of your own people as you do the enemy. Thus, Nixon ordered the entire American supply of bio-weapons destroyed. Can't say he was "weak on the commies".

COVID-19 was a fluke of nature. We should be thankful it "only" killed (mostly) the elderly and those in ill health. The next pandemic might kill us all.
 
Well there's zero evidence the Coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab.
There actually isn't. Even the Former CDC Director believed it may have came from a lab. Think about it, a bat virus originates in the same city coincidentally where a P4 Biolab known to do research on bat viruses is? It wouldn't make sense for a bat virus to originate in from a seafood market that does not sell bats.
If COVID-19 was a sinister plan hatched by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, then why launch it in Wuhan? Why not New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, Los Angeles, Seoul, etc.? Certainly they would have the means. Why start the attack within their own borders? Makes no sense. If the Russians were to launch a bio-war would they start it in Moscow, with the hope it would spread globally to hurt their geopolitical foes? Ridiculous!

Never said it was intentionally leaked, fact is that the CCP did not take measures to contain the virus and allowed their citizens to travel outside of China while simultaneously preventing people from Wuhan traveling to other Chinese cities. They also suppressed those who spoke about the virus in the early days, all of this lead to today's problems.
As the US recognized in the late 1960s, biological warfare cannot be controlled. You could as many, if not more, of your own people as you do the enemy. Thus, Nixon ordered the entire American supply of bio-weapons destroyed. Can't say he was "weak on the commies".

I agree, there is a saying in Biological Warfare and it is that you never make a Virus that has a 100% mortality rate. You won't be able to control it as Viruses do not discriminate.
COVID-19 was a fluke of nature. We should be thankful it "only" killed (mostly) the elderly and those in ill health. The next pandemic might kill us all.
Hopefully not!
 
And all overblown. Casualty numbers that were inflated and in some cases flat out lied about, an economy that was purposely shut down by politicians with an axe to grind, and people in panic because the media and government told them to panic.
This I completely agree with. Having numerous family members in the medical field, I believe I'm qualified enough to respond to this. Right in the middle of flu season, my mom asked her supervisor how many flu cases there have been in her hospital. His answer? One. How is this possible? Because all hospitals are doing are testing for COVID, not the flu. Those who go to hospitals for other reasons besides COVID, (surgery, as an example), are tested for COVID upon admission, such as they did when my mom was admitted due to stomach/joint pain. She tested negative, and has done so 3 times. So, they count all the asymptomatic people in their numbers, even those who die they test. Even if there was an obvious reason for said death, such as a heart attack, they'll test for COVID. Also, hospitals receive more funding based off of how many COVID cases they have.

We cancelled our cable a few months ago, right after the election. The chaos and widespread panic the media was (and still is) projecting was too much strain on our household. Only thing my mom misses is her HGTV.
 
This I completely agree with. Having numerous family members in the medical field, I believe I'm qualified enough to respond to this. Right in the middle of flu season, my mom asked her supervisor how many flu cases there have been in her hospital. His answer? One. How is this possible? Because all hospitals are doing are testing for COVID, not the flu. Those who go to hospitals for other reasons besides COVID, (surgery, as an example), are tested for COVID upon admission, such as they did when my mom was admitted due to stomach/joint pain. She tested negative, and has done so 3 times. So, they count all the asymptomatic people in their numbers, even those who die they test. Even if there was an obvious reason for said death, such as a heart attack, they'll test for COVID. Also, hospitals receive more funding based off of how many COVID cases they have.
JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association


From the article:

Results
Between March 1, 2020, and January 2, 2021, the US experienced 2 801 439 deaths, 22.9% more than expected, representing 522 368 excess deaths (Table). The excess death rate was higher among non-Hispanic Black (208.4 deaths per 100 000) than non-Hispanic White or Hispanic populations (157.0 and 139.8 deaths per 100 000, respectively); these groups accounted for 16.9%, 61.1%, and 16.7% of excess deaths, respectively. The US experienced 4 surge patterns: in New England and the Northeast, excess deaths surged in the spring; in the Southeast and Southwest, in the summer and early winter; in the Plains, Rocky Mountains, and far West, primarily in early winter; and in the Great Lakes, bimodally, in the spring and early winter (Figure). Excess deaths were increasing in all regions at the end of 2020. The 10 states with the highest per capita rate of excess deaths were Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Arizona, Alabama, Louisiana, South Dakota, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Ohio. New York experienced the largest relative increase in all-cause mortality (38.1%). Deaths attributed to COVID-19 accounted for 72.4% of US excess deaths.
 
It's also the case that measures to reduce the spread of a highly contagious respiratory disease will naturally reduce the occurrence of less contagious respiratory diseases. Something like the flu peaks in winter when people are spending more time indoors among other people and efforts to reduce indoor interactions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic should (and do) have a meaningful impact on the rate of influenza spread.

See the CDC stats for influenza test rates here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
- the 2020-2021 season saw a huge reduction in flu cases

NYT has a killer graphic on flu cases collapsing in 2020/2021: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/22/science/flu-season-coronavirus-pandemic.html
 
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