Here is a rather lengthy piece about the origin(s) of COVID-19 by Professor Anthony Hall:
https://ahtribune.com/world/3930-who-or-what-started-the-wuhan-coronavirus.html
In case you (like me) hadn't heard of Prof. Hall before, here is his CV:
Anthony James Hall has been Editor In Chief of the American Herald Tribune since its inception. Between 1990 and 2018 Dr. Hall was Professor of Globalization Studies and Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge where he is now Professor Emeritus. The focus of Dr. Hall's teaching, research, and community service came to highlight the conditions of the colonization of Indigenous peoples in imperial globalization since 1492. In 2016 Dr. Hall's work on 9/11, false flag terrorism and the parallels in the genocidal dispossession of Native Americans and Palestinians became the target of a historic witch hunt led by the Israel Lobby in Canada. Professor Hall has published widely in his areas of expertise including the existence of Aboriginal and treaty rights as an emerging field of international law.
It's a shame that his comments about Palestinians have led to the apparent torpedoing of his career, but hopefully that side of him will not bias your view of what he has to say in the above piece. I think he makes several very good points.
We really need to know how COVID-19 came about before we turn our world upside down to deal with it. And his comparison to our misguided response to 9/11 is in my view spot on.
Here is discussion of the potential impact of the pandemic:
ReplyDeletehttp://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/shocking-new-study-concludes-that-the-best-case-scenario-for-a-covid-19-pandemic-is-15-million-dead
This will be by far the greatest human catastrophe since World War II, and we best not bury our heads in the sand when it comes to understanding its origins and the influence it will have on all of us for all time.