The Unz Review Digest - March 27, 2020
As might be expected, the Coronavirus epidemic heavily dominated this week’s most popular articles, holding five of the six top spots.
Ranking first by a wide margin, was an article by Godfree Roberts arguing that the Coronavirus had originally appeared in the US and was accidentally brought to China by the 300 American military officers who visited Wuhan, a theory now widely promoted by the Chinese government and media. However, this hypothesis received very strong push-back from readers, and I myself argued in the comments that it made absolutely no logical sense and was very likely an example of (poor quality) PRC propaganda, and the majority of the other respondents generally agreed with me, across the 600 comments totaling nearly 80,000 words.
In second place but coming up very fast after two days was my own short piece suggesting a simple and effective means of estimating Coronavirus infections in any region, a crucial tool given our total inability to conduct widespread testing in the race to control the epidemic. Nearly all the more “mainstream” readers agreed that my methodology made good sense, but numerous others continued to insist that the Coronavirus epidemic was largely a “hoax” not much more dangerous than the regular annual flu, with the debate raging over 500 comments totaling nearly 60,000 words.
Still holding a strong third-place was last week’s piece by Kevin Barrett pointing to the stark similarities in media and social reaction to the Coronavirus outbreak and the 9/11 attacks, with those who propose discordant views being widely denounced and demonized in the mainstream media. This thread has now exceeded 700 comments and may soon reach 100,000 words.
The lengthy comments by a 40-year veteran of American biodefense, arguing that the Coronavirus outbreak was probably a American biowarfare attack against China, first published over a month ago held the fifth spot, with the 700 comments totaling over 75,000 words.
Andrew Joyce’s analysis of the broader future implications of the potentially devastating disease ranked sixth.
Finally, Guillaume Durocher’s sociological analysis of Europe’s gypsy population held the sole non-Coronavirus spot, ranking fourth.
China Wins Big With Covid-19. What Were We Thinking?
China suffered through the H1N1 coronavirus epidemic in 2008 largely because the CDC took 6 months to identify it and, as a result, 300,000 died prematurely. SARS (774 deaths) was the clincher. They created a hair-trigger alarm system, mandated post-mortem pneumonia DNA testing nationwide, and promoted the CDC head, Dr. George F. Gao[1], to Demigod....
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The Coronavirus epidemic may soon produce the greatest American disaster since our Civil War over 150 years ago, and numbers reveal the possible magnitude. For example, New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof on Sunday reported the disheartening analysis of Dr. Neil Ferguson of Britain, one of the world's leading epidemiologists. According to Dr. Ferguson the...
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I spent most of 2004 through 2006 blaming Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for 9/11. As you can imagine, I got plenty of pushback. Strangely, the loudest, most hysterical shrieks came not from red-white-and-blue Republican patriots, but from seemingly insane Zionists screaming: “Why do you hate the Jews so much, you anti-Semite?”[1] At first, I...
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The EU interviewed 8,000 Gypsies, the results will shock you!
I for one am fascinated by Gypsies. I find it remarkable that a people, hailing from the dregs of medieval Indian society, could cross the whole Middle East, arrive in eastern Europe, and maintain their identity among other peoples for 1500 years. The Gypsies did this, furthermore, without maintaining their own sovereign state or religion,...
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[The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.] [Update: an investigation strongly suggests that the author's claims regarding his personal background and professional expertise are accurate.] I’ll throw my 2 cents in here....
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Writing anything about COVID-19 at this moment is a daunting task since the situation is evolving so rapidly, and in so many different locations. Information contained in this piece could be thoroughly outpaced by transformative events by the time it reaches publication, or even by the time I finish up and click “save.” There is...
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If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in a globalised world our lives are so intertwined that the idea of viewing ourselves as islands – whether as individuals, communities, nations, or a uniquely privileged species –...
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Previously on SBPDL: 70% Black Baltimore in 2019 Has Homicide Rate of 57 Per 100,000; 85% White Baltimore in 1921 Had Homicide Rate of 11 Per 100,000... Is there even much of a need for commentary for this one? And no, this is not from The Onion. If you’ve read The City that Bleeds: Race,...
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Between the fallout of the murder of General Soleimani and the coronovirus, the Ukraine has been somewhat forgotten, which is understandable, but also potentially dangerous. The "young and dynamic" President Zelenskii has more or less been forgotten, especially by the legacy corporate ziomedia. This does not, however, mean that the situation there did not evolve...
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The next bailout will be our last
Imagine if the congress approved a measure to form a public-private partnership between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Can you imagine that? Now imagine if a panicky and ill-informed Congress gave the Fed a blank check to bail out all of its crooked crony corporate and Wall Street friends, allowing the Fed to...
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Let’s try a little thought experiment. Just for fun. To pass the time while we’re indefinitely locked down inside our homes, compulsively checking the Covid-19 “active cases” and “total death” count, washing our hands every twenty minutes, and attempting not to touch our faces. Before we do, though, I want to make it clear that...
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Now that the Democratic Party has apparently succeeded in getting rid of the only two voices among its presidential candidates that actually deviated from the establishment consensus, it appears that Joe Biden will be running against Donald Trump in November. To be sure, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard are still hanging on, but the fix...
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Denying medicines to Iran and Venezuela is a crime against humanity
Much remains to be learned about the coronavirus, though it is quite possible that it will not be possible to determine how it developed if the various governments that might be involved prove to be uncooperative. The Chinese carefully controlled the information on the virus in its early stages, though they eventually adopted a complete...
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When in doubt as to just how remiss your government was, see what Israel has done to protect its nationals from the coronavirus pandemic. Taking its cues from the American Left, the Israeli left is all for national and individual self-immolation. But nobody who matters in that country has been listening to the Left babble...
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The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic
What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it. My initial question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source, jurist Valerie Bugault, was...
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As you cross the Fourteenth Street Bridge from Arlington into Washington on a sunny spring day, the vista is magnificent, uplifting. Huge blue sky, brisk wind, the broad brown river flashing in the sunlight. As a portal to the capital of a world empire, it is suitable, even convincing. This new Tiber is at the...
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Even before the Covid-19 crisis had slashed stock prices nearly in half since it erupted in January, financial markets were in an inherently unstable condition. Years of quantitative easing had loaded so much money into stock and bond prices that stock price/earnings multiples and bond prices were far too high by any normal and reasonable...
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[Portions of this article were drawn from various sources as cited. However, additional portions seem to have been quoted from Larry Romanoff at Global Research without proper citation.] It does seem farfetched, doesn’t it? That the United States will risk World War III, using nuclear weapons, by launching a coronavirus inside China during the 2020...
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In these Corona times, I often listen to Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. This black cloud has a silver lining. With the virus roaming outside, teenagers deign to spend more time with their parents; wives are at home cooking dinners instead of hanging out with gorgeous strangers in posh cafés;...
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