Is the Corona Virus Global Pandemic a Hoax?

Ron Unz, over at the Unz Review, is running several articles arguing that the novel corona virus, COVID-19, is a US biowarfare agent most likely launched by the US armed-forces contingent at last December's Military Games in Wuhan, China. The purpose for this dastardly deed? To wreck China's economy and give the US a chance to remain global hegemon for at least another few months.

The idea seems dopey to me. To date, Covid-19 has killed far fewer than the regular late-fall flu. What's more, those said to have died are mostly, like me, over 65, i.e., a burden on the economy, not a productive asset to be preserved.

True, in response to the outbreak of this supposedly deadly virus, China has really hammed it up, barring citizens in their homes, locking down whole cities, building multiple massive hospitals overnight.

Sure makes it look like the virus is a real threat. Yet in America, the reaction to the arrival of COVID-19 is almost somnolent, with fewer tests for the virus having been conducted in the whole of the US than have been conducted in the single Canadian Province of British Columbia.

Meantime, here in test-crazy BC, life continues seemingly unaltered. The streets are filled with vehicles, the stores are filled with shoppers, and although stores are said to have sold out of face masks, no one I've seen is wearing this life-saving device.

But why fake an epidemic? Well, for China, it provides an opportunity to test their biowarfare response systems, while for Donald Trump it allows him to breeze through the crisis exuding optimism and confidence and demonstrating that America is truly so great again that it can just shrug off the non-existent virus while hardly moving a finger to stop it.

Who knows? But for me, as a commentator, it looks to be a win-win situation. If the bug's for real and I join the ranks of the elderly victims of viral voracity, I won't be around for anyone to ridicule me, but if I'm still here by summer, I'll take a bow.

And as the 2019—2020 season flu death toll in the US heads for 20,000, the New York Post reports: Coronavirus death toll reaches six in US. To that, I say — with all due respect for the diseased, LOL.

Related:
CanSpeccy: The novel Corona Virus Is Going Global and If You're Old, It May Just Have Been Targeted On You
Jon Rappoport: How to stage a fake epidemic (and brainwash billions of people)