ERIC ZUESSE -- WP Says Trump ‘Leads the Way’ to ‘Coronavirus Failures’, & NYT Says Nation Says Biden Makes Americans ‘Hopeful’

WP Says Trump ‘Leads the Way’ to ‘Coronavirus Failures’,

& NYT Says Nation Says Biden Makes Americans ‘Hopeful’

Eric Zuesse

On Saturday night, and in their Sunday newspapers, the Washington Post and New York Times presented America’s central problem as being its current President, Donald Trump, and America’s central solution as being the next President, Joe Biden.

The Post headlined, “With Trump leading the way, America’s coronavirus failures exposed by record surge in new infections”, and they reported that their “portrait of a nation in crisis — and its failure to contain an epic pandemic — is based on interviews with 47 administration officials, lawmakers at the national and state level, congressional staff, federal and local health officials, public health experts and other current and former officials involved in the bungled and confused response.” Unless all propagandists for Trump and against Biden were simply being ignored by the Post’s propagandists, all that the Post’s ‘reporters’ had heard from their sources was that the problem is only Trump, and that any replacement of him would be its solution. Furthermore, “Trump … has been sliding in public polling and trailing Democratic rival Joe Biden, who is winning support from voters who disapprove of the president’s handling of the pandemic and the accompanying economic recession.” So, clearly, the Post’s anyone-but-Trump was referring, actually, to the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee, Biden — he’s their ‘solution’. That’s the Washington Post.

Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Biowarfare?

Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Biowarfare?

MAX PARRY • MARCH 16, 2020

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On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a global pandemic, the first since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. Initially reported in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December, just four months later there are now over 150,000 cases in more than 130 countries which has put many on total lockdown while the world economy has been brought to a virtual standstill. While the People’s Republic of China was the first country to report COVID-19, there has been a widespread presumption that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) must have emerged in the capital of Hubei province that has not been held under sufficient scrutiny by Western corporate media.

The question of whether the COVID-19 coronavirus could have come from the U.S. army was controversially raised by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Liljian Zhao, who tweeted an article from the Center for Research on Globalization website which subsequently went viral. Feigning concern over the spread of “disinformation”, Western media coverage uniformly avoided sourcing the article Zhao had shared on social media while predictably dismissing the claim as a “conspiracy theory.” Meanwhile, Iran’s Civil Defense Chief also said the coronavirus could be a biological attack on China and Iran, as the Islamic Republic has been the third-most impacted nation with more than 12,000 cases including many at the highest levels of its government with multiple senior officials infected. Contrary to such mainstream media scaremongering, it is completely reasonable and should be permitted to speculate about the origins of the virus. That Zhao’s posing of the theory received such a hostile response from the U.S. establishment is telling of how delicate their propaganda echo chamber is.

Coronavirus update: Xi Jinping visits Wuhan as China numbers fall, Italy’s soar

 Coronavirus update: Xi Jinping visits Wuhan as China numbers fall, Italy’s soar 

• Italian leader puts entire country in lockdown as cases rise to 9,172
• Wuhan continues to be only site of new domestic cases on Chinese mainland

Kinling Lo, Gigi Choy, Linda Lew and Laura Zhou

Published: 9:22am, 10 Mar, 2020
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Chinese President Xi Jinping visits residents in Wuhan, the city in Hubei province where the coronavirus outbreak emerged. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Wuhan – epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak – on Tuesday morning, as the number of new infections in mainland China continued its downward trend on Monday, with just 19 cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.

Italy is in lockdown, after a climb in the number of infections there to 9,172, overtaking South Korea as the worst affected country outside China. South Korea reported 7,513 infections as of midnight on Tuesday, while Iran has confirmed more than 7,000 cases.

“Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

Stock markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai bounced back in early trading on Tuesday, after stocks fell more than 7 per cent in the US, the Dow’s single-day biggest point drop ever.

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 All temporary hospitals in coronavirus epicenter Wuhan now shut down – Chinese state media 

10 Mar, 2020 07:10 / Updated 8 hours ago

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Medical workers in a makeshift hospital being closed in Wuhan, in Hubei province, China March 9, 2020 ©  cnsphoto via REUTERS

China has closed all of the temporary hospitals built in Wuhan – the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic – to house patients who caught the deadly virus, state media has reported.

Photographs published by CCTV show medical personnel who worked at one of the facilities celebrating and waving Chinese flags following the closure of their hospital.

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The impromptu hospitals closed their doors on the same day that Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a visit to Wuhan, the first time since the coronavirus epidemic began more than two months ago. Wuhan and the surrounding Hubei province was hit hardest by the illness, but infection rates have dropped significantly in recent days.

Some of the medical facilities were constructed in record time, with one hospital in Wuhan going up in under two weeks.