Friday, April 10, 2020

Coronavirus: Nature magazine apologises for reports linking Covid-19 with China

Some guy I follow on twitter put out a video of Chinese men on motor-bikes who were snatching children allegedly for organ harvesting. There was also terrying footage of two men snatching a child from hysterical parents from their hallway. In the tweets underneath everyone was going ballistic demonising the Chinese.

I tweeted asking them how did they know what was actually happening in these videos, and that such footage could be collected from any country? I said it could be divorced parents fighting over their children?

I then tweeted saying that it is believed that there are VIP pedophile rings operating in the West, where sometimes there has been child sacrifice. I then put out a Tedx video of a woman who says she escaped one of these demonic sex cults when she was young. I said these Western sex rings don't make Western people bad, it just means there are just some bad Western people.

I don't know if the allegations of Western VIP pedophiles have any truth to them, anymore than the systematic Chinese organ harvesting stories do, but I was hoping that people would reflect on their assumptions and prejudices, but I got no likes or replies.

Anyway, organ harvesting has occurred in the UK as well, but obviously not carried out by the state, but by criminal gangs. The police are hot on it.

I read years ago how all Israeli soldiers were made to read a book written by a psychologist. He wrote that people don't like the middle ground all that much as they find it boring, but being either on the left or right was much more fun.

This psychologist wrote that sometimes wars can start because people enjoy the passion and excitement they stir up. Demonising the enemy and conspiracy theories can also be exciting for some.

Early anti-Chinese propaganda novel. 




Scientific journal admits it ‘was an error on our part’ to erroneously link the pathogen with Wuhan and China

‘It would be tragic if stigma, fuelled by the coronavirus, led Asia’s young people to retreat from international campuses,’ it says

British scientific journal Nature has apologised for associating Covid-19 with China in its reporting, saying that early coverage of the global health crisis by itself and other media had led to racist attacks on people of Asian descent around the world.

SCMP

Coronavirus: Nature magazine apologises for reports linking Covid-19 with China

4 comments:

Peter Pan said...

It began in China. Nothing racist about geography.

Matt Franko said...

I would say right now the Fox coverage is mmmmmmmm... proabablyyyyyyy.... 65% China bashing...

Blissex2 said...

«a video of Chinese men on motor-bikes who were snatching children allegedly for organ harvesting. There was also terrying footage of two men snatching a child from hysterical parents from their hallway.»

That's entirely credible but for the "organ harvesting": there is a significant market for abducted babies and children, whom are purchased by mothers who ho no children or just one, to be sure to have someone providing for them in their old age, confucian-style. This is due to the collapse of the social insurance in China plus the (now-relaxed) one-child policy, many middle aged women are terrified of a destitute old age (men aren't because so many know they will die well before women do, in part because a much higher percentage of men smoke). As to child disappearances there is are every year a pretty significant and underreported number of "vanished" children in the USA and even other "first word" countries, but they are mostly from poor families, so really they don't matter (while there is often a lot of noise about disappearing affluent middle class children, those apprently do matter). Google reports:
"According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States".
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/22/us/missing-children-fast-facts/index.html
"According to the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Person File, there are 85,459 active missing person records, of which juveniles under the age of 18 account for 29,758 (34.8%) of the records."

A majority of them eventually are found, the others just "vanish".

From the news I have read about organ harvesting the prey usually are prime young (16-25) men and women, usually (african) migrants, I guess because their organs are already adult-size. There are stories about scores of mutilated bodies washing up on the shores of Egypt etc.

«In the tweets underneath everyone was going ballistic demonising the Chinese.»

There is a widespread anti-chinese campaign, fueled by the realization that a lot of goo jobs were exported to China by USA corporates to destroy the USA trade unions, but the campaign focuses on the chinese who took those jobs, not on the corporate managements who gifted them to the chinese.

Kaivey said...

These were young children being snatched, under 10 years old. It could have been old fashioned kidnapping, which has always occurred in the West too - well everywhere, and still horrible.

There was two shots on motorbikes, and one in a hallway. Maybe there wasn't anymore, so it could be very rare.

There are reports about Israel organ harvesting too. It's too horrible to think about.