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The Chinese Government’s Plot to Hide Their Role in Causing a Pandemic
Disclaimer: The criticisms in the posts that follow are aimed entirely at the Chinese government and at Chinese vaccine makers. It is not directed at Chinese citizens or at people of Chinese descent.
On conspiracy theories: A conspiracy is an organized attempt to secretly achieve a goal through deception. The term “conspiracy theorist” is currently a term of derision and is often confused with mental instability, in particular paranoia. In fact, conspiracies are common and will documented. The take over of Russia after the fall of Csar was the result of a very elaborate conspiracy on the part of the communists. The attempted cover-up of the break-in at the Watergate hotel was a conspiracy that occurred at the highest levels of the US government. On a more mundane level, conspiracies occur routinely in every office over relatively unimportant things like parking spaces and raises. We hide from the word conspiracy because we don’t want to be lumped in with the mentally unstable who use the internet to distribute their ravings. We do this at our peril. Investigative journalism is largely dead. We have no Edward R. Murrow. We have no Jack Anderson. We have only…ourselves. If we don’t dig up the facts and support the few brave souls who take a stand against the Chinese government’s plot to hide vital information about the development of H5N1 in China, then no-one else will.
What follows is a conspiracy theory. Specifically, I believe that vaccine makers in China and the policies of the Government of China are responsible for the rapid of evolution of multiple strains of lethal H5N1. Further, through lies and inappropriate influence on the WHO, they have conspired to coverup their role in this tragedy. In spite of repeated warnings by eminent scientists and repeated promises by the Chinese government that they would be more transparent, they have persisted in behaviour that puts the world at risk of a catastrophic event without parallel.
The children who have died of H5N1 gasping their parents arms died because of the policies of the Chinese government. Their blood is on President’s Hu’s hands. It is time to rise up and say “Enough!” Because if don’t, our children are next.
Monotreme. Tell us what you really think. /:0)
What role is the World Health Organization playing in this conspiracy?
How big is the regulators role in the conspiracy.
Note: Monotreme, I have found that 75mg. of Rantidine is highly effective as a preventative for heartburn. I looked in my crystal ball and I expect you to have a major case of it after the eighth of November.
Having learned to live with Dick Thompson and friends at the WHO over the past two years…I can offer you some councilling after Dr. Margaret Chan becomes Director General.
Monotreme, the horse has already left the barn. The only recourse is to prepare ourselves better than they do so that they can not possibly profit from their incompetence, cover-up, and reactive malevolence towards the rest of the World.
We must each do our part to “harden” our nations so as to withstand a H5N1 panflu (China Flu).
I do not want to survive this probable disaster only to see the “favored few” of China pick up the pieces.
Tom DVM – at 22:56
What role is the World Health Organization playing in this conspiracy?
Margaret Chan has been the pandemic flu czar at the WHO for the last couple of years. During this time, she has praised the Chinese government for it’s transparency even while they were lying about both animal and human cases and refusing to provide samples and sequences. Her reward for this disgusting toadyism is that she is likely to be being named the next Director-General of the WHO. She thinks so. The Chinese government thinks so. However, I think there is a chance this could be derailed if we make a big enough stink about it. It certainly would not hurt for us to write our representatives and express our strong objections to her installation.
If Margaret Chan becomes the Director-General, all hope of applying pressure to China to release more information on what has happened with H5N1 will be gone.
Let’s at least try to stop this. The people who will vote for the next Director-General are members of the WHO Executive Board. Here is a list of the members.
The United States Board member is Dr J. Agwunobi, Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC.
The Australian Board member is Ms J. Halton, Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, ACT.
Let’s write our elected officials and request that the Board members from our countries *not* vote for Margaret Chan. Shigeru Omi is the best candidate, IMO.
Medical Maven – at 22:56
…the horse has already left the barn.
Not quite, but the door is open and it’s moving in that direction.
I have been given new hope regarding the potential for the WHO to play a positive role by Dr. Julie Hall, a WHO infectious disease expert stationed in Beijing. She has spoken up strongly criticising the Chinese government for their deceptions, most recently today in this article:
WHO Blasts Chinese Gov’t on Bird Flu.
We must each do our part to “harden” our nations so as to withstand a H5N1 panflu (China Flu).
Agreed. But have you read your state’s or country’s pandemic flu plan? I’ve read about half of the US state plans so far. Almost all of them yoke their preparations to the WHO phase system. Want to know why your state has not started to prepare? It’s because the WHO says we are at phase 3. Serious preparations don’t start until phase 4. Who decides when to change the phase? The Director-General. If we get the right DG, it’s possible that they will declare phase 4 before the pandemic begins. This would send a serious signal to the states to prepare. If we get Margaret Chan, phase 4 will not be declared until after the pandemic has begun. And if you live in a state that hasn’t prepared, the odds are, your personal preps aren’t going to be enough to save you.
Monotreme? Can you give some examples of how Margaret Chan has praised the Chinese government?
Her reward for this disgusting toadyism is that she is likely to be named the next Director-General of the WHO.
I would take it from this that toads are immune to H5N1.
CHINA: UN officials praise openness of Beijing
Margaret Chan feels more confident on running for Director-General of WHO
Chan said she felt actually a bit nervous on knowing she was backed by the central government as the candidate for the position of WHO Director-General. However, the central government’s full support and close coordination from the government of HKSAR has heightened her confidence.
‘Chan stressed twice that she will do her utmost to live up to everyone’s expectations.’‘
Vice premier wu meets Margaret Chan
A picture is worth a thousand words
China gives full backing to Margaret Chan for WHO director-general
China backs Margaret Chan as WHO chief: official
A senior Chinese official said on Friday that the central government endorses Margaret Chan from Hong Kong in her bid to become Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
“The central government believes the election is very important,” said Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai.
Chan insisted that China has learned from SARS, and commended its openness in combatting bird flu. She said lapses in reporting bird flu cases mostly happened at the village level, where people have struggled to confirm infections.
“China is prepared to act and play its role as a major country,” she said. “And one of the reasons for nominating me as a candidate for the post is because they would like to make a greater contribution to global public health.”
But Thomas Abraham, author of Twenty-first Century Plague: The Story of SARS, said China still lacks transparency.
“It’s not an open system yet, and I think they have a long way to go. Information about disease is still something that you can only publish if it’s officially announced,” said Abraham, a journalism professor at the University of Hong Kong.
ReallyDisappointed – at 23:30
Is this enough, or do you want me to find more?
Monotreme. Post the one where someone said that Dr. Chan wasn’t getting a fair shake from the rest of the world and that she did a good job during the SARS outbreak.
Hi Many Cats. Oh! That was a tempting lead in but I didn’t have room for another foot in my mouth tonight.
Hi, TomDVM!!!!! Yes, we already know that toads are immune to SARS…
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The Role of Bad Vaccines in China in Producing the Lethal Strains of H5N1
A number of influenza experts have suggested that improper use of vaccines in China has resulted in the extremely high lethality of H5N1. Some examples:
Expert: Bad vaccines may trigger China bird flu
Bird Flu Experts Warn Against Bad Vaccines
Earlier this month, Chinese agriculture officials reported that unlicensed vaccines had been sold to farmers in the northeastern province of Liaoning, causing what chief government veterinarian Jia Youling called “incalculable” harm. Officials have reported four outbreaks in Liaoning in recent weeks. More than 10 million birds have been destroyed to combat the disease, and health officials are now investigating whether a local poultry worker contracted it.
Farmers in Liaoning had used a vaccine approved by the government solely for testing, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. The Shanghai-registered manufacturer issued a statement saying its salesmen had smuggled the vaccine to the province and sold it in a market.
After the Agriculture Ministry’s disclosure, U.N. officials in Beijing asked the government for details, including specifics about the vaccines used. Roy Wadia, spokesman for the World Health Organization in Beijing, said the government has not responded.
The concern about substandard medicines assumed greater urgency last week when Chinese officials announced they were extending their inoculation campaign to cover every chicken and duck in the country, which by some estimates accounts for a quarter of the world’s poultry.
There have been numerous reports of bad vaccines being used on people. How does the Chinese government respond to protests of parents whose children were crippled by these vaccines?
Parents press China for answer to bad, fake drugs
Cradled in her mother’s arms, tiny Liang Jiayi stares blankly. Foam begins to flow from her mouth and her lifeless body suddenly goes into a spasm.
“She’s cramping,” her father Liang Yongli cries out as he and his wife massage the contorted limbs of the five-year-old.
Jiayi used to be lively and mischievous but everything changed when she was given a vaccine shot against Japanese encephalitis B in August 2003 in a government hospital near her home in Jiangmen, in China’s southern Guangdong province.
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Liang knows of at least six other children in Jiangmen who were left paralyzed after such vaccinations and he cycled 6,000 km (4,000 miles) from his home to Beijing in May 2004 to plead for help.
“I filled out many forms but there has been no reply even though they promised me one in two months. An official said it was my bad luck and that this is my destiny,” said Liang.
Asked about these cases in Jiangmen, there was no immediate response from China’s Health Ministry.
Let us not forget that China also EXPORTED those same bad animal vaccines to Vietnam for use in their vaccination programs.
Tom DVM – at 23:50
You must mean the post by AnnieB – at 19:43 on the Election of a New Director General At the WHO Part 2.
The link to actual story no longer works (cue conspiracy music). Good thing we have a record of that article on FluWiki :)
Some excerpts:
Take the Sars outbreak of 2003. Dr Chan was then chief health adviser to the Hong Kong government and responsible for determining strategy. Although the outbreak came to an end fairly swiftly, it killed a total of 298 people in Hong Kong.
A subsequent enquiry by the Hong Kong legislature concluded that Dr Chan’s response to the Sars outbreak was unsatisfactory, condemning her for not attaching sufficient importance to soft intelligence on the epidemic and not taking account of the heavy passenger flow between Guangdong and Hong Kong.
If Dr Chan had announced the epidemic in Guangdong in the two months before the outbreak arrived in Hong Kong, hospitals would have had time to prepare. Instead, Hong Kong’s hospitals acted like an incubator for the disease before it spread out into the community.
More egregiously, Dr Chan spent the vital early days of the outbreak wrangling with the WHO over its choice of the name for the disease: Sars.
This choice was coincidentally similar to the official abbreviation for Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region (SAR). Instead of immediately setting in train the necessary procedures to tackle the outbreak, Dr Chan wasted time trying to save China’s face by protesting against the name Sars.
Without this delay many lives could have been saved.
Dr Chan’s handling of avian flu in Hong Kong was equally inept. When the H5N1 virus was first identified in 1997, nobody knew if it could spread to humans. Dr Chan sought to reassure a jittery public by declaring, I eat chicken every day.
However, as it emerged that poultry were dying in great quantities, the Department of Food Hygiene decided to intervene before a crisis developed. Even though Dr Chan had famously told everyone to carry on eating chicken, the Hong Kong government slaughtered approximately 1.6 million and banned all chicken imports.
So it was actually the head of the Department of Food Hygiene who took the tough decision that risked embarrassing Beijing. Dr Chan, meanwhile, was more concerned about saving her boss’s face than with protecting public health.
Uh oh…