DISINFO: Coronavirus is a US biological weapon against China, it replaces a nuclear bomb

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DISINFO: Coronavirus is a US biological weapon against China, it replaces a nuclear bomb

SUMMARY

The coronavirus epidemic revealed a complete failure of the American way of life. The US is facing increasingly frequent assumptions about the Anglo-Saxon origin of the virus, economic crisis and the threat of hunger riots, all threatening to undermine the US hegemonic status. Furthermore, the US has a huge debt to China. Given this, the American political establishment started pointing its finger at China in an attempt to walk away from paying the debts. Hence US senators put forward allegations that COVID-19 could have leaked from Wuhan lab and that Chinese authorities covered up information about the epidemic development. Therefore, they aim at writing off part of the US debt as compensation for the losses associated with the epidemic. French virologist & Nobel laureate has claimed that the novel coronavirus originated in a lab as it contains HIV sequences. Everything seems to point to the secret development of weapon-like viruses in the leading labs around the world, in the US in the first place, since the early 2000s. Therefore US senators actions look like a thief shouting “Stop the thief!” Russia finds itself as in the Manhattan Project when the USSR had to quickly create nuclear arms to prevent its destruction by the US. Nowadays microbiologists have replaced nuclear specialists. New types of arms come up to the stage, but adversaries remain the same.

RESPONSE

This is a mix of conspiracies about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus aimed to present the novel coronavirus as the US / UK biological weapon. It also promotes the disinformation narrative that the US / West is collapsing as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The publication speaks about the so-called Anglo-Saxons. In the pro-Kremlin media, the term “Anglo-Saxons” means “evil”, “belligerent” and “morally corrupt” Westerners, as explained in our earlier analysis. There is no evidence to suggest that the virus is being used as a weapon against other states or that is was fabricated inside laboratories. The expert scientific consensus holds that the coronavirus has natural origins; there is no credible evidence supporting claims of laboratory engineering. The medical Journal “Emerging Microbes & Infections” specifically said there is “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering.” Read the debunk about HIV sequences in COVID-19 here. See earlier disinformation cases alleging that the West plans to attack China financially for the coronavirus outbreak just as it did to Russia, that Anglo-Saxons are cancelling globalisation because China began to win, that coronavirus might be the US biological weapon while the US and UK may have developed a vaccine advance, that the main idea behind the EU was blown out during coronavirus, and that a new Chinese coronavirus was likely elaborated in NATO biolabs.

Disclaimer

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