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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 14-Mar-2020
14-Mar-20 World View -- Iran's army to monitor entire population for Wuhan Coronavirus

Web Log - March, 2020

14-Mar-20 World View -- Iran's army to monitor entire population for Wuhan Coronavirus

Iran and China call Wuhan Coronavirus a US Army bioweapon

by John J. Xenakis

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

Wuhan Coronavirus spreads rapidly through Iran, with Qom as epicenter
Iran's army to clear the streets, and monitor the population
Iran and China call Wuhan Coronavirus a US Army bioweapon

Wuhan Coronavirus spreads rapidly through Iran, with Qom as epicenter

New large burial trenches in Qom visible from space. Inset photo shows a man carrying a coffin to burial trench (Vox)

New large burial trenches in Qom visible from space. Inset photo shows a man carrying a coffin to burial trench (Vox)

We're now halfway through March and the most pessimistic of the predictions that I've posting since the beginning of February, in articles and in daily reports on the Generational Dynamics forum, are coming to pass. America has declared a national emergency. Europe is now the epicenter of the Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic according to the World Health Organization. European countries are closing their borders to each other, locking down the worst hit cities, and restricting travel to and from their countries. Many countries outside Europe, including America and countries in Africa and Asia, are restricting travel from European countries.

As of Thursday, Iran had confirmed about 10,000 cases of coronavirus, with widespread suspicions that there were a lot more. Then, on Friday, Iran reported over 1,000 new cases in the preceding 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 11,364, with 85 more deaths, bringing the total to 514.

The suspicions have been buttressed by satellite photos of the city of Qom that show that long trenches have been dug apparently to serve as mass graves for hundreds of bodies, coronavirus victims.

Qom is Iran's religious capital, about two hours from Tehran, with several Shia seminaries run by leading Shia Muslim clerics. Within Iran, Qom became the epicenter of the epidemic because pilgrims from so many other Muslim countries visited Qom to pray and to study. According to some reports, the virus was spread in Qom by a merchant who travelled back and forth between Qom and Wuhan, the city in China where Wuhan Coronavirus originated.

The Qom clerics did not want to restrict travel to or from Qom, but instead entered a delusional state of total denial of what was going on. The result was a major outbreak of coronavirus in Qom that visitors spread to many other countries, including Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Canada, Georgia, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates.

Iran's army to clear the streets, and monitor the population

One Iranian MP, Fatemeh Rahbar, a close advisor to the supreme leader Khamenei, has already died of coronavirus, and several others have been infected. Iranians have been asked to voluntarily remain at home as much as possible, but they are ignoring these requests. The streets and stores have been filled with shoppers, especially in preparation for the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, that falls on Friday, March 20.

On Thursday evening Khameini sent a letter to the head of Iran's army, major general Mohammad Bagheri, instructing him to take control of the situation.

On Friday, Bagheri announced that, within 24 hours, he will begin using the military to limit crowds, and to clear people off the streets, and out of shopping centers, shopping malls, grocery stores and bazaars.

Furthermore, he announced that all citizens will be monitored and checked coronavirus. According to Bagheri, "During the next 10 days, the entire Iranian nation will be monitored once through cyberspace, by phone and, if necessary, in person, and those suspected of being ill will be fully identified."

You know, this is very serious stuff, but you can't help but laugh at this delusional nonsense. Iran has a population of 81 million, and it would take many months to perform this task. In the meantime, the virus will continue spreading exponentially while this "monitoring" is going on.

So we'll have to watch this unfold during the next couple of weeks. It should be interesting.

Iran and China call Wuhan Coronavirus a US Army bioweapon

Government media in Iran, Russia and China have been publishing accusations that the Wuhan Coronavirus was actually developed and launched by the United States, specifically by the US Army, as a bioweapon.

There have been numerous accusations of that type in China's social media. On Thursday, Zhao Lijian, a foreign ministry spokesman, posted the following on Twitter:

"CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!"

This is completely ridiculous on many levels, but deliciously delusional because Zhao is accusing China's army of total incompetence.

If the US Army brought the virus to Wuhan, then they completely fooled the Chinese army (PLA). If what Zhao said is true, then Chinese army soldiers were too busy screwing their mistresses and shooting up drugs to notice that some US Army soldiers waltzed into Wuhan and deposited the coronavirus bioweapon in the raw meat market where it spread to the population. That's what totally incompetent losers China's army would have to be, if you believe Zhao.

But it's worse than that. Zhao's accusations are so ridiculous that no one outside of China takes them seriously. But apparently the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs are so delusional that they take the accusations seriously. That means that the CCP thugs have no idea what's going on in PLA. They apparently believe that the PLA is so completely incompetent that US soldiers, if they wanted to, could make fools of the Chinese soldiers by planting a bioweapon right under their noses.

Based on Zhao's delusional accusations of the incompetence of China's army, it's no wonder that the Chinese army was clobbered by the Japanese army in World War II, and had to be saved by the American army. The Japanese army will probably do it again in the next war, and if they don't, then the Taiwanese army will clobber the Chinese army. The Chinese army soldiers, shooting up drugs with their mistresses, won't even know what's going on.

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