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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 12-Aug-2021
12-Aug-21 World View -- Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading much faster than expected

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12-Aug-21 World View -- Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading much faster than expected

Delta variant spreads across China

by John J. Xenakis

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading much faster than expected
Delta variant spreads across China

Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading much faster than expected

Spread of Wuhan Coronavirus Delta variant in China (Bloomberg)

Spread of Wuhan Coronavirus Delta variant in China (Bloomberg)

The atmosphere in Washington with regard to things like masks and vaccinations is so toxic and vitriolic that it's almost unbearable to watch.

The situation with masks is especially confusing, since the "science" about the effectiveness of different types of masks is ambiguous, and some children are unable to breathe wearing masks.

The Delta variant of Covid-19 was first detected in India. It is now spreading rapidly within the United States and other countries. It threatens to get much worse in the fall, and to force more lockdowns, including school closures. The reason is that the Delta variant is twice as effective as the original virus in spreading from person to person.

So you should be prepared, Dear Reader, for a fall and winter that's worse than last year. You may be forced into lockdowns and school closures that you don't want.

Making judgments about Covid variants is well outside my skill set, so I won't attempt it. However, I've provided some credible mostly non-ideological sources at the end of this article, and you can read through those sources for information.

The most important news is that there are additional variants coming. The "Delta Plus" and "Lambda" variants are spreading in other countries, but their potential effect in the United States is not yet known.

Some experts are predicting far more dangerous variants on the horizon. Again, making a judgment about these is outside my skill set, but there are articles referenced below that tell you about them.

I'm not going to tell you, Dear Reader, to wear masks or get vaccinated. That's not my place. But I am going to tell you to make contingency plans for yourself and your family in case these new dangerous variants start spreading. Follow the motto of the Boy Scouts and always "Be Prepared" for what comes next.

Delta variant spreads across China

Xi Jinping gave several speeches last year, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had won a historic battle against Covid (Wuhan Coronavirus) and that this proved the superiority of the Chinese Communism to Western democracies, which were still struggling with the virus.

This year, the CCP and Xi Jinping are facing the possibility of major humiliation, as the Delta variant spreads across China. The CCP is doing everything possible, including mandatory testing and lockdowns, to kill off the virus. If they're successful, it will be another great victory for the CCP. But if they fail, then it may threaten the leadership of Xi Jinping.

In my previous newsletter, I referenced a plan presented by Chinese General Chi Haotian in a speech just as he was retiring in 2003. That was a plan to solve China's perennial problem of overpopulation. His solution is to colonize other lands, specifically the United States, by defeating it with nuclear weapons, and then using biochemical weapons to "clean up America" and kill any people left behind. so that the Chinese can take over. (See "31-Jul-21 World View -- Wuhan Coronavirus -- Thinking the Unthinkable")

This plan is completely insane from the Western point of view, which honors individual human life. The Falun Gong paper Epoch Times, which first leaked the full text of the speech in 2005, refers to it as the "Doomsday Crazy Gambling Plan" and to the CCP as the "Gongshi Blood Company."

However, in the Chinese culture, which does NOT value individual human life, this plan is quite reasonable, since a way must be found to solve the problem of overpopulation. Mao Zedong had said that he would gladly sacrifice half of China's population if it meant killing all the Americans.

Whether Chi Haotian's speech was authentic and valid has been the subject of a lengthy debate in the Generational Dynamics forum, starting around here: http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62949#p62949

So that brings us back to Covid-19, the Wuhan Coronavirus. We now know with almost complete certainty that the virus was developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab, and that it escaped, either accidentally or intentionally, at some point prior to September 12, 2019, which was the date when the Wuhan Virology Lab deleted its Virus Database in the middle of the night.

Once the virus started spreading through the Wuhan population, China's then actions are clear. There was a deep coverup. The CCP encouraged travel to and from Wuhan from anywhere in the world, except within China itself. This was deliberate, and it spread the virus to 180 countries, while protecting China.

It's now believed that the CCP thought that they could release the virus into the world, while protecting China, and completely escape blame, and furthermore, claim credit as the first and best country to defeat the virus.

In my opinion, this plan has backfired badly. Releasing the virus into the world was apparently some kind of "beta test" to develop technology of using biological weapons. This is insane, but in the Chinese culture which values an individual human life as being worth zero, this is quite possible. Instead, China is being universally blamed for spreading the virus. Furthermore, mutations of the virus, including the Delta variant, are spreading across China, humiliating Xi Jinping and the CCP in two ways: They prove that China did NOT defeat the virus in 2020, and they expose the weakness of China's own locally developed vaccines, Sinovac and Sinopharm.

There are many things that the Chinese Communists do that are insane by Western standards. For example, of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward (1958-59), possibly the stupidest policy of any country in the history of the world, killed tens of millions of innocent people for no reason at all, destroying China's economy for decades. Since then, the Tiananmen Square massacre or the massive torture, beating, and enslavement of millions of Uighurs have all been insane policies.

But those are Western culture judgments. In the Chinese culture, the Great Leap Forward may not have been a disaster after all. Today, the population of China is 1.4 billion. If 50 million Chinese were killed today, you would still have 1.4 billion people.

The Wuhan Virus Event backfired badly on the CCP. To save face, Xi Jinping may have to do something drastic. We can only wait to see.

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