b'Editorcompanies are owned and controlled by the communistwhere it has been just about hunted into extinction. Al- net and warned that if he did it again, he would be government. Those tens of trillions of dollars collectedthough the meat is described as rubbery and bitter, andarrested and prosecuted. Dr. Li returned to work and over the years was not used to expand freedom in Chi- Chinese doctors have warned against its consumptionwas infected with Covid-19 on January 8th by a glau-na, but to further secure the Communist Partys controlfor hundreds of years, it is considered a delicacy in thecoma patient who ran a shop in the Huanan Market, of the Chinese people and to expand their reach of in- Asian world and a status symbol for those who can af- as it was learned after he began developing symptoms fluence around the globe. ford to eat pangolin clay pot with ginger and citronelle.and tested positive for the disease on January 30th. The VirtuallyeverydeadlyinfluenzavirusthathasThe animals scales are also widely used in ancient Chi- next day, he posted the admonition from the Wuhan emerged in the world over the last 50 years startednese medicines and other concoctions. police that he had received weeks earlier, and declared in China. There are strains in the vast nation that areIn the 1990s, live pangolins in Chinese marketsthat he was one of eight doctors labeled rumormon-more deadly than anything ever seen in the U.S., thatwent for about $7 a poundthese days, its closer togers for speaking out about the emergence of the vi-make Covid-19 look like mild sniffles. These viruses$300. So how does the coronavirus transfer from batsrus. Self-nursing from home on February 6th, Dr. Li start in animals and then transfer to humans throughto pangolins? They eat fruit, and veggies and leaves,was taken to the emergency room of the hospital where farming and consumptionthe Spanish Flu, like ouronewouldsuppose,thatgetraineduponwithbathe worked after developing trouble breathinghe was common seasonal flu, started in pigs, swine flu. Thisguava (yes, poop) carrying this and other pathogens.dead within six hours of his arrival.years pandemic has been shown to have originated inAreportfromtheChineseagriculturallabclaimedThe Chinese governments overt efforts to hide the bats, and other deadly strains start in birds, avian flu. that Covid-19 had a 99% genetic match with a virusexistence of Covid-19 for as long as they could, feeds H7N9 is a bird flu virus that was first identified infound in pangolins in Wuhanbut a new theory, taggedspeculation that they were trying to hide something humans in 2013 when 144 cases were diagnosed, anda conspiracy, has circulated inside the government ofmuch more sinister than a SARS virus that emerged from 46 patients died (32%). The fifth human epidemic ofthe United Kingdom, and has recently been repeated bya wild animal market. At worst, they could be blamed this new virus in China was reported in 2016, whenU.S. Senator Tom Cotton from Oklahoma. for turning a blind eye to the illegal trade of pangolins, Meet the pangolin. Think of himA Chinese medical worker waving off as the armadillo of the Far East. cameras while wheeling in a Covid patientMemorial to the doctor in Wuhan who first exposed the Chinese Government cover-up of Covid-19more than 1,200 people were diagnosed and about 400TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENTS LIE, A BIT MOREan endangered speciesbut what could lead China into of them died. So far, only bird-to-human transmissionTHAN THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED ONES. aneconomically-disastrousinternationalcontroversy has been identified for H7N9, and not human-to-hu- TheWuhanCenterforDiseaseControl,whereoverwould be a man-caused pandemic that kills thousands man, but identifying the virus in commercial flocks is1,500 strains of deadly viruses are stored and studied,or millions of people around the world. Reports out of impossiblewithoutuniversaltestingbirdscarryingincluding those collected from bats, is situated adjacentthe UK say that the virus was released into the public the virus exhibit no sickness or symptoms. H7N9 wasto Union Hospital where the first group of doctors werethrough the accidental exposure of a lab technician at first found in the U.S. on a Tennessee chicken farm ininfected. The WCDC is located just 300 yards south ofthe Wuhan Center for Disease Control, and that the vi-2017, and a report was just published, in March 2020,the Huanan Seafood Market where the virus is said torus was among a collection of previously unseen strains about turkeys on a commercial farm in South Carolinahave emerged, and about a mile north of that is Wu- taken from bats living in caves 600 miles away.testing positive for H7N9. The mortality rate in the U.S.han Central Hospital, where the unintentional whistle- On December 30th, the same day Dr. Li told his for Covid-19 is officially just under 4%this is 30%. blower, 33-year-old ophthalmologist Dr. Li Wenliang,colleaguesaboutthereportofsevenpatientswith It has been widely reported, incorrectly, that Cov- worked and eventually died. On December 30, 2019,SARS-like symptoms, officials in Wuhan confirmed 27 id-19 was first transmitted to humans through the con- Dr. Li saw a report from the emergency room direc- cases of viral pneumonia connected to the Huanan sumption of bats that had been purchased in a Wuhantor at the hospital that detailed seven patients who hadMarket, which they immediately shut down. Four days wet market, where livestock are slaughtered on-site.been admitted with symptoms consistent with Severelater was when Li and seven other doctors were round-While the animal guilty of the viral transfer was likelyAcute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). That afternoon,ed up and warned not to say anything else about the purchased in one of these markets, the one in questionhe voiced his knowledge of the report in a private We- outbreak. The New England Journal of Medicine report-is the pangolin, a virtually unknown creature to theChat session with former medical school classmates,ed that between December 10th and January 4th, 425 Western World. Think of the pangolin as the armadilloand at least one of them shared it with the world. cases of a novel (new) coronavirus disease in Wuhan of the Far East, same scientific family of mammals, butOn January 3rd, Dr. Li was summoned to the Wu- were identified by patient symptoms and the extremely the only one to have scales. While not much to look at,han Public Security Bureau where he was officially ad- long wait times for admission to the hospital, as doc-the pangolin has become highly sought-after in China,monished for making false statements on the inter- tors had trouble identifying their sickness.22 THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEQ2.2020 TheCoastalBend.com'