Nika
Chitadze
Professor
of the International Black Sea University.
Director of the Center for International Studies
Invited
Professor of the European University
Invited
Professor of the Caucasus International University
President
of the George C. Marshall Alumni Union, Georgia – International and Security
Research Center
Introduction
As
it is known, during the last period, there has been constant speculation about
the source of coronavirus origin. Different countries blame each other for the
virus spreading. In addition, there is a scandalous version that the virus was
artificially created in the form of biological weapons in the laboratory of
Wuhan in China.
It
is important to note that the Wuhan Institute of Virology opened in 2015
(Cyranoski, 2017). The laboratory has been assigned the highest level of
security, or the fourth level. In this regard it is important to point out,
that the fourth level of laboratories in the world are represented by a very small number. According
to various theories, experiments in this laboratory were carried out with the
most dangerous microorganisms that could cause deadly diseases (Ebola and
others).
According to media reports from the several countries, during the
conducting research at the Wuhan Institute in 2018, and the heads of this
institute proudly claimed, that they have investigated the immune mechanism of
bats. Bats could have been carriers of the virus for a long time, and at that
time they themselves were not infected with the virus. Thus, the Wuhan Institute
hoped that the virus-carrying bats would allow people to learn how to fight
against viruses (Lolashvili,
2020).
It should be pointed out, that the French virologist Luke Montagne,
who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his discovery of HIV, said that the
new type of coronavirus had not have the natural origin of COVID-19 and has
been created in a laboratory with added HIV particles.
The professor does not share the view that the virus emerged as a
result of pollution in the Wuhan market. According to him, Wuhan's laboratory
has been specializing in coronaviruses since 2000 and he has extensive
experience in this field. In addition, the Nobel laureate said that he had
analyzed the issue with his math colleague, Jean-Claude Perez.
"We have come to the conclusion that this virus has been
manipulated. This is the work of molecular biologists," Montagne said in
an interview with CNEws (Xinhuanet,
2020).
The Nobel Laureate says COVID-19 added HIV particles. "For what
purpose? It's vague. My job is to present the facts and I don't blame anyone. I
don't know who did it and why. Maybe they wanted to create a vaccine against
AIDS," Montagne said.
Luke Montagne is a French virologist, a knight of the Legion of
Honor and a Nobel laureate. He received an award in medicine and physiology in
2008 and was awarded with Harald Zur Hausen and Francoise Barre-Sinus. Together
with Barre-Sinus, Montana discovered the human immunodeficiency virus in 1983 (Xinhuanet, 2020).
Earlier, Fox News reported that, according to Chinese authorities,
the first patient who was diagnosed with a new type of coronavirus was not a
market worker, but he worked in a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology.
Coronavirus and information
war between the states
The debate about the possible artificial
creation of coronaviruses is still ongoing. Several opinions were presented in
March this year. In particular, a former senior Israeli military intelligence
analyst, Dan Shohanma, in an interview with The Washington Times, said there was
an attempt to produce biological weapons in a Wuhan laboratory, which in turn
represents one of the leading research institutes. in the world (Washington Times,
2020).
Also noteworthy is the fact that back in 2019, the US State
Department expressed doubts about the ongoing secret programs and experiments
in this country related to the creation of biological weapons. China denies the
allegations in an official statement that said: "Similar, unfounded
allegations of China’s foreign intelligence service have been made several
times." At the same time, several experts come to the conclusion that the
leak of the new virus from the Wuhan laboratory occurred during the
corresponding experiments in this scientific center.
While China denied possessing any aggressive biological weapons, in
the U.S. Department of State report for 2019 was mentioned about Washington's
suspicions that China was conducting a hidden biological war (US State Department Report, 2020).
In response, in China leaked via the Internet information that
the virus is part of a US conspiracy to use biological weapons against China.
While the countries were involved in recriminations of each other,
in early March of this year, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused
the U.S. Army in the spreading of epidemic on the territory of China. In
particular, Zhao Lijian, deputy Director general of the Information Department
of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote in his Twitter that the
United States should present the concrete explanations and transfer its data
to be more transparent.
"When did the infection begin in the United States?" How
many people are infected? What are the names of hospitals? It is possible that
the US Army has introduced an epidemic in Wuhan. Be transparent, make your data
publicly available, ”wrote Zhao Lizziani (QUARTZ, 2020).
For other media outlets, such as Political
Trends, China seeks to relieve itself of responsibility for the pandemic.
Other source of information, more precisely
misinformation has been been spread by the Russian media, according to which
the Coronavirus is a special weapon created by the United States to destroy
China and Russia.
Military expert Igor Nikulin calls the
spread of the virus a sabotage and develops several versions: Americans are
trying to destroy the Chinese from within; Coronavirus may be artificially
created; The proliferation of coronavirus is in the interest of American
pharmaceutical companies; The spread of coronavirus is in America's interest,
as American laboratories operate not only around Russia, but also in Asian
countries (For.Ge, 2020).
Interestingly, at the end of April, Russia,
through the puppet regime in the Tskhinvali region (formerly the South Ossetian
Autonomous Region), issued another disinformation regarding the US laboratory
in Georgia.
In particular, the so-called South Ossetian
Security Service Application calls that "the residents of the Republic of
South Ossetia should not take into attention the Georgian side`s suggetions to
participate at any type of medical research." The main reason is the
"area of Lugar Laboratory biological activity, which creates the
preconditions for the deliberate infection of the residents of South Ossetia by
Coronavirus.
It further underscores the fact that,
according to the State Security Service, American and Georgian specialists are
working to create and modify the spread of dangerous diseases, including those
for military purposes" (Sputnik, 2020).
Later, the Chinese media, in particular the
Chinese Global Times, blamed Russia for the spread of COVID-2019on the
territory of China. In particular, the Chinese edition noted that Russia became
the main source of COVID-2019 entry into China, when 309 Chinese citizens were
diagnosed with the disease as soon as they returned from Russia.
Later, however, the media reported that
Russia and China were working together to condemn "dangerous"
American laboratories which are operating in the former Soviet republics.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized
a regular press briefing, where spokesman of the ministry said that Beijing is
concerned with the functioning on the territories of the former Soviet
republics American research laboratories and supports the allegations of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria
Zakharova (TASS, 2020).
It is possible to assume that the statements
made by Russia and China are related to the statements of US President Donald
Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that it is necessary to study the activities
of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which may have been one of the sources of
coronavirus (Chitadze,
2020).
How credible is
conspiracy theory about COVID 19 taking
into consideration the foreign policy and foreign economic priorities of the
leading countries of the World?
Against the backdrop of accusations leveled against each other by
the world's leading states about Coronavirus, it is possible to analyze how
much it is possible for this or other country in the world, including leading
geopolitical players, to be interested in spreading the virus.
In the epidemic spread would not have been interested China, from
where the virus has been widespread, taking into consideration that the within
the last years the rapid development of China's economy was provided. Its GDP
is 14 trillion USD and China is coming to the world stage with the
strengthening its geopolitical position first of all by the taking the
appropriate economic measures. For example, this country is the first exporter
in the world and in 2019 China exported to the international market the
products for $ 2 trillion 494 million (12% of world exports), which is about
1.5 times higher than export potential of its main competitor in the world
economy - United States of America. However, due to coronavirus - in the first
quarter of 2020, the volume of the Chinese main economic lever - export, has
decreased by 13.3% (Trading Economics, 2020). It will lead
to the economic stagnation in this country (as well as around the world).
Therefore, it is impossible not to consider official Beijing would not take
into account the consequences of the spread of the virus from this country to
different regions of the world.
In addition,
the spread of coronavirus has significantly shaken the international reputation
of China as a country - that spreads coronavirus. It is known that several
states are also demanding the imposition of economic sanctions against China.
It is also important to note that many transnational companies are already
trying to withdraw their capital from China, which will significantly reduce
the volume of investment in the Chinese economy (previously annually about $ 40 billion were invested in
the different sectors of Chinese economy). All the above will lead to economic
stagnation in this country (as well as around the world). Naturally, therefore,
it is impossible not to consider that official Beijing could not to predict the
consequences of the spread of the virus from this country to different regions
of the world.
As for the
possible spread of Coronavirus by the United States and, first of all, its
import into China, this position also excludes the real picture. In particular,
despite the geopolitical and ideological rivalry and the problems in the
trade-economic relations between the United States and China within the last
two years, new agreements were signed in October-December 2019, according to
which important steps were taken to remove the trade barriers. Trade turnover
between the US and China in 2018 was estimated at $ 737 billion, while the
volume of US direct investment in the Chinese economy ranged to about $100
billion (Office of the United
States Trade Representative, 2019).
Of course, the relevant US state agencies would also be able to
calculate the consequences of COVID 19 spreading taking into consideration the
volume of the trade between the United States and China. Therefore, the US was
aware of the fact that due to the spread of the virus in China, it would
primarily affected the US, where as of April 27, 2020, 987, 322 thousand people
were infected with coronavirus and the total number of deaths was 55, 415
thousand people. As for jobs, the number of unemployed in the United States has
risen by about 300,000 as a result of the virus (Wordometers, 2020). In addition, experts estimate that by 2020,
the U.S. economy will shrink by about 3%. In addition, COVID 19 negatively
reflected on the income of US Companies. For example, only in March 2020, Dow
Jones Index fell for about 26% (Chitadze,
2020).
Justice requires to mention, that Russia also would not be
interested in the spread of coronavirus. Of course, this country can be blamed
in many issues, including how the Russia occupied the territories of the neighboring countries, spreading various
types of disinformation around the world, including the possibility of
artificially spreading the Coronavirus by the west, about which has already
been mentioned before.
But with regard
to the artificially spreading of COVID 19 by Russia, there is a low probability
that the Kremlin was interested in the Coronaviruses pandemic, first of all
because of the fact, that Russian political elite understood, that new pandemic
could cause the new World Economic crisis, which from its turn could decrease
the demand on the energy products, first of all oil and gas. As it is know,
Russia represents one of the main oil and producer and exporter in the World.
For example, about 35% of the income part of the Russian budget is depended on
the profit from the oil export.
In this regard,
it is important to note that as a result of the coronavirus, oil prices per
barrel within the first quarter of 2020 reduced by more than 60%, from $ 65 per
barrel in 2019 till to $ 20 in April 2020 (Marketwatch.2020). As
to the another lever of the Russian economy and political pressure - natural
gas, it should be mentioned that as a result of COVID 19 spreading, the Russian
energy giant Gazprom announced about decreasing the demand for natural gas and
a sharp reduction in gas exports. The company estimates that the decline within
2020 will be about 16.4%. Alexander Ivannikov, director of Gazprom's finance
and economic department, said.
He said natural gas prices from Russia to
foreign consumers would be further reduced, from $ 210.6 per 1,000 cubic meters
to $ 133, or by 37 percent (Lenta. Ru. 2020).
Furthermore,
Russia has overtaken China in terms of the number of illnesses. In particular,
as of May 4, the number of people infected with the virus in Russia was 145,268
(82880 in China), and the death number was 1,356 people (Wordometers,
2020).
At the same
time, no other country can be interested in the spread of coronavirus and in
the global economic crisis, given the fact that the according to the World Bank
estimations, world economy within 2020 will be reduced by about 3%, which will
create a problem for each country in our planet (Chitadze, 2020).
Coronavirus and existing biological laboratories in the world
Many analysts
rule out any rumor about artificial emergence of COVID 19, saying that various
laboratories for biological or medical purposes operate in different parts of
the world, and if we develop a conspiracy theory, then we can bring the example
of Lugar's laboratory in Georgia. This case is given because within the
propaganda policy of Russia, official Kremlin has often accused the United
States, that after the opening of Lugar Laboratory in Georgia, with the support
of the US government - different types of experiments on humans have been
implemented.
The lab was
named in honor of American Senator Richard Lugar. After the Kremlin's
propaganda, it turned out that Lugar's laboratory was indispensable in
conducting various scientific research. Even at this stage, Lugar's laboratory
turned out to be the only surviving facility that promptly allowed Georgian
doctors to prevent Coronavirus from developing an epidemiological psychosis. As
a result, Lugar's lab is a real tool that has, to some extent, localized the
pandemic virus.
In addition, many experts believe that it is the Wuhan laboratory
mentioned above that has played an important role in stopping the virus in
China and in general has prevented more serious negative consequences. At
present, the problem of coronavirus in the Wuhan province has been localized.
The scalea of the virus spreading are declining, thus, talking about
biological theories is not true. This is a classic information propaganda war
waged primarily by the official Kremlin, claiming that the virus, and various
diseases, are biological weapons of Washington.
World-renowned pandemics - Black Death,
plague, Swine Flu, AIDS, etc.
The natural and not artificial origin of Coronavirus can be
confirmed by the fact that at different times in the world history, the origin
and spread of various epidemics or pandemics in different regions of the planet
have occurred many times. However, among the diseases listed below, none of the
artificial origins of those viruses have been
confirmed.
Perhaps the most horrific epidemics in history, or rather pandemics
that have caused great harm to the world’s population, have been linked with
the plague. Several pandemics of this terrible disease are known to us.
Noteworthy is the fact that information about various diseases can
be found in ancient Egyptian manuscripts.
However, the first pandemic in which relatively more specific clues
have been found is known as the "Athens plague." According to various
ancient Greek sources, the plague spread on the modern territory of Ethiopia
and via Northern Africa, particularly Egypt has reached the Greece. As a
result, in 430, the plague killed about 25-30% of the Athenian population
during the period, when this city-state was
involved in the Peloponnese Wars (Histoire Géo,2020).
In 165 CE, on the territory of Roman empire the new pandemic, with
the name "Antonius' Illness" was emerged. According to various
reports, the virus entered to the Apennines Peninsula from Mesopotamia. The
pandemic claimed the lives of about 5 million people, in a situation when the
world's population at that time was just over 200 million (Histoire Géo,2020).
Later, a new, so-called The "plague of Justinian"
appeared, which within the 40-th of the VI century began to be spread in the
different regions of the world from Central Asia (by other sources from Egypt)
and in 541 reached the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. The plague was most
likely spread from rats and micro-fleas. It has claimed the lives of about 30
million to 100 million people over two centuries. In other words, the cause of
the epidemic was the plague, which later became known as the "Black
Death" pandemic (Histoire Géo,2020).
The second pandemic caused the deaths of the millions of people
in Europe during the 14th century. The
disease spread from Asia and spread from rodents in all European port cities.
In addition to the European Continent, the plague has inflicted huge losses to
China, with up to 90 percent of its population lost in some provinces. Several
factors contributed to the emergence and spread of the plague: the wars that
engulfed Europe (the movement of large armies), the rapid development of trade,
the general situation in sanitation, and the climatic factor. The problems with
Global glaciation weakened the immunity of the population, especially in
Europe.
Outbreaks appear to be exacerbated in Europe
by the outbreak of chickenpox and pelagic fever. The place of
origin of the "black death" was the Gobi Desert - animals (mostly
rodents) that lived in this area, found to be closer to humans who were fleeing
from hunger and drought. Traders who followed the Silk Road, were transporting
various goods to the Asian cities, which later led to the deaths of millions of
people. There was no cure for the plague then. Infection with "black
death" meant that a person would die in a few days. The symptoms were
several: in the case of a bubonic plague, the disease-causing human body was
exposed to a flea bite. Those fleas were located on the body of the rats.
As a result, If there were about 80 million people living in Europe in the early fourteenth century, by 1360
there were about 50,000,000 left. Outbreaks appear to be exacerbated in Europe
by 200-300 years after the outbreak of the epidemic.
The third plague began in China in the mid-nineteenth century. It
has once again spread around the world by merchant ships, especially in port
cities and coastal areas. It was at the end of the 19th century that scientists
discovered the cause of the plague. More than 10,000,000 people only in Asia have died since the last pandemic.
Another disease that has caused the panic all of humanity is known
as chickenpox pandemic. Infectious disease has killed tens of thousands of
people in a year and half. Only in 1980 the World Health Organization declared
that the disease could be eradicated worldwide with the help of vaccination.
The average mortality rate was 40%. The chickenpox epidemic was registered in
China in the 4th century, and a little later in the 7th century in India, Korea
and Japan. In the latter case, it destroyed a third of the country's population (Khutsishvili, 2020).
In the modern era, it is difficult to find a European, especially
in large cities, who was not infected by the chickenpox. In the 18th century, 1.5
million people died every year in Europe from this decease. Chickenpox is
transmitted by airborne droplets. Cases of skin transmission have also been
reported. The first symptoms are: fever, muscle and limb pain, vomiting,
headache, dizziness.
Cholera - Acute intestinal infection has long been spread in Asia,
Africa and South America, and it reached the Europe in the 19th century. By the
beginning of the last century, seven cholera pandemics had been recorded, most
recently in 1961-1975. Cholera was mainly transmitted by water, and the water
was contaminated with the feces of the infected people. Unsanitary conditions
were a major cause of cholera. Rapid dehydration often led to the death.
Cholera has claimed the lives of tens of millions of people since the 1800's.
Typhoid become a real disaster during the World War I Europe. There
were several types of this disease: skin, abdominal, and reversible. It raged
in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Known since the time of
Hippocrates, this disease appeared mainly during the wars. Infections that
transmit the decease can easily spread to the fighters. Typhoid killed 2
million people during the Civil War in Russia (Intermedia, 2020). The disease begins with itching, fever, backache, and headache.
Slowly pink spots appear on the abdomen. People start dreaming, losing the
sense of time and space. Half of the patients with typhoid died. There is
currently an antidote to typhoid fever, so the probability of death is
significantly lower, even in severe cases.
Malaria is another disease that has killed millions of people over
the centuries. About 2-3 million people die from malaria each year. This
disease, which is characteristic for tropical and subtropical regions, has
historically been known in Europe. In the Roman Empire it was called
"Roman fever". The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes, but it is
also possible to transmit by blood from person to person.
Influenza -
The emergence of many mutations in this disease has sowed panic in the recent
decades. The reason for this panic really exists. The Spanish flu
("Ispanka") struck a millions of people between 1918 and 1919, infecting 550 million
people and killing more than 25 million. The Spanish flu pandemic has been
recorded as one of the greatest tragedies in human history. This time too, the
war became the main cause of the spread of the disease, particulalrly the First
World War and the series of military conflicts that followed. The name of the
disease is related to the place from which the terrible disease began to go
around the world. According to the second version, Spain was not the place
where this virus was born, although it was the country that first experienced
this catastrophe
(Intermedia, 2020).
In the first
six months, Ispanka has killed more than 10 million people worldwide.
Technological development of vehicles has allowed the virus to reach all the
settlements around the planet. The main symptoms of the disease are: pneumonia,
bloody cough, as well as the characteristic blue tint of the skin, cyanosis -
an excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide, which in turn causes hypoxemia -
lack of oxygen in the blood.
In the early 1980s, the world faced with a new
global problem. In 1981, a strange disease appeared, which caused a complete
loss of immunity, and thus, any illness could become fatal for a sick person.
The disease became known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). According to one version, monkeys - inhabited
in tropical Africa were the main source of virus infection. Consequently, AIDS
has spread as a result of the bites of monkeys, particularly chimpanzees. This
hypothesis is supported by an American researcher B. Corbett.
In 2006, the
total number of AIDS deaths was 2.9 million, and by January 2007, the total
number of AIDS carriers in the world was 39.6 million people (Davitashvili, Elizbarashvili, 2012).
The
Influenza H1N1, which killed a million people in the first quarter of the 20th
century, revived in a new form in 2009 and became known as the "swine
flu." In fact, it was a subtype of the Spanish flu, and the source was an
infected pig. For this illness is characterized the symptoms of the common flu - cough, fever,
vomiting, diarrhea. Approximately 250,000 cases of the infection have been
reported in 140 countries, killing up to 3,000 people. The
mass-media means in the past, as well as today, began to escalate the
situation, predicting what the second "Ispanka" would be emerged.
Nevertheless, the standards of medicine and health are more or less different
from those of the previous century, and the absence of global military
conflicts has reduced the risks of high lethality and spread of the disease to
minimum. It was later revealed that the governments of various states had
squandered huge sums of money on the purchase of medicines and vaccines that
had never been used for their intended purpose (Intermedia, 2020).
The same story was repeated in 2013, in
the case of the H7N9 flu virus, better known as the “bird flu”. The first case
of human infection was reported in China. The main symptom again and again was
pneumonia. 450 cases were registered, 175 of them lethal. Fortunately, the
pandemic did not occur.
The last viral challenge of the century
was the Ebola fever. It was first observed in South Sudan in 1976, but became
widely known in 2014, when an epidemic crossed the boundaries of West Africa
and invaded in the United States and Europe. The virus is transmitted through
the body fluids of an infected person or animal, such as blood (Chitadze, 2020).
The disease is characterized by a feeling
of weakness, severe pain in the head and muscles, diarrhea. Later symptoms
include coughing, nausea, and dehydration. With some patients develops a
hemorrhagic rash. If treatment is not started in time, internal and external
bleeding begins. Within the second week of illness, the patient dies. In 2015,
Ebola infected 30,000 people, nearly half of whom died. In this case, too, the
media predicted the inevitability of the apocalypse of mankind, and again,
their prophecy did not come true. Of course, the modern media industry makes
money in similar panic news or stories. People are attracted to excitement, and
journalists very often love exaggeration.
Humanity is constantly threatened by many
viral diseases, but some media means are not bothered by this. Maintaining a
healthy lifestyle and taking sanitary measures is enough to protect yourself
from the types of flu that spread to the Far East or the South. Otherwise, it
seems, humanity will not get sick until some journalists or so-called experts
find out about new flu mutations and start sowing panic, which, in itself,
serves in no way to eliminate the causes of the problem.
The World Health Organization has named
the probable source of COVID 19
The official statement made by the World
Health Organization (WHO) confirms the evidence of the natural origin of
coronavirus. In particular, the official representative (spokesman) of the
World Health Organization, Fadella Chaib, said at the briefing that the source
of COVID-19 is still unknown, but it is likely that it has been transmitted by
the mediation of the bats.
"All available evidence suggests the
virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or
somewhere else" mentioned WHO spokeswoman (Reuters, 2020).
Later she added: "most likely is
that its ecological reservoir is bats. However, it is necessary to determine
how the virus moved from bats to humans. It is obvious that there is a mediator
that transmitted the disease to humans."
"At this moment we know nothing
about the origin of the virus. We need to focus on facts and not on theories.
The World Health Organization is a scientific organization and we suggest that
the virus is of animal origin," said a World Health Organization`s
spokesman.
Chaib noted that the 70% of new viruses,
including Ebola, plague and coronavirus, are of animal origin (Reuters, 2020).
The statement was made in response to an
earlier statement of French virologist Luke Montagne, a Nobel Prize-winning.
His position has already been mentioned in the beginning of the article.
In an interview with the website of the
California Institute of Technology, another Nobel laureate, David Baltimore,
shared with his opinion. The professor believes that biologically HIV and
SARS-CoV-2 are completely different from each other and belong to different
families of viruses.
The opinion of the World Health
Organization is shared by Australian experts, who believe that the new type of
coronavirus could not be created artificially.
"At the
moment we know nothing about the origin of the virus. We need to focus on
facts, not theories. The World Health Organization is a scientific organization
and we suggest that the virus is of animal origin," said a World Health
Organization spokesman.
Chaib noted
that 70% of new viruses, including Ebola, plague, and coronavirus, are of
animal origin.
The
statement was made in response to an earlier statement that "there has
been a backlash from French virologist Luke Montagne, a Nobel Prize-winning
French virologist, about the fact that COVID-19 was created in the laboratory
and added to it."
In an
interview with the website of the California Institute of Technology, another
Nobel laureate, David Baltimore, shared his opinion. The professor believes
that biologically HIV and SARS-CoV-2 are completely different from each other
and belong to different families of viruses
(Interpressnews, 2020).
The opinion
of the World Health Organization is shared by Australian experts, who believe
that the new type of coronavirus could not be created artificially.
At the same
time, scientists have discovered the first significant mutation in coronavirus.
Anthony
Fauch, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the
United States, later said the best evidence was that the coronavirus had not
been created in a Chinese laboratory.
"If we
look at the evolution of the virus in bats, the scientific evidence is very,
very strong that it could not be artificially created or deliberately
manipulated. If we observe the evolution of the virus within the concrete
period of time, we will find the a strong determinant that the virus has
emerged naturally and then moved to to other species, ”Fauch said in a
statement (Interpressnews, 2020).
Conclusion
Based on the
above, based on the majority of specialists, the most solid theory at this
stage is the fact that coronavirus is a virus transmitted from bats, because as a
result of deciphering the genetic sequence, this virus is closest to the virus
found in bats, where the similarity is up to 99%. The
coronavirus circulates around us, meaning it is not a virus that is completely
new.
In addition
to that, it is very interesting to note the fact that there are certain old
traditions in China, according to which a strange habit is spread among the
poor population of China in the form of a kind of folk medicine. When a person
is ill, has the flu or another illness, he or she is often offered to eat the
meat of the snake. Most likely, it was this tradition and the consumption of
bats that most
probably led to the spread of the virus. That is, it can
be said that a biological mutation has taken place. One of the sick people ate
bat meat. It is quite real that the virus mutated in one human body and spread
to other humans.
It is
important to note that the international community is very often under the
influence of some scientists or experts, also information propaganda of several
states, especially the countries with
authoritarian regimes. Main purpose of some specialists is - to make some
scandal statements and by this way to attract the attention of the population
of one concrete country or whole international community. The purpose of some
states, is to conduct the information policy with the purpose of
discreditation in the international authority of its geopolitical or ideological
rival etc.
Thus, it can
be assumed, that the romours about artificial spreading the COVID 19 represents
the result of such type of propaganda having been offered by individual or the
state actors.
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