Revenge of magical thinking

EcclesIsSaved Blog say the Pope has discovered the real reason for the Wuhan virus epidemic: No, not bat soup, but Mother Gaia, aka Pachimama, is having a temper tantrum:

ha.

I'm so old that I remember when epidemics and natural disasters were called the "wrath of God" and a punishment for our sins.

now however, sins of "the flesh" (and spending money supposed to go to charities on orgies) get you a "who am I to judge" from the Pope, whereas using a plastic straw will result in Pachimama getting a temper tantrum and killing you.


However,there are still some who continue to recognize the spiritual realm in the disease.

For example, Xi, said on Jan 29:

"The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide,"

he adds that he would release information about the demon "in a timely manner", and the WHO bowed down to the supreme leader and said fine, no epidemic here, folks, just move along and don't stop travelers because it might hurt the feelings of the Great Leader.

the logic behind this seems to be: if you pretend the demon isn't there, maybe he will go away.

What's wrong with this picture?
 but Trumpieboy did it anyway and China condemned them for doing that,

China criticized the U.S. controls, which it said contradicted the WHO’s appeal to avoid travel bans, and “unfriendly comments” that Beijing was failing to cooperate. “Just as the WHO recommended against travel restrictions, the U.S. rushed to go in the opposite way. Certainly not a gesture of goodwill,” said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.

things are not getting better: it's now not PC to notice China's laxness was behind the disease epidemic, and the twittertrolls will get you if you say "China Virus" or Wuhan Flu. 

update: Wayback machine article from the NYTimes:

the AlJ/Reuters version is here (google didn't find the NYT article for me...). So as of Jan 10, they are still claiming only 43 cases and that all of them caught it from the market, no medical personnel were infected, and no new cases since Jan 3...so it's not a problem.

ah, but the whistleblower posted his observations on Weibo (a Chinese social media site) to fellow physicians on Dec 30 , warning them they needed to wear protective clothing when treating these patients, and got a warning from the Government about spreading fake news.



Austin Bay points out that that little bit of political correctness in the US MSM is merely China's "useful idiots" helping them to coverup their incompetence.

In late December 2019, doctors and other medical practitioners in Wuhan identified the pathogen and warned that it presented a threat to human life....So CCP apparatchik police treated Wuhan's conscientious doctors as criminals and suppressed their warnings. CCP thuggery and brutality halted local efforts to confine the virus and prevented responsible medical efforts from disseminating information that might help global researchers find cures and vaccines.

A lot of people don't recognize that when doctors find an outbreak of a brand new infectious disease, usually they call for help, and plans are made to find it's cause and stop it's spread quickly.

This is especially important if it might be a new disease that has been put on a list of "watch out for this because it might become bad"

2013 article on newly emerging diseases.

Instead, China covered it up for a month, (and maybe longer: early cases date back to early December, and the world only found out about it when a Wuhan doctor posted his concerns on a discussion board.

Was the basic public health investigations done?  without checking where people caught the virus, it was not "known" that it could spread person to person, or that people with few symptoms could spread it. Part of this is blamed on the lack of tests, but that doesn't explain why when doctors and nurses were getting sick and dying at a high rate it didn't make someone do a "duh" and figure out that this was infectious person to person and stop people from traveling from the epicenter.

date to remember: Whistleblower posted concern on Dec 29.

LINK to timeline: Jan 8 the WHO said there were 50 cases but it was still being denied it was transmitted person to person. That fact wasn't admitted until Jan 20 (but notice the AFP photo accompanying the article from Jan 17 shows medical personnel in protective suits, meaning someone was aware it could spread from person to person).

The best way to understand their mindset is to watch the miniseries Chernobyl, where the regime worried more about bad publicity about the nuclear accident than they did about the local people.

one is reminded of what Richard Feynman wrote about the Challenger disaster:

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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update: I checked my "wayback" machine for the English Weibo feed, and found this.

January 23, they are still discussing the infection came from animals