Ben Irvine
Author ▫ Philosopher ▫ Campaigner

1.

‘In his brilliant book’: Senger, Michael P, Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World, Plenary Press, 2021.

2.

‘said one WHO spokesman’: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-idUSKBN1ZM1G9

‘200,000 free tickets were handed out’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/health/virus-corona.html

‘Hundreds of millions of people travelled throughout China’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/health/virus-corona.html

‘28 flights departed Wuhan Airport every day’: Quoted in Markson, Sharri: What Really Happened in Wuhan, Harper Collins, p. 43.

‘175,000 people left Wuhan’: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html

‘Chinese cities outside of Hubei’: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-spread.html

‘300,000 people fled Wuhan overnight’: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10809454/coronavirus-thousands-fled-train-wuhan/

‘Japan recorded its first case’: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/16/national/science-health/japan-first-coronavirus-case/

‘Taiwan recorded its first case’: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-taiwan-idUSKBN1ZK0ZP

‘as did the USA’: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html

‘An Australian security firm has noted’: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/covid-virus-wuhan-summer-2019-b1932574.html?r=11526

‘researchers from Harvard University have analysed satellite images’: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42669767/Satellite_Images_Baidu_COVID19_manuscript_DASH.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

‘Scientists in California have suggested’: https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2021-03-18-novel-coronavirus-circulated-undetected-months-before-first-covid-19-cases-in-wuhan-china.aspx

‘the WHO has now admitted’: https://www.wsj.com/articles/possible-early-covid-19-cases-in-china-emerge-during-who-mission-11612996225?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter

‘cited official documents’: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back

‘French doctors re-tested old samples’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/french-hospital-discovers-covid-19-case-december-retested

‘An Italian study of blood samples’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0300891620974755

‘Italian scientists analysed sewage samples’: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428442/

‘virologists in Spain found evidence’: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQ

‘the virus had reached the Pacific North West’: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472

‘the American Red Cross collected blood samples’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/health/coronavirus-december-arrival.html

‘preventable and controllable’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html

‘common to several respiratory diseases’: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2020-DON229

‘the National Health Commission banned the publication of information’: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-of-the-coronavirus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-in-china

‘the message was reassuring’: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/01/WS5e0bdf82a310cf3e35581d8a.html

‘the CCP’s aims in those early stages’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

‘“under control” and mostly a “mild condition”’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/health/virus-corona.html

‘no “clear evidence” that the virus could be transmitted from person to person’: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/

3.

‘They chanted “Give me back green mountains and blue water’: https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-protests-wuhan-environment-20190704-story.html

‘According to social media posts on Weibo’: https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/environmental-protest-breaks-out-in-chinas-wuhan-city/

‘the founder of the country’s largest green NGO, explains’: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-china-wuhan-pollution/

‘protests over incineration plants have broken out in numerous Chinese cities’: https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/environmental-protest-breaks-out-in-chinas-wuhan-city/

‘As one commentator has summarised’: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-china-wuhan-pollution/

‘hot searches’: https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/environmental-protest-breaks-out-in-chinas-wuhan-city/

‘several incidents of mass lead poisoning’: https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/06/15/china-children-poisoned-lead-and-denied-treatment

‘a spate of injuries and deaths from faulty vaccines’: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/23/vaccine-safety-china-requires-releasing-lawyers-free-press

‘toxic milk powder formula’: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/30/falling-chinas-fake-covid-19-news-was-dangerous-and-preventable

‘an illness called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)’: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92479/

‘0.7% off China’s GDP’: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92479/

 ‘Xi had three main priorities for the coming year’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/30/too-busy-for-an-epidemic/

‘average age of death of around 82’: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/average-age-of-coronavirus-fatalities-is-82-pcwqrzdzz

‘a fatality rate of around 0.1%’: https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/question/31381/coronavirus-death

4.

‘an academic report into the SARS outbreak’: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92479/

‘a broad category’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/02/chinas-reaction-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-violates-human-rights

‘scrub all Covid rumours’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1482710376634531845

‘joking that the virus must be “patriotic”’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases

‘eight doctors were arrested’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/03/11/whistling-against-deception/

‘Wuhan police detained a group of Hong Kong journalists’: https://www.nchrd.org/2020/01/china-protect-human-rights-while-combatting-coronavirus-outbreak/

‘Even the Mayor of Wuhan’: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-premier-tours-virus-epicenter-as-anger-bubbles-at-crisis-response-11580109098

‘journalists, lawyers and activists were harassed’: https://www.nchrd.org/2020/01/china-protect-human-rights-while-combatting-coronavirus-outbreak/

‘the CCP’s campaign against Covid rumourmongers’: https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/3.30-FINAL-%E5%9B%A0%E8%A8%80%E5%8F%97%E7%BD%9A%E7%BB%9F%E8%AE%A1%E8%A1%A8-CN-EN-1.pdf

‘arrested for volunteering to distribute face masks’: https://www.nchrd.org/2020/01/china-protect-human-rights-while-combatting-coronavirus-outbreak/

‘pigs being burned alive in a pit’: https://www.ha-asia.com/china-is-not-burning-pigs-alive-to-stop-coronavirus/

‘a body lying prostrate on the pavement’: https://observers.france24.com/en/20200219-china-police-kill-woman-escape-quarantine-covid-19

‘many videos showing bodies’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/china/video-2094890/Video-Dramatic-footage-shows-people-collapsing-suddenly-Wuhan-city.html

‘extending his arms to break his fall’: (See video at 38 secs) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/china/video-2094890/Video-Dramatic-footage-shows-people-collapsing-suddenly-Wuhan-city.html

‘hooking him over the head with a butterfly net’: https://observers.france24.com/en/20200228-china-video-police-fishing-net-arrest-coronavirus-covid-fake-news

‘Qian Gang thundered’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/02/10/questions-for-hubeis-delegates/

‘lining the streets’: https://www.revolver.news/2021/02/how-phony-coronavirus-fear-videos-were-used-as-psychological-weapons-to-bring-america-to-her-knees/

‘“We would like to breathe clean air”’: https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-protests-wuhan-environment-20190704-story.html

‘said the WHO, somewhat grudgingly’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1219029418800226304

‘Xi Jinping himself weighed in’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases

‘“immense public anger”’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/30/too-busy-for-an-epidemic/

‘The preface of the report declared’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/30/too-busy-for-an-epidemic/

‘A fascinating documentary’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abeYukTNmj0

‘calm a nervous public’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/asia/china-SARS-pneumonialike.html

‘an open revolt by the public’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

‘Bruce Aylward visited Wuhan and made the follow remark’: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-02-26/-Copy-China-s-response-to-COVID-19-WHO-expert-urges–OnNfwORI3u/index.html

‘one CMP journalist crowed’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/30/too-busy-for-an-epidemic/

‘As one journalist explained’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/02/24/what-ails-the-peoples-daily/ 

‘Wuhan’s mayor spoke’: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-28/Wuhan-mayor-willing-to-resign-over-disputed-lockdown-decision-NCk1K8R6MM/index.html

5.

‘this anonymous Wuhan-based journalist’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/

‘The Unions and the U-turns’: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-unions-and-u-turns.html

‘The Road to Lockdown’: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-road-to-lockdown_02121758366.html

‘“shaken hands with everyone”’: https://news.sky.com/video/coronavirus-i-shook-hands-with-everybody-11948548

‘“on the chin”’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSTbwydtMc

‘Patrick Vallance went on TV’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8

‘“Covid 19 is going to spread further”:  https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-on-coronavirus-12-march-2020

‘don’t wear a mask’: (See 2.41) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=227850301597915

‘medical staff would refuse to work’: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/nhs-staff-exposed-coronavirus-not-given-protective-clothing-or-sanitiser

‘““whatever action was required”’: https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-joins-other-tube-unions-in-call-over-coronavirus-fears/

‘agitated for schools closures’: https://neu.org.uk/press-releases/coronavirus-school-closure-policy

‘everyone in the country to practice social distancing’: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=3169475523064130

‘the civil service union, met with cabinet ministers’: https://twitter.com/pcs_union/status/1240016652072353792

‘a government poll’: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/articles-reports/2020/03/24/public-overwhelmingly-backs-governments-new-measur

‘Jeremy Hunt’: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/the-clock-is-ticking-on-this-crisis-the-next-four-weeks-are-critical-a4386736.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1584104371

‘the RMT had again threatened to strike’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/packed-tube-trains-prompt-union-anger-at-johnsons-back-to-work-message-coronavirus-lockdown

‘the retail workers union, USDAW… industrial unrest’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/01/retailers-unions-join-forces-help-reopen-shops/

‘the NEU had called for a “circuit breaker”’: https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-teachers-demand-2-week-school-closures-after-cases-jump

‘the British Medical Association furiously demanded tougher Covid measures’: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-unions-and-u-turns.html

‘the NEU held a Zoom meeting’: https://neu.org.uk/joint-general-secretaries-address-national-education-union-annual-conference-2021

‘Johnson announced a national lockdown’: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-address-to-the-nation-4-january-2021

‘the teaching unions had demanded this disgusting measure’: https://neu.org.uk/media/14226/view

‘a Covid vaccination programme was rolled out for schoolchildren’: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/09/nhs-rolls-out-covid-19-jab-to-children-aged-12-to-15/

‘Teaching unions had demanded this appalling measure too’: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/bring-back-face-coverings-schools-limit-coronavirus-disruption

‘against the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation’: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people

‘Boris had optimistically announced’: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-at-coronavirus-press-conference-19-july-2021

USDAW: https://t.co/YYEB4HWtCR

The RMT: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/health-and-safety/health-and-safety-circulars/ricf-wearing-of-face-coverings221121/?preview=true

‘the teaching unions’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/teachers-call-for-masks-to-be-mandatory-in-english-secondary-schools

‘the NHS’: https://twitter.com/NHSConfed/status/1450733600341647363

‘the BMS’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58990658

‘Threatening to vaccinate all NHS staff was probably decisive’: https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o269

‘Johnson’s opinion in March 2020’: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/boris-johnson-lockdown-scepticism/

‘Cummings has also claimed that Johnson expressed regret’: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/world/europe/cummings-johnson-covid.html

‘Boris apparently shouted’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ygcg/bbc-news-special-dominic-cummings-the-interview

‘A book by one of Boris’s former science advisors’: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-self-isolation-ping-u-turn-rishi-sunak-leaders-contempt-1109564

‘Boris reportedly declared’: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/26/pressure-mounts-on-boris-johnson-over-alleged-let-the-bodies-pile-high-remarks

‘legal measures’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/14/sadiq-khan-urges-pm-to-let-london-schools-close-early-to-combat-covid

‘fierce opposition from all the teaching unions’: https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/education-unions-statement-safe-reopening-schools

‘an attempt to cajole the public’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198985/Operation-Rampdown-Codename-revealed-Government-papers-dismantle-key-Covid-measures-year.html

‘several newspapers reported’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/02/20/queen-vows-carry-working-covid/

‘In an earlier essay’: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-road-to-lockdown_02121758366.html

‘incredible remark’: https://unherd.com/thepost/neil-ferguson-interview-china-changed-what-was-possible/

6.

‘Chinese unions frequently engage in “collective bargaining”’: http://www.china-labour.org.hk/

‘The China Labour Bulletin has logged 13,000 strikes’: https://maps.clb.org.hk/?i18n_language=en_US&map=1&startDate=2021-10&endDate=2022-04&eventId=&keyword=&addressId=&parentAddressId=&address=&parentAddress=&industry=&parentIndustry=&industryName=

‘turning away patients’: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047603/wuhan-coronavirus-hospitals-turning-people-doctors-say-home-best

‘report from the journalist Sharri Markson’: (p. 25) https://www.harpercollins.com/products/what-really-happened-in-wuhan-sharri-markson?variant=39686732316706

‘the WHO declared’: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32521584/

‘based on Chinese Expert Consensus’: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32439306/

‘One American doctor admitted’: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-retreat-from-early-covid-treatment-and-return-to-basics-11608491436

‘they didn’t actually say anything about a lockdown’: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/r/r46354

‘the BBC’s headline’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51215348

‘a solitary tweet’: https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1220247292491399170

‘doubled their spending on PCR tests’: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/covid-virus-wuhan-summer-2019-b1932574.html?r=11526

‘indicated as much’: https://www.tefl.com/blog/article.html?return-from-wuhan-one-teachers-experience-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak&document_id=1108100

‘already been cancelling classes’: https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/explosive-new-book-questions-chinas-covid-timeline-exposes-cover-up-allegations/news-story/8d1e89d2fa37c5250df9158f36f4c5b0

‘According to a report’: https://clb.org.hk/content/china%E2%80%99s-teachers-unsung-heroes-workers%E2%80%99-movement

‘China’s Ministry of Education announced’: https://covid-19.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202004/07/WS5e8c1e64a310aeaeeed507e6.html

‘Why did China close all schools?’: https://covid-19.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202004/07/WS5e8c1e64a310aeaeeed507e6.html

‘but the schools didn’t reopen until August’: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan-idUSKBN25P04M

‘she complained about young children’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8341959/Teachers-union-leader-caught-making-offensive-remarks-children-admits-blunt-often.html

‘the New York Times published an article’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/world/asia/china-schools-reopening.html

‘a “crackdown” on online education’: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2021-09-29/the-real-agenda-behind-chinas-crackdown-on-educational-technology

‘quoted a “primary school teacher”’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/coronavirus-panic-and-anger-in-wuhan-as-china-orders-city-into-lockdown

‘summed up the mood’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/29/an-outbreak-of-slogans/

‘a meeting took place’: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-16/Public-health-experts-from-China-and-UK-move-to-strengthen-ties-QwmBNLjJp6/index.html

7.

‘another outbreak – of sloganeering’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/29/an-outbreak-of-slogans/

‘One commentator opined’: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/7G9xrFHStawXEFwSdayVpg

‘one lady commented’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/world/asia/china-schools-reopening.html

‘he had personally ordered the Wuhan lockdown’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/asia/xi-china-coronavirus.html

‘an open letter to the government’: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/03/translation-essay-by-missing-property-tycoon-ren-zhiqiang/

‘sentencing him’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/world/asia/china-ren-zhiqiang-tycoon.html

‘reprimanding several more’: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202002/24/WS5e539776a310128217279e25.html

‘he had become a “national folk hero”’: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-ousts-top-official-in-coronavirus-outbreaks-epicenter-11581568911

‘days later’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/china-fires-two-senior-hubei-officials-over-coronavirus-outbreak

‘speaking out against the lockdown’: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chinese-citizen-journalist-zhang-zhan-jailed-for-4-years-for-wuhan-coronavirus-reports-2344421

‘a press briefing’: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/cefj/eng/xw/t1737954.htm

‘The next day, Tedros declared’: https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-statement-on-ihr-emergency-committee-on-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)

‘didn’t mention the pandemic’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/30/too-busy-for-an-epidemic/

‘he addressed some Wuhan doctors’: https://www.economist.com/china/2020/02/13/xi-jinping-sends-in-the-hard-men-to-deal-with-the-wuhan-virus

‘One journalist spoke’: https://chinamediaproject.org/2020/03/11/whistling-against-deception/

‘a report in the Financial Times’: https://www.ft.com/content/0d6f509b-966c-4909-9334-ff3f23c33484

‘The team’s work was accepted by the WHO’: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045

‘the cycle threshold was set at 45’: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346483715_External_peer_review_of_the_RTPCR_test_to_detect_SARS-CoV-2_reveals_10_major_scientific_flaws_at_the_molecular_and_methodological_level_consequences_for_false_positive_results

‘counting cases based on clinical observation’: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sharp-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-raises-questions-about-outbreaks-peak-11581617783?mod=hp_lead_pos6&mod=article_inline

‘a fake image’: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/china-state-media-false-coronavirus-hospital-image

‘nine days to complete’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52125059

‘costing a total of £530 million’: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2021/04/nhs-nightingale-hospitals-worth-money

‘treated only 150 Covid patients’: https://www.building.co.uk/focus/running-on-empty-whatever-happened-to-the-nightingales/5109970.article

‘“never used on a large scale”’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56327214

‘built to “bring hope”’: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2021/04/nhs-nightingale-hospitals-worth-money

‘publicly rejected the idea of another teachers strike’: https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/not-appropriate-strike-over-8-march-says-neu-boss

‘trucks spraying disinfectant’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-RqckJAulM

‘According to the US intelligence services’: https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/news/the-us-intelligence-community-has-reportedly-concluded-that-china-intentionally-misrepresented-its-coronavirus-numbers/articleshow/74938803.cms

‘registered zero cases’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/fake-fake-senior-chinese-leader-heckled-by-residents-on-visit-to-coronavirus-epicentre

‘the same was being reported of Wuhan itself’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1241049506843672577

‘declaring in February’: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

‘Sun Chunlan visited Wuhan’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/fake-fake-senior-chinese-leader-heckled-by-residents-on-visit-to-coronavirus-epicentre

8.

‘I quote from the article at length’: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92479/

‘offered to send a team’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/cdc-coronavirus-china.html 

‘reiterate the offer in person’: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-us-relations-xi-rejected-110625497.html

‘the CDC issued a “Level 1”’: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/r/r46354

‘Xi is alleged to have said to Trump’: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-us-relations-xi-rejected-110625497.html

‘increasing pressure’: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/01/pressure-builds-china-share-info-new-coronavirus

‘the dearth of information’: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/r/r46354

‘was agitating for more information’: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-china-blocked-who-chinese-scientists-early-coronavirus-outbreak-n1222246

‘their first article’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/06/health/china-pneumonia-intl-hnk/index.html

‘CNN went further, declaring’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/08/health/china-wuhan-pneumonia-virus-intl-hnk/index.html

‘two of them’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/13/world/cnn-coronavirus-coverage/index.html

‘and a third’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/17/health/wuhan-virus-us-airport-screenings-china-bn/index.html

‘On January 18, there was a CNN report’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/18/asia/china-coronavirus-study-intl/index.html

‘“the possibility of a deadly epidemic”’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/19/asia/china-coronavirus-spike-intl-hnk/index.html

‘The BBC’: https://twitter.com/RichPreston/status/1315502453391937536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1315502453391937536%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fnews%2Fcoronavirus-first-bbc-news-report-wuhan-china-tv-9721326

‘Al Jazeera’: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/1/11/china-reports-first-death-from-mysterious-outbreak-in-wuhan

‘RT News’: https://www.rt.com/news/478842-chinese-coronavirus-global-screening/

‘the CDC slapped another travel warning on Wuhan’: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/r/r46354

‘advising against all travel to Hubei’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/25/british-citizens-wuhan-left-dark-foreign-office-coronavirus/

‘the CDC put Wuhan on ‘Level 3’’: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/r/r46354

‘the US State Department raised its travel warning’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/coronavirus-alert/index.html

‘15 times when Trump praised China’s pandemic response’: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736

‘no fewer than 31 times’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNpr7_iRHa8

‘China was facing deepening isolation’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/coronavirus-travel-bans-plunge-china-into-deepening-isolation

‘96 countries had issued travel restrictions’: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/travel-restrictions-china-due-covid-19

‘200,000 domestic flights were cancelled’: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/28/business/global-tourism-novel-coronavirus/index.html

‘Director Dr Tedros exclaimed’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51215348

‘the WHO issued a statement’: https://www.who.int/news/item/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)

‘At a news conference’: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-idUSKBN1ZX1H3

‘“absolutely no doubt”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1222969091482361856

‘“combat the spread of rumours”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1224269062651498498

‘“fanning the flames of hysteria”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228684115005841410

‘He condemned “misinformation”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1226169704756150280

‘He called for “rationality, not rumours”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228685429693669390

‘“Fear and panic doesn’t help”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1233033529224761344

‘“working with the big “search and media companies”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228684035146338309

‘“working with governments, airlines, media and technology companies”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1227640464783880193

‘Another WHO tweet implored the public’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234628585354354688

‘the basic advice’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1229732608889802753

‘“packages from China”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1223532656778010624

‘“goods manufactured in China”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1235934364862738434

‘Tedros denounced “fear, rumours and stigma”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1233418231261646849

‘He rejected “division and disharmony”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228684734659792896

‘“the greatest enemy we face”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228684978520776704

‘“infecting others” or “spreading the virus”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234619007841525764

‘The real message became clearer’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234604060420005888

‘“Now is not the time”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228685229545656320

‘“credit where it’s due”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228685090953318400

‘the case count in China was declining’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1231110979817222144

‘continuing to decline’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1231958678309425152

‘“the lowest since January 22”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234502998006665217

‘a bizarre claim’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1231959035827675136

‘concerning instances’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1226886935144226828

‘“almost 9 times more”’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234503092885958662

‘a very grave threat’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1227143648850169859

‘a hint of exasperation’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1228683481623990272

‘in early January was disgraceful’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8304471/Chinas-president-Xi-Jinping-personally-requested-delay-COVID-19-pandemic-warning.html

‘changed the definition’: https://www.thewellnessway.com/world-health-organization-changes-the-definition-of-herd-immunity-again/

‘Donald Trump exaggerated’: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-china-blocked-who-chinese-scientists-early-coronavirus-outbreak-n1222246

‘all its sponsors’: https://www.axios.com/us-gives-more-money-who-china-does-dbf670e3-6855-41b4-b976-8edaf40f7b97.html

‘Bruce Aylward, said at a press conference’: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcripts/joint-mission-press-conference-script-english-final.pdf?sfvrsn=51c90b9e_2

‘at a time’: https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/25/towns-italy-lockdown-coronavirus-12298246/

‘the headline of an article’: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-02-26/-Copy-China-s-response-to-COVID-19-WHO-expert-urges–OnNfwORI3u/index.html

‘some remarks made by Tedros’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1242118273782743041

‘earlier in March, Tedros said’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1237050719192170497

‘Italy also has Europe’s largest number of Chinese immigrants’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51370822

‘home to Europe’s largest Chinese community’: https://rmx.news/article/tensions-between-italians-and-chinese-migrants-existed-long-before-coronavirus/

‘outsourced manufacturing to China’: https://blog.rebellionresearch.com/blog/northern-italy-wuhan-partners-for-better-or-worse

‘longstanding tensions’: https://rmx.news/article/tensions-between-italians-and-chinese-migrants-existed-long-before-coronavirus/

‘One local artisan has described’: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany

‘The 2008 documentary’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYSmGPI0naw

‘the second oldest population’: https://www.prb.org/resources/countries-with-the-oldest-populations-in-the-world/

‘an incident occurred’: https://www.france24.com/en/20200130-thousands-held-in-cruise-ship-in-italy-over-feared-coronavirus-cases

‘reporting other incidents of discrimination’: https://www.france24.com/en/20200131-chinese-communities-warn-of-italy-racism-over-virus

‘off work because they were self-isolating’: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/italys-health-system-limit-virus-struck-lombardy-69331977

‘and in France’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/19/shock-italy-475-people-die-coronavirus-day-death-toll-approaches/

‘the first institutions’: https://www.businessinsider.com/life-inside-italys-red-zone-schools-closed-weeks-2020-3?r=US&IR=T#soon-it-became-clear-this-was-serious-2

‘schools and universities were closed’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/italy-orders-closure-of-schools-and-universities-due-to-coronavirus

‘Vox magazine reported’: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21164938/coronavirus-italy-schools-closed

‘focused on the transportation’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51787238

‘inspired by Italian unions’: https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/webinar-coronavirus-work

‘open agitation’: https://www.politico.eu/article/italys-unions-threaten-general-strike-over-war-economy-decree-coronavirus-covid19/

‘more than 100 countries’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52103747

9.

‘700,000 fee-paying Chinese students’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60587499

‘Wray summed up the leverage’: https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states

‘500,000 people to spread disinformation’: https://www.theepochtimes.com/leaked-emails-show-chinese-regime-employs-500000-internet-trolls_1142634.html

‘have tweeted in 55 languages’: https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/beijings-global-megaphone

‘Intelligence analysis showed’: https://formiche.net/2020/03/china-unleashed-twitter-bots-covid19-propaganda-italy/

‘assailed on Twitter’: se Senger, Snake Oil

‘the US State Department provided Twitter’: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-05-11/government-feuds-with-twitter-over-claims-china-is-exploiting-coronavirus

‘The Telegraph reported on March 9’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-britain-will-need-do-avoid-lockdown-fate-italy/

‘they waxed lyrical’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/chinas-coronavirus-lockdown-strategy-brutal-but-effective

‘The “impartial” BBC chipped in’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/dj3jonuhi1/coronavirus-year-of-the-mask

‘Tomas Pueyo published an article’: https://tomaspueyo.medium.com/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

‘a film by Olmo Parenti’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMY0-4p9P-M

‘Professor Susan Michie’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9508159/IAN-GALLAGHER-lockdowns-biggest-fan-communist.html

‘the CCP was trying to influence Covid policymaking’: https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states

‘travelled to Italy’: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2535_665405/202003/t20200312_697018.html

‘Xi Jinping himself telephoned’: https://www.cfr.org/blog/mapping-chinas-health-silk-road

‘Tedros opined’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-britain-will-need-do-avoid-lockdown-fate-italy/

‘officially a ‘pandemic’’: https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19—11-march-2020

‘In an interview with Sky News Australia’: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/there-was-no-science-behind-covid-lockdowns/video/33f326f31fa78a5fde3f57410e70dd1a

‘encourage countries’: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

‘Hua Chunying, complained’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51353279

‘comments by US Commerce Secretary’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/wilbur-ross-coronavirus-outbreak-comment

‘there were “deteriorating relations”’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2059436420980072

‘the stories might have some truth’: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/donald-trump-coronavirus-chinese-lab-claim

‘the US government contributed funds’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/57932699

‘the virus may not have come from China’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/conspiracy-theory-that-coronavirus-originated-in-us-gaining-traction-in-china

‘many researchers have since argued the same’: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-origins-closest-viruses-to-sars-cov-2-found-in-laos

‘Zhao Lijian, claimed’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/conspiracy-theory-that-coronavirus-originated-in-us-gaining-traction-in-china

‘the CCP made an official statement’: https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/cgsy/eng/xwdt/t1902694.htm

‘“27 Quarantined in Wuhan”’: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/01/WS5e0bdf82a310cf3e35581d8a.html

‘the People’s Daily article’: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-01-08/chinese-report-says-illnesses-may-be-from-new-coronavirus?context=amp

‘The mission reported “a rapid increase in cases”’: https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2020/2/joint-who-and-ecdc-mission-in-italy-to-support-covid-19-control-and-prevention-efforts

‘24 new cases had been exported from Italy’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1233412439368138752

‘schools and universities were closed’: https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-announces-closure-of-universities-schools-to-fight-coronavirus/30449711.html

‘Tedros was still urging countries’: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1237778387688730627

‘shutting China’s own borders’: https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210123-one-year-on-from-wuhan-lockdown-china-keeps-strict-border-controls-to-suppress-virus 

‘all schools in the country to close’: https://twitter.com/NEAToday/status/1240000203882672131

‘drive numerous state lockdowns’: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/teachers-unions-are-driving-lockdowns-that-hurt-students-most?_amp=true

‘directly influenced CDC policy’: https://trendingpolitics.com/new-emails-show-cdc-was-corrupted-by-political-coordination-with-teachers-unions-and-activist-groups-knab/#.YkR5DF2wEBo.twitter

‘a series of “escalating threats”’: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-25/teachers-unions-meeting-scott-morrison-coronavirus-covid-19/12087600

‘teaching unions exerted pressure’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1434859871917256704

‘In France, there were already 120 schools closed’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/03/the-longest-holiday-parents-coping-with-coronavirus-school-closures-in-east-asia

‘didn’t want the schools to close’: https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1427383455743156227?lang=ar-x-fm

‘the Australian Workers Union started asking’: https://twitter.com/AWUnion/status/1425533293177491461

10.

‘more than half of humanity’: https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-in-europe-spain-s-death-toll-hits-10-000-after-record-950-new-deaths-in-24-hou

‘tuberculosis’: http://www.stoptb.org/assets/documents/news/Modeling Report_1 May 2020_FINAL.pdf

‘AIDS’: https://www.who.int/news/item/11-05-2020-the-cost-of-inaction-covid-19-related-service-disruptions-could-cause-hundreds-of-thousands-of-extra-deaths-from-hiv

‘malaria’: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240004641

‘up to 12,000 starving’: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/hunger-virus-how-covid-19-fuelling-hunger-hungry-world?cid=aff_affwd_donate_id78888&awc=5991_1602271444_d1341487f388f59fb9852d0a4261b6e3

‘132 million malnourished’: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02281-w?sf236625656=1

‘heart disease’: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151384/

‘stroke’: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/oy/dramatic-drops-in-er-visits-likely-led-to-uncounted-deaths/

‘1 in 7 cancer surgeries postponed’: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/960331

‘65% decrease in screenings’: https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/CCI.20.00068

‘100,000 businesses lost’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/12/small-business-used-define-americas-economy-pandemic-could-end-that-forever/

‘workers were laid off’: Snake Oil, p. 144

‘255 million jobs lost’: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/global-crisis-damage-from-covid-19-is-now-about-255-million-jobs

‘homelessness’: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/12/09/covid-pandemic-driving-homelessness-in-nyc-to-record-levels-advocates-say/

‘bankruptcy’:  https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/new-york-bankruptcies-reportedly-surge-40percent-during-pandemic.html

‘Mental illness running riot’: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/27/covid-poses-greatest-threat-to-mental-health-since-second-world-war

‘Alcohol abuse’: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201207091306.htm

‘drug abuse and drug deaths soaring’: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/us/cdc-pandemic-fatal-drug-overdoses-rise/index.html

‘Domestic abuse surging’: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200410/us-lockdowns-trigger-surge-in-domestic-violence

‘Elderly people brutally isolated’: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25697700/

‘Millions of children dead’: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2214-109X(20)30229-1

‘more than in the old’: https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-cdc-numbers-show-lockdowns-deadly-toll-on-young-people

‘children pushed into multidimensional poverty’: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072602

‘Child abuse soaring’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55682745

‘Female Genital Mutilation increasing’: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/covid-19-school-closures-end-fgm-in-kenya/

‘thirteen million more child marriages’: https://apnews.com/article/international-news-business-coronavirus-pandemic-sierra-leone-united-nations-9a9ab4f71adc1c6f7d435b744411fb90?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

‘HIV infections in children potentially doubling’: https://www.who.int/news/item/11-05-2020-the-cost-of-inaction-covid-19-related-service-disruptions-could-cause-hundreds-of-thousands-of-extra-deaths-from-hiv

‘Childhood mental illness spiralling’: https://fee.org/articles/harvard-researchers-nearly-half-of-young-adults-showing-signs-of-depression-amid-pandemic/

‘Eating disorders more prevalent’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55468632

‘struggling with feelings of isolation’: https://www.savethechildren.net/news/%E2%80%98children-risk-lasting-psychological-distress-coronavirus-lockdown%E2%80%99-save-children#:~:text=May%202020%20%2D%20Global-,’Children%20at%20risk%20of%20lasting%20psychological%20distress%20from%20coronavirus%20lockdown,lasting%20psychological%20distress%2C%20including%20depression.

‘Billions of days of education lost’: https://www.unicef.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Unicef-UK-Children-In-Lockdown-Coronavirus-Impacts-Snapshot.pdf

‘Achievement gaps widening’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/17/dc-schools-achievement-gap-pandemic-reading/

‘kids falling off the grid’: https://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-students-reported-missing-school-systems-nationwide-amid/story?id=76063922

‘The masks didn’t work’: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19-

‘the lockdowns didn’t work’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/02/trusting-people-do-right-thing-saved-lives-covid-lockdowns/

‘reports accumulating about adverse effects’: https://dailysceptic.org/2021/04/18/deaths-linked-to-covid-vaccines-are-30-times-more-common-than-with-other-vaccines-is-the-safety-reporting-system-fit-for-purpose/

‘20,000 in the UK and 120,000 in the USA’: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/02/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-covid-vaccines/

‘more harm than the cold’: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/02/how-many-people-have-died-from-the-covid-vaccines/

‘Erna Solberg, who locked Norway down, acknowledged’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8373857/Norways-PM-admits-closed-schools-nurseries-fear.html

‘the policy was a ‘huge, huge mistake’’: https://invesbrain.com/florida-gov-desantis-says-lockdowns-were-a-huge-mistake/

‘his painfully turgid book’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CRZ9VZB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

‘leaders began parroting the slogan’: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yDO373pAgJkJldSNr9htboGrQyD72mC8FgrpUTXd63SU5HT-cCng-UGqg82L2UjhqP6V0YM5aweM7caJmKPze61vlGbUptbjy23b2VXTGko6gsmiP3VNDvNZ-TN7RHeroq86coDU

‘They included’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52103747

‘curtail his country’s economic development’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1482135383265755141

‘on March 19 one of the Great Reset accounts’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1484539937500315649

‘another account was accusing the CDC of ‘genocide’’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1484526438887866369

‘an account sharing a graphic about a rise in cases’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1484521717049569283

‘an account shrieking at Boris Johnson’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1484539937500315649

‘one account was flipping out’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1484520625138016264

‘on March 12 an account was saying’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1484527295150895107

‘Twitter deleted 170,000 accounts’: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/twitter-deletes-170000-accounts-linked-to-china-influence-campaign

‘reports of people being sent to ‘quarantine camps’’: https://www.nationalworld.com/news/world/shanghai-lockdown-rising-covid-cases-food-shortages-quarantine-camps-3649737

‘a psychotic order’: https://fortune.com/2022/03/31/china-city-kill-house-pets-covid-patients/

‘Workers shut down an entire shopping centre’: https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-05/26-million-people-confined-to-homes-in-shanghai-as-covid-lockdown-extended

‘‘minimize the impact’’: https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-05/26-million-people-confined-to-homes-in-shanghai-as-covid-lockdown-extended

‘The Moscow Times reported’: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/02/putins-approval-drops-amid-covid-surge-partial-lockdown-poll-a75720

‘facing another Covid uproar’: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-daily-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-high-2022-02-10/

‘in a bitter, rambling speech’: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-putin-s-declaration-of-war-on-ukraine

‘Johnson made a revealing remark’: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-putin-in-a-panic-over-revolution-in-moscow-as-he-seeks-to-snuff-out-freedom-in-ukraine-boris-johnson-says-12570095