WE ALL KNOW ITS EFFECT, BUT NO ONE SO FAR HAS ASKED THIS ONE VITAL QUESTION …………..

[vittorio]

Yes folks , we all know this dreadful Virus started in China , but have you noticed , NO "Official " person has had the courage to ask the Chinese Authorities … as to its actual ORIGIN .- The theory that it was cooked up, as a possible = " WEAPON " In a Chinese laboratory which " Escaped" , is now travelling around the world even quicker than the Virus itself . Apart from Italy , I have heard it from eleven different countries already ... .... This is the " GREAT AIDS PLAGUE " ALL OVER AGAIN . . and the origins of that , was never satisfactory explained … we started with " MONKEYS " , and so it went on to even more bizarre theories ... ...China being a Communist State , will never admit to its real origins , and ITS ABOUT TIME THEY APOLOGISED TO THE ENTIRE WORLD …..for the colossal damage and monumental cost it has done to the world and its peoples … = THEIR SILENCE IS DEAFENING ...

[skischool]

We all,except myself of course eat dried pasta,it's pretty disgusting tasteless stuff and probably originated in Italy,are we all now to condemn Italy and demand they make a public apology to the world.i think not so because we all have a modicum of common sense and are hopefully not xenophobic . x

[Badbessie]

At times the simplest answer is often correct. It may be they do not know themselves as from my understanding patient zero as not yet been traced. Scientists have been predicting a virus like this for many years. I remember an Horizon programme many years ago were scientist after scientist stated " it is not a question of if but when". If you want to blame something blame nature for allowing viruses to mutate. There are about 20 different conspiracy theories about this virus that I have seen. Sadly each one if researched is badly flawed.

[Tryfan]

I have written on this on several sites. My view when this is all over, we all stop buying anything Chinese. We need to be satisfied as to the origin and more importantly that if it was due to unsafe food practises, they have put steps in to improve them. Only after should it be business as normal.

[skischool in reply to Tryfan]

One of the ventilators that may well save your life will probably have been made in China and i still think it is both insensitive and inaccurate to blame the Chinese people for a worldwide pandemic, and spreading inaccurate information around various sites doesn't appear very productive to me?

[Bingo88]

I have been saying this for a few days. vittorio. There has been no Apology at all from China for all the deaths they have caused. Which tells me how much they think of fellow people in the world. And as you say no explanation as to how this all started. The only thing i will say is we cant class all Chinese as bad people

[Tryfan]

I received this link 5 mins after my first post. I'll put it on the main site as a post. Https://en.wilipedia.org/wiki/wuhan_institute_of_virology

Enough in the item to concern us all. The one big question why did it start in Wuhan? Coincidence?

[bwp91]

We’re all indirectly responsible though we may well feel we’ve had little say on the agro business farming which has pushed out basic farming in, amongst other places, China. As a result farmers start coming in to markets with the more exotic creatures they can sell, creatures often pushed out more into the open because of deforestation. And yes China may be the prime example of this at the moment but it affects us all in all sorts of ways e.g. the use of antibiotics in mass farming. And some of these large Chinese farms are owned by American companies. We’re all interlinked and to some degree responsible. I feel fairly helpless in the face of all this but I guess we can all do our bit and I don’t think that includes focussing all the blame on a Wuhan market ( whilst not denying the Chinese may have to think hard about regulating something which is embedded in their culture).B