Weijia Jiang, a CBS
News correspondent accused an unnamed White House official of calling
COVID-19 the “Kung Flu” this morning in a tweet and Brandon Morse, Senior
Editor at the website RedStates, lowered the boom on her:
Morse’s reference may be lost to the
younger set. It comes from the single released in 1974
by Bus Stop during the chop-socky film craze that featured martial arts and
kung fu films made in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The song has been featured in films like Rush Hour 3, Beverly Hills
Ninja and Kung Fu Panda 3.
It’s an indisputable
fact that the Wuhan Virus, known to all of us as coronavirus or COVID-19,
originated in Wuhan, China, the capital of Hubei Province. Every documentable
piece of evidence demonstrates this to us.
China is doing exactly
what you would expect a communist nation to do—manipulate public opinion via
the woke leftism of a complicit Democrat Media Complex. The idea that we can’t
label the virus by its place of origin without being xenophobic is laughable
when, in fact, the media was calling it exactly that recently.
On March 8, the People’s
Republic of China’s state-run rag
Xinhua threatened to impose pharmaceutical export controls after which
America would be “plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus.”
The article goes on to imply
China would be justified in taking such a step. It would simply be retaliating
against “unkind” U.S. measures taken after COVID-19’s emergence, such as
restricting entry to the U.S. by Chinese and foreigners who had visited China.
Inside China, a raft of
conspiracy stories has appeared online, including that the contagion was spread
by the U.S. military. This bile was spewed by Lijian Zhao, Deputy Director
General for Red China’s Foreign Ministry who tweeted, “It might be the US Army
who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!”
Can any one of you
imagine Germany, Japan or other responsible nations performing such a dark
passive aggressive threat disguised as hurt feelings?
The pull
quotes from one of my favorite columnists, Victor Davis Hanson, hits the
nail on the head:
“In a reductionist
sense, it is not surprising that a China, systematically lying to and cheating
its trading partners, cannot be trusted to tell the world how a virus was born
on its own soil, spread among its population, and hopped oceans into other
nations.”
“When the virus peters
out and the panic fades, China may be permanently rebranded and recalibrated by
the world at large. Its trading partners will trust it far less to honor any
commitments or to abide by any international agreements. Supply chains will be
diversified. Tourism will be reduced in fears another such coronavirus will
follow SARS and COVID-19—and be hushed up. Countries that had particular close
commercial and cultural ties with China—Iran, South Korea, and Italy—were hurt most
during the epidemic by Chinese silence and duplicity.”
I guess I’ll have to own
up to a willingness to stigmatize the culture a of people who dine in
disgusting “wet markets” that feature bamboo rats, civets, pangolin, bats,
snakes, wriggling grubworms, live snakes, turtle, cicadas, guinea pigs,
badgers, hedgehogs, otters and even wolf cubs.
So yeah, people in this country will get a little rude when you start a
pandemic that destroys people’s lives.
