Giving
the Right Name to the Virus Causing a Worldwide Pandemic
There has been controversy recently about what to call
the virus that has unleashed a worldwide pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) prefers “novel coronavirus.” Others
have referred to it as the “Wuhan virus,” after its place of origin, as is
common in naming diseases.
The Epoch Times suggests a more accurate name is the “CCP virus,” and calls upon others to join us in
adopting this name.
The name holds the CCP accountable for its wanton
disregard of human life and consequent spawning of a pandemic that has put
untold numbers in countries around the world at risk, while creating widespread
fear and devastating the economies of nations trying to cope with this disease.
After all, CCP officials knew in early December that
the virus had appeared in Wuhan, but they sat on the information for six weeks.
They arrested those who tried to warn of the danger, accusing them of spreading
“rumors,” and employed the regime’s rigorous censorship to prevent media
coverage and to delete any mentions of it from social media.
What might have been contained was allowed silently to
spread, showing up in all of China. Individuals who might have protected
themselves became victims, in numbers far greater than the CCP has admitted. By
late January, there were reports that all of the crematoria in Wuhan were
operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week to deal with the crush of dead
bodies.
Meanwhile, the measures taken to quarantine and treat
the population of Wuhan were grotesquely inhumane. Apartment buildings were
welded shut. Temporary “hospitals” were created that actually served as jails
for those believed to be sick with the virus. Locked into these places with no
medical treatment and little food, the unfortunates were trapped there until
death.
In lying about the danger facing China, the CCP was
acting according to its usual script. The CCP’s dominant narrative is that the
Party is “great, glorious, and correct.” The presence of the deadly CCP virus
in Wuhan, or, in 2003, of the SARS virus, doesn’t fit the script. As with SARS,
the first response was denial.
But in dealing with this virus, denial is not
acceptable. The world needs to know its origin, and the CCP has refused to
cooperate. Outside experts have not been allowed into Wuhan.
And there is understandable concern about the
activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s only P4 lab, one meant
for working with easily transmitted pathogens that can cause fatal illness. As
the official narratives offered for the source of the virus have been
disproven, questions have been raised about whether the CCP virus leaked from
the institute.
In any case, as questions about the
origin of the virus have gone unanswered, the CCP has begun throwing out wild
charges that the United States is responsible. This will be met around the
world with perplexity, if not ridicule. President Donald Trump has pushed back
by referring to the “Chinese virus.”
(The Epoch Times refers to the novel coronavirus, which
causes the disease COVID-19, as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist
Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread throughout China
and create a global pandemic.)
But the CCP likely intends these charges of U.S.
responsibility for its domestic audience. The CCP has victimized the Chinese
people in its first denial of the virus and now seeks to victimize them again
by shifting responsibility for its actions to others.
And this points out why the name “CCP virus” is
needed, to distinguish the victims from the victimizer. The people of Wuhan and
of China are the victims of the CCP’s arrogance and incompetence, expressed in
this viral pandemic.
The name CCP virus also sounds a warning: Those
nations and individuals close to the CCP are the ones suffering the worst
effects from this virus, as is seen in the raging infections in the CCP’s close
ally Iran and in Italy, the only G-7 nation to sign onto the Belt and Road
Initiative. Taiwan and Hong Kong, which have rejected the CCP—Taiwan in a
recent landslide national election and Hong Kong in months of massive
demonstrations—have had relatively few infections.
Finally, the CCP virus reminds the people of the world that the source of the virus is itself evil. This is a communist virus, and with the name CCP virus, The Epoch Times reminds the world of the cure: ending the CCP.
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