When China Sneezes by Cynthia McKinney, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The 2019 novel Corona Virus, now COVID-19, stole global headlines in the opening months of 2020, and its many impacts are still to play out. The common adage, "If the US sneezes, the world catches a cold" is now demonstrable in a multiplicity of ways, but it is China that has sneezed. This book provides insight into the nature of global pandemics such as SARS, MERS, Ebola and HIV/AIDs, then focuses on Wuhan, COVID-19's ground zero, and the specific source of this new deadly virus. By mid-February 2020 it had swiftly led to more than 75, 000 cases, taking 2100 lives and forcing a titanic cruise ship into quarantine. This book examines the massive effort that China has undertaken since the outbreak to contain its spread, and includes a number of people's stories of their experiences when caught in the lockdown. But the other implications may be even more grave. National and international analysts address the economic impact both within China's industrial heartland and on global business, as entire Chinese regions are on lockdown, world airlines cancel flights, major US corporations in China shut their doors, factory floors empty and global supply chains break down. Stocks and the prices of gold and oil are impacted. Disturbing questions arise: Has the disruption been overblown by Western sources to inflict damage on China as part of a trade war? What about blowback and unintended consequences? What are the biowarfare implications -in the Wuhan instance, where China's first BSL-4 level laboratory is situated, or in the future in general, given the spread of BSL-4 level laboratories as many countries, and most extensively the US, conduct research into germ warfare, including the use of bat-generated viruses, for both offensive and defensive purposes, putting the entire world at risk of accidental leakage or worse? Soon after the COVID-19 outbreak was announced and the extraordinary quarantine response by China was effected, it was learned that Event 201, a global coronavirus pandemic simulation was held just months earlier, in which a global coronavirus pandemic killed 65 million people. This book cuts through the hype and sensationalism to provide evidence-based answers to the public's scientific, economic, and political questions about COVID-19. | When China Sneezes by Cynthia McKinney, Paperback | Indigo Chapters