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 anthology provides insight into the nature of global pandemics such as SARS, MERS, Ebola and HIV/AIDs, then focuses on Wuhan, where COVID-19 broke out -- though patient zero is as yet unknown. It examines the massive effort that China has undertaken since the outbreak to contain its spread, and includes personal stories of the first lockdown experiences.

But the impact may be even more grave on the global economy than it is on global health. National and international analysts address the economic impact both within China’s industrial heartland and on global business, as borders close, entire 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, millions lose their jobs and small businesses tank.. Stocks and the prices of gold and oil are impacted.

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. Many questions arise concerning BIg Pharma's push for vaccines, and the mainstream dismissal of the possibility of alternative treatments such as HCQ.

Other disturbing questions have arisen: Has the disruption been overblown to inflict damage on China as part of a trade war? On the United States, which faces massive damage to its economy in the midst of an increasingly bitter political divide? 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 worldwide and most extensively the US, as states and private entities 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?

Is this truly a pandemic -- or is it a plandemic, and if so, to what end? What are the likely consequences, intended and not.

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THIS BOOK RAISES MORE THAN HEALTH CONCERNS

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 and that cold has swiftly spread across the world, rising to pandemic levels. Yet now, even as the coronavirus health toll continues to mount, concerns over other disastrous ramifications of the pandemic are arising—the impact on the economy, jobs, food security, finance, the oil sector, and the many entangled elements of governmental response to civil unrest and the deepening recession. In this groundbreaking anthology, national and international analysts examine the science, problematic state responses, and the emerging political and economic crises.

COVID-19 is not just a menace to global health. It also facilitates delivery systems for global population control: physical, political, and economic.

It will be instrumental in changing the management of health, wealth, science, global governance and war.

OTHER DISTURBING QUESTIONS ARISE

Accusations directed at China’s BSL-4 in Wuhan as a possible source of the present outbreak has called attention to the vast extent of such biowarfare research laboratories—mostly in the US but also worldwide—raising the spectre of future releases of such deadly bio-toxins, whether by accident or by open or covert acts of biowarfare.

CYNTHIA McKINNEY was the 2008 Green Party Candidate for President and a US Congresswoman. She is the author of Ain't Nothing Like Freedom and editor of The Illegal War On Libya and How the US Creates "Sh*thole" Countries . She holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California, an M.A.L.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Ph.D. from Antioch University.

VIEW THE TABLE OF CONTENTS & CONTRIBUTOR BIOS
JEFF J. BROWN
LARRY ROMANOFF
JACK RASMUS
MICHAEL HUDSON
PETER KOENIG
WILLIAM I. ROBINSON
WHITNEY WEBB
CLAUDIO PERETTI
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
GARY D. BARNETT
HELEN BUYNISKI
ALFRED DE ZAYAS