You know how crazy this is. The headlines this morning are filled with news about the Asian Games, the largest ever held with 45 member states sending delegations. These are the ones being conducted with 12,000 athletic competitors at a lotus-shaped mega stadium that can hold 89,000 in Hangzhou. They were opened last Saturday by China’s leader Xi Jinping. It is a big deal on several fronts.

The stadium hosting the Games has been dubbed “the Big Lotus,” based on the shape of its roof, augmented by 28 large and 27 smaller petal-shaped structures. An image is attached, since AOL will not let us drop a picture of it in our text. The stadium can hold 80,000 spectators and represents a striking venue for an international sporting event.

China’s role hosting international games is not new. In fact, there are some curious predicates to this one. The 7th International Military Games were held in Wuhan, China, in October, 2019, less than a month before the first Chinese citizen became ill with coronavirus. The armed forces of the United States sent nearly 300 members drawn from the active force with support personnel.

When the games were done, When the games ended, they returned to at least 219 home bases in 25 states. The official start of the COVID-19 infection is marked by WHO as 31 December 2019, so none of the Americans were screened for anything unusual.

Looking back, the time and distribution of military competitors were curious, based on the global spectrum of those who participated. There was comment about the proximity of the Games and the Covid outbreak at the time, but it has not been mentioned now in years.

Wuhan was not famous in those days, though of course it is now. The Viral Laboratory there has been accused of conducting gain-of-function research on a nasty virus we first ran into twenty years ago: the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. We called it “SARS.”

The virus that causes it came out of Asia, headed for Disneyworld, and was alarming in its infectious capability. In parallel, it appeared at the time real progress was being made in eliminating biologic weapons.

One of our Writer’s Section had an unlikely assignment to join the SARS Task Force and was present at the last meeting of the group. Dr. Tony Fauci was asked about the end of research on bioweapons and whether there was a danger of losing critical medical research. Our pal said Tony made a dismissive wave and smiled, saying things were all right, and that he “had it taken care of.’

Our pal didn’t know what exactly what the good Doctor meant, but it appeared that the Doctor’s strategy was to harness existing labs or fund new ones in countries where they might not be noticed while producing critical data. Or other things that might be critical in nature.

As to current events, more than 12,000 athletes from the 45 members of the Asian Olympic Council will participate, making it the largest Asian Games ever. We make no allegations about overseas athletic games and the spread of SARS or Covid-19. The recent announcement that there will be no funding for the Wuhan Lab for ten years is another of the curious aspects of this. If Wuhan was part of an intentional dissemination of Covid, deferring contract research work is an unusual strategy.

We view a ten-year gap as acknowledgment that the Lab was only guilty of an accidental release. If it was intentional, on the other hand, it is a crime against humanity. A quick look at World Health Organization (WHO) figures is striking. Globally, as of September 2023, there were 761,769,759 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,784,181 deaths. The vaccines were touted as having been administered to 1.35 Billion patients.

We are not accusing anyone of being responsible for nearly seven million deaths. It is sort of curious though, and everyone on the Patio was startled that Wuhan research could be funded again by the United States in 2033. It is all sort of curious, we think.

That is just some of the background to one aspect of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Why don’t we turn our attention from the Asian Games and the Wuhan Labs to what some of us may be experiencing now.

We will take a look at that issue on Friday with a look at Patient Zero. That person is not the actual first, but rather the closest. Don’t forget to join us!

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