German press compares claims of coronavirus to propaganda weapon

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A very resonant article was published in the Western press, which is devoted to the problems of coronavirus. We are talking about the publication of Die Zeit columnist Steffen Richter. Perhaps for the first time in Western media the question is raised about the use of information about coronavirus as weapons propaganda.

Richter recalls that recently in the US statements of dignitaries (up to the president) have become more frequent, where China is accused of premature removal of quarantine and almost purposeful spread of the disease outside of Wuhan.



The author notes that such American statements were a response to the “Chinese propaganda statements” in which the US military was charged with the possible import of COVID-19 into Hubei Province. Beijing then did not provide any evidence, and in the United States, which themselves do not particularly like to operate with evidence of their words, this caused outrage.

From the material:

The United States tried to discredit the efforts of the Chinese government to combat the spread of the virus, in response to this, Beijing promised a response wherever China’s interests are violated.

Steffen Richter notes the following fact: US President Donald Trump has repeatedly used the terms “Chinese coronavirus” and “virus from China” in his speeches and tweets.

Richter:

With these words, Trump teases China, as it were, and tries to announce to the world that it is China that is guilty of a pandemic.

The comments of ordinary Germans on the basis of the article are noteworthy.

I sometimes wonder, and what “leaders” are now generally at the helm of the modern world? In my opinion, Trump is the worst who has ever been elected. I am even ready to praise our mistress Chancellor for her restraint on this issue, even if someone finds her speeches boring.

Trump met with criticism as an opponent of globalism. But if every local crisis becomes global due to the very globalization, we will soon find ourselves in a constant crisis mode. Not a good life.

China survived the crisis, and soon it was he, and not the Americans, who would most likely help us in many areas.
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    1. -5
      19 March 2020 13: 48
      https://www.instagram.com/tv/B9v5yHDoz5t/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
    2. +10
      19 March 2020 13: 58
      Trump is the worst ever to be elected

      In comparison with whom? If with Bush Jr. or Obama, then Trump is better than them.
      1. +8
        19 March 2020 14: 38
        What, explain to me, is the same hypocrite that he did to stop the war? Name at least one leader of mattress who really helped some state in trouble for free ??? Even during WWII, mattresses on people's grief raised their production, thereby avoiding great diplomacy. One million minuses to me.
        1. +5
          19 March 2020 14: 41
          Quote: Ravil_Asnafovich
          What, explain to me, is the same hypocrite that he did to stop the war?

          They are all of course scum .. but Trump, unlike the others, has not yet unleashed a war with anyone .. Perhaps all the differences ..
          1. +1
            19 March 2020 14: 48
            All the leaders of the mattress live by the same principle, to whom is war, to whom is mother dear.
          2. +1
            19 March 2020 18: 57
            Quote: Svarog
            Trump, unlike the others, has not yet unleashed a war with anyone ..

            Not unleashed, but continued. And this is still what to consider war. And the trade wars with China, Europe and the rest of the world? Or they just don’t shoot there.
      2. +2
        19 March 2020 18: 54
        Quote: Arlen
        then trump is better than them

        Actually, what is the difference between them, what is it better? For me, that Bush, that Obama, that Trump, all this is far from friends, but outright enemies. And not only Russia. While still in the second grade, I remember how instead of Carter, Reagan became the US president. And the guys, in all seriousness, with the appearance of experienced experts, discussed the question of who is better. It turned out that Reagan is better. The main argument was that Carter wanted to attack the Soviet Union, and Reagan only wanted to attack Poland. Such is political science, at the level of elementary grades of high school. So let's not be like a kindergarten in matters of which American president is better. The answer will be simple to the point - no.
    3. +3
      19 March 2020 14: 01
      The author notes that such American statements were a response to the “Chinese propaganda statements” in which the US military was charged with the possible import of COVID-19 into Hubei Province.

      But they won’t fight, but they won’t fight .... though they’ll spit it out and it’s cool !!!
      1. +3
        19 March 2020 14: 04
        But the sediment will remain!
        1. 0
          19 March 2020 14: 13
          One more, plus the rest ... so you see the drain will score, it will overflow and everything will splash out!
          You can, of course, just wait / look from the outside, but how could it be used and "help".
      2. +6
        19 March 2020 14: 29
        Quote: rocket757
        But they won’t fight, but they won’t fight .... though they’ll spit it out and it’s cool !!!


        Yes, of course they won’t fight .. it feels like some kind of large-scale game is being played .. where the coronavirus is a distracting maneuver .. The fact is that the mortality rate of this virus is lower than that of swine flu .. and the resonance in the world is incredible .. I read the article yesterday where the Swedes do not give a damn about this byak .. they have 1000 sick people, 6 people died .. I also read the comments of people who have recovered .. they all say a common cold .. In general, it’s all strange if the bourgeois gathered to take advantage of this cover your debts by cover ..
        1. +2
          19 March 2020 14: 40
          Quote: Svarog
          everyone says, a common cold ..

          If it goes into pneumonia, it is not so easy.
          It's just that with a "common" cold, a person knows how to fight .... ignorance causes a natural fear of helplessness! For many, this becomes the trigger for all other fears ONCE!
          1. +6
            19 March 2020 14: 45
            Quote: rocket757
            Quote: Svarog
            everyone says, a common cold ..

            If it goes into pneumonia, it is not so easy.
            It's just that with a "common" cold, a person knows how to fight .... ignorance causes a natural fear of helplessness! For many, this becomes the trigger for all other fears ONCE!

            Yes, this moment is the trigger for panic .. But pneumonia develops if you don’t start injecting antibiotics on time .. that is, there are about two weeks to understand the seriousness of the disease .. The mechanism is the same as with swine flu .. In other words , there is nothing new and terrible in the coronavirus .. its only difference is a longer incubation period, about two weeks, if the usual flu manifests itself in 3-5 days ..
            1. +4
              19 March 2020 14: 52
              When the panic has already rushed, like a tsunami, you have to be a VERY RESPECTED face so that they would at least hear him, not to mention whether they will obey! Few, few, in the countries of such faces, it is too much of the top, "responsible", lie to their fellow citizens for a long time!
              The crisis of confidence, you can somehow replace forced obedience ... but it is very TEMPORARY!
              1. +8
                19 March 2020 14: 58
                Few, few, in the countries of such faces, it is too much of the top, "responsible", lie to their fellow citizens for a long time!

                That's what it is about .. Merkel is somehow lying lazily, the Swedes have generally scored .. It seems that the United States has muddied the whole circus, but the final goal is not clear .. I read that it is possible that the economic consequences will be so serious that they’re new to this instead of the dollar, the currency will be issued and the debts will be nullified .. and it can also be a good indicator for the special services, you can see clearly what will happen in the case of a bacteriological attack on one of the countries .. It’s clear that this is all conspiracy theology, but that intentionally inflated this situation there is no doubt ..
                1. 0
                  19 March 2020 15: 00
                  Why did the Swedes score?
                  1. Fat
                    +2
                    19 March 2020 16: 04
                    Quote: LinxS
                    Why did the Swedes score?

                    In fact, the British, too ... Scored. Concerts are not canceled, the metro is not closed. Only recommendations and media appeals
                    1. 0
                      19 March 2020 16: 17
                      Concerts are not canceled, the metro is not closed. Only recommendations and media appeals
                      =====================
                      United Kingdom. Johnson (in the Louboutins) had already warned the Angles to sit at home for everyone.
                      Shops (grocery) empty. City streets are empty.
                    2. 0
                      19 March 2020 16: 21
                      In fact, the British, too ... Scored. Concerts are not canceled, the metro is not closed. Only recommendations and media appeals


                      The Swedes closed everything and asked not to leave.
                      All public events are canceled. Easy to check online. Check it out.
                      Borders close. They ask not to go out.
                      Is this not quarantine?

                      Or will we look at the poop and say that it is milk chocolate?
          2. +1
            19 March 2020 16: 08
            For some reason, they say little that this is one of the varieties of influenza, and the flu constantly mutates, the virus with the alphanumeric name is certainly frightening
        2. +4
          19 March 2020 14: 44
          There are infections that are both more terrible and much more contagious. If you look at the global statistics on influenza mortality, then in absolute terms it is much higher, with a lower relative. So that the coronovirus will correctly be called informovirus.
          1. +6
            19 March 2020 14: 48
            Quote: AS Ivanov.
            So that the coronovirus will correctly be called informovirus.

            I agree .. and here the question is, why was it so inflated, then someone either wants to make money on this or "forgive" the debts ..
            1. +1
              19 March 2020 15: 16
              So a simple layman explained everything perfectly, but to the people, serve bread and circuses.
            2. +1
              19 March 2020 15: 17
              Or it’s a test of information weapons. Mass destruction.
          2. +1
            19 March 2020 14: 53
            Quote: AS Ivanov.
            So that the coronovirus will correctly be called informovirus.

            this is so, an informational tsunami of panic and lies has swept the world ... washing away the remnants of sanity from so many!
        3. +2
          19 March 2020 14: 58
          The fact is that the percentage of mortality in this virus is lower than in swine flu ..

          The fact is that you are a balabol - write a blizzard.
          https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001558

          Yes, and lazy, it seems they still have not bothered to find out what mortality is and what mortality is.
          1. +5
            19 March 2020 15: 05
            Quote: bk316
            The fact is that the percentage of mortality in this virus is lower than in swine flu ..

            The fact is that you are a balabol - write a blizzard.
            https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001558

            Yes, and lazy, it seems they still have not bothered to find out what mortality is and what mortality is.

            And that you slipped me an article for 2009 .. if you are not a balabol, then post the data, where there are comparisons of the mortality of swine flu and coronavirus ..
            1. 0
              19 March 2020 16: 15
              And that you slipped me an article for 2009 ..

              Of course, the 2009 swine flu pandemic was in 2009. And you did not know?
              From this article it follows that mortality from H1N1 pdm09 (more precisely, what do you mean by it confusing mortality and mortality) 0.02% belay
              1. +4
                19 March 2020 16: 20
                Quote: bk316
                From this article it follows that mortality from H1N1 pdm09 (more precisely, what do you mean by it confusing mortality and mortality) 0.02%

                https://360tv.ru/news/obschestvo/chislo-sluchaev-koronavirusa-v-rossii-vyroslo-pochti-do-200/
                1. +1
                  19 March 2020 17: 55
                  https://360tv.ru/news/obschestvo/chislo-sluchaev-koronavirusa-v-rossii-vyroslo-pochti-do-200/

                  This is what?
    4. +3
      19 March 2020 14: 05
      Specialists of the FSBI “Research Institute of Influenza named after A. Smorodintseva »The Ministry of Health of Russia was sequenced from the material from a patient with COVID-19 the first complete genome of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 from Russia.

      - On-line genetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 viruses is critical to understanding the evolution of the new coronavirus and its spread. - said the acting Director of the Research Institute of Influenza named after A.A. Smorodintseva Ministry of Health of Russia Dmitry Lioznov. It is important to create highly selective test systems of two types - for the virus itself and for antibodies to it. It is important to create modern differential vaccines.
    5. +2
      19 March 2020 14: 18
      As the cherry on the cake: "In May 1994, the CDC (the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) recognized their direct involvement in the development of biological weapons. So, from 1984 to 1989, this organization prepared for military operations in Iraq such agents like botulinum toxin, West Nile viruses, plague and Dengue fever viruses. "here is an explanation of some of the jokes about the CDC

      https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/5681185.html
      1. +1
        19 March 2020 15: 04
        They probably WADA allowed for medical reasons.
    6. +1
      19 March 2020 14: 23
      Quote: Zaletshik
      With these words, Trump teases China, as it were, and tries to announce to the world that it is China that is guilty of a pandemic.

      The United States owes China a couple of trillion dollars, but how to write off? It’s scary to fight, to pit them with another country (Russia, India) does not work .. I found a very simple way in the depths of the CIA ..
      Now the accusations are quiet, then louder and louder .. And at the peak of everything they will make claims, just for the sum of these trillions and other assets .. Do you think this is fantastic? Alas, no .. Everything goes to this! And Russia has warned China more than once .. We did not believe us! Oh well
      By the way, it is possible that Russia will be accused of this and they will also withdraw money from the accounts for the "fight against coronavirus" and immediately send their opposition to posters and other rabid harassment in the media !!!
      This is just the beginning .. bully

      first economic skirmishes with China, Huawei and so on. something tells me that the CIA could not have done without it and this virus is not of a completely natural origin, TK. coronaviruses have been known for a long time and however they did not cause pandemics. Also, in various biochemical laboratories around the world, striped sequencing of the genomes of various ethnic groups of people is carried out and this is also not just
    7. +1
      19 March 2020 14: 39
      in the video version: - the characters of the sacred nation organized a pandemic,
      to cash in on the vaccine.
      "Now we know who created COVID 19 and why"
    8. +2
      19 March 2020 14: 42
      "Chinese propaganda statements"
      what
      https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787
      https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
      what other thoughts?
      1. +2
        19 March 2020 15: 06
        Immediately offhand: "These are not our drones. All these parts are sold on E-bay"
    9. 0
      19 March 2020 16: 43
      Information support for globalists is evident. Sound name, address at the level of heads of state. And the global crisis is already a viral force majeure, and even China, and not the greed of Wall Street.
      Izvestia, 1981.
    10. -3
      20 March 2020 07: 05
      China has played out its "friendship" with the United States.
      But on coronavirus, it will not end. The Anglo-Saxons will not stop until they get hit on the teeth. They will continue to hammer China. Until he crawls to them with the fifth point forward, praying for mercy.
      When, to these stupid monkeys sitting on a tree and waiting for the corpse of an enemy, a riverboat sailing along the river will reach China alone.
    11. 0
      20 March 2020 09: 29
      Quote: Svarog
      It seems that the USA has muddied the whole circus, but the final goal is not clear ..

      Any serious crises, especially internal ones, were resolved thanks to large external cataclysms! In another they do not know how.

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