A controversy has arisen 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.
Here at Nspirement, we suggest a more accurate name — the “CCP coronavirus” or “CCP virus” — and ask others to join in using this name.
The name holds the CCP accountable for its wanton disregard for human life and the 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, exploding all over 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 unfortunate were trapped there until they died.
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 SARS, doesn’t fit the script. As with SARS, the first response was denial.
But in dealing with this, 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.
The CCP virus may have leaked from a lab
And there is understandable concern about the activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s only P4 lab, which is meant to work with easily transmitted pathogens that can cause fatal illnesses. As the official narratives offered for the source of the virus have been disproven, questions have been raised about whether it leaked from this institute.
In any case, as questions about its origin have gone unanswered, the CCP has begun throwing out wild charges that the United States was responsible. This will be met around the world with perplexity, if not ridicule.
The American administration has pushed back by referring to it as the “Chinese virus,” as many pandemics have been named after their countries of origin, such as Spanish flu, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, etc.
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 coronavirus” 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 it, 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 its source is itself evil. This is a communist virus, and with the name CCP virus, Nspirement reminds the world of the cure: ending the CCP and any association with the CCP.
Original editorial from The Epoch Times
