If you had told me six months ago that this is where we’d be, I’d have thought that you must be smoking something right off the list of Schedule 1 Drugs.  Then came the Coronavirus now commonly called COVID-19.  It seems like nobody wants to offend China by calling it the Wuhan Virus or Chinese Virus even though many of these viral outbreaks have been named by their place of origin (Ebola Virus, West Nile Virus, etc).  It should be noted though, that Wuhan is home to the only Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) Laboratory in all of China.  Interestingly enough, one of the things that they study there are bats that are harvested from caves in the surrounding area and those bats are apparently infected with dozens of different Corona virus variants.  Now the official story is that the BSL-4 Lab in Wuhan had nothing at all to do with the release of the COVID-19 virus and that instead, it originated in a local “wet market” where all kinds of exotic animals, birds, fish, snakes and insects can be purchased dead, alive or already butchered.  That the “wet market” is located only blocks away from the BSL-4 Lab is merely a coincidence, we’re told.  This, however, combined with the fact that the Chinese government tried to cover up the existence of the Coronavirus even as it spread throughout Wuhan, the most populous city in Central China with a population of over 11 million, makes you wonder about their veracity.  Even when they finally admitted the existence of the virus, they grossly under-reported the number of cases of infection and death due to the virus, and even now they only admit to a death toll of 2,535 people in Wuhan and 4,634 in all of China.  That seems pretty remarkable given the fact that New York City has a population of 8.4 million and yet they have already had 17,779 deaths attributed to the Coronavirus.  When you factor in the fact that there are eight funeral homes in Wuhan and by the end of March of this year, just one of those funeral homes had already had 5,000 cremation urns delivered over a two day period, it beggars the imagination that Wuhan only had 2,535 people die of the virus.  However, when facts such as these started showing up in the media, China promptly banned all American nationals working in China for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, which left us with only the “official” Chinese news sources.  Given that they’re obviously lying about their infection and death rates due to the virus, why would any logical person believe that this COVID-19 virus simply “popped up” in a “wet market” rather than being released, intentionally or accidentally, from the only Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory in all of China?  Meanwhile we have over 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide and over 2.5 million of them are here in the US.  Even with the COVID-19 death rate running at almost 5%, it’s not nearly as bad as the Spanish Flu back in 1918-1919, but it’s still not over yet.