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CCP Could Of Contained Virus

Biologist and journalist Matt Ridley revisits the origin of the Covid-19 virus, claiming it could have been contained in China, specifically in two Wuhan hospitals, where doctors warned a virus had broken out.

Ridley, who takes a deep dive into the Covid chaos in his latest book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, says that when the doctors relayed information on the outbreak to their colleagues, they were severely punished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One of the physicians later died in February 2020 of Covid. As it turns out, Ridley says, the CCP immediately censored any information regarding the virus in early January, instead opting to announce everything was under control.

Ridley says the CCP claimed there weren’t any new cases for 10 days and that there was no human-to-human transmission of the virus–both blatant lies. Sadly, the WHO echoed them on the info. Ridley  says if China would have shared more information with the world and taken precaution “the whole thing would of been over in a couple of weeks.” Here’s more on London Real.

The Sky is Not Falling

Let’s face it, Americans love bad news. Whether scare warnings or disasters, it doesn’t matter, we soak it all up. Author Matt Ridley, who authored the recently released Rational Optimist, says there’s plenty to be positive about. “Back in the 1970s the future was bleak,” he says. “The population explosion was unstoppable, famine was inevitable, pesticides were going to shorten our lives,bird flu was going to kill us, the Ice Age was coming back, acid rain was killing forests. All these things were going to go wrong. So I was kind of surprised when I grew up that actually things have been getting better, much better.” In this edition of LibertyPen, host John Stossel continues his discussion with Ridley and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Robert Bryce over this Chicken Little mentality.

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