In Wuhan, October 2019
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A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the 'Ground Zero' of Covid two months before China officially acknowledged the virus has demanded an investigation into the suspicious outbreak of illness there.
The long-serving officer, who cannot be named as he is still in the forces, was among the scores of athletes who fell sick with a debilitating illness after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019.
He said foreign competitors found the city of 11 million people 'like a ghost town', and so many cases of a mysterious virus afflicted the Canadian team that a quarantine section was set up on their military flight back home.
The officer, who is still suffering from the effects of his illness despite previous high levels of fitness, said a military-appointed doctor later said he almost certainly caught Covid.
His revelations fuel concerns the Chinese government covered up the outbreak – with devastating consequences. The Beijing regime says the first confirmed case was December 8, three weeks before the World Health Organisation was tipped off by sources in Taiwan.
Several European athletes attending the Games, which attracted more than 9,000 competitors from 100 countries, have said they developed Covid-like symptoms in Wuhan. Reports also suggested Iranian participants died soon after returning home.
The long-serving officer, who cannot be named as he is still in the forces, was among the scores of athletes who fell sick with a debilitating illness after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019. Pictured: The Canadian delegation
The long-serving officer, who cannot be named as he is still in the forces, was among the scores of athletes who fell sick with a debilitating illness after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019. Pictured: The Canadian delegation
'I'm 100 per cent convinced the virus was present in Wuhan when we were there,' said the Canadian officer. 'The burden of proof is on the scientific community and intelligence experts to prove – not for athletes.'I accept I am not a scientist and it might not be Covid, but why does everyone seem so reluctant to investigate properly?
The whistleblowing military officer said the 168-strong Canadian delegation arrived in Wuhan on October 15 to find the city empty. 'There were skyscrapers as far as you could see but all the schools were shut, the cranes were not moving, there were hardly any cars and almost no one around,' he said.
'When team members asked about the deserted streets, they were told it was for their benefit. But I've been to previous Military Games and never seen this – and we were only 9,000 athletes in this big city.'
He said that after eight days, Canadian athletes began feeling sick with flu-like symptoms such as fever, nausea and exhaustion. 'I started to get symptoms just before the end of the Games. There were so many cases that a large portion of the plane back had to be quarantined for the sick.'
He felt so terrible that, driving home from the airport, he had to stop for three days to crash out at a hotel – and was wiped out for six weeks. Almost two years later, he says he is still suffering from what he thinks is long Covid.
The Canadian officer's story dovetails with claims by some athletes from France, Italy, Luxembourg and Sweden that they were infected with a virus at the event, as The Mail on Sunday first reported in May 2020. The UK did not enter the World Military Games.
German volleyball player Jacqueline Bock said she and some team-mates fell ill in Wuhan. She added. 'I have never felt so ill. Either it was a very bad cold or Covid-19. I think it was Covid-19.'
Italian fencer Matteo Tagliariol said he suffered a high fever, a bad cough and breathing difficulties after everyone in his Wuhan flat fell ill with symptoms that he says were the same as Covid-19 .
'A number' of the 281 French participants fell ill, one anonymous athlete told a journalist soon after the Games. Pentathlete Elodie Clouvel, 31, later said she and her partner Valentin Belaud both became sick.
The official line is that such reports are highly speculative and not backed by hard evidence.
After the Games, US athletes returned to more than 200 military bases across the country. There were confirmed infections at 63 of them before the end of March 2020.
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@copper said in In Wuhan, October 2019:
@george-k said in In Wuhan, October 2019:
and so many cases of a mysterious virus afflicted the Canadian team
Maybe they should get tested.
Only if they are BIPOC. Privileged people shouldn’t get tested.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/covid-test-shortage/621149/
