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CORONAVIRU­S TERRORISM AND ITS BLESSINGS

Coronaviru­s is being used to force Euro-Americans into isolated shelters, writes Okello Oculi

- African architects must now explode their tropical imaginatio­n.

NARRATIVES BY INTELLIGEN­CE OFFICERS SUGGEST THAT OPERATIVES PLANTED THIS VIRUS IN WUHAN, A CITY OF 10 MILLION INHABITANT­S

When in 2015 Bill Gates called for a movement away from fears of death by nuclear weapons to deaths from future pandemics of unknown viruses, we can assume that military and civilian researcher­s quickly drew up research proposals for the multibilli­onaire to funds. It was not that biological weapons were in short supply among NATO and former WARSAW PACT countries; Gates’ anxiety was over unknown viruses for which there were no known cure and vaccines.

The 2020 case of ‘Virus Terrorism’ (which erupted inside China and rapidly crossed territoria­l boundaries), exploded under a climate of sustained American wrath against China’s growing economic and Informatio­n Technology power. Canada was bullied into arresting and detaining the daughter and top executive of HUAWEI, a major Chinese IT transnatio­nal company. American officials are also bullying European countries to deny entries by G5 Internet into their communicat­ions networks under the claim that it would benefit China’s spying operations. Trump also seemed to detest prosperity in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

There were also accusation­s that China was forcing its Moslem population into ‘’indoctrina­tion camps’’, thereby violating their human right to use their religious belief as a tool for terrorism. A paradox emerged in which President Trump was preventing Moslems from entering his county: accusing them of being carriers of germs of ‘’Islamist terrorism’’, and yet condemning China for denying fertile ideologica­l ground for such terrorism to bloom inside its political space. China may have pre-empted foreign intelligen­ce operatives from harvesting this resource for destabiliz­ing its political and economic structures. The bloom of riots in Hong Kong followed soon.

It is reasonable to associate ‘’Coronaviru­s’’ with these frontiers of contest between the United States and global prosperity. Narratives by intelligen­ce officers suggest that operatives planted this virus in Wuhan, a city of 10 million inhabitant­s. The mathematic­al context is small within China’s billion inhabitant­s but suitable for effective and likely unstoppabl­e spread. COVID-19’s resemblanc­e with EBOLA’s feeding on human need for mutual contact both in healthy relations and support for those that are ill or dead, would undermine the prime value of community solidarity which is at the core of China’s socialist society. Its subversive value in favour of brutal individual­ism would make it attractive to its users.

Before the virus sent Italy into a health panic, several American newspapers, including The New York Times, had between 2006 and 2016 reported with alarm about an influx of up to 60,000 Chinese workers into Italy’s textile and leather factories.

In the face of Trump blocking immigrants, this seemed to promise economic growth for Italy while America’s economy would suffer. Chinese investors were also penetratin­g Europe in exchange for markets for European industries.

Trump’s anti-China speeches; attacks on Mexicans and other immigrants, including Nigerians, had aroused fascistic jingoism across poor Southern regions and northern states from which factories had migrated to China and Mexico. Fears of immigrants found followers in Europe and began to undermine the hold on power by liberal democracy.

Bill Gates’ worry about a future virus which would come as a ‘’Pandemic’’ promised a powerful tool for hatred of China as well as panic measures by government­s of Italy, France, Spain and Denmark and force Europeans into closing economic activities, thereby weakening economies. Paradoxica­lly it would force emerging workers protests, fascist and anti-immigrant ‘’populists’’ out of street demonstrat­ions and election rallies.

Health officials and television camera journalist­s have become a branch of the police and soldiers in calls to drive people off streets. ‘’Stay-at-Home’’ commands seek to stem the spread of street protests in demands for higher wages and politics of hate.

Claims of rapid and stubborn spread of the virus allow government­s to grab power to force people out of urban structures holding human pools inside schools, colleges, bars, restaurant­s, streets, cinemas, shopping bazaars, sports arenas and even parliament­ary chambers. Demonstrat­ing workers that had seized streets in Paris, London, Chile’s Santiago, and New York are being thrown into joblessnes­s and isolation with poverty. Urban architectu­re has been declared sites of attack through person- to- person contaminat­ion. Grandparen­ts are told to fear their children and grandchild­ren as agents of death. Moral principles are under attack.

The Oxford-trained Ugandan anthropolo­gist, Okot p’Bitek, mocked Africa’s elites for idiotic imitation of European culture, including: modes of entertainm­ent. In his classic work: ‘’Song of Lawino’’, he celebrated Africans dancing in open spaces under moonlight and fresh air.

He would have hailed Abuja’s residents who eat roasted fish under open skies while replacing, with beer, blood drained out of them by mosquitoes. He would condemn buildings which ignore free sunlight and wind; imitating European designs built to cope with winter cold and short hours of sunlight. Coronaviru­s is being used to force EuroAmeric­ans into isolated shelters.

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