On the other hand, it was suggesting that the virus was a divine instrument designed to punish the CCP and its supposed allies. This has become a common right-wing claim.
On the one hand, the paper was underscoring the possibility that China had covered up the true source of the virus, and perhaps even engineered it. port to welcome Communist Chinese cargo ships, in the 1970s. “Look: an investigation into how the countries that have been most affected are the same ones that have been the most deeply infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party.” According to the investigation, Washington State’s early COVID-19 outbreak can be partly explained by the fact that Seattle was the first U.S. (Nobody knows for sure, but most scientists believe that the virus jumped naturally from animals to humans.) “It’s not just that,” Balmakov said, turning the page. “Hey,” he said, “I just read an unbelievable article in The Epoch Times.” He splayed the paper on a table, showcasing a news story headlined “ The Mysterious Origins of the CCP Virus.” It suggested that the pathogen could have emerged, maybe purposefully, from a lab in Wuhan. The ad began with a smiling Balmakov peering out from behind the newspaper. The pitchman-his name is Roman Balmakov, he’s 30, he went to high school in Ohio-is more recognizable than any of the publication’s writers. When people stumble upon The Epoch Times, they usually find it through ads like this one, which in 2019 blanketed Facebook and have now migrated largely to YouTube. He was enthusiastically leafing through the print edition of the newspaper, pointing at articles. Equally predictably, the ad starred a thin man with a hint of an Eastern European accent. So, what can be done? Stay away from the evil CCP and don’t align with the evil Party.”Ī Newsroom at the Edge of Autocracy Timothy McLaughlinĪ few months later, in July, I was clicking around on YouTube when something predictable happened: An ad popped up for the weirdly ubiquitous Epoch Times. It has come to eliminate the followers of the evil Party and those who go along with the evil CCP.” As a remedy, Li suggested a kind of social distancing: “At present, the hardest-hit countries are those that associate closely with the evil CCP, and the same goes for individuals. Li gradually worked up to his point, referring to the Chinese Communist Party by its initials: The pandemic “has come with a purpose and with a target.
“When humans become corrupt in their hearts, they will generate karma, fall sick, and suffer calamities.” “Plagues and pestilence, by their very nature, are arranged by the Gods,” Li began. On March 19, 2020, Li wrote a message to his disciples titled “Rationality.” The message was about COVID-19, which was by then crippling New York City, 80 miles to the southeast. At the center of the compound-a kind of timber frame Shangri-la-stands a massive replica of a Tang Dynasty temple. House See also: United States House of Representatives elections, 2022 U.S.The rural hamlet of Cuddebackville, New York, is home to a guru named Li Hongzhi, who calls his 427-acre compound Dragon Springs. Senate endorsements by Donald Trump, 2022 Senate See also: United States Senate elections, 2022 U.S.
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