The COVID-19 virus has repeatedly mutated while the pandemic keeps rising and falling worldwide. At this critical moment—when all people are fighting the virus—a certain country is wantonly spreading a “political virus” in an attempt to politicise and stigmatise the origins tracing. Such virulent and destructive “political virus” must be eradicated in time, to stop it from harming the world.
From trumping up and calling Covid-19 the so-called “Wuhan Virus” to smear China last year, to abruptly withdrawing from the World Health Organization, the US has tried to politicise the pandemic, stigmatise the virus, and use origins-tracing as a tool. It even turns a blind eye to the hard work of scientists by resorting to using the intelligence services to conduct origins-tracing. The US intelligence community has recently compiled a so-called report on the origins of Covid-19. It is a mendacious report made up for political purposes, and has no scientific basis or credibility. Origins-tracing is a serious scientific issue. Relying on the intelligence community for it is not scientific.
The US is actually trying to shift responsibility for its botched pandemic response and aims at achieving the political purpose of discrediting and suppressing other countries. We urge the US to stop politicisation and return to the track of science-based origins study in the interest of the lives and health of its own people and that of people around the world.
For origins-tracing, we should figure out some basic questions:
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