The head of the organisation is a friend of the Chinese government which is how he got the position China lobbied for him.

One more point

LOL. Wheels within wheels.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Far too many assumptions being made on this. Best to await what is said and then to read the expert peer reviews of the findings before coming to any conclusions.

I cannot myself see why the Chinese would deliberately release something like this. Forget the morality involved and look only at the economics. What is the benefit of throwing your markets into turmoil and recession?

A consequence of poor food hygiene or cultural behaviour, perhaps. An experiment that went wrong, again possible.

Our objectives ought though to be to try to help them avoid such things happening again by co-operative working and not by taking the moral high ground and shaming them. Asian people react very badly to being shamed and can take great offensive which then results in retaliation far beyond anything we think might be reasonable. I have known people get murdered simply because they slighted someone. It matters to them and we need to tread carefully.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

What is your issue with me?

I was pointing out the difference of million against billion. That's all. Some people have no idea of the difference.

It's called perspective, not comparison. Not that you'd know the difference

Roughly 6 million people die each year. Yet the population increases. 2.2million is a small number of total population. If it turns out that 8 million people died this last year(we don't know yet), you have a point about the virus. Regardless of next year's total deaths, that is the total per annum. Either way you look at it, it's a small number compared to the population who are locked down.

I'd also wager the death toll rises due to worldwide lockdowns, but this will just get smudged in with "Due to Covid", rather than "Due to lockdown".

As for "Think twice before continuing..." Who assigned you to tell me what to do? Who do you really think you are? Some sort of moral overseer? A forum policeman? It bothers me not, but, mate, talk to anyone in a pub like that and find out life fast.

I admit I was wrong about the end of the pandemic, which has taken a very unusual course from other pandemics, so feel smug there. However, the rest of the guff you attribute to me could be classed as libellous. I don't think I would have suggested any of that. But you needn't worry, I don't really give a fig about what you think.

Now stop stalking me.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

Bet they use London prices to calculate the losses as well.

And a good percentage of the remainder shouldn’t either.