Pathenogenic Canada Post Missives
"While mail may be contaminated, the risk of COVID-19 infection when handling paper mail or cardboard packages, including international mail, is extremely low. We know that the virus is most frequently transmitted when people are in close contact with others who are infected with the virus [either with or without symptoms]." Public Health Agency of Canada
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| A man gets a throat swab for the COVID-19 test at a mobile coronavirus testing facility outside a commercial office building in Beijing on Jan. 17, 2022. Beijing's first reported case of the Omicron variant has prompted stepped-up measures in the nation's capital, just weeks before it hosts the Winter Olympic Games. (Associated Press) |
"[I expect to see more finger-pointing if there are outbreaks during the Beijing Winter Olympics].""It is easy for China to blame Canada as there is no way to investigate the issue to say if it is true and if so, did the virus amount really constitute a threat?""As China has more and more difficulty with its zero-COVID policy, it will blame foreigners for its predicament."Guy St-Jacques, former Canadian ambassador to China
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| Workers wearing face masks to help protect from the coronavirus set up a decoration for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. (Andy Wong/AP) |
There are two rather amazing things about this story; one, that Canada Post somehow managed to forward a letter to China in record time, despite its usual snail-pace service from say, Toronto to Vancouver; two, that the Chinese elite-level medical service can seriously believe as stated that paper or cardboard shifted across international borders on a long trip handled by many innocents managed to bring with it a live pathogen capable of infecting a poor innocent Beijing resident courtesy of a Canadian correspondent.
Strangely enough, locally-transmitted Omicron mutated infections have been diagnosed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong and one wonders whether the infected persons were interrogated over whether they had received mail correspondence from some hugely infected source such as Canada. Possibly as a return gift to the very source of the original COVID-19 pathogen which China so kindly released world-wide to devastate the world's population and economy in the interests of sharing.
A Toronto letter sent to a Beijing correspondent, transmitting the Omicron variant in view of the Wuhan-based coronavirus sounds like a very friendly exchange. One anomalous infection courtesy of a correspondent sent to an unsuspecting contact returning the compliment of multi-hundred-millions infections spread worldwide by unsuspecting Chinese citizens never realizing -- while their governments most assuredly did -- that they were spreading the novel coronavirus globally.
That's the sour outlook of what has occurred these past two years and is adamantly, feverishly ongoing. According to genome sequencing of the patient's sample, the Omicron strain was 'similar' to the one spreading in North America and in Singapore last month. Different from the one currently found in other parts of the country, according to the South China Morning Post. And who would disbelief the official Beijing news source?
Margaret McCuaig-Johnson might, as a University of Ottawa China expert with over three decades working on China issues in the Canadian public service. Who opined it is downright ludicrous suggesting that the strain might have survived on an envelope or package that travelled that distance through international mail. Chinese allegations indicates its leadership still continues to target Canada following the dispute over the arrest of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou in 2018 in an extradition case dropped in 2021.
Last year, Chinese officials repeated the claim that COVID-19 had been discovered on contaminated imports such as frozen foods, despite the fact that the virus cannot survive on surfaces (fomites) for prolonged periods, according to medical experts everywhere. Beijing has also asserted its conviction that the coronavirus did not originally erupt in China, but was brought there by foreigners from abroad (see U.S.ofA.)
"Because of the poor survivability of coronaviruses on surfaces there is a low risk of spread from products or packages shipped over a period of days or weeks."World Health Organization
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| Commuters wearing face masks to help protect against the coronavirus walk across an intersection in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) |
Labels: Beijing's Malevolence, Canada, Canada Post, China, Novel Coronavirus, Omicron Transmission
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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