Back in January and February, people started calling me a crackpot conspiracy kook for noticing that there were some major racial discrepancies across populations when it comes to the current never-ending public health crisis. I noted that people of European ancestry were an order of magnitude less likely to get sick from this bug, while people who get genetically closer and closer to China are more likely to suffer severe health consequences. Four months later, Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) agrees with my wacky “conspiracy theory.”
If you missed those earlier points that I made (I know, February seems like an eternity ago), here’s a summary. The Chinese coronavirus, in my opinion, is a bioweapon. We know this because early researchers looking at the virus located some obvious signs that an earlier SARS virus was tinkered with. It has an HIV protein strand that the Chinese spliced to it, which likely contributes to its ability to smash the immune systems of people with underlying health conditions, and it has enzymes that are a 100% un-mutated match with earlier coronavirus strains (something that is mathematically and biologically impossible in nature).
But the virus also targets people genetically. This coronavirus latches onto ACE2 receptors in the human lungs. Some genetic populations have more ACE2 receptors than others, and thus are more likely to catch the virus and show extreme symptoms. Here’s how the racial differences break down based on frequency of ACE2 receptors, courtesy of the Human Genome Project:
90-99% High Risk: Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese
70-89% Moderate to High Risk: Hispanics, Central Asians (Iran)
60-69% Medium Risk: Africans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians
50-59% Low to Medium Risk: Whites of European Ancestry
Having more ACE2 receptors in your lungs creates a generous environment of locations that the Chinese coronavirus can attach itself to and thrive, resulting in you getting very, very sick and possibly dying. This is science, not science fiction or conspiracy theory.
If there’s one place on earth where the “race is just a social construct” fever is even higher than here in America, it’s Great Britain. And the Brits are suddenly realizing during this pandemic that there are actually astonishing racial differences in how the Chinese coronavirus treats its victims.
16% of the doctors and nurses in Britain are black, Asian or minority ethnic, or BAME as the Brits call them. Yet despite making up 16% of the frontline healthcare workforce in Britain, they account for 63% of the doctors and nurses who have died from coronavirus. More than eight out of ten doctors and nurses in Britain are of white native British ancestry, yet they are dying at far lower rates than their minority ethnic co-workers.
The NHS in Britain is now recommending that all BAME health care workers be taken off the front lines in the fight against the Chinese coronavirus. If you still think I’m a conspiracy kook in a MAGA hat for thinking that genetic differences play a role in how this virus spreads and impacts people, here’s a quote from Britain’s Chief Medical Officer last week:
“It’s critical that we find out which groups are most at risk so we can help to protect them.”
Huh.
That’s pretty much what I’ve been saying about the coronavirus all along, but I was called a white nationalist MAGA kook for suggesting that people of non-white races were at greater risk of catching this virus and getting really sick or dying from it.
There are examples proving this all over the place, if only people had eyes to see it. The town of Gallup, New Mexico is now under the most restrictive quarantine in the United States, for instance. All roads in and out of the town – population about 21,000 – are closed under the Riot Control Act, a 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. city-wide curfew is in effect, and all non-essential travel is banned until further notice. Gallup borders the Navajo Nation and the lands of the indigenous Zuni Pueblo people.
The racial demographics of Gallup:
- 4% American Indian & Alaska Native
- 7% Hispanic
- 21% White
While New Mexico hasn’t been very hard hit by the coronavirus so far, it is suddenly spreading like wildfire in the majority-minority community of Gallup. And there are other examples like this all over the world.
Ask yourself the question: Why are health officials in places like New York and New Jersey unwilling to release any racial demographic statistics when it comes to deaths and/or severe illness from the coronavirus? All we have are ages and co-morbidities. The more data we have on how the virus impacts people of different genetic backgrounds, the more we would be able to protect people from it.
But-but-but! Why would the Chinese develop a bioweapon that is more likely to kill Chinese people?!
The answer to that question is simple. This Chinese coronavirus was a work in progress when it escaped from the lab in Wuhan. If you want to develop a doomsday bioweapon that will devastate non-Chinese people, you have to start with one that is more dangerous to the Chinese and then reverse-engineer it to kill everyone else.
