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Canadian Military Athletes May

Have Contracted COVID-19 in
China Weeks Before First Official
Case Was Reported
By David Wagner February 1, 2021  170

A recent report by Rebel News revealed a leaked government document and

testimony from an anonymous member of the Canadian military. It shows that

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 Canadian soldiers might have contracted COVID-19 while in China for the
Military World Games in October 2019. This was weeks before the first
officially recognized case that was said to have taken place on November 17.
The multi-sport competition event took place on October 18-27 in Wuhan,
Hubei Province.

On their way home from China, one-third of the Canadian participants in the
Military World Games were quarantined in the back of the plane. After
arriving in Canada, none of them were tested, and they were all sent back to
their respective homes across the country.

The New York Post reported a similar situation in France, where many military
athletes returned home after the competition in China with influenza
symptoms, but none were tested. Later, once there was widespread knowledge
of the pandemic, athletes found out through their WhatsApp group that they
were not the only ones suffering from influenza-like symptoms, which may
have been the coronavirus. Nearly 10,000 athletes from over 100 countries
participated in the event.

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 Canadian soldiers may have contracted the virus while in China before the first official case was reported.
(Image: Getty Images)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during an interview with News
1130: “There is certainly going to be a time for necessary accountability and
understanding how the world ended up plunged into this terrible, terrible
situation, and the role that China had to play in this as the origin of the virus is
going to need to be known, and for China to not cooperate and not
participate, and that is unfortunately very predictable given the recent stances
by the Chinese government on collaborating with international authorities but
is not going to be able to protect them from making sure that the truth does
come out. We will find out how this virus started.”

However, many people say that this is too little, and too late, as the Toronto
Sun reported: “By naively trusting false information from China’s dictators at
the start of the pandemic a year ago, the WHO and the Trudeau government
effectively downplayed its seriousness in the early weeks of the pandemic
when it might have been possible to contain its spread.”

WHO begins investigating the origins of the

coronavirus

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 According to Reuters, China has recently stepped up its efforts to present a
favorable narrative about the origins of the pandemic. The World Health
Organization (WHO) is presently conducting a major investigation to discover
more information about the origin of the virus. The investigations come after
growing criticism over the past year toward the WHO for favoring China and
allowing them to get away with concealing information and secrecy. Just
recently, “a study by China’s Center for Disease Control showed that blood
samples from 4.43% of <a href="http://The World Health Organization (WHO)
identified a seafood market in Wuhan as being the starting point of the
outbreak. (Image: pxhere / CC0 1.0Wuhan’s population contained COVID-19
antibodies, indicating that the city’s infection rates were far higher than
originally acknowledged,” Reuters reported.

The AP found: “The [Chinese] government is handing out hundreds of

thousands of dollars in grants to scientists researching the virus’ origins in
southern China and affiliated with the military… But it is monitoring their
findings and mandating that the publication of any data or research must be
approved by a new task force managed by China’s cabinet, under direct
orders from President Xi Jinping.”

Director of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently said that the
world is on the brink of “catastrophic moral failure” due to the disparity
between the rich countries who have an abundance of vaccines and the poorer
countries have very little. The BBC reported: “China, India, Russia, the UK,
and the US have all developed Covid vaccines, with others being made by
multinational teams — like the American-German Pfizer vaccine. Almost all
of these nations have prioritized distribution to their own populations.” They

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 also reported that Canada in particular is hoarding enough vaccines to protect
each Canadian five times over.

In mid-April last year, former President Donald Trump cut off funding and
withdrew involvement with the WHO after claiming that it was a “puppet of
China.”

President Joe Biden has reverted U.S. involvement back to what it was before
Trump withdrew. Trudeau and Biden are expected to meet next month and
have agreed to join forces to combat the pandemic in North America.

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David Wagner
David Wagner is a University of Manitoba graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in
Religion in Sociology. He is interested in the psychology of religious and
ideological belief and the relationship between religions and the state in totalitarian
countries.

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