Selfish genes are amoral and predatory.(1) They weaponized a coronavirus to hollow out human lives. Running amok in Wuhan, they captured their first hot zone. From there a long death march led to a global pandemic. This was allowed to happen because of Beijing’s coverup. So it is absolutely justified to name the virus after the CCP. 

Having spread its virus around, Beijing tries its best to pass the buck to its victims. Blaming the victims? No way. Soundly rejected, Beijing then steps up its efforts to buy off politicians and media in the West. Yet its apologists can hardly defend the indefensible in the court of public opinion. Even those spineless politicians understand that they ignore the anti-CCP sentiment at their peril.(2) The panda-hugging show is now a joke. We are dead serious about social distancing from Beijing.

Times are tough. We are losing good people to the pandemic every single day. One life lost is one too many. That’s why we are in a race against time to develop a vaccine.(3) It helps to have great minds and selfless genes on our side.

A new Biotech age has dawned in America.

——Lingyang Jiang 

Footnotes:

(1) See Richard Dawkins, “The Selfish Gene”, a highly readable classic of evolutionary genetics.

(2) Donald J. Trump scored an upset victory in the 2016 presidential election by championing anti-globalism that his opponents ignored.

(3) I share my fellow researchers’ view that a lifelong immunity might not come with vaccination or natural infection. (Ref. Mathew Frieman, et al. (2008) “SARS coronavirus and innate immunity”). For the lay public I would recommend Alex Berezow’s article: “Four Coronavirus Lessons That We Will (or Won’t) Learn” (Geopolitical Futures, May 1, 2020).