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Here let me share with you and other interested readers a download as under I found most interesting which is in consonance with the writings of some or possibly all Occult and Spiritual Masters … its just that this article is penned by an M.D …. read on and find out for your self what what actual Psychic Transmission is …University of Northern IowaIs Telepathy, or Psychic Transmission, a Fact or a Delusion?Author(s): John D. QuackenbosSource: The North American Review, Vol. 196, No. 682 (Sep., 1912), pp. 373-382Published by: University of Northern IowaStable URL: Is Telepathy, or Psychic Transmission, a Fact or a Delusion? on JSTORAccessed: 29-12-2018 13:27 UTCJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a widerange of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity andfacilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available http://athttps://about.jstor.org/termsUniversity of Northern Iowa is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extendaccess to The North American ReviewThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTORIS TELEPATHY, OR PSYCHIC TRANS MISSION, A FACT OR A DELUSION? BY JOHN D. QTJACKENBOS, M.D. It is commonly admitted that in the realm of psychic research we are only at the threshold of discovery that the coming century will disclose wonders far beyond any yet disclosed. The scientific investigation of spirit, the nature of which has for so long been discussed only from religious and metaphysical viewpoints, is now regarded by advanced thinkers not only as practicable, but, in the face of a steadily growing interest, as imperative. Transcen dental experiences are no longer looked upon as hallucina tions. Ultra-normal faculty is believed to be everywhere inherent in the human personality; and we are to look for new expressions of it along many lines, notably those of telepathy and spiritual intercommunication. In its broad est sense, telepathy, the action of spirit at a distance, im plies a potential mental or psychic intercourse between human beings in or out of the body. Of such communica tion with the dead of incarnate spirits with discarnate friends through the machinery of the seance there is as yet no convincing evidence. And still the telepathic faculty is believed by leaders of science to be in actual course of development among men, to be evolutionary, and even to be cosmic that is, to extend out into the universe wherever there may be telepathically responsive sentient beings to receive transmitted vibrations. Percipient agents on this planet may in turn be reciprocally impressed from the tran scendental world through the medium of similar vibrations conveying thought, feeling, sympathy, admonition, inspira tion. Distance implies no barrier to communication between subliminal selfs. Telepathic action is characteristic of animal nature andThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR374 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW explains certain methods of brute communication. Birds and beasts receive information through the medium of earth vibrations. Certain game birds and animals are sensitive to the faintest earth tremor, and are approached only by the hunter who steps slowly and carefully without jarring the surface of the ground. The nature of the vibrations also conveys a notion of the direction from which the danger is coming, and wild game depend as much on their ap prehension of this as upon detection by the ear. When it comes to cosmic vibrations, the subtle movements com municated to the earth's crust by the tides or the pull of heavenly bodies, animals, especially the ferce naturae, are mysteriously affected as to appetite, sleep, nervous poise, and possibly procreation and migration. Recent experiments have proved moths and other insects to be capable of thought transference so far-reaching as to impress their fellows miles away with a knowledge of their whereabouts. It is well known to whalers that a cetacean struck by a harpoon has power instantly to con vey intelligence of the presence of an enemy to a spouting school a half-mile distant, so that the individuals composing it immediately disappear below the surface. Every angler is aware that if one trout in a pool has caught a glimpse of him all are instantly apprised of his presence, so that his most attractive lures are offered in vain. What one knows, all know at the same moment through an interchange of subconscious states. Aristotle noticed that the female par tridge is affected by a distant male bird through what he described as a breeze from the cock's direction. Some twenty years ago, the late Austin Corbin purchased twenty-five thousand acres of farm and wood land in New Hampshire and stocked the estate, known as Blue Moun tain Park, with elk and deer. In 1897 it was predicted that the extinct carnivores, whose natural food is venison, would return to the region. Not long after, the presence of pumas, or mountain lions, was reported in the park and vicinity, and the black bear, lynx, and wild-cat are conspicuously in evidence to-day. By what mysterious power of cognition did the great cat, a century vanished from this region, be come aware of the presence of deer in Blue Mountain Park if not through the exercise of telepathic action the uncon scious radiation of subtle waves, perhaps of fear for their traditional enemies, from the community of four thousandThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTORIS TELEPATHY A FACT OR A DELUSION? 375 animals of the deer tribe to fugitive panthers in the Alle ghanies or in remote areas of the Green and Adirondack mountains? Strange to relate, the presence of this large body of cervidce has attracted to the surrounding country numbers of Virginia deer and other animals, like the otter, long extinct. None of these creatures manifest their usual fear of man; a sense of security seems to pervade the whole community of new-comers. A family of otters, for instance, during the summer of 1906 made their home under the boat house of a friend at Lake Sunapee. Mink often play among the chairs on the writer's piazza. Beavers, forgetful of man, fell trees and construct dams on secluded streams. Deer parade the roads and pastures with none of their natural shyness as if nerve waves undulating from the community in Corbin Park, conveying ideas of safety through some elastic cosmic medium, set in vibration the sensitive nerve extremities of the recipient wild fauna in such a way as to be translated into the massive feeling of security indwelling in the unconscious transmitters. Num berless instances of such spiritual intercommunication be tween animals themselves and between animals and men are on record. Much has been written in the publications of psychic research societies regarding these perceptions of brutes, suggesting a more intimate relationship between members of the animal kingdom than has hitherto been understood, besides the existence among the lower animals of supernormal psychic faculties (like precognition, in stincts of direction, and so forth) that may be elicited in man by suggestion in hypnosis. If brutes possess this inscrutable telepathic power of com munication and exercise it for their benefit, it cannot seem marvelous that it exists among human beings. For ages, barbarous peoples of both hemispheres have availed themselves of this supernormal faculty of trans mitting information and acquiring knowledge. Polynesian, Australian, African, and American Indian medicine-men and servers still gaze into crystals, " sight-stones," and polished slabs, or stare into water and drops of blood, in order to bring within range intuitive knowledge existing in the subconsciousness, or to see telepathically visions of events occurring at a distance and unknown to the seer. Telepathic conveyance is the only explanation of accurate information given to a friend of the writer's more thanThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR376 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW forty years ago, by a Chinaman, concerning the loss of on of his ships eight hundred miles away, afterward verified to the letter as to time, place, and detail. When asked how he knew of the disaster, the Chinese percipient said that when he desired news he went into a certain dark room in Canton and sat down. If there was any important action occurring, it was communicated to his mind by agents sta tioned at distant points. British officers are authority for the statement that during the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857 information regarding the uprising was received by natives in advance of the time required to transmit news by the conventional channels. Similar telepathic sensitiveness on the part of negro seers has been noted by English observers in ex planation of the transmission of knowledge by unknown means in different parts of Africa. Psychology admits the possibility of such harmonious correspondence in articulating the principle that " differ ent consciousnesses or different aggregates of states of con sciousness may combine and interpenetrate." The Church teaches soul intercourse in its doctrine of the Communion of Saints that all the members of the Church visible are mystically united in Christ with one another and with the members of the Church invisible, having spiritual fellow ship in common. But this does not imply the possibility of conscious communication with the dead, although it unites all beings incarnate and discarnate in what Professor Myers called " a splendid universe of moral and intellectual life." According to Professor James, the psychological condi tion of our being touched by spiritual agencies consists in our possession of a subconscious region, in our privilege of admission to an invisible and unknown world, which alone yields access to them. In sleep life, in hypnosis, the door is always ajar, sometimes wide open. Such is the present theory of telepathic interaction, which is held to be a prop erty of the essence of all minds, even of the spirit of the brute which goeth downward. The experiments of the writer have been confined to an investigation of the transmission of perception, thought, and control through terrestrial space, to a study of the process by which one mind affects another at a distance. In a series of ten thousand experiences with hypnotized patients (that is, patients put to sleep natural sleep arti ficially induced), he has realized a responsiveness, on theThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTORIS TELEPATHY A FACT OR A DELUSION? 377 part of as many personalities as have been brought into rapport, to appeals unheard by the objective ear appeals spontaneously to project and exploit inherent healing power, intellectual endowment, ethico-spiritual force. The fact that minds brought into hypnotic or sleeping contact through the approximation of the physical bodies they tenant, can exchange feelings, ideas, knowledge, con victions, aspirations, suggests the possibility that minds temporarily separated and to all purposes discarnate in natural sleep or in hypnosis minds thus at liberty to traverse the world and its purlieus may throw them selves into one another's thoughts, may communicate with out reference to space limitations or the trammels and con straints of matter, to be mutually impressed, exalted, and energized. Were the means of establishing such communica tion comprehended and under control, absent treatment for certain sicknesses and states would be possible and in every way scientific. Now, while we have to admit that the laws of telepathic transmission are unknown, and that telepathy so extensively advertised for the cure of disease has no commercial value, recent experiments of the author incon testably prove that it does exist among human beings, that it is a fact of nature as certain, to quote Flammarion, as the existence of Paris, of oxygen, or of the dog-star a long unrecognized faculty whose scope, while undreamed of, yet stamps it as facile princeps among what Emerson designates as " the immense possibilities of man." That there is in each one of us an inner immaterial being not under constraint to obey conditions imposed by our physical organisms, but capable of perceiving and acting by means peculiarly its own, is known to psychologists. A perishable body is not indispensable to the life and action of this inner being, or spiritual personality, which preserves its own independent existence even in the absence of the physical body. The powers of this personality are often exercised in spite of, rather than by aid of, the material organism. They are of the nature of clairvoyance (space is annulled), prescience (time does not obscure the vision of the future), mind-reading, and allied phenomena the suspension of physical laws like the spontaneous movement of heavy bodies and various abnormal physical phenomena in which purposive, human-like intelligence manifests itself as a direct cause. Self-projection along these supernormalThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR378 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW lines is facilitated by the induction of hypnosis. In this state, when the mind is measurably divested of all physical impediments, the inherent faculty of the spirit utters itself more freely. Time and space offer no obstructions, matter is penetrable, perceptive power becomes infinitely sublimed. In proof, let me recall the case of Anna Fortwanger, the German peasant girl with whom I experimented several years ago and whose wonderful clairvoyant and clairaudient powers impressed all who were present at the seances. This girl, when hypnotized by a friend and directed to describe different places and doings absolutely unknown both to the subject and hypnotizer, at five separate trials in the pres ence of reputable witnesses responded with marvelous ac curacy. But attempts to cause Anna Fortwanger to im press persons at a distance, impelling to expression or action, or to enter into their thoughts and feelings, were without result. The case now presented is that of a Belgian woman who possesses power to diagnose diseases at a distance when entranced and commanded to go to a designated patient and describe the bodily conditions. On several occasions, at a distance of miles, she has defined with startling exactness lesions of which she could have known nothing. The twelve year-old son of Dr. F. N. Brett, lately Professor of Bac teriology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Bos ton, was gifted with X-ray vision so that when hypnotized by his father he could " look right into and through the human body," seeing the internal organs as readily as one would see objects through a window. In dozens of instances this boy located tumors, foreign bodies, bullets in gun-shot wounds, valvular lesions, and so forth. But Leon Brett was always approximated to the patient. It was X-ray vision at short range. The modus operandi in the case of my recent subject is as follows: A physician is present whom we will call Dr. A. The subject, who is not a professional, we will designate as Madame B, and the lady who hypnotizes Madame B (the sister of a New York physician) as Miss C. Madame B is hypnotized, or put into a quasi-cataleptic state, and then directed to go to the patient, look into his body, and de scribe the nature of his trouble. This she does in detail, pointing out conditions of which Dr. A, Miss C, and her own objective self could not have had the slightest knowlThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTORIS TELEPATHY A FACT OR A DELUSION? 379 edge. In one instance in which I followed her statements through the telephone she diagnosed while five miles away an obscure case in my office and told correctly the cause of the lesion. She assumes the symptoms and sensations she discovers, and on several occasions has suffered acutely for hours from pains and perceptions similar to those of the patient. Her person becomes sensitive in the region in which the subject is affected, so that Dr. A is able to locate, through her sensations, the trouble in a remote patient whom he has never seen. She has stated facts contrary to the preconceptions of those about her, and to the diagnoses of attending physicians, in one case perceiving impending insanity, which so seriously affected her mind that Miss C was obliged to discontinue treatment. In her trance Madame B sends to the affected person what she calls a " healing current," through the medium of spirally undulating physio-psychic vibrations, which carry the mysterious message. How far her treatment will succeed remains to be seen. I have known sleep to be induced (not a new effect of the projection of psychic force) and sudden permanent improvement to result from her efforts. In a case of cancer of the liver which she diagnosed, she was, naturally, helpless to relieve. She realizes when death is imminent. Madame B also enters into the mental and emotional states of remote persons and reproduces them in her trance, sometimes retaining an impression and acting it out for hours. She declares that her spirit actually visits the per sons and places to which it is directed, reaching them through the medium of etheric vibration; that accentuated perception does not explain her action and passion. At the emphatic command of the operator, when she is com mingled with a given subliminal outside the primary con sciousness, she can impel that subliminal to influence its earth life, and so bring about a desirable change in mental motions, attitudes of feeling, mistaken beliefs, in the subject under treatment. It will thus be seen that the transfigur ing power resides in the patient, and is only awakened and exploited by Madame B. After ministering to a person sev eral times and so becoming psychically acquainted, she can entrance herself and apply treatment without the aid of an intermediary. But the most wonderful exhibition of her gift is the pracThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR380 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW tical liberation of her personality from its material organ ism, and its invasion of the soul of another being to whom it is directed by me, to be in turn bodily usurped by that other person so that I am enabled, through dynamic sug gestions offered to Madame B, to reach the correlated per sonality and compel in it the action I desire, provided such action be right. Madame B not only feels and acts the part of the person in rapport, but she is that person unmistak ably, possessed of his knowledge, character traits, feelings, and mental attitudes; he talks through her lips, suffers through her bodily organs, and energizes through her brain. A remote subject is thus brought face to face with me, and I am enabled to effect salutary changes against his objective will and consent by appeal to the commingled subliminal selves. If this unparagoned means of enforced attention re sults from a spiritual facility that is lasting, then every man and woman in the world is accessible through this channel; susceptible to corralling by this subliminal method of approach; coercible to apprehension of the wrongness of positions, incentives, and motives for action when they are wrong; and changeable to right view and moral action. No harm can be done. I have seen the controlling per sonality resent an uncongenial suggestion with profanity and blows. There is no such thing as malign telepathic influence malicious animal magnetism. The intelligent per cipient is brought into adjustment with the law of right, and acts, not because he is constrained by the agent, but because he realizes that the action suggested is wise, neces sary, expedient, or ethical. He cannot be impelled to do anything inconsistent with moral principle, nor can he be physically injured through telepathic impressions by those who wish him ill (witchcraft). Hitherto, in response to many and varied applications for the relief of the willing dupes of delusion and infatuation, of drink and drug habitues, of the pursuers of soul-killing practices, who have obstinately thrust aside the hand reached out to help them, psychology has had no hope to offer. Now, through impression of the subliminal conscious ness in the manner described, recovery of common sense, normal relations, and manly states of control may be forced upon them without their objective acquiescence, and even against their very wills. How many intermediaries like Madame B there may be in the world, or how far educationThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTORIS TELEPATHY A FACT OR A DELUSION? 381 may count in the production of such intermediaries, we can only conjecture. A peculiar feature of the procedure is the separation from Madame B's personality of a segment which, oper ating independently through the same organism, talks to me from the standpoint of an onlooker, directs me how to proceed, and even what to suggest to its entranced fellow. It was this segment that bade me treat her as I would treat the distant subject, suggesting through her subliminal mys teriously interblended with that of the subject, and thus pointed the way to what must be regarded as the most important discovery yet made in the field of abnormal psy chology. This segment always tells me when to awaken Madame B. On the utterance of my command to emerge from her trance she is thrown into a distressing convulsion, and calls to me through this same alternating segment to mitigate the violence of the spasm. After resuming her objective life, she suffers for a time from confusion and exhaustion. Madame B does not understand how this is all done; neither does the profoundest philosopher comprehend the transmission of gravity force through space, the means of its conveyance being wholly a matter of speculation. And yet this force governs the destinies of millions of suns and systems. In explanation she constantly refers to vibra tions spirally moving. To translate her description into scientific language, these vibrations are of varying ampli tudes (heights) and wave-lengths, and, to use her own expression, strike against her inner self like the waves of the sea. She has to be " in a person's vibration " in order to enter into his feelings and apprehend his bodily condi tion ; and she possesses the rare gift of being able to convert supersensuous perceptions into physical values. She knows physically what she perceives psychically, and she per ceives without the operation of the recognized sense organs. She speaks of space as being filled with vibrations, spheric waves, undulating spirally from every conscious unit or center, just as ether waves are emitted from every portion of matter. (Bozzano explains telepathy as due to an initial physio-psychic vibration which, expanding concentrically in all directions, reaches the brain of the percipient, bringing with it the agent's thought.) She has the power to intercept the vibrations that link her to the person she is in searchThis content downloaded from 112.196.129.22 on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:27:35 UTCAll use subject to Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR382 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW of. Some she characterizes as harmonious, some as inhar monious. Thus she discovers the quality of thought in the mind with which she is in rapport. If at the time it be im moral or vicious, she experiences pain and gives utterance to disapproval in her trance. As each human being has an individuality that distinguishes him from his fellows, no matter how his mental or emotional states may vary, so each person's vibrations are to Madame B different from those of any and all other beings. This explains how she is able to recognize her subject in space. To her, thoughts have a substance; and she sees them in motion, always spiral. She claims to read the future and does predict. But the value of the prescience she may possess is yet undetermined. Are we on the eve of discovering a much more marvelous application of psychic force which will develop in man spiritual consciousness, make him superior to all science as at present interpreted, effect that adjustment with natural law which will banish disease and unlock the door to mil lennial perfection? Let a selected number of persons be em powered to intercept and utilize for purposes of communica tion the vibrations radiating from personalities they wish to communicate with, and impressions for uplift and general betterment might be given without the objective knowledge or consent. A few thousand well-wishers might in this way bring about a world-wide moral revolution. And, further, the same ill-understood psychic force which, when applied by a limited number of specially gifted individuals, has tipped tables and moved pianos, may possibly, when de veloped, move houses as well, and literally cast the mountain into the sea (the Greek word pistis, in the passage Matthew xvii :20 and Mark xi :23, translated faith, implies in its root such a knowledge of and confidence in certain divine truths as to produce good works). Faith without such works is sham. All this is not to be construed into a defense of absent treatment as commonly and unscientifically practised, where the subjects know that an attempt is making to influence them, and the cures, if effected, are entirely due to auto suggestion. It implies a psychic level essentially extra marginal and higher than that of every-day conscious life, and this level is obtained only in hypnosis or in states ger mane thereto. John D. Quackenbos.This content

I think the world will do the same as how it has let the United States get away with finding and then losing control over HIV/AIDS, and do nothing but even retreating funding from WHO specific initiatives that aim to globally combat the spread of this deadly virus, which not only having claimed millions of human lives but also giving tens of years of suffering and hopelessness and deteriorating quality of life to anyone carrying that virus seeing it develop into an incurable sickness.Edit: Let the fact speaks for itself:I expect what I wish to contribute here would be regarded by many as politically incorrect or even some sort of imagined propaganda, so I would rather let facts speak for themselves and draw inferences from them only when necessary. While there has been a lot of cross-fact-checking with scientific journals on quite a number of “rumours” or news emerging from the media regarding the world’s tackling of the COVID-19, perhaps the focus of this answer here is on a single point commonly heard from American media across the board: China’s initial cover-up and belated release of information resulted in the spread of the virus. This proposition, assuming established, would naturally lead to the growing skepticism, and hence the viability of certain conspiracy theories, about the origin of the virus, the reliability of caseload statistics, the effect of the epidemiological and other non-pharmacological interventions on the spread of the virus. It appears that it is the entire Republican machinery’s calculated campaign and election engineering that contributes largely the triggers and avenues of the spread of mis-/dis-information.CHINAThe timeline of China’s response measures is –December 27 (1st reported case of a suspected new disease) - Dr. Zhang Jixian, director of the respiratory and critical care medicine department of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, reported three cases of pneumonia of unknown cause immediately after receiving the patients. Wuhan CDC conducted on the same day epidemiological investigation and testing on the patients concerned.December 30 - Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued two emergency notices on the reporting and treatment of pneumonia of unknown cause. Dr Li Wenliang (an ophthalmologist, not a respiratory doctor) sent a message to his alumni WeChat group and claimed that “seven confirmed SARS cases” and asked the group not to spread the information, but leaked screenshots of the conversation went viral on the Internet and caused panic.December 31 - Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released a situation report on pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan. China on the same day informed the WHO China Country Office of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan.January 1 - China closed the Huanan Seafood MarketJanuary 3 - China began sending regular, timely updates about the novel coronavirus to WHO, other countries including the United States, and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. (This means from January 3 to February 3, China updated the US of the epidemic situation and response measures 30 times). Wuhan's local police authorities sought an inquiry with Dr. Li at the police station, and issued him a letter of reprimand urging him to stop spreading unconfirmed information. (This is a very minor crime and the maximum penalty is a fine of 500 yuan and 10 days’ detention. After signing the acknowledgement to the reprimand letter, Dr. Li received no punishment and returned to work immediately.)January 7 - China completed the identification and sequencing of the virus in 7 days, and shared the genome sequence information with WHO and other countries on January 11January 9 - A Chinese expert group confirmed with the media that the pathogen was preliminarily determined as a novel coronavirus.January 10 - Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other professional institutions developed preliminary testing kits, and stepped up research on vaccines and effective medicationJanuary 11 - First death (a 61yo man) reported in China.January 20 - China’s National Health Commission designated the new coronavirus pneumonia as a statutory infectious disease , informed the media that the novel coronavirus could be transmitted from person to person. Virus also detected in Japan, South Korea and ThailandJanuary 21 - China’s National Health Commission started to brief the public every day on the COVID-19 situation of the preceding day through its website and social mediaJanuary 22 - WHO issued a warning on its website about the potential risk of human-to-human transmissionJanuary 23 - Wuhan municipal COVID-19 Response Command closed all the outbound passages of the city, putting Wuhan, a city of over 50 million people, under mandatory lockdown. There were no outbound commercial flights or train services since then.January 24 - COVID-19 case reports started to be directly uploaded online. The Lancet, published an article “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” co-authored by a number of Chinese heavyweight physician experts on pulmonary medicine, infectious diseases and pathogen biology, which analyzes the first 41 confirmed cases of COVID-19 admitted to hospital in Wuhan between 16 December 2019 and 2 January 2020, and found that 27 of the 41 patients had been exposed to Huanan seafood market, while the rest 14 had not. The first patient had no exposure to the seafood market, no epidemiological link with the later cases, had no family members developing fever or any respiratory symptoms, and had symptoms onset from 1 December 2019.January 25 - 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of China activated the highest-level disease response. The Chinese Communist Party rallied in over 330 medical teams of 42,000 medical workers from across China to the front line of virus-fighting in Hubei Province (including flying three medical teams from the People's Liberation Army to Wuhan from Shanghai, Chongqing and Xi'an; and pairing up 19 provinces with 16 other Hubei cities and prefectures in the battle against the virus). From across the country, key medical supplies and daily necessities were delivered to Hubei steadily. Massive human and material resources were also pooled to build the 1,000-bed Huoshenshan Hospital in 10 days, the 1,600-bed Leishenshan Hospital in 15 days, and a total of 16 mobile hospitals at an average speed of commissioning 2 hospitals in every 3 days, to accommodate over 13,000 patients.January 27 - China’s State Council inter-agency task force on COVID-19 started to hold daily press briefings to release key information and respond to questions from domestic and foreign media. WHO raised the level of risk posed by COVID-19 at a global level from moderate to high, noting the risk to be very high in China and high at a regional level.January 28 - Chinese President Xi Jinping met with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros who noted that the high speed and massive scale of China's response have been rarely seen in the world, demonstrating China's speed, scale and efficiency.January 30 - WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee held a meeting and declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).UNITED STATES (Source: 'It will disappear': the disinformation Trump spread about the coronavirus – timeline and Daily vs. Total confirmed COVID-19 cases)November - Michael Melham, Mayor of Belleville of New Jersey, said that he has tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, and thinks he may have been sick with the virus back in November 2019.January 8 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issues an alert advising that it “is closely monitoring a reported cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology (PUE) with possible epidemiologic links to a large wholesale fish and live animal market in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China”.January 18 - POTUS briefed: The AP reported (Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response) that the US health secretary, Alex Azar, called Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and briefed him on the coronavirus threat, but “Trump spent much of the conversation wanting to talk about vaping”, .January 21 - First confirmed US case: A man in his 30s who traveled to China is hospitalized in Everett, Washington, near Seattle. He tests positive for Covid–19. (However it was later reported that 171 people in Florida showed symptoms of COVID-19 as early as in January 2020, but none reported traveling to China.)January 22 - While attending the Davos conference in Switzerland, Trump makes his first public comment about coronavirus. “We have it totally under control,” he tells the US cable channel CNBC. “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”January 25 - The US was the first country to pull out personnel from its consulate-general in Wuhan.January 26 - Washington Times published (Coronavirus may have originated in lab linked to China’s biowarfare program) a report with the menacing headline “Coronavirus may have originated in lab linked to China's biowarfare program” and it immediately gained global pickup.January 27 - Washington Post reports that Joe Grogan, the head of the White House domestic policy council, tells the acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and others in a meeting that the fight against coronavirus would dominate public life for months and “the administration needed to take the virus seriously or it could cost the president his re-election”.January 29 - Economic adviser Peter Navarro warns the national security council in a memo that coronavirus could kill half a million Americans and deliver a $5.7tn hit to the economy, Axios reports.January 30 - As the WHO declares a global health emergency, Azar, the health secretary, again warns Trump about the looming threat. Taking Azar’s call aboard Air Force One en route to a campaign rally, Trump dismisses him as “alarmist”, the New York Times reported. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in US was 7 then.January 31 - US declares “public health emergency” Trump announces a ban on entry to the US for foreign nationals who had recently visited China effective from February 2.January and February - US intelligence agencies file classified reports warning about global destabilization from a coronavirus pandemic, according to a Washington Post report.February 2 - US closes its borders to all Chinese citizens and foreigners who had been to China within previous 14 days (i.e. from January 19 onwards)February 5 - ‘They aren’t taking this seriously’, Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut tweeted “No request for ANY emergency funding” after a coronavirus briefing by White House officials, showing concern that the administration is downplaying the threat.Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough.Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2020February 19 - Addressing a group of governors, Trump predicts the virus will disappear. “I think it’s going to work out fine. I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus.”February 21 - Following a mock exercise modeling pandemic response, the White House coronavirus taskforce concludes that aggressive social distancing would be necessary, according to a New York Times report.February 23 - “There is an increasing probability of a full-blown Covid-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls,” Navarro, the economics adviser, writes in a memo obtained by Axios.February 24 - Trump tweets. “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2020February 25 - In a CDC telebriefing, Nancy Messonnier the director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, says: “Ultimately, we expect we will see community spread in this country” and “disruption to everyday life may be severe. But these are things that people need to start thinking about now.” At a news conference in New Delhi, Trump says: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are – in all cases, I have not heard anything other.” On the way back from India, Trump reportedly called Azar and complained that Messonnier was scaring the stock market. Larry Kudlow, the director of the national economics council, is asked about Messonnier’s comments on CNBC. He says, “We have contained this… I won’t say airtight, but it’s pretty close to airtight.”February 26 - “The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days,” Trump says at a White House news conference. “We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time.” Trump tweets,Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! @CDCgov.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 26, 2020February 27 - “It’s going to disappear,” Trump says in a White House briefing. “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”February 29 - The US marks its first confirmed coronavirus death, a man in his 50s near Seattle. Almost six weeks after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed, the Food and Drug Administration allows laboratories and hospitals to conduct their own Covid-19 tests to speed up the process.March 5 -Gallup just gave us the highest rating ever for the way we are handling the CoronaVirus situation. The April 2009-10 Swine Flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the U.S., was poorly handled. Ask MSDNC & lightweight Washington failure @RonaldKlain, who the President was then?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2020Gallup just gave us the highest rating ever for the way we are handling the CoronaVirus situation. The April 2009-10 Swine Flu, where nearly 13,000 people died in the U.S., was poorly handled. Ask MSDNC & lightweight Washington failure @RonaldKlain, who the President was then?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2020March 6 - Trump visits the CDC laboratories and calls the pandemic “an unforeseen problem”. “What a problem,” he says. “Came out of nowhere.” The stock market begins to plunge in earnest, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding more than 20% in next two weeks. Confirmed cases in US rose to 279.March 9 - When case count reached 937, Trump tweets,So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020Former Trump homeland security adviser Tom Bossert publishes an op-ed: “It’s now or never for the US if it hopes to keep coronavirus from burning out of control.” In an evening news conference, White House officials say the United States will have tested 1 million people that week and thereafter perform 4m tests per week. “We’ve been moving progressively to bring that test closer and closer and closer to the patient,” Azar says. Through 12 March, the federal CDC had completed 4,000 tests – not 4m.March 10 - “When people need a test, they can get a test,” Trump says at a White House briefing. “When the professionals need a test, when they need tests for people, they can get the test. It’s gone really well.”March 12 - Dr Anthony Fauci tells Congress that the United States does not have sufficient testing. “The system is not really geared to what we need right now,” he says. “That is a failing. Let’s admit it.” Trump says at a White House briefing there are a “million tests out now” and “if you go to the right agency, if you go to the right area, you get the test”.March 13 - Trump declares a national emergency over coronavirus. Trump announces a supposed Google site under development to help people across the country find testing, but it takes few weeks to cover only the Bay Area of San Francisco. “We’ve been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive-through tests available in the critical locations identified by public health professionals,” Trump adds, but a month later only a handful had materialized.While the US CDC published online the report of its Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat and COVID-19 Response Team, which stated that after "the first confirmed [COVID-19] case in the United States was reported on January 21", the "outbreak appeared contained through February, and then accelerated rapidly." It notes that "various factors contributed to accelerated spread during February -- March 2020, including continued travel-associated importations, large gatherings, introductions into high-risk workplaces and densely populated areas, and cryptic transmission resulting from limited testing and asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread." This is closer to the truth, but why then were there all the mis/dis-information about China having to be accountable for the US loss of lives, when POTUS was fully briefed of the situation as early as in January and full information was made known by China to the WHO and directly to the US since January?It later became all clear that why the disinformation or misinformation and accusations/conspiracies implicating China was rampant since late March. The Republican disinformation started with the Washington Post journalist Josh Rogin, putting together a dubious article on April 14 in which he cherry-picked a cable from the US embassy in Beijing and mis-identified an anti-China activist as "research scientist", followed by a remarkably similar article (Sources believe coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US) on April 15 by Fox News correspondent Bret Baier. On the evening of April 15, Republican Senator Tom Cotton floated the conspiracy theory, -The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for every single death, every job lost, every retirement nest egg lost, from this coronavirus. And Xi Jinping must be made to pay the price. pic.twitter.com/OLCj5Z5rrp— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) April 16, 2020The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for every single death, every job lost, every retirement nest egg lost, from this coronavirus. And Xi Jinping must be made to pay the price. Tom Cotton on Twitter— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) April 16, 2020On April 17, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took the baseless theory to the global stage, demanding access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for investigation.On 20 April, The Grayzone (How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theory | The Grayzone), (US-based independent site) alleged how the conservative journalists and media allies, the Republican Senator’s Office were collaborating with the Trump administration in a disinformation campaign against China, similar to the Democrats ramping up of the Russiagate narrative, and the disinformation campaign in the George W. Bush administration that planted a seemingly explosive revelation about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction with a New York Times correspondent.tl;drThe Politico disclosed that the National Republican Senatorial Committee earlier on sent campaigns a 57-page memo developed by a PR firm, advising GOP candidates to address the coronavirus crisis by aggressively attacking China along three lines of assault: (i) that China caused the virus "by covering it up", (ii) that Democrats are "soft on China", and (III) that Republicans will "push for sanctions on China for its role in spreading this pandemic". Republicans have indicated in the memo that they plan to make China a centerpiece of the 2020 campaign. All these show that framing and attacking China has become a "whole-of-government approach" of the Republican campaign. The primary driving force of the spread of misi/dis-nformation is entirely political mileage for election engineering of the Republicans, rather than hard and concrete science, nor the paramountcy of human lives. This also stretches the China-US relationship too far, if for the prospect of re-election, by putting such bilateral relations deliberately into jeopardy, fooling the American people’s scrutiny of the administration’s competence by inventing stories and false accusations, mongering fear and hatred against the Chinese government with xenophobic labels, alarmist talk and blatant lies for doing harm or hiding up. This risks turning conflict and confrontation into a self-fulfilling prophecy, not in favour of the wellbeing of the two nations, and demolished any mutual trust and understanding built between the leadership of the two countries by preceding administrations.