Dated April 13, 2020, this article reflects on reports that 111 people in South Korea tested positive again after being released from quarantine. It discusses the nature of the Wuhan virus, Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the responses of China, Europe, South Korea, Japan, and the United States, and the historical consequences of each nation’s relationship with China.

April 13, 2020
This morning, I woke up earlier than planned and, for the first time in a while, watched NHK News for a short time.
When I saw the news that as many as 111 people in South Korea had tested positive again after being released from quarantine, I became even more convinced.
It was Masayuki Takayama, writing in Shukan Shincho, who first told me about Shi Zhengli.
He pointed out that one reason we cannot rule out the possibility that the Wuhan virus was not naturally occurring, but was instead created by her, just as Indian scholars had alleged, is that there are cases in which antibodies that should develop against a naturally occurring virus do not appear.
The 111 people in South Korea may well prove that this Wuhan virus is a virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, created by Shi Zhengli.
However, because this happened in South Korea, suspicion remains as to whether the medical testing was truly perfect.
Even so, this greatest postwar disaster, the Wuhan virus calamity, has something of the appearance of a competition in divine punishment.
First, Italy suffered a catastrophe.
Italy, as everyone knows, was the only G7 country that joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative, overriding the opposition of France and Germany.
Last year, the Pope visited Japan at the invitation of the Asahi Shimbun and the Catholic Church in Japan.
His hypocrisy and his complete closeness to China were things that can only be described as outrageous.
Next, France suffered a catastrophe.
France is the country that built the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Then came Germany.
For more than ten years, until the Abe administration came into being, Merkel visited China more than eight times, while visiting Japan only once.
It was for the purpose of selling German cars in China.
She achieved that objective.
And finally, as the true headliner, the United States appeared.
The United States is the country that had Shi Zhengli study at the University of North Carolina and provided grants for her terrifying research.
In other words, it is the country that provided funding and thereby assisted in the creation of this virus.
The funding was later cut off on the grounds that her research was contrary to society and ethics, but the present state of the United States tells us that it was already too late.
Needless to say, South Korea is no exception.
Not only in relation to China, but in every aspect of its bottomless evil and plausible lies, it is a country upon which divine punishment would naturally fall.
In Japan, people connected to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan ignored the requests of the national government and Saitama Prefecture to cancel an event.
In other words, in an act that can only be called traitorous, they forcibly held K-1 on March 22, gathering as many as 6,000 spectators.
As a result, infections increased rapidly in exactly the same numbers as the expert who appeared on television the following day had predicted.
Even so, compared with the countries mentioned above, Japan’s figures are still one digit lower.
One reason is that the Japanese people are the cleanest people in the world.
And even though there was the GHQ occupation after defeat in the war, and even though that occupation gave rise to Asahi Shimbun-like foolishness, which in turn made it possible for the above-mentioned K-1 event to be forcibly held, it is also the result of the very traditions cultivated by a people who, for thousands of years, have been unified as Japanese around the Emperor.
Another reason is that, unlike the countries mentioned above, postwar Japan is a country whose taxpayers’ money has been plundered by China in astronomical amounts through fabrications jointly created by China and the Asahi Shimbun and others.
For example, in the single case in which China buried its own poison gas weapons and then blamed them on the Japanese military, while the Asahi Shimbun reported the matter on a massive scale and fabricated it as fact, one trillion yen of Japanese taxpayers’ money was seized by China.
Japan is a country from which China, a country of bottomless evil and plausible lies, has plundered the largest astronomical sum in human history.
There is no reason divine punishment would fall upon such a Japan.
But the numbers may well represent divine punishment falling upon the conduct of the Asahi Shimbun and others, the political operatives of the opposition parties, so-called human rights lawyers, so-called cultural figures, so-called citizens’ groups, and television stations such as NHK, all of whom this column has mentioned many times.
Masayuki Takayama wrote a book titled Trump Does Not Lie.
The statement by Trump that was shown on television news yesterday was exactly as the title says.
In outline, it was to the effect that “it is self-evident that the American people are a people who cannot live in a disciplined manner.”
I could not help but laugh wryly.