A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside attributed more deaths to Western economics than the coronavirus.
Seif Da’na, a sociology professor in Wisconsin, appeared on the Hezbollah-affiliated network television al Manar, blaming capitalism and “the West’s economic policies” as more lethal to humans than the novel coronavirus, according to a report from Campus Reform.
“More people die every year from the consequences of these economic issues than from what is happening now,” Da’na said. The academic then likened Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to the economic policies he mentioned, saying the fascist dictator did “not do anything out of the ordinary.”
“He did not do anything that had not been done by the Europeans before,” he said.
“As of now, there is no [coronavirus] patient zero in China, and therefore, we do not talk here about a conspiracy as much as we talk about the leaking of the viruses from a laboratory at Fort Detrick in the United States,” he continued, repeating claims favored by the Chinese Communist Party that have been hotly disputed by the U.S.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Da’na for comment but did not receive a response for publication.
In early 2020, members of the U.S. intelligence community informed Trump that China, the place of origin for the coronavirus, was lying about the seriousness of the virus, which has since infected more than 1.2 million people on every continent but Antarctica.
A report issued by the Washington Post said officials informed the president that China “appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak” and was “not being candid about the true scale of the crisis.”
Well-documented evidence indicates China also misled the World Health Organization about the severity of COVID-19 to prevent investigations in Wuhan, where the first case of the coronavirus was reported. One study indicated that, if China did not mislead the world about the virus’s severity, the coronavirus would be significantly less widespread.
