The world is in the grips of a pandemic with economic, political, and strategic consequences and, most importantly, a human toll we don’t yet understand. Will the loss of life rival the scale of the Spanish flu of 1918 or the swine flu of 2009? We don’t yet know.

There will be time to assess what could have been done better in the response to the virus. What we should all be able to come together to focus on is the origin of the virus and its initial spread: the corruption of the Chinese Communist Party. Why is this important? Because to prevent a repeat of the circumstances of this outbreak, we must understand its origins.