Hey, everybody. Nathan Rich here again.
I'm back at Chaoyang Park in Beijing.
This is not the same day that I filmed the other video.
This is a different day. If you are walking around in Chaoyang Park some day
and you see a very handsome, very strong guy with long flowing, beautiful
hair, that's not me.
But I do want to say to everybody first, thank you very much for your
support. I actually considered giving this channel up recently because of the
issues that I mentioned in the previous video.
But thanks to everybody's support and helping push this channel into being
something better, I just have a really renewed sense of determination and,
frankly, pride. So thank you very much, guys.
I really appreciate it. Anyway, without further ado, I just wanted to talk to
you guys a little bit about a recent discovery about COVID-19, and Spain.
Recently, I made a video in which I pretty clearly said that according to the
facts, COVID-19, the outbreak, started and Wuhan and that the virus itself
had originated in China.
And a lot of people were saying to me, "Hey that's not necessarily true
because we don't have all the facts yet.
Just because that's the first case or that's where the first case was
discovered doesn't mean that that's where it started or that that's where the
virus originated from." And in some ways, they're right.
I had to really think about that, though, because my thoughts are always that
we need to follow the facts on things.
And facts at that time showed that the virus had come from China.
But interestingly, it doesn't really matter what I think about that, because
now the tables have turned.
And if we follow just the facts on a timeline, we find that whereas we
previously thought that the virus had originated in Wuhan, then we found out
it seemed maybe it had come from Italy or maybe it had started and had and
then gone to Italy. But recently it turns out that this virus may have
started in Spain.
Now I know what you're thinking. That sounds ridiculous.
But Spain has discovered the virus that causes COVID-19, in its sewage system
from water samples dating as far back as March 2019.
For those you who forgot the timeline, that is months and months and months
before anyone in the world had ever noticed that this disease or this virus
even existed. They're still working on confirming that.
But it's interesting to note this discovery for a few reasons.
First of all, if this is true, it blows all the conspiracy theories away.
Second of all, it's interesting because it gives us a very clear example of
the burden of proof and the weight given to such a claim.
You see, if this claim is true, it kind of wipes the board clean and we have
to start all over again.
So that means that they have to be very, very sure.
Even though they've already discovered it, they have to basically do more
sample testing and really make sure.
So even though they have very strong reason to believe it's true, we still
collectively have to say that there isn't clear evidence that the virus
started in March of 2019.
We need to actually confirm it.
And that's going to take time.
So another thing to think about when you hear this "clear evidence" phrase
that's used so often. This is a clear example of when evidence isn't clear
enough to be called "clear evidence." So this really changes the way that we
think about facts.
Because as we get new facts, our description of the truth changes.
Will we ever find the real, honest-to-God truth of the universe?
Probably not. So all we can do is chase the facts.
And currently, the facts say that the COVID-19 outbreak started in Spain,
then eventually moved to many other countries, including China, where China
first detected it. Please do not go on a "Spain Lied, People Died" campaign.
Please do not blame the Spanish "top down government" for their "intentional
hiding" of this evidence and this information from the world.
And do not blame every death and every illness and case from this disease on
the Spanish government. The Spanish people have already suffered through this
disease. And again, we are not here to determine who on Earth should be
blamed. We're here to save lives and to do our best to stop this disease from
spreading. I rather thought that would be obvious.
So this is just a very quick video to talk about this, because it's an
interesting piece of information that I've added to the timeline (as
unconfirmed, by the way).
But I want you to also notice nowhere, even on New York Times' timeline that
was released right after this, nowhere is claiming that this is definitely
true and that Spain did something wrong, etc, etc.
Everywhere in the world is saying, "Well, that's very interesting, but that's
not clear enough evidence.
We need that to be proof." And I want you to remember that because the next
time you hear some weird conspiracy theory or some little "fact" about China,
you may notice that the same requirements for evidentiary quality may be
missing. So in pursuing the truth, we must go from fact to fact.
And we don't have to sit here and try to find people to blame.
We can just work together and try to defeat this thing.
Maybe we'll be able to find the origin of this outbreak at some point.
But in the meantime, we need to confirm each fact, even if it has to do with
China. Sorry, everybody.
We can't just say, "Oh, something happened in Spain?
Well, that needs a lot more research.
That's not confirmed. Oh, something happened in China?
It's definitely true.
Definitely." We need the same standards.
So when somebody tells me that something did or didn't happen in China or
that it started here or whatever the rumor is, even one study saying it's
true isn't necessarily enough.
To the degree that it's a contentious, political, controversial claim, it
needs to be backed up by even more evidence.
Anyway, I've got a lot of new videos coming up.
I am going to be watching this Spain situation very closely.
But thanks again, everybody, for contributing to this channel.
If you do want to keep this channel going, how it is, you can, of course, go
to my SubscribeStar, Patreon, Public Wechat or Paypal, and you can contribute
directly. Anyway, look forward to some interesting videos coming very soon to
you. And thank you very much, guys, once again.
I really appreciate it. Thanks, everybody.
Xiexie.