A picture of Emmanuel Macron with naked young black men taken in 2018 in Saint Martin expresses a homosexual aesthetic which is a symbol of Western moral decay. It provoked God’s wrath and Europe is now hit by the coronavirus epidemic to punish Europe’s moral decay as illustrated by homosexuality and protection of the environment.
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about "threatened values" and the West's alleged moral decay, specifically targeting the French president with allegations of homosexuality - a frequent trope deployed by pro-Kremlin media to make the case for Europe's moral decline. Pro-Kremlin outlets have sought to link the coronavirus with homosexuality on several occasions, including claims that the coronavirus was sent by God to punish homosexuals and environmentalists, and that gay marriage is a cause of the virus.
Scientists and researchers have documented the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It comes from a family of viruses originating in animals that includes others such as SARS and MERS.
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There is evidence confirming that the COVID-19 virus was created by American scientists in 2015. It is reported that the United States provided China with all the information it possesses about the emerging coronavirus. In China, experts in the archive discovered an article published in 2015 in the journal Nature Medicine, confirming that US scientists have been able to obtain a new type of coronavirus, which has a direct impact on humans.
A recurring disinformation narrative and conspiracy theory about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus.
There is no basis to the claim that 2019-nCoV coronavirus was man-made. Volume 9 of medical Journal “Emerging Microbes & Infections” published a study in 2020 entitled “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2” in which rumours about the epidemic being constructed inside laboratories are clearly dismissed. Regarding the 2015 Nature Medicine study mentioned in the article, this is also addressed in the medical Journal as follows:
The spread of coronavirus in Europe led to the absence of words about European integration and cooperation and replaced it with a language of sovereignty, state and national security. Closed border policies replaced the open border policies that prevailed among the European Union countries as a result of the European integration system.
There is no longer any importance to the Schengen system that prevails among European countries, which resulted in a major blow to the liberal ideology, with its classic and new forms, based on freedom of movement and trade, and the removal of obstacles and border restrictions, of which the European Union is one of the most important applied models.
Germany and France did not agree to grant Italy and Spain urgent aid to stop the epidemic.
A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative that is consistent with the disinformation message that the Schengen zone has collapsed and more broadly, with the disinformation narrative that the EU is collapsing as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
The current situation is an example of how indispensable Schengen is to the European economy and way of life, and not just for Italy. In the current exceptional situation, many EU Member States introduced temporary border controls to slow the spread of coronavirus, which adhere to the Schengen border code, but the EU Commission is ensuring that EU-wide supply chains continue to operate and that flow of goods and key services continues around the clock.
The European Union has not helped its partners fight the coronavirus, while China and Russia have come to help.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative aiming to discredit the EU response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Union is supporting the Member States in addressing the crisis and mitigating the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. To cushion the blow to people’s livelihoods and the economy, the European Commission has adopted a comprehensive economic response to the outbreak, applied the full flexibility of the EU fiscal rules, has revised its State Aid rules and proposed to set up a EUR 37 billion Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative to provide liquidity to small businesses and the health care sector.
