Just when you thought you couldn’t despise the Chinese Communists any more than you do now, they spread a totally whack conspiracy theory that a U.S. Army Reservist was patient zero for the Wuhan Flu, with the politically correct name of Covid-19. Just when you thought that you couldn’t despise the sewer that Social Media can be, those nuts are aiding the ChiComs in spreading this vicious lie. And, the woman who has been smeared as patient zero has had her life ruined and has no recourse.

Maatje Benassi is an Army Reservist, who works as a civilian contractor at Fort Belvoir. Her husband, Matt Benassi, is retired Air Force and works as a civilian contractor at the Pentagon. The couple have two children. Got the picture? Just a military couple who are living the dream.

Maatje Benassi went to Wuhan to participate in the Military World Games as a cyclist. The games took place in November, 2019. Maatje was injured but she finished the race. That’s the American spirit. You go, girl.

On January 21, 2020, the New York Times wrote about the first confirmed Covid-19. The wild conspiracy theories began shortly thereafter. Victory Girls’ own Kim just wrote about a bunch of these nutty theories. Read her post here.

The execrable ChiComs have been hustling the theory that the U.S. military brought the WuFlu to China. Now, where are Earth would they get that nasty idea? From an American nutcase, that’s where. This vile, low-down, piece of human navel lint is named George Webb. I had never heard of him before but he has nearly 100,000 YouTube followers. His claim to fame is that he shut down the Port of Charleston, SC with a call about a dirty bomb.

With absolutely zero proof, Webb named Maatje Benassi as the patient zero who brought the Covid-19 flu to Wuhan. I kid you not. On March 29, the Orinoco Tribune out of Venezuela (right!?) reported on this conspiracy theory:

Citizens, as well as Chinese experts, demand that Washington make public the information on the American military athletes who attended the World Military Games last October that took place in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, known COVID-19 , and put an end to the conjecture about the origin of the pathogen, the Chinese state newspaper Global Times published on Wednesday.

The report was released after an American journalist, George Webb, claimed that an American military athlete, Maatje Benassi, a cyclist who was in Wuhan at the time for the cycling competition at the World Military Games, could have been COVID -19 patient zero in Wuhan.

You want to throat punch someone right now, don’t you?

Maatje and Matt Benassi have had their lives ruined. The Raw Story reported:

Matt Benassi, the civilian Pentagon employee, told CNN he feared the conspiracy theories would make them targets for violence, and he expressed frustration with YouTube for allowing Webb’s videos to remain online.

“It’s really hard to hold [Webb] accountable,” Matt Benassi said. “Law enforcement will tell you that there’s nothing that we can do about it because we have free speech in this country. Then they say, ‘Go talk to a civil attorney,’ so we did. We talked to an attorney. You quickly realize that for folks like us, it’s just too expensive to litigate something like this. We get no recourse from law enforcement. We get no recourse from the courts.”

I don’t get why they have no recourse. Free speech does not mean that you get to blame one person for a worldwide pandemic with zero, zilch proof.

Alisyn Camerota of CNN filed this non-fake news story:

Webb says he has a source at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. For the record, Maatje Benassi has never tested positive for the WuFlu.

The conspiracy theorist Webb is giving aid and comfort to the Chinese Communist Party. They are our enemy in every possible way. Maatje and Matt Benassi should be given Federal protection at the very least. There should be a way for them to sue George Webb. Surely, some legal firm would take the case pro bono. If this doesn’t make you furious, check your patriotism meter.

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