NYP– From almost the moment the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the medical-research establishment in Washington and London insisted that the virus had emerged naturally. Only conspiracy theorists, they said, would give credence to the idea that the virus had escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Now, a string of unearthed emails — the most recent being a batch viewed by the House Oversight and Reform Committee and referred to in its Jan. 11 letter — is making it seem increasingly likely that there was, in fact, a conspiracy, its aim being to suppress the notion that the virus had emerged from research funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), headed by Anthony Fauci.
The latest emails don’t prove such a conspiracy, but they make it more plausible for two reasons: because the expert virologists therein present such a strong case for thinking that the virus had lab-made features, and because of the wholly political reaction to this bombshell on the part of Francis Collins, then-director of the National Institutes of Health.
They agreed, until they didn’t
The story begins with a Jan. 31, 2020, email to Fauci from a group of four virologists led by Kristian G. Andersen of the Scripps Research Institute. The genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 had been published three weeks before, giving virologists their first look at the virus’ structure and possible origin.
Andersen reported to Fauci that “after discussions earlier today, Eddie, Bob, Mike and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” Eddie is Edward C. Holmes of the University of Sydney; Bob is Robert F. Garry of Tulane University; Mike is Michael Farzan at Scripps Research. In their unanimous view, the virus didn’t come from nature and may instead have escaped from a lab. more here
NO FOOKIN SHEEET!
But when Donald J Trump said it…
There is actually a doc right now as I type this on Frontline showing scientists saying they initially thought it was an engineered leak but they self censored themselves.
2021 Frontline PBS.
I will re-post the 4th quarter 2019 Bat posts again. If needed.
It was late 2018 when it hit the States. Deny it all you want.
I paraphrase, “There’s an influenza killing mostly the Negroes. It’s not identified, yet.”
Fort Smith, Arkansas, 3rd week, September, 2018.
It just won’t go away, will it?
BTW, if you want to hear a pro-vax liberal’s head explode, here’s the conversation regarding a five year-old:
Lib: “I hear she’s been exposed and is quarantined. I hope she doesn’t get COVID!”
Me: “Of course she should get COVID. All the kids should be exposed and get it. It’s the ONLY way they’ll ever have full antibody immunity to it. Why do you think you don’t die of influenza today? Because you were exposed to it as a kid.”
Lib: (Starts yelling. Suddenly stops. Head splodes. Hangs up.)
Gee Wally, now itz only a question of if they did it deliberately or accidentally-on-purpose…
Aren’t the results the same if the chinks did it deliberately or released it accidentally on purpose? I am so sick of all this COVID bs over the past 2 years.
Fauci must hang for his crimes.
C’mon man! We all know it came from bat soup or you know, the thing
Alleged e-mails? Allegedly seen by our professional betters? That they imply might allege that a disloyal Party member (but only the disloyal, and Party disloyalty is subject to removal from the Party nomenklatura) may have betrayed The Party?
Can someone please just put Julian Assange in a cage? Plant a few trees? Dump a barrel of reclaimed fryer oil on him? (No, Greta, no “fossil fuels” — and we’ve already carbon negatived it.) And live stream some princess lighting him on fire? Maybe Ivanka? Chelsea? Admiral Doctor Whatzit?
It didn’t leak. It was exported.