Posted on 05/15/2020 8:02:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China on Friday confirmed it had ordered unauthorised laboratories to destroy samples of the new coronavirus in the early stage of the outbreak, but said it was done for biosafety reasons.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeatedly said that Beijing declined to provide virus samples taken from patients when the contagion began in China late last year, and that Chinese authorities had destroyed early samples.
Liu Dengfeng, an official with the National Health Commission’s science and education department, said this was done at unauthorised labs to “prevent the risk to laboratory biological safety and prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens”. “The remarks made by some US officials were taken out of context and intended to confuse,” he said at a briefing in Beijing.
When the pneumonia-like illness was first reported in Wuhan, “national-level professional institutes” were working to identify the pathogen that was causing it, Liu said.
“Based on comprehensive research and expert opinion, we decided to temporarily manage the pathogen causing the pneumonia as Class II – highly pathogenic – and imposed biosafety requirements on sample collection, transport and experimental activities, as well as destroying the samples,” he said.
Liu added that this was in line with China’s standard practice for handling highly pathogenic samples, which should not be done by labs that do not meet the requirements.
Class II pathogens can be transmitted among humans or animals, or between humans and animals, and cause serious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) and smallpox.
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Additionally, in what is an odd stream of admissions and clarifications, another senior official, Li Mingzhu, with the health commission’s international cooperation department, rejected other US claims about access early on, claiming that the WHO did not make any request to visit the lab during two trips to Wuhan, in January and February.
“The WHO has never made a request to visit a certain laboratory, so the statement that the WHO was denied a visit to the Wuhan laboratory is untrue,” Li said.
The odd timing of these 'clarifications' and simplicity of their claims makes one wonder why China had not simply announced this two or three months ago? What could they have had to hide if, as they said today, this was all "in line with Chinese standard practices"?
The Chinese Communist Party has murdered 80,000 Americans.
Payback.
I want payback.
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“Unauthorized” (wink-wink).
Western media follows right along LOL!
We didn’t place everything downwind of Chernobyl—basically the entire CONUS—on lockdown for months on end.
Come to think of it, we didn’t do anything.
Ronaldus Magnus was President.
They are following Comey and Brennan’s lead.
Absolutely standard typical investigative techniques that are used in every FBI investigation (like “get him to lie so we can get him fired”) were withheld from the defense and from the public for three years and then finally released, finally proving that nothing unusual happened at all. Move along please.
so that’s what the future will look like?
The headline says Oct 2019, but the graphic says Oct 2020 - it not even June where I live.
plus there is no indication where the graphic (which appears heavily photoshopped) came from, who made it, etc
Here is the original report, that was reported on by NBC, and then referenced widely.
It appears the “Oct 2020” in the graphic is a typo in the original.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6884792-MACE-E-PAI-COVID-19-ANALYSIS-Redacted.html
Who collected and tracked all those phones?
According to the link, it’s an “analysis of commercial telemetry data.”
I’m not suggesting this is proof, or even not a hoax, but think about this: Don’t you believe that the NSA has all of this information and much, much more, collected, analyzed, and presented to the president?
I do. Did you see his interview with Maria Bartiromo? He’s PISSED at China and Xi. PISSED.
If this escaped the lab in October, and the ChiComs and their W.H.O. stooges lied about it until late January, in order to infect the entire world (and not just China), well, it’s an act of biological warfare not to warn the world ASAP back in 2019.
I wonder if “in line with all Chinese standard practices” is something like “by the book”?
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