No doubt there is an assortment of these “viruses” available in China. That sounds like a threat. Perhaps a complete quarantine for the next ten years is the answer to this vexing problem.
Some bat species are considered endangered species around the globe, so why aren’t they in China...especially since they’re used as a food source.
“If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “could they have come from our lab?”
Then she was gently reminded of Approved Thought by the Peoples’ Liberation Army, and she decided “no, they couldn’t have come from our lab.”
The following lengthy and technical article in a journal called GreatGameIndia presents her and her Wuhan Institute of Virology lab in a very different light. It basically suggests that her lab was the source and creator of an engineered virus that escaped confinement. Other articles have made similar claims.
COVID19 Files – Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus
If that is true, Zhengli would be both a hero for her earlier work and a massive villain for accidentally unleashing this pandemic.
I don't don't understand the field nearly well enough to know whether the article presents a credible case. Perhaps someone else here with some actual expertise could weigh in.
“Could they have come from our lab”?
I wonder if she’s still alive.