[TChad]

No, the linked article does not confirm that the National Academy of Sciences has determined that COVID-19 was man-made.

DON'T POST LIES.

[zeestephen]

Re: “DON'T POST LIES.”

Comment #1 is not accurate.

However, links to this paper have been posted several times at Free Republic, and it does contain important information.

The Wuhan Lab, and specifically its director, were attempting to modify the bat virus into a form that would infect humans, a form that could be studied in the lab before a natural transition might take place.

The Wuhan Lab director's work was funded by NIAID, where Dr. Fauci is the director. Presumably, Dr. Fauci approved the Wuhan funding.

Since COVID-19 was first identified at an open market place within walking distance of the Wuhan Lab, and since Dr. Fauci was a top USA government executive involved in the COVID-19 crisis, that is definitely a coincidence worth investigating.

Naturally, none of the mainstream press will investigate, so the amateurs at Free Republic - like me - have to stumble around on our own.

[Grandpa Drudge]

I did NOT lie, and I did NOT say "the linked article confirmed that the National Academy of Sciences has determined that COVID-19 was man-made".

What my post presents is an article dated March 15, 2016 from the National Academy of Sciences that describes precisely HOW NIAID and Wuhan Institute of Virology accomplished creating a man made chimeric virus using SARS-CoV as well as WIV1-CoV as a base starting point.

I concluded from that article that SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) appears to be a man made chimeric virus.

And I now defend and stand firmly behind that conclusion.