Virologist Danielle Anderson was the only foreign scientist who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Posted on 06/28/2021 11:22:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The only foreign scientist who worked at China’s notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology has admitted she can’t rule out that COVID-19 leaked from the lab.
“I’m not naive enough to say I absolutely write this off,” Australian virologist Danielle Anderson told Bloomberg of the theory behind the pandemic that has so far killed nearly 4 million people worldwide.
Anderson, 42, was last at the institute in central China in November 2019, when the virus is believed to have already started spreading in Wuhan.
SARS, an earlier coronavirus that emerged in Asia in 2002 and killed more than 700 people, made its way out of at least four secure facilities, she told the outlet.
Largely because of that, Anderson said that she “could foresee how things could maybe happen.”
However, the scientist, now based back home in Australia, told Bloomberg she is convinced the virus was not made intentionally to infect people or deliberately released.
She conceded it was possible for a scientist in the lab working on a gain-of-function technique to unknowingly infect themselves and then unintentionally spread it in the community — but she rated the likelihood as exceedingly slim.
Still, Anderson agreed that the possibility should be part of ongoing investigations into the pandemic’s origins.
Overall, the Australian scientist praised the lab, which had top-level BSL-4 biological safety, for its “very, very extensive” protocols — which included 45 hours of training, wearing air-pressured suits and taking chemical showers on leaving containment areas.
She also insisted that no one she knew at the Wuhan institute was ill toward the end of 2019, when the then-unknown virus is believed to have started spreading in the city.
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Bought and paid for. She is convinced it wasn’t made to intentionally made to infect people because the Chinese dictatorship is a really really nice one. Riiigghhhtt.
There is zero question that any group of enterprising high school science club participants with an interest in molecular biology and access to the required resources could produce a gain of function Coronavirus with the capacity to start a pandemic. ZERO, and I would debate ANYONE in the world on that point.
If that's scary, it's because it should be. It is much, much, much easier to create infectious agents that can kill millions than it is to produce any type of nuclear weapon. We are living in a brave new world, and just like tracking plutonium, we are going to have to start tracking things like oligonucleotide orders, restriction endonuclease orders, and access to any viral or human nucleic acid sequences.
It truly is possible to design bioweapons that can target specific genetically similar groups of people. It wouldn't be straightforward to do so, but not impossible either.
People need to wake up.
Bkmk
She knows that SARS leaked out of four different Chinese labs
but the chances that Covid-19 escaped the Wuhan lab is “exceedingly slim?”
I don’t think she understands probabilities.
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