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Strong new evidence suggests the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a Chinese lab
Twitter Michael Shellenberger ^

Posted on 06/13/2023 9:59:37 AM PDT by janetjanet998

After years of official pronouncements to the contrary, strong new evidence has emerged suggesting the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by Public and Racket, the first people infected by the virus, “patients zero,” included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses, which increases the infectiousness of viruses.


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KEYWORDS: benhu; china; closeologywinsagain; covid; covid19; prc; sarscov2; thankscaptainobvious; wiv
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1 posted on 06/13/2023 9:59:37 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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Chinese citizens in Wuhan knew this and said so from the beginning.


2 posted on 06/13/2023 10:00:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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Sources tell Public and Racket that other news organizations are chasing aspects of this story. On Saturday, The Times of London quoted an anonymous U.S. State Department investigator saying, “It has become increasingly clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was involved in the creation, promulgation, and cover-up of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Next week, the Directorate of National Intelligence is expected to release previously classified material, which may include the names of the three WIV scientists who were the likely among the first to be sickened by SARS-CoV-2.

3 posted on 06/13/2023 10:02:02 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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March 2018, the WIV, the EcoHealth Alliance, and the University of North Carolina applied for a $14 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency DARPA to engineer “furin cleavage sites” into SARS-like coronaviruses to study how this affected their ability to grow and cause disease.

DARPA rejected the grant, but it now appears the WIV went forward with the research anyway. The Times of London reported that US collaborators of the WIV had come forward and said the Wuhan scientists had put furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses in 2019

4 posted on 06/13/2023 10:04:40 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; rx; rxsid; Red Badger

[SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology]

Because it just walked out, all on its own, past all the containment security protocols. Piece of cake.

It wasn’t like on purpose or anything.

That would be like a tinfoil nutjob conspiracy!


5 posted on 06/13/2023 10:05:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Interesting


6 posted on 06/13/2023 10:05:43 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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That would be like a tinfoil nutjob conspiracy theory!


7 posted on 06/13/2023 10:06:25 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Maybe in China it did. But it probably started here in NC in a lab tied to that criminal Fauci.


8 posted on 06/13/2023 10:06:39 AM PDT by dforest
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The government has also admitted that there may be evidence that the earth orbits the sun.


9 posted on 06/13/2023 10:07:18 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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I just looked on Google and there is NOTHING I could find in a quick search on this. Also tried google news.

Either is lacking credibility or my guess Fake news is burying it.


10 posted on 06/13/2023 10:08:34 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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11 posted on 06/13/2023 10:09:42 AM PDT by Bratch
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It literally just was posted on Twitter

By one of the twitter files journalist


12 posted on 06/13/2023 10:10:43 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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It didn’t “Escape” it was created for the sole purpose of destroying the United States economy and get rid of Donald Trump..with the help of the US Govt and the Dem party, I knew right away it was a conspiracy when the very first action the Dems did when this virus hit the US was passing a bill to have nationwide mail in voting..tell me, with a deadly pandemic spreading across the US THAT was their priority, how people vote..it was all planned in advance..that’s why every time Trump mentioned a medication that could help the commie media and Dems made a big stink about it, the last thing they wanted was for people to live, that would ruin the whole plan..meanwhile they had enough HCQ to all survive it


13 posted on 06/13/2023 10:10:59 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Rand Paul has been trying to warn us about: Viral Gain of Function for 2-3 years re Covid 19!

“From 2014 to 2017, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Health and Human Services instituted a gain-of-function research moratorium and funding pause on any dual-use research into specific pandemic-potential pathogens (influenza, MERS, and SARS) while the regulatory environment ...”


14 posted on 06/13/2023 10:11:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, but really have no idea!)
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It only took 3 years

Did someone tell Colbert and the other late night propagandists?


15 posted on 06/13/2023 10:12:29 AM PDT by PGR88
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It wont matter...the media gaslighted the entire world and now the truth comes out and it’s meaningless. Job well done by the communist media.


16 posted on 06/13/2023 10:14:09 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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Un-possible. We all know it came from a “wet market”.


17 posted on 06/13/2023 10:14:55 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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Fauci and The Pentagon gave millions to EcoHealth Alliance for the Wuhan Lab where the Chinese Communist military used our money, from Fauci's budget, for weapons research. There the People's Liberation Army (PLA) controlled everything and were responsible for any "leaks."

Fauci was doing an end-around US proscriptions against Gain of Function research to weaponize and make biological agents more deadly to humans.

18 posted on 06/13/2023 10:15:21 AM PDT by rx
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19 posted on 06/13/2023 10:16:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Dr. Fauci ‘Prompted’ Scientists To Fabricate ‘Proximal Origins’ Paper Ruling Out Lab-Leak: House GOP Investigators -- "The authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal..."

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4135961/posts

[Dr. Anthony Fauci - "who offshored banned gain-of-function research to make bat coronaviruses more transmissible to humans"]

Look at the eyes of the woman in the black. Then look at Fauci's eyes. He looks like he's adoring Barry.

"Test Vaccine in Non-Human Primates". - BEFORE Covid-19(84)


20 posted on 06/13/2023 10:18:22 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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