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Russians Say COVID Came from an American Lab in China. Is It True?
American Thinker ^ | 04/18/2021 | Lynn Corum

Posted on 04/18/2021 1:05:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Burning questions remain regarding the COVID epidemic.  Where did it come from?  How did it spread?  Who is responsible?  The key question is whether we are dealing with the release, accidental or not, of a lab-created pathogen.  The Russian and Chinese press continue to pump out articles holding America guilty, but they serve as a smokescreen for ill-run Chinese labs.

In March 2020, the Russian monthly Zvezda ([Red] Star) blamed George Soros for financing "the laboratory in Wuhan, China, that developed and released the coronavirus in late 2019,"  blaming America by association.  The mainstream American media are quick to dismiss that claim as "disinformation."  Yet perhaps it is Russian mis-information, a propagandized account shaping public opinion of something that actually happened, some lab accident at a Chinese laboratory.  However grossly hyped, this claim still deserves investigation to determine whether or not the novel coronavirus was released in a laboratory accident connected to American-funded research facilities located in Wuhan, China.

In July 2020, two researchers, Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson, released the results of their investigation into the origins of  SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).  They discovered that the most closely related coronavirus genome sequences to COVID, BtCoV/4991 (98.7% identical) and RaTG13 (96.2% identical), were obtained from live bats collected from a mineshaft in China's Yunnan Province in 2012–2013 by scientists working under Zheng-li Shi at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).  Their purpose was to determine the source of a mysterious illness contracted by six miners working there in spring 2012; three of them had died.  The Chinese doctor who supervised their treatment made this the subject of his master's thesis, which Latham and Wilson translated and used as a source.  Unlike its near relatives, SAR-CoV-2 has a variant region of its viral spike protein that greatly enhances viral spread


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: americanstinker; chatforum; chicompropaganda; china; coronavirus; origins; redchina; russia
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1 posted on 04/18/2021 1:05:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Russia? Ok, then.


2 posted on 04/18/2021 1:06:54 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

To the extent Fauci funded the effort, that may be a true statement...


3 posted on 04/18/2021 1:08:45 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Lift the rim. You’re not that good a shot.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only Fauci and Obama know for sure


4 posted on 04/18/2021 1:08:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Staring fauci. They said he had a lab in NY and was studying the covid. Lost funding or they told him to close it so he moved it to wuhan lab. Where did the virus “escape” from...


5 posted on 04/18/2021 1:09:24 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: glimmerman70

Could be true but then Saddam had WMD.


6 posted on 04/18/2021 1:10:31 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: SeekAndFind

The deep state takes our tax monies and funds many things against us. Didn’t Hussein send $44M to the lab?


7 posted on 04/18/2021 1:10:49 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Waterboard Fauci and many questions will be answered


8 posted on 04/18/2021 1:12:16 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: DIRTYSECRET

And Nicole married for love.


9 posted on 04/18/2021 1:13:43 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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More likely the bathroom of the local chinese buffet


10 posted on 04/18/2021 1:16:11 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is the Pope Catholic?

Wait! What?

Never mind.


11 posted on 04/18/2021 1:16:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

You took the words right off my keyboard as I was typing them.


12 posted on 04/18/2021 1:19:51 PM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Print this up and get this out there in your precincts

Get News about corruption spiked by MSM Presented and sourced in Free Republic. com/ An all sides news collecting site by volunteers with no ads or fees which uses donations below just a sample

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Biden campaign thanks the CCP (Chinese Communist Party for
using covid 19
Http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

There seems to be a refusal in certain political circles known as the Swamp to blame the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) for deliberately using the Wuhan virus to create an economy here which would prevent Trump get reelected. Letting that happen will create problems we don’t need. Time we point out the loss of employment and the corruption involved. and make China pay

/Besides corruption here is just some of the million$ that the Biden’s are involved in
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3820191/posts also Clinton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3881585/posts
The CCP’s (China Communist Party) newspaper The Global Times has endorsed Biden Claiming he would be the easiest to work with.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3876187/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3877139/posts#8


13 posted on 04/18/2021 1:19:59 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: glimmerman70

Like a typical bureaucrat, Fauci evades accountability.

What did he know and when did he know it? No questions asked of him. He flies above it all.

However, his obvious reluctance to want to get to the bottom of the source of the pandemic speaks volumes. He’s hiding something and I think we know what it is.


14 posted on 04/18/2021 1:21:15 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Puppage

I don’t know which government I trust less, theirs’ or ours’.


15 posted on 04/18/2021 1:21:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind
In a sense, they are correct. We had to do experiments, we had to also have diversity in the labs, and we got chinese to do our more "exciting" expiriments the government wouldn't let us do, and we allowed spies to steal our other stuff.and Fauci and Gates were some of the big names involved.

Fauci is a fraud. I've known this since the 80s. He bungled AIDS and stole credit for things he didn't do. These scientists are mad. And there are many of them. In this country they are constrained by laws, regulations, ethics and grant money, among other things. In China, they are not, since the ChiComs have a goal--to dominate everything. Including our baizuo friends and family and some of you who are in denial, and who keep buying Chinese goods.

Western scientists and billionaires (like the creator of the Blue Screen Of Death) will do business with the devil because they get to work on things unfettered. But when the lights go out in the lab, the real work begins. And if that isn't enough, 'we' invite them to steal the stuff we do not give them freely.

Lenin is attributed with saying "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them" In actuality, we Crapitalists will PAY the Chinese to make a rope for us, then we will hang OURSELVES with it.

16 posted on 04/18/2021 1:26:25 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Starboard

It’s like we all know. Like the election. We all know it’s stolen. What’s done about it. The government did nothing. They are dirty and don’t care. Would you be surprised if they knew he was involved but used him to help control people. One thing fauci may not know is that when they are done with him then he will be thrown under the bus.


17 posted on 04/18/2021 1:27:17 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: SeekAndFind

It didn’t come from an “American lab” but from an American-funded lab —the notorious Wuhan lab. American labs were prevented from the sort of “gain of function” experimentation that Fauci was so keen on, so the work was moved to amoral, anything-goes China and backed with millions in taxpayer dollars.


18 posted on 04/18/2021 1:27:55 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Puppage
I wish so called Republicans would ask the god of public health Fauci what did he know and when did he know it...and what was the price he paid to ‘gain a function’?
19 posted on 04/18/2021 1:32:36 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: glimmerman70

DC is corrupt. Fauci fits right in. He’s been in the same job for 37 years! He is a true Swamp creature.

You see, people in the Swamp don’t ask questions or hold anyone accountable because they’re afraid if they start pulling on a string the entire garment of lies that covers them will come undone. They are all hiding something so they let it pass.

We live in a corruptocracy.


20 posted on 04/18/2021 1:32:55 PM PDT by Starboard
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