Russians Say COVID Came from an American Lab in China. Is It True?

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

I’ve long since given up expecting the Republicans to ever do anything to hold anyone accountable. They bloviate about it but do nothing when they have the power to do it.

The GOP is a fake party. I can’t stand the Demonrats but admire the way their party fights for their voters. We’ll never have that kind of support as long as we rely on the feckless GOP to defend us. We need a new party, and fast.

Not an “American” laboratory, but a US-funded lab, and the early research was imported from the US in 2014, because it was thought to be too “dangerous” to pursue this study under US auspices. This was straying into the prohibited nuclear, biological and chemical weapon systems, now partially covered by treaty, but of course, the Communist Chinese Party regime could be relied upon not to introduce this threat to the world. (Do I HAVE to include the “< sarcasm > “ tag here?)

By looking into various patents surrounding the early research into the potential weaponization of the various forms of coronavirus, we find the name of Anthony Fauci, MD, included as one of the early researchers of this microorganism, and the patents issued prohibit the taking up of the study by persons not holding the patent. There may be a lot more about Tony Fauci that is largely concealed from public view.

Just saying.

Well, I heard from someone I can’t name is the reason the authorities are so determined to say the virus wasn’t created in a lab is that it actually came from a bio-weapons lab in the US or Canada. According to official policy, the US is no longer doing bio-weapon research. (bunk)

Shortly before the virus got going, several Chinese scientists were booted out of Canada for stealing secrets. Theory is that the Chinese lab screwed up and accidentally released it.

“Russians Say COVID Came from an American Lab in China. Is It True?”

So if I remember correctly, the US and (Fauci) was supporting the work being done there:

REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated

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