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The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | May 24, 2021 | Jeremy Page, Betsy McKay, Drew Hinshaw

Posted on 05/24/2021 1:27:41 PM PDT by libstripper

DANAOSHAN, China—On the outskirts of a village deep in the mountains of southwest China, a lone surveillance camera peers down toward a disused copper mine smothered in dense bamboo. As night approaches, bats swoop overhead.

This is the subterranean home of the closest known virus on Earth to the one that causes Covid-19. It is also now a touchpoint for escalating calls for a more thorough probe into whether the pandemic could have stemmed from a Chinese laboratory.

In April 2012, six miners here fell sick with a mysterious illness after entering the mine to clear bat guano. Three of them died.

Chinese scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were called in to investigate and, after taking samples from bats in the mine, identified several new coronaviruses.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; source; virus; wuhanlab
Why, oh why would our own DemonRats and the Chicoms conspire to prevent the world from knowing that the CCP virus was created in, and emerged from, the CCP Wuhan lab just in time to alter the 2020 election. It certainly, never could have been because that was the only effective way to steal the 2020 election. Naturally, communists and DemonRats, but I repeat myself, would never conspire to do such a thing, killing millions of people along the way. After all, neither Mao nor Uncle Joe Stalin ever did such a thing, and the New York Times never covered for them.
1 posted on 05/24/2021 1:27:41 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: KC_Lion

Pei-Ping.


2 posted on 05/24/2021 1:30:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: libstripper; SunkenCiv; Kaslin

OH! So the CV-19 virus did come from a bat, but only AFTER the bat-virus was taken From the bat cave to to the Wuhan Virology Research Center in Wuhan opposite a wet (free-flowing bloody) street market, AFTER Dr Fauci was able to transfer several hundreds of millions from the US to the Wuhan Virus Center for the study of artificially enhancing virus transfer and infection rates!


3 posted on 05/24/2021 1:34:03 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Army Air Corps

It wasn’t a leak, it was bought and paid for. Thanks Nancy.


4 posted on 05/24/2021 1:38:56 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: libstripper

Hmmmm...why is the WSJ suddenly leading the charge countering the official CCP line, which is supported by WHO and the USG, including Fauci (until mere hours ago)?

I wonder what transpired? A looming leak? Declassification of formerly secret intel? A narrow window to limit egg on the faces of those who will soon be eating Trump Crow?


5 posted on 05/24/2021 1:38:58 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: cnsmom

THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

Effort praised by CCP scientist doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


6 posted on 05/24/2021 2:13:24 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: cnsmom

THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

Effort praised by CCP scientist doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


7 posted on 05/24/2021 2:13:55 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: libstripper

Among the signatories to the Science letter was Ralph Baric, a microbiologist at the University of North Carolina who worked with the WIV on a study, ***including on a study to create an artificial coronavirus that infected human cells in the lab.***

and there it is...


8 posted on 05/24/2021 2:20:47 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: libstripper

It wasn’t a leak!!! It was on purpose!!!


9 posted on 05/24/2021 2:42:18 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: BatGuano

Chiroptera Droppings Ping


10 posted on 05/24/2021 3:43:29 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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11 posted on 05/24/2021 3:46:54 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: libstripper
In April 2012, six miners here fell sick with a mysterious illness after entering the mine to clear bat guano. Three of them died.
Think chain of custody:

If the bats were transferred to the Wuhan "wet market" far more people would have died with each transaction: from bat collectors to sellers and resellers between origin and Wuhan, leaving far more sick and dead along the way.

But they're telling us the only transmissions were at the origin and destination -- nothing along the way (no truckers, no truck stop attendants or restaurants, etc.) . Clearly, the bat virus went secured from the cave origin to the lab under strict control.

The release came from the lab.
12 posted on 05/24/2021 4:15:06 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: libstripper

Someone has decided its OK to blame China. But that was never in doubt.

I’m more interested in complicity from American and Canadian labs. That is something the gatekeepers aren’t ready to talk about.


13 posted on 05/24/2021 4:47:38 PM PDT by marron
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Thanks RACPE.

14 posted on 05/25/2021 4:50:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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