Posted on 05/25/2021 8:45:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Communist China detained a reporter from The Wall Street Journal who sneaked to the cave in southern China where the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected coronavirus samples approximately eight years ago after six miners became extremely ill, three of whom later died, after cleaning out the cave’s bat feces.
The backstory about the six miners, which was reported nearly a year ago by The Sun, took place in a copper mine in the mountains of southwest China in the Yunnan province.
“Chinese authorities have obstructed independent efforts to investigate the mine, setting up a checkpoint nearby where unidentified men stopped several foreign journalists in recent weeks, on one occasion warning there were wild elephants ahead,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “A Journal reporter reached the mine by mountain bike but was later detained and questioned for about five hours by police, who deleted a cellphone photograph of the mine. Villagers told the reporter that local officials had warned them not to discuss the mine with outsiders.”
The BBC tried to get to the mine late last year and were met by police officers who followed them around in unmarked cars.
“And we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out,” The BBC reported. “At first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.”
While The Wall Street Journal contains lots of information that may seem new, a lot of it was covered months ago by the BBC, the Daily Mail, The Sun, New York Magazine, and various conservative publications. It’s only been in the last couple of weeks that the narrative in the U.S. mainstream media has started to take a significant shift from the lab leak hypothesis being a “conspiracy theory” to being considered a serious explanation for the origins of the pandemic.
“I’m convinced that what happened is that the virus was brought to a lab, they started to work with it…and some sloppy individual brought it out,” said Bernard Roizman, a University of Chicago virologist, told The Wall Street Journal. “They can’t admit they did something so stupid.”
The Daily Wire reported on Monday that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — China’s only Biosafety level-4 laboratory — were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.
“The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 ‘with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,’” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19’s origins.”
Well, it turns out Trump was right, and the LW media covered for Xi and China. It was pretty obvious from the get go.
It’s possible that the virus came from the lab and that the bats in the wild were later infected with it to provide a natural explanation for its existence.
Conservatism = Being right 15 months early.
There’s some research guy who did an interview late last year and he qualified the virus linked to bats...saying it was roughly 96-percent of a known virus that bats have in China, and roughly 4-percent different. You may be correct that they had some wild idea of a lab virus....created it, and tested it on bats in one particular cave.
Another wild idea...one of the research guys from the lab got infected from a lab experiment, and had gone to a cave to collect a couple of bats....got bit by one bat, and that infected that one single bat....passing it onto other bats.
Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/timeline-how-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/
Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/timeline-how-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/
That was one brave Human being, trying to report that. My God. They’ll be executed there.
The WSJ journalist’s name doesn’t appear in the posting above. Why?
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.
THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID
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
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