Posted on 06/18/2021 7:59:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson claims the Wuhan lab researchers deserve the Nobel Prize just as calls renew for a harder look into whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from the facility.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, hosts China’s first P4 laboratory, the highest biosafety designation that allows it to handle the world’s most dangerous pathogens. The lab is just a few miles from a major seafood market in the city that Beijing first identified as the source of the virus.
The possibility of an accidental laboratory leak from the Chinese lab was quickly shut down at the start of the pandemic, but new scrutiny from the White House and prominent scientists, as well as evidence of WIV staff becoming sick before the COVID-19 outbreak, have pushed the debate back at center stage.
In his characteristic hawkish style, Zhao Lijian, of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sought to deflect attention on the lab, claiming that the WIV scientists were being faulted for being the first to identify the COVID-19 genome sequence.
“That does not mean Wuhan is the source of the coronavirus, nor can it be inferred that the coronavirus was made by Chinese scientists,” he said at a June 18 press briefing.
“If those that first publish high-quality viral genomes were to be accused of making the virus, then professor Luc Montagnier, who first discovered Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) would be considered the culprit of AIDS rather than awarded the Nobel Prize, and Mr. Louis Pasteur, who discovered microbes, would be held accountable for the disease-causing bacteria all around the globe,” he said.
By the same analogy, according to Zhao, “the team in Wuhan should be awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their research on COVID-19, instead of being criticized.”
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How much Scotch have the Chinese who proposed this been drinking?
Senile Biden will probably agree. If they tell him too.
The Nobel Prize ain’t what it used to be.
I know theres a Nobel Prize for saving lives. I spose it makes sense to have one for ending them too. Great... Good job guys!
So Orwellian.
Obama agrees while holding up HIS medal - /s
Nothing noble about the Nobel...anymore.
The in-Wuhan-ity of it all…
Are they series?
;-)
Time to tax China for the CCP - COMMUNIST COUP PHLU
There is a Nobel Prize for successful BIO-WARFARE against the rest of the world??????/
WHO KNEW?????
I think I’ve got the Biden. I’m seeing double now!
RE: Zhao Lijian, of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yep, this is the same troll who went to social media to propagate the idea that the Coronavirus was brought to China by INFECTED ATHLETES from the USA who participated in the October Wuhan Military Games.
Trump retaliated later by calling the Coronavirus, THE CHINA VIRUS.
Of course, the media called Trump the racist for doing that and gave Zhao Lijian a pass.
Apparently the Chicoms figured the best defense is a strong offense (credible or not).
The criminals in the CCP have brought new meaning to the word “obscene”.
The peace prize. Yassir Arafat (terrorist), Obama & Al Gore (liars, whose lies have killed people), others. The Wuhan military scientists are perfect for that prize.
Fauci will be nominated or maybe even Biden.
Yes, I remember that recipient in particular. He was awarded it for some unclear reason. Possibly for being the first black president.
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