Posted on 10/06/2021 9:46:54 AM PDT by consult
Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.
Where did Covid-19 come from? The answer can be found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.
Based on experience with SARS-1 in 2003 and MERS in 2012, we know that many people are infected by a host animal long before a coronavirus mutates to the point where it can jump from human to human. An extensive data set from late 2019—more than 9,000 hospital samples—is available of people exhibiting flulike (thus Covid-like) symptoms in China’s Hubei and Shaanxi provinces before the epidemic started. Based on SARS-1 and MERS, the natural zoonotic theory predicts 100 to 400 Covid infections would be found in those samples. The lab-leak hypothesis, of course, predicts zero. If the novel coronavirus were engineered by scientists pursuing gain-of-function research, there would be no instances of community infection until it escaped from the laboratory. The World Health Organization investigation analyzed those stored samples and found zero pre-pandemic infections. This is powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory. ......But a team of American scientists mutated the stem of the coronavirus genome in nearly 4,000 different ways and tested each variation. In the process they actually stumbled on the Delta variant. In the end, they determined that the original SARS-CoV-2 pathogen was 99.5% optimized for human infection—strong confirmation of the lab-leak hypothesis........Based on the scientific evidence alone, an unbiased jury would be convinced that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus escaped after being created in a laboratory using accelerated evolution (a k a gain of function) and gene splicing on the backbone of a bat coronavirus. Using standard statistical methods, we can quantify the likelihood of the lab-leak hypothesis compared with that of zoonosis. The odds enormously favor a lab leak, far more significantly than the 99% confidence usually required for a revolutionary scientific discovery.
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Bkmk
The Fauci/China chimera virus was cooked up in the Wuhan lab using research funded by US taxpayers courtesy of Anthony Fauci.
I’m sure Fauci will say that’s ridiculous.
“...provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.”
It is not a leak when it is deliberate. It is termed a release and it should be reported as such.
The only real question is whether it was accidental or on purpose to get rid of President Trump.
And the WSJ will be purged from Twitter.
“Many prominent scientists, including several participants on the call, feared the new virus looked engineered – among them California-based immunologist Kristian Andersen, who told Farrar beforehand he was alarmed by Covid’s unusual properties.
“He said the binding mechanism ‘looked too good to be true, like a perfect key for entering human cells’ while its furin cleavage site – a feature not found on similar types of coronavirus that allows it to enter efficiently into human cells – might be expected ‘if someone had set out to adapt an animal coronavirus to humans by taking a specific suit of genetic material from elsewhere and inserting it.’”
Trump told the world this in February 2020.
Since the start the odd way this virus worked has never made sense. The way it interacts with the human body suggest elements of Tuberculous, Ebola and Flu were combined artificially.
Reading this it all starting to become horribly clear.
The troubling question was it an accident or deliberate?
One would like to believe accidental but Eugenics has been a popular theory with intellectuals since 1883. This disease is almost tailor made to kill off the elderly and the unhealthy Exactly the same people a Eugenicist would target with a tailor made virus.
The virus’s Pappa.
It came from a bat.
The bat just happened to be in a lab in Wuhan.
“Mens rea”
All of their actions in the wake of the initial outbreak pretty much answer that question in spades.
I guess the WSJ is about to have serious discussions about China continuing to fund this RINO rag.
The fact that it was lab generated, bio-engineered to do exactly what it does, is what matters.
It also matters that Fauci through the NIH expressly aided getting funding for this "research" and performing gain of function which is the core reason the CHINA VIRUS came into being.
When will Fauci be held accountable? Probably never, despite there being video evidence of him back in 2017 talking about this very thing.
#HANGFAUCI #NUKEBEIJING
“... provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.”
YA THINK?
This is the kind of thinking that gets you banned from social media platforms.
Not very smart are they to take this long to figure out what we have known for over a year.
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