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Canadian scientist explains how COVID likely escaped from a Chinese lab in 'five key points'
National Post [Canada] ^ | June 3, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 06/03/2024 3:27:24 PM PDT by canuck_conservative

(1) “The SARS-like virus that caused the pandemic emerged in Wuhan, the city where the world’s foremost research lab for SARS-like viruses is located.”

the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been hunting for SARS-like viruses for more than 10 years, led by Dr. Shi Zhengli ...

(2) part of it comes down to a leaked 2018 grant proposal for a research project called Defuse, which aimed to create a SARS-like virus with a unique feature called a furin cleavage site that would enhance its infectiousness in humans. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has that feature, she says, and genetic data suggest it gained that feature just before the pandemic began...

“Ultimately, a never-before-seen SARS-like virus with a newly introduced furin cleavage site, matching the description in the Wuhan institute’s Defuse proposal, caused an outbreak in Wuhan less than two years after the proposal was drafted,” she writes.

(3) Labs working with live viruses can operate at one of four biosafety levels, where BSL 1 is the lowest level of protection, and BSL 4 the most stringent.

However, she adds that an early draft of the Defuse proposal suggested the Wuhan lab would operate at BSL-2 for cost savings....

(4) “Not a single infected animal has ever been confirmed at the market or in its supply chain,” she adds. “Without good evidence that the pandemic started at the Huanan Seafood Market, the fact that the virus emerged in Wuhan points squarely at its unique SARS-like virus laboratory.” ...

(5) Chan’s final point is that key evidence that would be expected if COVID had emerged from wildlife trade is still missing, despite the intense search focused on animal trade and people linked to the market....

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


TOPICS: Canada; China; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; china; chinavirus; chineselies; covid; covid1984; covidtruth; defuse; gainoffunction; lableak; wiv; wuhan; wuhanlab
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“Whether the pandemic started on a lab bench or in a market stall,” Chan writes in her conclusion, “it is undeniable that U.S. federal funding helped to build an unprecedented collection of SARS-like viruses at the Wuhan institute, as well as contributing to research that enhanced them." ...
1 posted on 06/03/2024 3:27:24 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

All meant to “Get Trump”.


2 posted on 06/03/2024 3:28:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Never let a crisis go to waste!


3 posted on 06/03/2024 3:29:46 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative

Hmmm, it appears that the “misinformation” league has close to 100% getting it right, whilst the slimy, sleazy, without real education, and totally misinformed media is batting clost to zero. Ah, forgot, “journalism” and other marshmallow zero intellect kollege majors.


4 posted on 06/03/2024 3:30:25 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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I might argue it was something more sinister than that. Why would you even want to experiment with this?

It's biological warfare.

5 posted on 06/03/2024 3:31:40 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: canuck_conservative

It did not Escape. It was set free.


6 posted on 06/03/2024 3:36:54 PM PDT by Revel
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To: canuck_conservative

I’ve held since near the beginning that the pandemic was caused by underpaid medical personnel at Wuhan who were supplementing their income by selling lab animals (such as infected bats) in food markets after the lab was finished with them.


7 posted on 06/03/2024 3:37:04 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: canuck_conservative

It was created by “Science”! We know who that is!


8 posted on 06/03/2024 3:49:56 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: All

Not “ESCAPED”....

Was RELEASED intentionally.


9 posted on 06/03/2024 3:51:15 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

I agree, lots of Chinese people were protesting being ripped off on construction projects and were trying to get their money back. T
Democrats needed to get rid of Trump.


10 posted on 06/03/2024 3:59:33 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: ealgeone

“It’s biological warfare”

Exactly.

China was hoping to use this virus on Taiwan as a precursor to an invasion. Covid by design had a low mortality rate because it was meant to incapacitate and overwhelm the healthcare system.

How much of a fight would Taiwan put up when most of the population are sick with flu like symptoms from an unknown origin?


11 posted on 06/03/2024 4:02:36 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Covid is a religion.


12 posted on 06/03/2024 4:15:20 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: All

When I was in graduate school, our lab used Salmonella for research. We were careful but every few months one of us would come down with a case of Salmonellosis, so I see how this bug escaped.


13 posted on 06/03/2024 5:20:04 PM PDT by bennowens
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To: canuck_conservative

‘Escaped’ my rebel ass.


14 posted on 06/03/2024 5:39:45 PM PDT by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Revel

“It did not Escape. It was set free.”

You never see in a public article the question, “Was it deliberately leaked?”


15 posted on 06/03/2024 5:51:02 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

I too suspected that the Wuhan Lab workers were selling lab animals in the Wet Market to supplement their income. The lab animal I’m thinking of is the pangolin because in research they are the intermediate hosts that adapted the SARS-CoV-2 and are a significant evolutionary link in the path of transmission of the COVID-19 virus. This animal is a highly prized meat that is seen as a status symbol, with pangolin-fetus soup said to cost as much as $1,750 a bowl. Its Scales are now valued at about $1,500 per pound because there is the unfounded belief that their blood and scales—made of keratin—hold medical properties similar to rhino horn. I am certain that drinking pangolin blood brought to the feast the COVID-19 virus and its repercussions.


16 posted on 06/03/2024 6:48:00 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: dfwgator

exactly they needed to give trump a big knockdown this leak was deliberate


17 posted on 06/04/2024 4:55:39 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: canuck_conservative

https://freedomplatform.tv/plandemic-indoctornation-world-premiere/#popup1
All you need to know about Covid hoax,and the lying phony Fauci


18 posted on 06/04/2024 4:57:30 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: canuck_conservative

The pandemic was faked with murderous protocols, and this “tastes great, less filling” “wild, lab leak” con is going over far too easily.


19 posted on 06/04/2024 5:02:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: jonrick46

You’re nuts. This was an engineered virus, no ifs, ands, or buts.


20 posted on 06/04/2024 7:52:02 AM PDT by dinodino ( Cut it down anyway. )
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