What I tend to believe, and I have only anecdotal evidence to support this, is the following:
China, like probably all of the first-world countries on earth, play with diseases like this to prepare for a day where something like this is used against them. Any bioweapon has to have an offensive and defensive component.
The ‘sword’ is the infecting agent. The ‘shield’ is the vaccine or cure used to protect your strategic interests.
Culture is a factor here, and I believe that lab workers charged with disposing of test subjects may have sold them instead, for whatever reason.
China can’t exactly come forward and admit this, and the ‘wet market’ initial story was a plausible enough cover in that it the animals may have been sold there, and that was the index element of the spread.
Once scientists got a look at the virus and fully sequenced it, it likely became apparent that CV-19 came from a lab.
Had this been an intentional act by China, I doubt they would have initiated the attack a few miles from the facility it came from. I would have done it closer to a US facility that did the same research.
China had a zoo for tiny beasts, and one got out in or on an actual beast.
That makes more sense to me.
If China had the ‘shield’ component, they’d have used it by now. Why take a trillion dollar hit to your economy so close to signing an economic deal that was already going to cost you in several ways?
Coup against Xi? Maybe, but why would you do this when there’s a risk one of your own family could end up being collateral damage.
Anyway, simple tends to be more likely, and this fits the information (such that it is) at the moment, FOR ME.
Interested to hear anyone’s thoughts on this theory.
Seen this story?
From NY POST:
Read that again. It sure sounds like China has a problem keeping dangerous pathogens in test tubes where they belong, doesn’t it? And just how many “microbiology labs” are there in China that handle “advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus”?
It turns out that in all of China, there is only one. And this one is located in the Chinese city of Wuhan that just happens to be … the epicenter of the epidemic.
That’s right. China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, called the National Biosafety Laboratory, is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/