A 300-page report
Says China worked on Covid vaccines in 2019.
Covid may have spread
Not from a lab
…but from two labs
Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell.
Since the very beginning, China has been very secretive about the origin of Covid.
They’ve been more secretive about that than
where Xi stores his mountain of honey. Is this where bees have been disappearing to?
Officially, early Chinese stories linked Covid to a wet Market Wuhan in mid to late December 2019.
But as Covid spread and international pressure to find its origin grew,
other stories emerged, like that it sprang from a US Army lab.
But there’s a lot of circumstantial evidence that Covid actually originated
from a Chinese lab leak, which I’ve been saying was a real possibility for years.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe sure thinks so.
“A lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence,
by science and by common sense.”
Intelligence, science, and common sense back up the lab leak theory?
That sounds like *conspiracy* to me! Quit spreading misinformation!
There’s no definitive proof. Yet. But last week, Senator Roger Marshall M.D. released
a 300-page report on the origins of Covid called “Muddy Waters.”
And it has some interesting things to say, like that China began developing vaccines
for SARS-Cov-2 in mid November of 2019, before the official start of the outbreak.
Yeah, that raises a question or two.
The report is the result of former Senator Richard Burr’s investigation into the
pandemic. It was drafted by Robert Kadlec, a former US Health and Human Services official
who spearheaded Operation Warp Speed, the push to get Covid vaccines to the public.
Together with a core group of 60 experts and support from an outside scientific group,
which includes three former directors of US national high-containment labs,
the report examines the evidence for a natural zoonotic spillover and a lab leak.
It concludes that a lab leak is more plausible, likely from
failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research.
They needed that many experts and a full investigation to conclude what I’ve been
saying for three years now? That’s like holding a full Congressional hearing on
whether or not Cats was a good movie. Don’t be ridiculous. It was a *perfect* movie!
Kadlec said this vaccine research was probably specifically intended
to prevent future situations like the SARS outbreak back in the early 2000s.
But the safety standards in Chinese biolabs are…not great.
If you want to learn more about that, I’ll leave a link below.
So how does the report come to the conclusion that a lab leak is more likely?
You know, besides intelligence, science, and common sense.
Well, as I said earlier, the report examines
the current evidence for both a natural spillover and a lab leak.
While it does see some evidence supporting a natural origin, the lab leak has a stronger case.
The natural spillover argument has a lot of holes. For example, nobody has so far
found naturally occurring viruses with the same composition as the coronavirus.
Confirming that would require key data that China isn’t handing out.
A lab leak, however, seems far more possible, for a lot of reasons.
And China’s behavior definitely makes it seem that way.They’re acting real shady about this. Well,
shadier than usual, which is saying something. That’s like someone saying,
“Mark Zuckerberg is acting weird today.” “...*today?*”
China claims that the pandemic started in mid to late December of 2019,
but multiple scientific models indicate earlier dates, such as mid-October or Mid-November.
This matches earlier media reports
As well as the satellite images of Wuhan hospital visits and online
searches related to coughing during that time.
It seems China knew very early on that Covid was going to be a problem, even before the outbreak,
so early in fact that it probably began developing a vaccine in November 2019, or even sooner.
Leading many people to believe that Covid likely originated from not one,
but two Chinese lab leaks.
How did people come to the two lab leak conclusion? I’ll get to that after the break.
Welcome back.
A new Senate report presents the idea that Covid may have originated from two lab leaks.
But how did they get there?
Evidence indicates that China was acting strangely long before the pandemic officially began.
“From June to August, 2019, [Wuhan Institute of Virology] leadership published multiple reports
expressing concerns about biosafety shortcomings
due to limited availability of equipment and trained personnel.”
Which was pretty much a waste of time, because China cares about
safety protocols about as much as dogs care about respecting your personal space.
Then, government medical and public health entities in Wuhan began procuring PCRs and
conducting infectious disease outbreak exercises and drills
that were specifically targeted towards “novel coronaviruses.”
Keep in mind that China never conducted those types of safety
drills specifically on coronaviruses before, even after the SARS crisis.
But hey, that was probably just a coincidence. Kind of like me putting on
five pounds every time the McRib comes back. Just a sweet, savory, delicious coincidence.
September saw a flurry of unusual activity, perhaps in response to some past event.
The Wuhan government drafted public health memos,
while the CCP conducted investigations, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology took
down a database accessed by international researchers, enhanced security, and more.
Which is definitely suspicious.
By mid-October, the US Consulate General in Wuhan became aware of
“the early onset of a ‘bad flu’ season.”
Which leads us to China’s vaccine programs.
In early 2020, China pumped out two vaccine patents so fast that it raised some eyebrows.
Which could have possibly been one of the side effects of their ineffective vaccines.
The first came out in February of 2020. Chinese military scientist Zhou
Yusen , in collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers,
filed a Covid vaccine patent before the virus was declared a global pandemic.
Then he died under mysterious circumstances. But in order to make a patent application
like that, Zhou would have required access to a living Covid virus and its sequence.
Yes, you heard that right. He would have needed a living SARS-Cov-2 virus,
and experts in the report suggested he would have needed it no later than November of 2019,
which is, of course, a month before the wet market outbreak.
According to several experts, “There is reason to believe Zhou was engaged
in SARS-related coronavirus animal vaccine research with [Wuhan Institute of Virology]
researchers beginning no later than the Summer or early Fall of 2019.”
Meanwhile, Major General Chen Wei , a virologist who leads the Institute
of Bioengineering at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences , collaborated with Chinese
state-owned biopharmaceutical company SinoPharm and submitted her vaccine patent in March of 2020.
“Based on this timeline, experts believe Chen would have had to begin her vaccine
efforts no later than early December 2019.”
Which was still before China acknowledged the Covid pandemic even started.
Maybe China is just great at planning ahead…
for global pandemics they cause because they’re horrible at planning ahead. Makes sense.
This is where the two lab leaks theory comes into play.
The theory goes that the initial leak may have occurred sometime before September 2019.
Once the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese government caught wind of it,
officials scrambled as quickly as possible to quietly develop a vaccine
to contain the outbreak before the world could learn the truth.
“That rush to develop a vaccine may have led to a second accidental lab leak -- one which,
in turn, would lead to the global pandemic”
So by trying to clean up a lab leak… they caused a pandemic.
How did the report make that conclusion?
It’s based on the genetic differences in the early circulating strains which support
the possibility of two spillover events two or more weeks apart.
With “One lineage showing more mutations than the other implying it had been circulated longer
than the other or had potentially passed through more individuals.”
To further back up that theory, the report pointed to a recently published
study that analyzed existing WHO data. It could identify outliers of influenza-like illnesses.
Researchers noticed an increase
in Wuhan influenza-like illnesses between November 11 and 17, 2019.
The outbreak coincides with a series of activities that suggest a possible research-related incident.
As I mentioned earlier, there were the vaccine patent applications,
but there were also a bunch of biosafety measures as well.
These biosafety measures include a visit from a senior Chinese Academy of Sciences
biosecurity official, a short notice procurement for an air incinerator,
which suggests that the one they had wasn’t completely sterilizing infectious contents,
and a two-and-a-half-day biosafety and biosecurity training session.
This was then followed by a visit by Hubei Vice Governor
Xiao Juhua to inspect the BSL-4 laboratory.
Does this prove that there really was a lab leak? Of course not! It was definitely from
an animal. Don’t let this mountain range of evidence distract you from the truth!
All of this points towards the direction of a lab leak, but we still don’t have definite proof.
However, the report concludes that there’s "preponderance of
circumstantial evidence" that points to "an unintentional research-related incident”,
likely an aerosol leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There could be more evidence that’ll shed light on
the origins of Covid. The 300-page report doesn’t include classified intelligence,
which is due to be released within the next two months. Stay tuned for that once
it comes out. Maybe we’ll finally have a clue where Covid originated. Or at the very least,
where Xi is hiding all his delicious honey.
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