Mr. Leake - Are there prior events that track what might have happened in the WIV lab? Meaning, are there any other known outbreaks of a modified virus that have infected populations outside the lab? I tend to believe the lab-leak theory but have hardly any justification for it other than the strange cover up behavior of those that might be responsible(CCP/EcoHealth/Lancet article). I hadn't really considered much the possibility of a lab-leak prior to the Lancet article being published. The certainty of their claims in a period of extreme uncertainty single handedly opened my eyes to the notion that there were actors involved with a high degree of personal interest in suppressing any lab-leak narrative.
Dear Mr. Zogg, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was founded in 1956, but for most of its history, it did not possess the expertise and trained personnel to operate a Biosecurity Level 4 (BSL-4) lab--i.e., a facility designed to study the most dangerous and contagious pathogens known to man. The BSL-4 lab at Wuhan was built by French engineers from Lyon, who also trained the Chinese staff. Please note that this entire project was undertaken in spite of grave concerns expressed by microbiologists in France and the United States, as well as officials in the French Ministry of Armed Forces. Operating a BSL-4 lab is painstaking, procedural endeavor, and the possibility for human error is well-understood. In the West we have far greater experience with the dangers of this kind of facility, especially since the Marburg lab leak and outbreak in Marburg, Germany in 1967. As noted by Dr. Ebright in the Nature article, there are multiple, documented cases of SARS leaking from a BSL-3 lab in Beijing. The gain of function work performed by Ralph Baric and his collaborator Zhengli Shi in order to make a bat coronavirus infect the human respiratory tract was a tremendous act of deliberate ingenuity that is well documented. The alternative origin hypothesis -- that a bat coronavirus made the leap to humans by natural selection at the Wuhan wet market (down the road from the BSL-4 lab) is patently absurd. Emails between Anthony Fauci and American experts when news of SARS-CoV-2 first broke -- obtained by FOIA requests -- reveal their own expressions of doubt that the virus was the result of evolution. To be sure, they didn't share their concerns with the public, but that's not really surprising, is it?
isnt there a connection btw the French engineering firm which helped set up the WIV lab in Wuhan & Stephan Bancel (Moderna's CEO)? perhaps during his time as CEO @ bioMerieux which may have been involved in the BSL-4 facility's design & development?
beyond that, I believe Moderna & NIH co-own a patent on the RNA sequence inverse of the spike protein for SARS CO V 2. sorry, I could not find links to support at the time of writing this.
Was the article by Nichols Wade noting that the SARs-CoV-2 work was actually proceeding at BSL-2 levels true? Do we know? He suggested that Shi found BSL-4 work was too cumbersome.
Forgot about the FOIA docs. The amount of disagreement among the advisors at NIH/NIAID was stunning. I'd say it seemed the plurality of them believed it was of lab origin in the beginning.
The most shocking part of all of this is the apparent(possibly willful) lack of intellectual curiosity on why/how this all happened.
Dear Mr. Zogg, the totality of circumstances indicates willful concealment, not a lack of curiosity. Many thanks for reading my post and sharing your thoughts.
Bought the book, which was great, and which along with Breggins, Chan & Ridley, RFKJr, and Jones (!) constitute the core of my book-length reading. Any other suggestions? I'm a PhD economist. I miss Dr. McC's updates on Twitter, try to get back on asap!
Mr. Leake - Are there prior events that track what might have happened in the WIV lab? Meaning, are there any other known outbreaks of a modified virus that have infected populations outside the lab? I tend to believe the lab-leak theory but have hardly any justification for it other than the strange cover up behavior of those that might be responsible(CCP/EcoHealth/Lancet article). I hadn't really considered much the possibility of a lab-leak prior to the Lancet article being published. The certainty of their claims in a period of extreme uncertainty single handedly opened my eyes to the notion that there were actors involved with a high degree of personal interest in suppressing any lab-leak narrative.
Dear Mr. Zogg, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was founded in 1956, but for most of its history, it did not possess the expertise and trained personnel to operate a Biosecurity Level 4 (BSL-4) lab--i.e., a facility designed to study the most dangerous and contagious pathogens known to man. The BSL-4 lab at Wuhan was built by French engineers from Lyon, who also trained the Chinese staff. Please note that this entire project was undertaken in spite of grave concerns expressed by microbiologists in France and the United States, as well as officials in the French Ministry of Armed Forces. Operating a BSL-4 lab is painstaking, procedural endeavor, and the possibility for human error is well-understood. In the West we have far greater experience with the dangers of this kind of facility, especially since the Marburg lab leak and outbreak in Marburg, Germany in 1967. As noted by Dr. Ebright in the Nature article, there are multiple, documented cases of SARS leaking from a BSL-3 lab in Beijing. The gain of function work performed by Ralph Baric and his collaborator Zhengli Shi in order to make a bat coronavirus infect the human respiratory tract was a tremendous act of deliberate ingenuity that is well documented. The alternative origin hypothesis -- that a bat coronavirus made the leap to humans by natural selection at the Wuhan wet market (down the road from the BSL-4 lab) is patently absurd. Emails between Anthony Fauci and American experts when news of SARS-CoV-2 first broke -- obtained by FOIA requests -- reveal their own expressions of doubt that the virus was the result of evolution. To be sure, they didn't share their concerns with the public, but that's not really surprising, is it?
isnt there a connection btw the French engineering firm which helped set up the WIV lab in Wuhan & Stephan Bancel (Moderna's CEO)? perhaps during his time as CEO @ bioMerieux which may have been involved in the BSL-4 facility's design & development?
beyond that, I believe Moderna & NIH co-own a patent on the RNA sequence inverse of the spike protein for SARS CO V 2. sorry, I could not find links to support at the time of writing this.
Was the article by Nichols Wade noting that the SARs-CoV-2 work was actually proceeding at BSL-2 levels true? Do we know? He suggested that Shi found BSL-4 work was too cumbersome.
Forgot about the FOIA docs. The amount of disagreement among the advisors at NIH/NIAID was stunning. I'd say it seemed the plurality of them believed it was of lab origin in the beginning.
The most shocking part of all of this is the apparent(possibly willful) lack of intellectual curiosity on why/how this all happened.
Dear Mr. Zogg, the totality of circumstances indicates willful concealment, not a lack of curiosity. Many thanks for reading my post and sharing your thoughts.
Amen Dr. McCullough!
Thank you for this excellent summary.
It's been said before, but worth repeating...
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
Bought the book, which was great, and which along with Breggins, Chan & Ridley, RFKJr, and Jones (!) constitute the core of my book-length reading. Any other suggestions? I'm a PhD economist. I miss Dr. McC's updates on Twitter, try to get back on asap!
God bless you both!
No focus is not an excuse for crappy art