Dödligt virus från Kina orsakar panik (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19)

How many new assumptions do you need to believe SARS-CoV-2 is connected to WIV?

Quite a few! Lots of hushed up people too. Let's set out what we’ve learned in [Q1-4].

In order to believe SARS-CoV-2 i s r el ated to WI V, we’ d need to acc ept m any new i deas as true:

● that an international conglomerate of many thousands of people exists, and has been kept secret for many years.
● that the virus was intentionally made inefficient, and bad at its job of infecting humans.
● that the Chinese government either invented dozens (if not hundreds) of scientific techniques before anyone else knew they were possible.
● that China knew about coronaviruses and their utility for killing humans years before SARS-CoV-1 infected a single human.
● that this virus, which does not look anything like a lab-grown strain, was still somehow made in a lab, and then made to look like it was not grown in a lab.
● that the international conspiracy has killed, jailed, or somehow paid off the many hundreds of scientists who have worked on bat viruses in collaboration with WIV (including EHA and Duke-NUS scientists who are still very much alive).
● that Dr. Shi’s internationally well-respected research group, that has been trained and inspected by international experts from many different countries, covered something up that other Chinese scientists have readily admitted to in the past.
● that a virus that very clearly spread wider and faster to other parts of the Hubei province in China actually came from Wuhan, and skipped all the people in Wuhan, only to come back later and infect people in the Hunan wet market.

4.2) Likewise, we would very likely know if the WIV had SARS-CoV-2 inside its freezers.

The work that WIV and Dr. Shi’s group has done – surveying bats for coronaviruses – is funded by the NIH here in America (at least until recently (5)). Our tax dollars are helping WIV look for bat viruses, because it is in the interest of the American people to try and predict the next pandemic.

These efforts are conducted through the NYC-based non-profit EHA, which helps track and monitor viruses in nature (110,111). It is also worth saying that Dr. Shi’s projects almost always provide duplicate samples of every bat to both Chinese scientists and laboratories in other countries (including Australia, Singapore, and Canada) (158, 159, 160). This “parallel analysis” is common practice in the field to demonstrate transparency, and it is something I myself have done on several occasions. The fact that WIV does this is great evidence for why “hiding” a virus or “keeping it for biodefense work” would be much more difficult.