Month: May 2021

Good news, everybody — you can finally post what you always thought about how the pandemic started on Facebook without being muzzled.

The Silicon Valley giant, which has around 2.85 billion users, banned posts that claimed COVID-19 was manufactured. But now, according to a company spokesperson, “In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made from our apps.”

The “lab-leak” theory — that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China — has gradually gained mainstream acceptance in the months since Trump lost the election. Nicholson Baker horrified New York magazine readers in January by bringing up the hypothesis. Then, more voices joined the chorus this month: Nicholas Wade in the Bulletin, 18 scientists in a letter to Science magazine, former NYT writer Donald McNeil, Jr. on Medium. Anthony Fauci U-turned on his earlier stance and said he was “not convinced” that the virus developed naturally outside of a lab. This week President Biden issued a statement describing how in March he asked Jake Sullivan to “task the intelligence community to prepare a report on their most up-to-date analysis of the origins of COVID-19, including whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or a laboratory accident.” Biden said that in this report the intelligence community had “coalesced around two likely scenarios” but has not reached a conclusion.

In March last year, it was widely agreed by everybody sensible that talk of the pandemic originating in a laboratory was pseudoscientific nonsense almost on a par with UFOs and the Loch Ness monster. My own reasoning was that Mother Nature is a better genetic engineer than we will ever be, so something, as accomplished at infection and spread, could not possibly have been put together in a lab.

Today, the mood has changed. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci now says he is “not convinced” the virus emerged naturally. This month a letter in Science magazine from 18 senior virologists and other experts — including a close collaborator of the Wuhan lab at the center of the debate, Ralph Baric — demanded that such a hypothesis be taken seriously. Suddenly, too, journalists have woken up and begun writing articles admitting they might have been hasty in dismissing a lab leak as a Trumpian conspiracy theory last year. CNN reported this week that the Biden administration shut down the State Department’s investigation into this.

Ironically, the turning point was the press conference on February 9th in Wuhan, where a team of western scientists representing the World Health Organization sat meekly through a three-hour propaganda session at the end of a 12-day study tour. Strictly chaperoned throughout, the western scientists (approved by the Chinese government) had mainly listened to presentations by their Chinese colleagues during their visit and done no research themselves. Yet, the result was presented to the world as if it was the WHO’s conclusion.

The press conference was told that the lab leak theory was “implausible” and would not be investigated further because the Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists said so during a three-hour visit by the study team. By contrast, the theory favored by the Chinese government — that the virus reached Wuhan on frozen meat from a rabbit or ferret-badger farm in southern China or Southeast Asia — was said to be plausible, despite a total lack of evidence.

So ridiculous was this little stage play that even WHO’s director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had to backtrack a few days later: “All hypotheses remain open and require further study.” Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the study team, added: “I don’t think the press conference was a PR win for China.” Britain, America, and 12 other countries issued a joint statement expressing “shared concerns” over the study.

Almost every day now brings a new article or broadcast demanding an open-minded investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The veteran New York Times and Nature science writer Nicholas Wade pointed the finger squarely at the lab in a long essay published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Two lengthy essays by left-leaning journalists, Nathan Robinson in Current Affairs and Donald McNeil on Medium, have argued that it’s time to revisit the lab theory. Just because Donald Trump thought the virus came out of a lab does not mean that it did not.

The problem is partly that journalists confused two different theories last year: that the virus might have escaped from a laboratory openly doing research that was intended to prevent a pandemic, or that a secret project to create a nasty virus for use as a bioweapon had either gone wrong or succeeded all too well. The latter theory remains implausible; the former has never been so.

After all, the first Sars virus — which is not nearly as infectious — was caught in the lab by scientists at least four times in 2003-04, in Taiwan, Singapore, and Beijing (twice). Alarmingly, there is still no clear evidence as to how it happened in three of those cases: no dropped test tube or punctured glove. So there need not be any record of an incident, and the Wuhan scientists who swear that no accident happened might be right, but it still might have leaked.

It was not entirely journalists’ fault that the two ideas got confused. Early in the pandemic, two groups of scientists published articles insisting on a natural origin and criticizing lab-based theories. Both made little distinction between a leaked virus and an engineered one. In early February 2020, when almost nothing was known about the virus, let alone its origin, Dr. Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance drafted a letter to the Lancet that 27 scientists eventually signed: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that 2019-nCoV does not have a natural origin.” This was taken to rule out the leak of a natural virus from a lab and the engineering of a synthetic one.

The mainstream media echoed the language. By raising the possibility of a lab leak, Sen. Tom Cotton was accused by the Washington Post of “fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory that experts have repeatedly debunked;” the New York Times said the Wuhan laboratory had been “the focus of unfounded conspiracy theories promoted by the Trump administration;” and National Public Radio reported that “scientists debunk lab accident theory.” In the Guardian, Dr. Daszak wrote an article headlined: “Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know COVID-19 wasn’t created in a lab.”

Dr. Daszak, a British-born parasitologist, is an accomplished “grantrepreneur” who built an empire out of hunting viruses and analyzing them in laboratories, much of it in China. The EcoHealth Alliance, a foundation he created a decade ago out of a sleepy wildlife charity, has garnered $17 million a year, mainly from the Pentagon, the National Institutes of Health, and the Agency for International Development — and paying him $400,000 a year. No wonder he wanted to squash any “rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories, as he put it in his email to fellow scientists. “We declare no competing interests,” said the Lancet statement, which was odd given that Dr. Daszak had collaborated closely with and provided funding for the laboratory in Wuhan that was under suspicion.

The other article that convinced many people that a lab theory could be ruled out came from Dr. Kristian Andersen at the Scripps Research Translational Institute and four of his colleagues and was published in Nature Medicine magazine in March 2020. They assembled arguments against the virus having been engineered, relying particularly on the logic that engineering a virus would have left traces in the genome and would have used a known template. Both are arguable, but in any case, the paper said little about the possibility of a natural bat virus leaking from a lab by mistake. Yet it was taken by “fact-checkers” at Facebook, Wikipedia, and in the mainstream media as ruling out that too. For months, therefore, any discussion of lab leaks got tagged as “conspiracy theory.”

The lab that has been energetically collecting coronaviruses from horseshoe bats for more than a decade, gathering a far larger collection of samples and genetic sequences than any other lab anywhere in the world, happens to be in Wuhan, as part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Run by Dr. Shi Zhengli, it boasted in 2019 having at least 100 different Sars-like viruses in its database.

We cannot check these samples because the database went offline on September 12, 2019, just before the pandemic began, and Dr. Shi persistently refuses to reopen it, arguing that it’s been subject to “hacking attempts.” Right — in September 2019? And there’s no other way to show the data? Dr. Daszak says he knows what is in the database and that it is of no relevance, which is why he has not asked his friend Dr. Shi to share it. Right. When this lack of transparency was mentioned to one senior British scientist, he said: “They are communists, what do you expect?”

Summary

The purpose of all these virus hunts and experiments was to predict and avert the next pandemic. At best, they failed in that; at worst, they might have caused it. It is still possible that somebody got COVID through an animal in a market, which a bat had infected. But in the case of the Sars epidemic of 2002-03, it was just a few weeks before scientists figured out that food handlers were catching it from infected civets — a type of cat found in southeast Asia — on sale in markets in Guangdong Province. And that was before modern high-speed genomic sequencing was invented. Today, with better technology, and after 18 months of searching, Chinese authorities have tested north of 80,000 animals in markets, on farms, and in the wild all across China and found precisely zero that are, or were, carrying SARS-CoV-2 (not counting cats, mink and so on which caught it from people once the pandemic was underway). The virus found in two pangolins in 2019 is a dead-end: too distantly related, nowhere near Wuhan, and none of the pangolin (type of anteater) handlers got sick.

Finding some close cousins of the pandemic virus last year in horseshoe bats in Thailand, Cambodia, and Japan led to a flurry of excitement in China that the blame could be laid elsewhere. But no, the closest related virus to SARS-CoV-2 is still one that was swabbed from the anus of a horseshoe bat in a mineshaft at a place called Beng-ping in Mojiang county in Yunnan in 2013. And Dr. Shi’s colleagues, who swabbed that bat’s rear in 2013, had traveled all the way from Wuhan, to which they promptly returned with the sample. They were there because six men shoveling bat guano in the mine in 2012 had fallen ill with symptoms like COVID-19, and three died. This was one of seven such trips to the mine: a fact a bunch of amateur investigators figured that out called the “Drastic Group” long before the lab admitted it.

So the only known link between Wuhan and the only known source of the only known specimen of the most closely related virus to the cause of COVID-19 is the scientists. It’s highly unlikely anybody else went down the mine and traveled a thousand miles to that particular city. Yet this bat virus from Mojiang is still not SARS-CoV-2, so either a closer cousin out there or a similar bat virus was brought to Wuhan by scientists and leaked. If we are to avoid another pandemic, we badly need to know which.

Wait a minute: what about that “other” conspiracy theory about the origin of COVID-19? You know, that one in which gain of function, funded (at least in party) by Dr. Fauci’s NIH grant, was actually used to drastically increase the infectious elements of SARS-CoV-2 to the level at which it had attained when “released” from the Wuhan lab.

Still today, no one can claim absolutely that such a process did not initiate what the world has been facing for more than a year. And if that’s true and the Chinese Communist Party is involved, we’ll probably never be able to confirm so.

So the conspiracy theories march on!

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It is sheer lunacy to allege that COVID-19 actually was manipulated purposely in that Wuhan laboratory! How could anyone believe such drivel? After all, even Dr. Anthony Fauci informed the nation (and the world) in demonstrative fashion as early as February of 2020 that it DID “almost certainly” originate in Wuhan. But it came from bats that were sold and bought at a wet market close to the Wuhan lab.

I don’t remember the first person I heard mention that the virus “escaped” from that lab and was the product of years of manipulation to turn it into a bioweapon. Whoever it was I am certain was immediately canceled!

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube assaulted anyone who claimed such nonsense was true. The likes of CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, The Washington Post, New York Times and every other major city newspaper laughed about such silliness. After all, where was the evidence?

That conspiracy theory blew up quickly, but it died just as quickly. However successfully it was booted to the curb from mainstream media, it has fluttered under the surface and has plagued doctors and scientists for over a year now. Why? No one has provided any other possible answer to its source of origin.

But the worm has turned.

The theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory has completed its year-long trudge — from fringe nutjob idea to mainstream and expert-approved opinion.

Leading scientists and epidemiologists other than Dr Anthony Fauci were so quick to dismiss the “lab talk.” It was first portrayed as a hare-brained wild and racist conspiracy theory-driven by paranoid Republican senators and fever-dream right-wing media. Now it is seen as not only an acceptable theory worth more study but one that has broken through into the mainstream. This has happened in a matter of days. Where does Sen. Tom Cotton go for his apology?

Interestingly enough, the lab leak theory started gaining more traction — not only in the international community but in the scientific community in the United States — right around the same time that questions of United States government funding of EcoHealth Alliance, a research and collection group of bat coronaviruses in China, may have lead to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Anthony Fauci denied that this research was happening in Wuhan with U.S. knowledge but went on to also acknowledge that U.S. officials don’t really have any idea what’s happening in the lab, thanks to the secretive nature of China’s communist government — a regime that has so far successfully put off the pressing questions as to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Almost instantaneously, respectable media voices have switched from writing off the lab leak theory to believing that is somewhere closer to probable than possible. How does that happen?

A group of 18 scientists, including one who worked in the Wuhan lab, penned a letter to Science Magazine stating the lab leak theory needed to be investigated further.

Then Donald McNeil Jr., the former New York Times science writer wrote an extensive explanation of gain-of-function research (the scientific manipulation of proteins in a virus to make it more susceptible for human transmission) and why that it’s possible that this research was being conducted at the Wuhan lab.

Shortly after that post, the dominos began to fall. Just this past weekend, Anthony Fauci himself, who has long scoffed at the lab leak theory, changed his tune as well, saying that he’s not confident that the virus did not escape a lab.

Fauci was one of the go-to sources for media eager to write off the theory altogether. News outlets such as NPR said in April 2020 that the theory had been “debunked.” The Washington Post called it a “conspiracy theory that was already debunked.”

The Wuhan lab director called it a “pure fabrication” in Forbes. Well, she would, wouldn’t she? What was stranger was the western media’s willingness to take such an obviously compromised figure at her word.

Reuters took China’s lead, using China itself as a source for the debunking. Lots of the American media appeared automatically to side with any news story that was at odds with President Trump or made him look bad. “Anthony Fauci just crushed Donald Trump’s theory on the origins of the coronavirus,” wrote noted follower of science Chris Cillizza on the CNN website. 

What’s more interesting is that minds are now shifting on the lab leak theory, without all that much significant new evidence. Only after the media conversation changed did a blockbuster report emerge in the Wall Street Journal describing how three workers at the Wuhan lab, had sought hospital care after experiencing severe respiratory problems way back in November 2019. This was based on previously unreleased intelligence — the very stuff Republican leaders were dismissed as cranks for alluding to early last year.

While there is still only an amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to the lab theory, there is more and more smoke around the fire. Our corporate media is going to stuff this down the memory hole and make their previous statements and stances disappear. Experts, cable news hosts, and opinion writers are going to move on as though they hadn’t spent the last year labeling anyone who attempted to even explore this theory as a lunatic. Dr. Anthony Fauci was one of those people. He should not be allowed to get away with it.

Fauci has been blistered the last few months before Congressional committees by Senators trying to get to the source of COVID-19. Just as Fauci has done in public settings for more than a year, he’s rebuffed, scoffed, laughed, and even lashed out at Senators who question his COVID-19 source assurances of the virus’ certain transmission naturally from bats to humans. He’s even acted insulted at the audacity of any Senators — especially Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and lashed out at the Senator in anger — UNTIL:

Summary

In May of 2020 on our show “TNN Live,” Dr. Judy Mikovits, a successful virologist and epidemiologist that worked directly with Fauci in the 90s on the HIV vax research, told us that she was certain the virus in its present form had been manipulated in that Wuhan laboratory under the watchful eyes of the Chinese Communist Government (CCP). She also expressed her certainty that the U.S. government would somehow find a way to weaponize the fear of COVID-19 and a potential pandemic to lock down the nation!

She was correct.

Americans need to understand this: no matter if/when it is confirmed that the Wuhan lab was COVID’s birthplace, the horrors of this virus and its effects are far from being known in full.

COVID-19 is NOT a virus — at least by medicine’s definition of a virus. COVID-19 is a laboratory manipulated MRNA: “Manufactured RNA.” What is “RNA?”

If RNA and DNA were human twins, DNA would be the popular and exciting one. Everybody knows about DNA — that it holds all of the information that makes up the entire living organism, and it sits comfortably in the nucleus of the cell. But RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is the lesser-known twin, and the hard worker of the two.

OK, so DNA and RNA aren’t human, but they are like twins. RNA is a copy, or a transcription, of DNA. See, the DNA is very important, since it holds the information needed for making new cells and maintaining life, so it never leaves the nucleus. The RNA is the one that goes out to do work throughout the cell. It’s also super important because without RNA our bodies would not be able to make proteins, which make up about 20% of our bodies.

Proven laboratory manipulation of RNA has shown it in its operations naturally in our bodies has changed in COVID-19. It’s changing the molecular structure of the essential elements in our cells.

This is NOT an attempt to instill fear in anyone. It’s simply a quest to find the facts. We owe each other that. And, sadly, medical professionals in large numbers have apparently signed on to the idea that it’s a good thing to create medical treatments with manipulative RNA to have RNA conduct specific tasks desired by those in labs as desired within the bodies of people.

What’s the endgame? I would respond to that by saying something sweeping like, “Nobody knows.” But that wouldn’t be truthful. We’re past that point. We’re at the point of mandating that scientists of all fields join forces to reveal to the public the truth of all this including the purposes of MRNA, the COVID “jabs” — they’re NOT vaccinations.

More importantly, we need to know the process to reverse all this IF it’s discovered to be life-threatening.

Stay tuned.

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This video and story were published over the weekend. We felt it incumbent upon us to show it to you.

Our purpose in sharing it is to simply put information we discover into YOUR hands for you to process. Whether or not there is something “more” than medicine in the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccination is still unknown to us. We’ve heard stories constantly in which warnings are included by many reputable physicians that these vaccines are really NOT vaccines. Additionally, they purportedly contain chip technology that allows those vaccinated to be followed via the internet.

What follows is an example of what we have heard for months. Is it true or not? Unless/until a REAL expert weighs in with explanations, we can only say “this has been reported from multiple sources, but, as of yet, we have been unable to verify its authenticity.”

Does it concern us? You bet it does!

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