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2020-02-03 China-Japan-Koreas
'Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?'
[ZeroHedge] In light of growing speculation, most of it within less than official circles, that the official theory for the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, namely because someone ate bat soup at a Wuhan seafood and animal market...

... is a fabricated farce, and that the real reason behind the viral spread is because a weaponized version of the coronavirus (one which may have originally been obtained from Canada), was released by Wuhan's Institute of Virology (accidentally or not), a top, level-4 biohazard lab which was studying "the world's most dangerous pathogens", perhaps it would be a good idea for the same Wuhan Institute of Virology to remove the following "help wanted" notice, posted on November 18, 2019, according to which the institute is seeking to hire one or two post-doc fellows, who will use "bats to research the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases."

Why is this notable? Because as it turns out, this is a job posting for the lab of Dr. Peng Zhou (周鹏), Ph.D., a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Leader of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Group. Some more on Zhou's background from the Institute (google translated):

He received his PhD in Wuhan Virus Research Institute in 2010 and has worked on bat virus and immunology in Australia and Singapore. In 2009 , he took the lead in starting the research on the immune mechanism of bat long-term carrying and transmitting virus in the world. So far, he has published more than 30 SCI articles, including the first and corresponding author's Nature , Cell Host Microbe and PNAS . At present, research on bat virus and immunology is continuing, and it has received support from the National "You Qing" Fund, the pilot project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the major project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 Bat soup.
Bat shit.
Bat shit crazy.
BatShitShow.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 01:23||   2020-02-03 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Okay
I told you so
I’ve been saying this was a release from a research lab
Still think it’s a bio weapon facility
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2020-02-03 07:54||   2020-02-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like good evidence they were working to get a strain with a long no-symptom incubation period to develop tests and a vaccine (not that we would actually, y’know, TRUST anything coming from China). Bioweapons? Given chinese ‘behavior in the past, not at all ruled out.

the next article after this one points out the real cause of this: commie totalitarian built in incompetence. I regard this as equivalent in causation to Chernobyl. They operate in a way that invites things to break, and when they do (cue Murphy), they don’t put the people that can fix them in authority to fix them. They just can’t bear to release control.
Posted by Ptah 2020-02-03 08:13||   2020-02-03 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 it will take several years to examine the DNA sequencing of various strains of this virus

Now some 15+ years after the onset of the SARS virus there has been enough sequencing to have reasonable certainty that it came from bats. DNA sequencing is better than it used to be but we are still at least a year away from getting reasonable certainty of the origin of this new virus.

It is quite plausible that the Wuhan market is the source as there are a lot of live animals in close proximity and sanitary conditions that leave a lot of repositories for viruses.
Posted by lord garth 2020-02-03 12:22||   2020-02-03 12:22|| Front Page Top

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