Ref #2: (a) Every evolutionary biologist knows that a bat virus doesn't acquire a set of mutations that make it adapted to infecting humans in one go. (b) Nobody wants to fight China."It's nothing personal, it's just business."
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| 'Rogue' Chinese Virologist Claims She Has "Evidence" COVID-19 Was Created In A Lab |
| 2020-09-13 |
| [ZeroHedge (10-min video from itv)] Once again, the claims of a rogue Chinese scientist with a lot to say, and at least some evidence to back up her claims, has been ignored by the mainstream media. Intead, Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who was among the first to study the virus at a prestigious university in Hong Kong, where she worked before fleeing China, appeared on the British interview show 'Loose Women' late last week. During the interview, she answered questions about her claims, and reiterated that the CCP didn't just deliberately cover up COVID-19 in a manner that led to thousands of unnecessary deaths, the party also knew that SARS-CoV-2 was created by Chinese scientists. Asked about the origins of the virus, the doctor said "it comes from a lab," again rejecting reports from last year that the virus originated from a Wuhan wet market, claiming they were a "smokescreen". Dr. Li also commented on her claims that Beijing deliberately tried to cover up the outbreak when it first learned of the killer virus, effectively allowing it to escape China and infect the world. When she sounded the alarm about human-to-human transmission in December last year, her former supervisors at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, a reference laboratory for the World Health Organization, silenced her. After a while, she "could not keep silent", and decided to flee. In April, Yan reportedly fled Hong Kong and escaped to America in an effort to evade persecution and to 'spread the truth' about the pandemic. "From the beginning, I decided to get this message out in the world and it was very scary in the world because I'm a doctor and I knew if I don't tell the truth to the world I will regret it myself in the future." "I never thought this would happen when I did the secret investigation, I [thought] I would speak to my supervisor and they would do the right thing on behalf of the government." "But what I saw was nobody responding to that. People are scared of the government but this was something urgent, and Chinese New Year time, [I knew] this was a dangerous virus and all these things meant I could not keep silent, there are human beings and global health [at risk]." China's national health commission has denied that the outbreak started in the lab, insisting there is "no evidence" the new coronavirus was created in a laboratory. Beiing has already scapegoated a large group of local party officials for the errors. But Dr. Li's testimony remains extremely compelling. Video |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #7 (g)romoron, wrong. Itss a single strand RNA virus, the kind that mutates most rapidly, and there are already a slew of mutation subtypes out there. And it is faily routine for virus to develop cross species infection ability, its called a "zoonotic" virus, there's a whole field of study about these. Of 1,415 pathogens known to infect humans, 61% were zoonotic (Taylor LH, Latham SM, Woolhouse ME (2001). "Risk factors for human disease emergence". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 356 (1411): 983–89. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.088). Many of these are secondary zoonosis - that is the virus gets to humans by an animal host to start with, while not being deadly to the animal host. Those are called "vectors" - like mosquitos with West Nile. Live animal markets are known to be high risk areas for this form of transmission. Distinctive features of RNA virus (like COVID and its corona virus base) replication include high mutation rates, high yields, and short replication times. As a consequence, RNA viruses replicate as complex and dynamic mutant swarms. (Domingo E, Holland JJ. RNA virus mutations and fitness for survival. Annu Rev Microbiol. 1997;51:151-178. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.51.1.151) And this is all old knowledge. So Science says you're wrong and an idiot to make your assertions. Any "evolutionary virologist" would pound that into your apparently impenetrable skull. |
| Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-13 17:44 |
| #6 Didn't think this was still in doubt. Even the Chinese have admitted that the wet market theory is wrong. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-09-13 13:40 |
| #5 @ #1 - I hardly think ITV network is a tool or subsidiary of ZeroHedge. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-13 10:13 |
| #4 Ref #2: (a) Every evolutionary biologist knows that a bat virus doesn't acquire a set of mutations that make it adapted to infecting humans in one go. (b) Nobody wants to fight China. "It's nothing personal, it's just business." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-13 06:16 |
| #3 Ex-head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove says coronavirus 'is man-made' and was 'released by accident' - after seeing 'important' scientific report He cited an 'important' report from Professor Angus Dalgleish of St George's Hospital, University of London and Norwegian virologist Birger Sorensen which claims the virus was manufactured in a laboratory. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-09-13 05:29 |
| #2 We don't need evidence. (a) Every evolutionary biologist knows that a bat virus doesn't acquire a set of mutations that make it adapted to infecting humans in one go. (b) Nobody wants to fight China. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 04:54 |
| #1 If there is any credible evidence produced, it would be huge. Something like provable sequences of RNA, that sort of thing. But given its ZeroHedge, unless this is info from a reliable third party, its likely horse shit like most of their stuff. |
| Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-13 01:19 |