Viral, a new book about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, investigates whether it was a naturally occurring virus that jumped from animals to humans… or a lab leak. The Daily Mail has published an extract in today’s paper in which the authors describe the role of citizen journalists in discovering the truth that the mainstream media wasn’t interested in.
In the city of Bhubaneswar, India, a man known as ‘The Seeker’ was rifling through a Chinese website.
It was May 18th, 2020, and he was responding to a tweet by an American scientist speculating about the origin of the virus ripping its way across the planet.
And, using login details he’d found online, he was searching through a digital anthology of academic work.
Then, suddenly, he stumbled on a medical thesis which reported how, in 2012, six men fell ill after clearing out piles of bat guano from an old copper mine in Yunnan, in south-western China. Three of the men had died.
The doctors suspected the men had caught a virus that originated in bats, and the case had been investigated by virologists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), more than 1,000 miles away.
The Seeker, a slim 30-year-old with shoulder-length hair, has been accused variously of working for the CIA or Indian intelligence services. But the truth is rather less dramatic.
“I learned how to make search engines work for me,” he told us. “It was more madness than method.”
Motivated by an interest in finding out how the pandemic began and skilled at trawling the internet for clues, he began communicating on Twitter with a group of other internet ‘sleuths’ from around the world – all pursuing the same question: where did the virus that causes COVID-19 originate?
Soon, some of the sleuths had coalesced into a loose confederation known as DRASTIC (Decentralised Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19). And more key findings were quick to follow.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A U.S. intelligence report claims that the lab leak theory is probably correct, given the dangerous nature of the experiments being done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the lax biosecurity protocols. The FT has more.
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We will get more truth from a citizen journalist than from a mainstream media ‘journalist’ just repeating the approved narrative.
By say the middle of February 2020 it should have been evident there was cover up and if professional journalism had functioned the way it used to Fauci and his lies would not have lasted long – instead he is still there lying and the press believing him. BMJ still pretending about the natural origin theory. Fauci is still there telling the world that vaccine immunity is better than natural immunity hahaha! and the globalist super-rich are meeting to turn the screws on the rest of us over climate change – another financial/political power grab.
Most fundamentally it is necessary to understand it is not a scientific problem, it is a problem about people who lie and then are allowed to get away with it so they lie even more. And these people thrive on destruction. We have had two years of purely malicious global destruction because obvious liars in positions of authority are given the benefit of the doubt (when frankly there isn’t any). The whole thing is a charade.
It’s good to see the likes of Chan finally getting the recognition they deserve. A worldwide network of document ferets, otherwise known as conspiracy theorists, have been the biggest fear of the meddling Pharma industry crooks.
Whatever the origin, it can clearly be seen that Dazak, Fauci, Farrar, Vallance etc all suspected the worst and all were directly responsible for the ensuing panic. Can we start the trials yet?
There will be no trials. Those responsible will be protected and the Great Lie will become the official history.
In my humble opinion as a citizen observer, it will never be easy establishing the source of a deliberately deployed pathogen concontion. Interesting how the presented options are only limited to a Chinese bat or Chinese laboratory? Im never sure if ‘Wuhan’ is pronounced ‘Porton Down’ or ‘Fort Detrick’ etc. What I am convinced of it was not a natural coronavirus virus that spread organically.
Oh look – a picture of a bat. Once again to muddy the waters. Bioweapon manufactured by the Evil Fauci in his Chinese lab … or the flying rats dropping into the soup cauldrons?
“And, using login details he’d found online” – who believes this?
An Indian man known as ‘The seeker’ stumbles upon secret reports hidden away in the archives of Beijing….
“I learned how to make search engines work for me,” he told us. “It was more madness than method.” – sounds more like a load of bollocks to me.
Have you looked at what they’ve published?
For anyone not familiar with DRASTIC and the work they’ve done, have a word.
It’s a bloody good job they spent many years and many millions on researching Coronaviruses from Bats. Because if there was ever a pandemic of a Coronavirus they would not have to shut the world and they would have effective in house treatments and they would have really good vaccines as opposed to a dodgy therapy programme. Yep. Science innit.
humans and animals co exist for hundreds of thousands of years. No issues. Thirty odd years of sapiens prodding about with Viruses = SARS, MERS, SARS V.20. Humanity. What a thing.
Once again you’ve cracked the case, Sherlock.
P.S. I want to believe. The truth is out there.
I said at the time (March 2020) that this is no naturally occurring event. Subsequent research since has with a very high degree of confidence, determined that SARs-CoV2 was a Gain of Function pathogen, bio-engineered by the Chinese, funded by the US, principally under the guise of various biomedical organisations, fronted by Anthony Fauci, and released into the world. Not for one minute did I believe the stupid bat theory.
I think the only questions left to ask are: Whether it was released intentionally or by accident? And what to do about it?
We only have to ask one question to begin unravelling the source of the virus: ‘Why the global panic over a virus?’
In my opinion it was because all governments understood the potential of a Gain of Function (GoF) modified pathogen.
Almost every country on the planet has laboratories like Porton Down, and they’re not designing knitting patterns, they’re all fiddling with bio weapons.
When the announcement was eventually made by China that they were suffering an epidemic, the rest of the worlds governments crapped themselves and hit the panic button because they imagined their wort fears were about to be realised.
As it turned out, covid wasn’t the humanity ending virus they all feared, but it was too late. They couldn’t turn back by saying “Ooops, sorry folks, it’s not what we thought it was” as they would reveal their own complicity in illegal and immoral bio weapon research.
The public should be demanding answers from these scum bags about what they knew and when they knew it under threat of dangling from the end of a rope.
The Chinese have held these wet markets for centuries keeping wild animals intended for the cooking pot in appalling conditions – and yet suddenly an unknown virus infected one individual shopping in the market and spread. How likely is that? Anyone who believes that is what happened is still at the level of believing in the tooth fairy.
Kudos to the citizen sleuths who have found the smoking guns.