Thanks to an observant Twitter user, I now know much more about the curious photo of German virologist Christian Drosten included in my previous article on “The Other Lab in Wuhan.”
It is not a photo of a Tongji Medical College event, but rather of a “Sino-German Symposium on Infectious Diseases” that was held in Berlin in 2015. And the woman with the glasses next to Drosten appears to be none other than the ‘Bat Woman’ Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology!
The full group photo of the participants is reproduced below.
It is taken from a University of Duisburg-Essen webpage, which is no longer available online, but has been archived by the Wayback Machine here. The Essen University Hospital co-sponsored the event with the German Ministry of Health.
As discussed in my previous article, Essen University Hospital runs a joint German-Chinese virology laboratory in Wuhan in partnership with University Hospital, Tongji Medical College. Unlike Shi Zhengli’s more famous Wuhan Institute of Virology, the German-Chinese or ‘Essen-Wuhan’ lab is located on the same side of the Yangtze River as the initial cluster of COVID-19 cases in the city. Indeed, it is located right in the area of the cluster (crosses 5 and 6).
Ulf Dittmer, Chair of the Virology Department at Essen University Hospital and Co-Director of the Essen-Wuhan lab, can be seen in the middle of the photo. He is the bald man with the striped shirt. The lab would be founded two years after the symposium, but the Essen hospital already had a longstanding relationship with the Chinese host institution.
The full programme of the symposium in German and Chinese is available from the Wayback Machine here. An excerpt is shown below.
Drosten gave a talk on the “Evolution of Pathogenic RNA Viruses: Studies of Animal Reservoirs”; Shi Zhengli spoke on “Newly Emergent Viral Zoonoses in China”; Dittmer spoke about research conducted as part of a prior Essen-Wuhan research project on “Chronic Viruses… with Special Emphasis on HIV Research and Treatment Possibilities in Germany”.
Participants also included Yang Dongliang, Chair of the Infectious Diseases Department at Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College.
When asked about the possibility of a lab leak in a November 2021 interview with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, Drosten insisted that “I have no personal connection to the people in Wuhan and have never been at the [Wuhan] Institute [of Virology].”
The above photo makes clear that he and Shi are not perfect strangers at any rate.
Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, translator and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here and read his Substack here. This article was first published by the Brownstone Institute.
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Oh I do enjoy a “Gotcha!”
To which of course can be appended, “you lying barsteward.”
Most regular readers will be aware of the below, but he was instrumental in the development of the PCR test. Just a coincidence that he was the one contacted and able to develop it so quickly.
“On 23 January 2020, Drosten, along with other virologists in Europe and Hong Kong, published a workflow of a real-time PCR (RT-PCR) diagnostic test,[9] which was accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and which sent test kits to affected regions.[10]
On 19 February 2020, Drosten, along with 26 other scientists, published the Lancet letter in support of scientists and medical professionals in China fighting the outbreak and condemning theories suggesting that the virus does not have a natural origin, which it referred to as “conspiracy theories.”[11]
On 17 March 2020, Drosten was appointed to the European Commission’s advisory panel on COVID-19, co-chaired by EC President Ursula von der Leyen and ECHSF Stella Kyriakides.[12][13] On 23 March 2020, The Guardian described Drosten as “the [German] country’s real face of the coronavirus crisis”, and also noted that the Süddeutsche Zeitung had described Drosten as “the nation’s corona-explainer-in-chief”.[1] He was a counterpart to Lothar Wieler, head of the State’s Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, in consulting to German federal and state authorities.[1]”
If Drosten wasn’t in on the scam from the start I’d be surprised because TPTB knew that the PCR test did not provide evidence of infection with the C1984 which was why Kary Mullis unfortunately died, so they had to find someone willing to oblige them. Queue ‘loadsa money.’
Furthermore, Bliar has always referred to the PCR test as “the gold standard.”
I rest my case.
Bliar is right in there !
…and no doubt a pure coincidence that before 2020 Germany’s bioNTech was a relatively little-known biotechnology company. That all changed when Covid-19 arrived, and they partnered with Pfizer…!!
Didn’t Drosten adapt the PCR test to test for Covid befor Covid 19 even existed?
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I hope eugyppius reads this – he’s a great fan of Drosten and takes an especial interest in his shenanigans.
that’s another one lying under oath by claiming that he didn’t have any interest to direct investigation away from possible lab leak. Hope he joins Fauci in jail (highly unlikely though)
Wow, the plot thickens.
Someone needs to put together a FBI style Most Wanted list on behalf of humanity. Ultimately this is just a gigantic organised crime. We don’t need governments to help us do this (all themselves culpable), this action should be undertaken by citizens all over the world. Let’s start a global petition. Tens of millions would sign it.
It does look like the whole thing is embedded in the EU & USA governments ! & it’s becoming more obvious by the hour !