No sooner had the World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday published its report into the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, than the Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was making a public statement distancing the organisation from what observers are calling a “whitewash”.
The report, which had been conducted with heavy reliance on Chinese scientists and under pressure from Chinese authorities, concluded it was “extremely unlikely” that SARS-CoV-2 had escaped from a lab, claiming instead it was most likely the novel virus had passed from bats via an “intermediate animal host” before sparking an “explosive outbreak” in Wuhan in December 2019.
With a rare and welcome criticism of the Chinese Government, Dr Ghebreyesus said: “I expect future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data sharing” and insisted that “all hypotheses remain on the table”.
The United States, the UK and 12 other countries (Australia, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, South Korea and Slovenia) issued a joint statement echoing the Director General’s concerns: “It is equally essential that we voice our shared concerns that the international expert study on the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples.”
The European Union, more meekly, said that it regretted the delays and the “limited availability of early samples and related data”.
Dr Peter Ben-Embarek, head of the WHO mission at the centre of the controversy, defended his report, saying the “zoonotic origins” of the pandemic had been the agreed remit of the investigation rather than a potential laboratory accident. A defence which rather begs the question as to why the investigation was disbarred by design from looking into one of the key possibilities.
Dr Ben-Embarek, for reasons best known to himself, felt moved to offer a rather feeble defence of the Chinese Government’s lack of cooperation.
Of course there are areas where we had difficulties in getting down to the raw data, and there are many good reasons for that. In China, like in many other countries, there are restrictions on privacy laws that forbid the sharing of data, including private details to outsiders in particular. Where we did not have full access to the overall data, this has been put as a recommendation for future studies. So the idea is that, because we didn’t have time or because certain authorisation needs to be given before we could get access to the data, all that could be done in the second phase of studies.
Science journalist Matt Ridley aptly called it a “pure whitewash” when he appeared yesterday morning on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s show on talkRADIO. He pointed out that although the report concludes it’s very likely that an animal carried the virus to Wuhan, this conclusion is at odds with the 20-30 pages in the report which note that 45,000 animals in China have been tested for the virus and none have been found with it.
A lab escape was once dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Back on February 19th 2020, 27 prominent scientists declared in the Lancet: “We stand together to condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” Another group of experts, on March 17th, proclaimed in Nature Medicine: “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”
Now, though, it is very much regarded as a plausible hypothesis. Matt Ridley, who is writing a book on the subject, and Harvard medical geneticist Alina Chan explained why it is being taken seriously by experts in an eye-opening article in the Telegraph.
They write that, unlike SARS from 2003, SARS-CoV-2 was not found to mutate rapidly in early human cases, suggesting it was already well adapted to infecting human beings. Furthermore, in May 2020, the director of the Chinese CDC announced that none of the animal samples collected from the Wuhan wet market had tested positive for COVID-19.
Ridley and Chan write:
Yet there is little doubt that the pandemic began in Wuhan. All the early cases were in the city and the majority of the first recorded cases in other countries were among people who had travelled from Wuhan. Persistent attempts by the Chinese Government and scientists to play up possible origins in frozen-food imports and pre-Wuhan cases in Europe have been unpersuasive so far.
There is still no sign of an original animal source of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, or the rest of Hubei province. Horseshoe bats that live in the area have been extensively sampled for viruses for years without SARS-CoV-2-like viruses showing up. Therefore, the strongest connection between such viruses in Yunnan and the human outbreak in Wuhan is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the fact that it had collected SARS-like viruses from the Mojiang mine.
But this is circumstantial, not direct evidence. Although SARS leaked from a Beijing laboratory twice in 2004, infecting 11 people, there have been no public reports of an accident at the WIV. Moreover, RaTG13 is not SARS-CoV-2: there are significant differences between the viruses. This is why full transparency about all the viruses held in the WIV would be helpful, including all of the SARS-like viruses collected in the Mojiang mine.
Unfortunately, the Institute’s database of more than 20,000 viruses was taken offline around the time of the outbreak for “security reasons”, and the WHO team were not given access to it. The WIV is the foremost laboratory for studying these kinds of viruses in the world, and had collected large numbers of coronaviruses from hundreds of miles away. With no sign of a source in the wet market or animals, the coincidence that the outbreak began in the vicinity of such an institute is too great to be easily dismissed.
The theory was given a boost in January 2021 when the US State Department released a statement saying it had “reason to believe that several researchers inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses”.
More worrying is the prospect that the virus might not just be an escaped sample of a naturally occurring bat coronavirus, but an engineered virus from gain-of-function research. This may explain, for example, why it was already well adapted to human-to-human transmission.
Ridley and Chan again:
We know from published work that Dr Shi and her colleagues were not only analysing the genomes of viruses, they were also manipulating them. This includes the creation of ‘chimera’ or hybrid viruses with genes taken from two different viruses. It also includes the testing of these viruses in ‘humanised’ mice, endowed with a certain human gene.
The practice of building chimera coronaviruses, sometimes leaving no trace of manipulation, is not new. Such experiments have been conducted in select laboratories such as the WIV for years, for the purpose of understanding how novel viruses could spill over into humans. The ultimate goal is to create a universal vaccine for all SARS-like viruses.
The scientists might find it unbearable if they instead caused a pandemic. But they did not find it unthinkable. In a 2015 article co-authored by Dr Shi these words appear: “Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue… The potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens.”
SARS-CoV-2 is not so deadly as the bat virus that killed three of the six miners who caught it directly from the bats in 2012. The WIV held samples of nine bat viruses sourced from that Mojiang mine, one of which, RaTG13 was noted (though without making the link) by WIV researchers themselves to be very similar to SARS-CoV-2.
Could SARS-CoV-2 be an engineered version of those viruses, perhaps made less deadly but ready for human-to-human transmission? It’s one possibility, but without further access to samples and data, repeatedly denied by the Chinese authorities, scientists have no way to find out.
It’s very important we find out soon, though, so we can know exactly what we’re dealing with and what lessons we should learn.
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Wasn’t moderna 3x the dose?!?
It’s high time people were arrested.
The reports are beginning to penetrate the mainstream, and they won’t stop coming. There have been too many victims.
yes, 100mcg vs 30mcg for Pfizer.
Two years too late – Fauci is obviously under the “protection” of “powerful friends” and Johnson always has Carrie as his alibi !
Has Whitty got a new job to go with his Knighthood for “Services Rendered”?
Whitty will probably end up at the WHO – he’s always been a Billy Gates man.
How much longer can these f*****s pushing the jab keep their heads up their arses? Time to take some action against anybody saying they are ‘safe and effective.’ Safe and effective, my arse.
The City of Wolverhampton Council says: “The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective and approved. It gives you the best protection against the virus and is saving lives.”
Corona ad seem to be gone from Reading. At least, I don’t remember seeing one for the last couple of days.
Obviously a Council subjected to ‘Virologist Entryism’!
They’re just functionaries repeating ad nauseam what the official Government policy is. There will have been close to zero due diligence done in any local councils on Covid.
The jab kills….. who knew
What I meant was ‘WHO knew’
It doesn’t seem to kill young people very well – Billy Gates must be riling at the inefficiency of his first eugenics exercise!
I’m beginning to get the feeling from reading the latest posts, that we are starting to go around in circles. I always believed that covid-19 was plucked out of thin air, the only ingredients being timing, location, a convenient test and a mRNA vaccine. Everything thereafter relied entirely on governments around the world panicking. Well here we are 2+ years on, a frightened, enfeebled and medicated nation of the compliant, present company excepted. Someone else can finish off
Well here we are 2+ years on, a frightened, enfeebled and medicated world of the compliant, present company excepted.
FTFY
I am far more cynical than you. I am of the belief that the PTB know full well that each ‘crisis’ they create will be exposed as fraud fairly quickly, so they have a long list for ‘bait and switch’ purposes. War in Ukraine, inflation, climate heating, food scare, they’ve got them lined up one after another. I’ve seen through every single one of them already, but most people haven’t. They’re too busy paying for the mortgage and getting their children to sports practice and the like….
The tin foil hat wearer in me has wondered for some time whether the script will ultimately be flipped on these vaccines. There seems to be a concerted effort to sink the West. What better way to do that than to inject ~80% of the population with a toxic substance and then gradually reveal the harm. Think of the lawsuits. Lockdowns, vaccines and Russia sanctions have one thing in common – financial self-immolation. I wonder why.
A part of me thinks the whole Shanghai narrative is to give the West one last push towards mRNA. I heard people saying the reason China was in such a bad way was because they had inferior non mRNA vaccines.
There’s a concerted effort (actually, rather a distributed effort) of every clown with a chip on his shoulder to frame some debate as Either my way or the apocalypse.
There was a report from NZ saying just that. The person writing the article had spoken to a member of the “elite” who revealed to them that the plan was for the population of the west to overthrow their governments once they realised what had been done to them. Then one world government would take over.
Sorry link lost.
I can’t actually see riots or wars speeding up moves towards world government. It’s during the relative peace of the past 30 years that it’s made particularly rapid progress. See the 2018 book ‘Giants: the Global Power Elite’ by Prof. Peter Phillips.
I also highly recommend James Kunstler’s 2020 book ‘Living in the Long Emergency’. It’s the sequel to his 2005 book ‘The Long Emergency’. It went to press late 2019 so by coincidence it excludes COVID. This is useful, because you can see how the world post-peak oil faced enormous financial / economic problems and how COVID fitted in as a convenient story. to hide what was really being done, i.e. organising a reset of the currency.
I can’t see them doing that, isn’t it more likely they want digital control so we can’t overthrow them.
I don’t know, the globalists don’t want national governments. A tsunami of litigation and near-civil war could easily lead to outside (globalist UN) intervention being ‘needed’.
If 5 million people march on Westminster with the sole intention of murdering 500 MPs, digital control won’t stop them.
It’s nothing to do with China. The rich of the West have their money invested safely all over the place, far away from ‘Western’ nations. They buy land in South America, the Caribbean, Europe (if they are American). They will have their futures safeguarded even if there is war and revolution in the lower 48. They’ve never been patriots, they just use patriotism to keep the people dupable. The European ‘elites’ are just the same.
We need our MPs to make EUAs illegal.
Giving pharmaceutical companies immunity from prosecution during a rushed rollout of novel drugs should have been a red flag to anyone – certainly to our MPs.
Only if they had a modicum of integrity and intellect.
Sadly, they have neither.
Democracy red in tooth and claw. Lol.
Especially when there’s fraud!
It has all the hallmarks of a conspiracy against public health!
The. Ministry of Truth deals in propaganda.
The Ministry of Love deals in torture.
The Ministry of Plenty deals in shortages.
The Ministry of Public Health deals in…
The Ministry of Public Health deals in unprotected sex with syphilis sufferers….
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while; an interview with the US’s most cancelled man:
Exclusive Interview: Robert Kennedy Jr. Destroys Big Pharma, Fauci & Pro-Vaccine Movement — Yandex video search
Actually, EUAs used properly are an essential part of a proper response to disease crises. The problem is not an EUA per se, it is the entirely corrupt, dysfunctional, criminal classes in the pharmaceutical industry, in the money world, in Westminster and the media that makes it problematic.
But let’s be clear: if I had been PM, with a PhD and seven years virological postdoctoral experience, allied to working in the commerical biopharma space for a while, had prevented EUAs for Covid vaccines, if I had allowed controlled trialling of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, budesonide etc etc, you can be sure that I would have been bumped off by Gates et al.
What we need is to kick Gates, Soros and all their organisations out of the UK, out of Europe, out of everywhere. We need to withdraw all recognition of the WHO so long as Gates is an investor. We will not allow Gates to have any contact with the Department of Health, nor will he have any influence on UK health policy. Cambridge University and all other UK universities will be told that accepting Gates money is incompatible with receiving a single penny of UK public money and that the Gates Scholarship programme must be thrown out due to the evil of its benefactor.
Pfizer’s exclusivity deal with Israel probably doesn’t seem like such great idea to their shareholders after all in hindsight. But thank you, Pfizer, for allowing us to pinpoint exactly how much harm YOUR product caused in YOUR own ‘personal lab.’
What’s important is we realise the Everdemic is not over, never will be, and we should get our fourth dose – and schedule the fifth – and particularly get the young doses up as it’s the best way to protect them.
On what scientific basis can you say that.
I’m hoping that this is sarcasm.
If I were working in the Cabinet Office I would be writing:
“Nothing to see here – move along. Oh. look! There’s a squirrel…”
and then going out to buy booze for the next party…
That is exactly what the Government , the Judiciary, the MHRA , 80 % of MPs and the Police have been doinhg for two years – isn’t this just a bit suspicious?
If you were working in the Cabinet office, you would have to put up with Mark Sedwill coming to poke his oar in, thinking that the current incumbent must fall into line with his MI6 and Goldman Sachs schemata…
just reading about Troponins. A way to test for heart stress. Apparently jabs increased levels by insane multiples. Just to put it into context, a normal level of troponin in the body is <0.05. 1-4 is heart attack risk. Jab takes level to 35
The law of unintended (or intended) consequences!
I remember Hugh Pym (PPE Oxford), the BBC’s ‘health editor’ saying on the today programme after Novak Djokovic’s interview, “What more evidence does he want?”. Perhaps, Hugh should be sent this and asked to reconsider his question.
What more evidence do we want to demand that Hugh Pym be sacked without a reference?
Next door neighbour. Found dead from heart attack a week back. 60ish, a bit overweight but normal for his age.
Husband of Covidian acquiantance. Died in his sleep. Heart attack. c45, a bit overweight but normal for his age.
One of my best friends. c 45. Pericarditis after being boosted. In hospital for a week. Better now.
Many people (most) rationalise these events as things that ‘just happens to men of a certain age’. What they are overlooking is that these are sufficiently rare such that if a factor comes along that causes more of these events, then the likelihood that it was the cause is very high. So yes, I’m happy saying that it was the vaxx that did it (most likely).
Out of the blue today my daughter said something along the lines of ‘I want to go and get my vaccine in ABC town. Becky at school said that they give out biscuits once you’ve had it’. This was only about 15 minutes after I found out about one of these events so I almost blew my top.
I don’t think overweight people do get more heart attacks. Dr Malcolm Kendrick has looked into this. There’s a phenomenan called the obesity paradox. People who are naturally thin can also suffer diabetes and cardiovascular problems.
You get tea and biscuits after you donate blood. That’s a more socially useful activity.
Shops also SELL biscuits.
The cardio vascular damage of a single packet of high fructose biscuits will be less than a jab though.
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/04/twitter-doubling-down-on-their-evil/
See what happens when you put things like this on twitter
I just had to visit an acquaintance of a friend, to collect something he had spare and was giving away. The first thing he said as I entered the house was: ‘You’re OK, we’re all vaccinated’. I said something to the effect that I couldn’t care less about COVID. My only worry was his two large dogs which were jumping madly up and down.
He gradually got the message that I wasn’t that keen on dogs but seemed to think I was
1 irrational to be worried about dogs almost the size of a human
2 irrational not to be worried about COVID.
Had the dogs been vaccinated though?
Did anyone notice when they mentioned Hancock flooding care homes with asymptomatic patents they are perpetuating the asymptomatic myth.
Has it turned out to be a myth? Have you got a good link for that, please?
You don’t need a link. You know it. Can you give someone a cold when you don’t have a cold?
In Lala Covid Lieland anything is possible – except the vax protecting you from the virus.
It has never been demonstrated to exist since Whitty invented it . Or do you have evidence to the contrary?
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-few-new-papers-are-brewing?s=r
Jessica Rose on the sudden death category in VAERS.
Safe to say, sudden death is happening and being reported at rates higher than ever before (big surprise) as per VAERS, and although it is being reported for individuals ages 50+ with more prevalence, it is not limited to a specific age group.
Check out the graph for the percentage of cases of sudden death by the days post vaccine. phew!
“Killer Jab”? Exactly how much more evidence is needed?
Front page news? BBC lead story ? No …pushed aside .
Evil stalks the Land of Lies !
its Also very weird how hepatitis is mysteriously on the rise among youngsters.
Israel should remember that that one resurrection on their turf has an asterisk beside it.
So there were fifty excess deaths in 3 months in a population of 3-4 million (depending how the demographics of a population of 8.9m people works out)?
It does seem a bit of a waste of money to spend multiple millions vaccinating a healthy population just to kill 50 of them. It’s no good health-wise and pretty useless as a eugenics exercise too!
Why not just spend the money handing out free condoms instead?!
It’s where the money goes that’s the point. Pfizer etc
Oh it is much worse than this. Simply read the 1,250,000 adverse event reports in the USA and 22,000 deaths post vaxx cdc VAERS reports. Adverse events range from transverse myelitis, thrombocytopenia, strokes, atrial fibrillation,heart attacks, Bell’s palsy, guillian barre, reactivation of dormant viruses such as shingles, serious lung infections, blindness, tinnitus, serious skin eruptions, miscarriages, abnormal menstrual bleeding, reoccurrence of cancers, including pancreatic, ovarian, lung, breast, unsteadiness, vertigo and many more. Did you know Pfizer just released in their data dump, six pages of adverse events from their trial data. More people died in the trial arm than the control group. If you took these vaccines, you should be concerned.