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HEALTH: Covid’s origin is a very dangerous mystery

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https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/it-s-dangerous-that-covids-origin-is-a-mystery/

IT’S A DANGER TO THE WORLD THAT THE PRECISE ORIGIN OF COVID-19 REMAINS A MYSTERY
It’s dangerous that Covid’s origin is a mystery
Published on: Sunday, 21 November, 2021

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Until we can rule out a laboratory origin for Covid, we must act as if it may have happened

My article for the Telegraph:

It is almost exactly two years since the pandemic began. According to an official document seen by the South China Morning Post, the first retrospectively diagnosed case of Covid in Wuhan was on November 17 2019, while genetic analysis points to a similar date, November 18. (The so-called “patient zero” discussed in the media this week has been known about for months and is very unlikely to be the first case even according to the World Health Organisation.)

In the case of Sars, 19 years ago, and Mers, nine years ago, the first known cases were followed within a couple of months by unambiguous clues as to how the virus jumped from an animal source into people. Both viruses live naturally in bats, which had somehow infected intermediate animal hosts such as palm civets and camels before transmitting into people.

Yet in the case of Sars-CoV-2, despite the fact that genetic testing technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds, we have no clear pattern of early cases stemming from an animal source. Dr Michael Worobey’s analysis this week pointing to a patient with symptom onset on December 11 who was a seafood vendor in the market is consistent with the Chinese authorities’ conclusion in May 2020 that the market was the site of a superspreader event, not the source. The positive samples from surfaces in the market show no correlation with the sale of wildlife products.

Meanwhile, there are still no cases of an original animal host found to be carrying this virus.

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It would seem to be very important to identify everything related to this virus so we know how to prevent it in the future.

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TINFOILHAT: Was DJT45 warned about a ‘new SARS virus’

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9992471/Chinese-defector-Wei-Jingsheng-claims-warned-Covid-19-months-pandemic-declared.html

Chinese defector claims he warned the US that China was covering up a deadly new virus in Wuhan MONTHS before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic – but was ‘ignored’ by Trump officials

  • Defector Wei Jingsheng said he warned Trump administration about Covid
  • He claims he took his concerns to senior figures in the US gov but was ignored
  • The campaigner says he made the approach all way back in November 2019
  • Had heard rumours about a ‘new SARS virus’ being kept secret in China

By LEVI PARSONS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

PUBLISHED: 04:54 EDT, 15 September 2021 | UPDATED: 05:40 EDT, 15 September 2021

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A Chinese defector claims he tried to warn top US officials about a deadly new virus in Wuhan five months before the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic.

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If this is the case someone, or a lot of someones, should be working at McDonalds!

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POLITICAL: Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant

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Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant linked to Wuhan lab, new book says
Excerpts from the book, “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” are being released.
By Nicholas Sherman
Updated: June 24, 2021 – 3:40pm

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Trump issued a directive to Fauci and the National Institutes of Health in April 2020 to cut funding for a study examining how coronaviruses jump from infected bats to humans after it was reportedly linked to the lab in Wuhan, suspected of having leaked the virus.

The exchange between Fauci and the White House is detailed in an upcoming book by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta called “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” according to Fox News.

The study’s sponsor, EcoHealth Alliance, was then told to end the remaining $369,819 balance of its 2020 grant.

According to the book, on April 2020, Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins received notice that Trump wanted to cancel the grant. Fauci and Collins resisted, telling the White House they “were not sure the NIH actually had the authority to terminate a peer-reviewed grant in the middle of a budget cycle.” 

“The HHS general counsel told them to do it anyway and made clear it was a direct order from the president, implying that their jobs were on the line if they didn’t comply. Fauci and Collins reluctantly agreed to cancel the grant,” an excerpt of the book reads.

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So why weren’t they fired immediately.  Did DJT45 learn nothing from his time on “The Apprentice”?

What better way to communicate to entrenched bureaucrats who feel entitled than a visit to the unemployment office?

It should have been an after-thought — “BTW fire all those people in that chain of command NOW!”.

Argh!

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