More evidence has surfaced that the China Virus is a manipulated pathogen that escaped from a lab in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and did not ooze out of the city’s filthy wet markets.
The latest analysis, published three days ago in Nature.com’s Scientific Reports, was conducted by five scientists who studied almost 50,000 animals sold in the repellent emporia for two years.
Their conclusion: The market did not peddle any bats or pangolins — the possible sources of the potentially deadly Asiatic pathogen.
If true, the lab-leak hypothesis has grown even stronger. And China, its mad scientists, and the Americans who helped them with money and expertise, must be held accountable for the global pandemic.
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The Paper
The authors document “47,381 individuals from 38 species, including 31 protected species sold between May 2017 and November 2019 in Wuhan’s markets,” they wrote:
We note that no pangolins (or bats) were traded, supporting reformed opinion that pangolins were not likely the spillover host at the source of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. While we caution against the misattribution of COVID-19’s origins, the wild animals on sale in Wuhan suffered poor welfare and hygiene conditions and we detail a range of other zoonotic infections they can potentially vector.
The authors observed that China temporarily banned the wildlife trade, and “permanently banned eating and trading terrestrial wild (non-livestock) animals for food.”
The ban raises the obvious question of why anyone would want to chow down on a bat or monkey, or worse, a pangolin. The latter is a hideous, alien-like beast, also known as a scaly anteater.
The authors learned the markets’ meat merchants weren’t selling bats or pangolins that carried the virus quite “serendipitously,” they wrote:
For two years before the pandemic, “we were conducting unrelated routine monthly surveys of all 17 wet market shops selling live wild animals for food and pets across Wuhan City.”
The authors were trying to find the source of a tick fever that causes “Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS), following an outbreak in Hubei Province in 2009–2010 in which there was an unusually high initial case fatality rate of 30%”
Thus, they surveyed Wuhan’s markets:
On each visit, vendors were asked what species they had sold over the preceding month and in what numbers, along with the prices … the number of individuals available for sale at the time of each visit was noted. …
Notably, vendors freely disclosed a variety of protected species on sale illegally in their shops, therefore they would not benefit from specifically concealing pangolin trade or the trade in any particular species, and so we are confident this list is complete
Among the other tasty goodies customers could buy were marmots, badgers, and raccoon dogs. Also available were hedgehogs.
The authors claim “the original source of COVID-19 does not seem to have been established.”
Lab Theory
For weeks, reliable reports have strongly suggested the China Virus likely sprung from a lab at the WIV, where a scientist known as the Bat Lady, using American money and know-how, has been fiddling with viruses. Shu Zhengli performed gain-of-function experiments and, using a bat coronavirus, created a frightening version that could infect humans.
Experts believe that virus infected workers, which is how it escaped the lab.
The latest clue that points to a lab leak, reported in the Australian, is that a colleague of the Bat Lady filed for a vaccine patent before the pandemic. He mysteriously died.
As well, Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases subsidized the institute, told world health officials that the possibly fatal Chinese germ might have escaped a lab.
If true, the Red Chinese, their Bat Lady, and the Americans who pushed these irresponsible, dangerous experiments are responsible for the pandemic and 3.8 million deaths associated with it, as well as the global economic shutdown.
An open question is whether the Bat Lady was developing a bioweapon. Her lab was connected to the Chinese military, which, in 2015, proposed using the viruses in a germ-warfare attack. The ambush would collapse an enemy’s health system by overwhelming it with the sick and dying.
H/T: Daily Mail
