World authorities are still lying about the probable origin of SARS-CoV-2

07 April 2021

Introduction

Today, I'll present evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was a gain-of-function bat virus concoction and not a natural occurrence.

Then, we'll think about 'who did it'.

Intertwined in all this is the inescapable conclusion that no one in national or world authority is going to want the truth to come out. An Establishment-protecting cover-up is, almost certainly, in progress.

COVID-19 came . . .

. . . we are told, again, from a Chinese farm or meat market.

From Nature:

Markets that sold animals . . . in December 2019 have emerged as a probable source of the coronavirus pandemic in a major investigation organized by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Genomic analyses and inferences based on the origins of other diseases suggest that an intermediate animal . . . passed SARS-CoV-2 to humans after becoming infected with a predecessor coronavirus in bats.

Two-thirds of the 170-odd people who had symptoms in December reported having been exposed to live or dead animals shortly beforehand, and 10% had travelled outside Wuhan.

Chinese researchers sequenced the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from some of the people in this group, finding that eight of the earliest sequences were identical, and that infected people were linked to the Huanan market.

[R]esearchers also found that these genomes varied slightly from those in a few other early cases. Some linked to the market; others did not.

This means that the coronavirus might have been spreading under the radar in communities, evolving along the way, and coincidentally occurring in people linked to the market, says the report.

[WHO team member Peter Daszak] points out that researchers traced farmed animals at the market back to three provinces in China where pangolins and bats carrying coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 had been found.

Although the pangolin and bat viruses proved too distant to be the direct progenitors of SARS-CoV-2, Daszak says that the animals might provide a clue that outbreaks among animals started in those places.

Not everyone buys WHO's conclusion

Dubious nations included the United States, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom:

Going forward, there must now be a renewed commitment by WHO and all Member States to access, transparency, and timeliness.

It is critical for independent experts to have full access to all pertinent human, animal, and environmental data, research, and personnel involved in the early stages of the outbreak relevant to determining how this pandemic emerged.

With all data in hand, the international community may independently assess COVID-19 origins, learn valuable lessons from this pandemic, and prevent future devastating consequences from outbreaks of disease.

CNN had this to say:

Speaking in the briefing Tuesday, WHO chief Tedros conceded the international experts faced problems with data access in Wuhan.

"In my discussions with the team, they expressed the difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data. I expect future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data sharing," said Tedros, who had previously faced criticism that his agency was too close to China.

Dominic Dwyer, an Australian infectious diseases expert and member of the WHO team, told Reuters last month the team had requested raw patient data on the 174 early cases in Wuhan in December 2019, but was refused and provided only with a summary instead.

Let's interject some molecular genetics . . .

. . . in place of the above political wrangling.

I find it interesting how persuasive year-old genetic evidence — contrary to the farm and market origin hypothesis — has suddenly disappeared from humanity's view.

If one follows that chain of likely causation, China and the United States are both implicated in having created SARS-CoV-2.

There are two probable possibilities . . .

. . . regarding human-created SARS-CoV-2:

China accidently released a gain-of-function research bat coronavirus. Probably from its Wuhan biosafety level 4 lab.

Alternatively, the United States intentionally released a gain-of-function bat coronavirus, in a neocon instigated economic attack upon China and a political one on Iran.

What is interesting is that . . .

. . . the Finger of Reasonable Blame can legitimately point to either nation.

And further, that this Digit of Accusation forces both nations (admitted adversaries) into reluctantly cooperating, so as to conceal — or explain away — their likely contributions to the pandemic.

This is why, in my estimation, that the SARS-CoV-2 picture is so confused.

Where did SARS-CoV-2 'really' come from?

Insightfully keeping up with the SARS-CoV-2 story requires at least some background in molecular biology, viral evolution, and arguably also in the epidemiology of viral zoonotics.

In short, the single most significant clue — regarding who did what to whom — is found in SARS-CoV-2's binding domain, at what is called a 'furin cleavage site'.

The genetic sequence there has been altered. And no genetically believable natural explanation presents itself as being evolutionarily persuasive.

The alteration in binding domain is so specific — and so perfectly suited to latching onto human ACE2 receptors — and so absent from the proposed originating bat and maybe pangolin sequences — that it is improbable that the change was inserted without human intervention — using accepted biotechnology.

This is the single most important piece of pandemic knowledge that the World Establishment is — we can infer based on the prevailing slantedness of lay-accessible publications — trying very hard to suppress.

Can't have the People Sheep recognizing that national security complexes are literally playing with their miserable lives.

The lab-origin suspicion began early in 2020

In April 2020, the mysteriously credentials and background-free Yuri Deigin took an admirably thorough base-by-base look at the genetic sequences of the bat and pangolin viruses that have been asserted to be at the heart of SARS-CoV-2's evolution.

He concluded that:

CoV2 is an obvious chimera (though not necessarily a lab-made one), which is based on the ancestral bat strain RaTG13, in which the receptor binding motif (RBM) in its spike protein is replaced by the RBM from a pangolin strain, and in addition, a small but very special stretch of 4 amino acids is inserted, which creates a furin cleavage site that, as virologists have previously established, significantly expands the “repertoire” of the virus in terms of whose cells it can penetrate.

Most likely, it was thanks to this new furin site that the new mutant managed to jump species from its original host to humans.

Let me be clear: this does NOT prove that CoV2 was synthesized in the laboratory.

Yes, as we have seen above, from a technical standpoint, it would not be difficult for a modern virologist to create such a strain.

But there is no direct evidence that anyone did this, and strange coincidences cannot pass for circumstantial evidence.

Deigin's genuinely impressive genetic analysis makes it reasonably self-evident that the virus is most probably a human gain-of-function creation.

Yet, he backs away from this obvious conclusion by saying that he doubts that it is such.

One would expect Deigin's assertion to have roused curiosity in many minds

Apparently, it did not.

The world's epidemiology Gestapo was out, in inferable force, suppressing this kind of thinking.

Hmmm.

Why would 'they' be doing that and with whose help?

And notice that no one, to my knowledge, tackled as mistaken — Deigin's explicit examples of the suspicious genetic sequences in question.

In other words, Deigin is wrong (they say) but the sequences that he looked at are correct.

If that's the case, it is Deigin's critics (in my estimation) who possess bents toward irrationality.

And then, in late March 2021 . . .

. . . came the following — also heavily ignored — overview of SARS-CoV-2's genetic origins.

Yuri Deigin was again involved, but this time with assistance from a handful of credentialed, but still somewhat mysteriously gathered, apparently non-Establishment people.

Worthy rebels, kooks or intelligence plants?

They wrote that:

There is a near-consensus view that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, has a natural zoonotic origin; however, several characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 taken together are not easily explained by a natural zoonotic origin hypothesis.

These include a low rate of evolution in the early phase of transmission; the lack of evidence for recombination events; a high pre-existing binding to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2); a novel furin cleavage site (FCS) insert; a flat ganglioside-binding domain (GBD) of the spike protein which conflicts with host evasion survival patterns exhibited by other coronaviruses; and high human and mouse peptide mimicry.

Initial assumptions against a laboratory origin by contrast have remained unsubstantiated.

Furthermore, over a year after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, there is still no clear evidence of zoonotic transfer from a bat or intermediate species.

Given the immense social and economic impact of this pandemic, identifying the true origin of SARS-CoV-2 is fundamental to preventing future outbreaks. The search for SARS-CoV-2′s origin should include an open and unbiased inquiry into a possible laboratory origin.

© 2021 Rossana Segreto, Yuri Deigin, Kevin McCairn, Alejandro Sousa, Dan Sirotkin, Karl Sirotkin, Jonathan J. Couey, Adrian Jones and Daoyu Zhang, Should we discount the laboratory origin of COVID-19?, Environmental Chemistry Letters, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-021-01211-0 (25 March 2021)

Let's put these pieces together

I will link the dots and add explanatory material, where appropriate.

First dot — physical evidence

The above-cited genetics examination indicates that SARS-CoV-2 was — more likely than not — intentionally human-targeted by inserting an altered binding sequence into an originally bat-carried coronavirus.

Second (tentative) dot — NIH's bat virus research grant to the Wuhan lab

Anthony Fauci's National Institutes of Health funded bat virus research at the same Wuhan biolab that is suspected by many people of having leaked SARS-CoV-2:

The Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which were funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government.

The $37 million Wuhan Institute of Virology, the most advanced laboratory of its type on the Chinese mainland, is based twenty miles from the now infamous wildlife market that was thought to be the location of the original transfer of the virus from animals to humans.

According to documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday, scientists there experimented on bats as part of a project funded by the US National Institutes of Health, which continues to licence the Wuhan laboratory to receive American money for experiments.

Other U.S. partners include the University of Alabama, the University of North Texas, Harvard University, and the National Wildlife Federation.

As part of the NIH research at the institute, scientists grew a coronavirus in a lab and injected it into three-day-old piglets.

The Wuhan Institute, which keeps more than 1,500 strains of deadly viruses, specializes in the research of 'the most dangerous pathogens', in particular the viruses carried by bats.

Chinese officials decided to build the institute after the country was ravaged by an outbreak of SARS in 2002 and 2003.

© 2020 Glenn Owen, U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated, Daily Mail (11 April 2020)

Notice that the above tidbit came from a British news source, not an American one. Our US Lamestream routinely covers for the Scheming American Establishment.

For instance, consider the following lamely reasoned effort (on the same topic) from the Austin American Statesman:

In 2014, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the part of the NIH headed by Fauci, awarded a $3.4 million grant to the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, which aims to protect people from viruses that jump from species to species.

The group hired the virology lab in Wuhan to conduct genetic analyses of bat coronaviruses collected in Yunnan province, about 800 miles southwest of Wuhan. EcoHealth Alliance paid the lab $598,500 over five years. The lab had secured approval from both the U.S. State Department and the NIH.

That the NIAID funded the project is not in question. However, the WorldNetDaily article goes further than that, claiming that the grant covered "gain of function" research on a bat coronavirus, which "created" SARS-CoV-2.

Gain-of-function research is a controversial form of study that involves boosting the infectivity and lethality of a pathogen. Proponents of gain-of-function say it helps researchers spot potential threats to human health and allows them to figure out ways to tackle a new virus. Fauci has advocated for gain-of-function research in the past. In a 2011 article he co-wrote for the Washington Post, he promoted it as a means to study influenza viruses.

However, there’s no hard proof to support the article’s claims about gain-of-function research. The overwhelming consensus among public health experts is that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 evolved naturally.

All parties involved in the grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology have denied that it involved gain-of-function research.

Let me deviate a bit here, to make two theme-associated points. These concern the importance of sorting possibilities by the probability levels of their occurrence.

Are we 'really' to believe that a premier, biosafety level 4 lab in China allegedly was not doing gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses?

How likely would that be, even in the United States, where anything and everything is weaponized?

Notice also The Statesman's blandly forwarded illogic — so representative of everything that the Establishment wants to conceal:

[T]here's no hard proof to support the article's claims about gain-of-function research.

The overwhelming consensus among public health experts is that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 evolved naturally.

According to The Statesman, the Consensual Party Line is always a correct interpretation of Truth. Despite, as my current blurb is demonstrating, its weight-of-evidence unlikelihood.

For instance, the 2015 NIH grant to the Wuhan lab occurred only after the US had put a moratorium on gain-of-function virus research in the United States:

The White House today stepped into an ongoing debate about controversial virus experiments with a startling announcement:

It is halting all federal funding for so-called gain-of-function (GOF) studies that alter a pathogen to make it more transmissible or deadly so that experts can work out a U.S. government-wide policy for weighing the risks. Federal officials are also asking the handful of researchers doing ongoing work in this area to agree to a voluntary moratorium.

The “pause on funding,” a White House blog states, applies to “any new studies … that may be reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route.”

The government also “encourages those currently conducting this type of work—whether federally funded or not—to voluntarily pause their research while risks and benefits are being reassessed.” Research and testing of naturally occurring forms of these pathogens will continue.

Note

The US moratorium was removed in December 2017 — demonstrating the irresistibility of the American penchant for making armaments out of whatever it can:

The US government has lifted its controversial ban on funding experiments that make certain pathogens more deadly or transmissible.

On 19 December, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that scientists can once again use federal money to conduct ‘gain-of-function’ research on pathogens such as influenza viruses. But the agency also said that researchers’ grant applications will undergo greater scrutiny than in the past.

Third dot — COVID-19 first raised its massive head in Wuhan . . .

. . . not too far from the suspect laboratory, but not significantly so in the rest of China.

Occam's razor — arbitrary though that intellectual aid is — would suggest that (i) a lab doing gene manipulation and (ii) Wuhan may be the most efficient places to begin looking for evidence.

But is that what a possibly culprit United States wants us to think — given its brain-dead, reflexive hostility to anything People's Republic of China?

Fourth dot — withdrawn NIH funding

Potentially suggestively, Anthony Fauci's NIH withdrew its grant to the Wuhan lab, immediately upon the visible beginnings of COVID's rampage across the planet.

Given how unusual an NIH grant withdrawal is, covering tracks is a reasonable hypothesis about the underlying motivation:

The Trump administration abruptly cut off funding for a project studying how coronaviruses spread from bats to people after reports linked the work to a lab in Wuhan, China, at the center of conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins.

The National Institutes of Health on Friday told EcoHealth Alliance, the study’s sponsor for the past five years, that all future funding was cut. The agency also demanded that the New York-based research nonprofit stop spending the $369,819 remaining from its 2020 grant, according to emails obtained by POLITICO.

Suddenly ending a grant early is an unusual move for the NIH, which typically takes such steps only when there is evidence of scientific misconduct or financial improprieties — neither of which it has alleged took place in this case.

The EcoHealth Alliance has received more than $3.7 million since 2015 for its research on the risks of coronavirus spread through bats and the potential for spillover into humans.

Imagine how embarrassing it would have been to be fingered for the creating the virus that continues killing hundreds of thousands of predominantly vulnerable people.

I would have liked to see Anthony Fauci's face, when an aide clued him about COVID-19's eruption worldwide — and reminded him of the NIH grant to the Chinese biolab that everyone suspected had released it.

By the way, grants to EcoHealth have since been reinstated. Which might indicate that EcoHealth had not used NIH money to fund gain-of-function. Or alternatively, that it had — and no one cared anymore.

My cynical guess would be that — having dodged the Revelation Bullet on the wings of President Trump's reasonably successful anti-China propaganda program — Dr. Fauci's Crew eagerly marched on with their purported 'research' directions.

Dots connecting themselves

The above dot-to-dot pattern is so obvious that one has to (rhetorically) wonder why the World Health Organization and the Lamestream have not spotted and thoroughly investigated it.

This is not conspiracy theorizing. It is simple detection reasoning. The kind that any cop worth his and her salt would be doing.

On the other hand, there are even more devious subtleties to all this. And some of those suspicions directly implicate the United States in what has happened.

Evaluate first, whether the above dots are too obviously plopped down

Could we be being led somewhere?

Could some of the dot-leaving have been an intelligence operation intended to cast blame on China?

Consider, instance — the US-initiated COVID-19 biowarfare hypothesis

That possibility has been interestingly presented by two writers — both published at The Unz Review:

Metallicman, Was the 2020 Wuhan Coronavirus an Engineered Biological Attack on China by America for Geopolitical Advantage?, Unz Review (27 January 2020)

Ron Unz, American Pravda: Covid-19, Its Impact and Origins After One Year, Unz Review (15 March 2021)

The 'Bad US Guys' hypothesis goes like this

According to Ron Unz:

Rogue elements within our large national security apparatus probably affiliated with the Deep State Neocons decided to inflict severe damage upon the huge Chinese economy using biowarfare.

The plan was to infect the key transport hub of Wuhan with Covid-19 so that the disease would invisibly spread throughout the entire country during the annual Lunar New Year travels, and they used the cover of the Wuhan International Military Games to slip a couple of operatives into the city to release the virus.

The biological agent they released was designed primarily as an anti-economy rather than an anti-personnel weapon.

As a secondary operation, they decided to target Iran’s political elites, possibly deploying a somewhat more deadly variant of the virus. Since political elites generally tend to be elderly, they would anyway suffer far greater fatalities.

The deadly SARS and MERS outbreaks in East Asia and the Near East had never significantly spread back to America (or Europe), so the plotters wrongly assumed that the same would be the case with Covid-19.

Only a small number of individuals were directly involved in this plot, and soon after the disease was successfully released in Wuhan, they decided to further safeguard America’s own interests by alerting the appropriate units with the Defense Intelligence Agency, probably by fabricating some sort of supposed “intelligence leak.”

Basically, they arranged for the DIA to hear that Wuhan was apparently suffering a “cataclysmic” disease outbreak, thereby leading the DIA to prepare and distribute a secret report warning our own forces and allies to take appropriate precautions.

Unfortunately for these plans, the Chinese government reacted with astonishing determination and effectiveness, and soon stamped out the disease.

Meanwhile, the lackadaisical and incompetent American government largely ignored the problem . . . .

[T]he result was massive damage to America’s economy and society.

America suffered exactly the fate that had originally been intended for its Chinese rival.

The strength of the 'Americans did it' hypothesis is . . .

. . . that it so perfectly fits US international character. Certainly so, since the early 1950s and our 'interventions' all over the place.

The best one-source author on that the subject of the United States' evility abroad is Professor Noam Chomsky.

If you're a dreamy-eyed, reflexive American patriot, read what he has had to say. His facts are close to 100 percent accurate. And his memory for them, prodigious.

So, don't think for an instant that Ron Unz's suspicion about a neocon plot of the SARS-CoV-2 kind is out of the question.

In fact, if anyone on the planet released COVID-19 on purpose, it would almost certainly be the subset of neocon Death Clowns at the American Deep State helm.

With regard to China's restrained reaction to the WHO report . . .

. . . is the US off the hook for the alleged conspiracy theory that 'we' were the ones who initiated COVID-19 biowarfare?

Maybe and maybe not.

At first glance, one would expect China to have reacted strongly, had its authorities discovered that the US sprinkled SARS-CoV-2 around at the PRC-hosted Military World Games in October 2020.

That the Chinese have not reacted to such a possibility . . .

. . . even after being accused of covering up their own involvement in COVID-19's release into the world — suggests that the US is not responsible for such an attack.

At second glance, though . . .

One can come up with a reason why China might:

(a) know that SARS-CoV-2 was indeed an American bioweapon

and that

(b) the virus had been released, on purpose, by Americans visiting China —

yet

Presumably, under those conditions, Chinese authorities might have decided that confronting the US, at present, is geopolitically and economically too costly.

Therefore, instead of announcing what happened and then doing nothing (so as to avoid a major war) — but thereby losing immense face — Chinese leadership may have decided to sit on what it knows, until a more appropriate time for hammering back appears.

The moral? — The best evidentiary guess for COVID-19's origin is . . .

. . . that SARS-CoV-2 was human-manipulated to increase its infectivity and virulence.

The question as to 'who did this' remains.

The only thing that I'm reasonably sure of is that We the People will never find out. Miscreant contributors on all sides will assist each other in covering up.

What happens now will simply be a propaganda war comprised of still more lies and misdirections.

And, of course, Big Pharma will continue to profit. I would have no trouble turning that outcome into yet another hypothesis about evil doings.

In fact, most of my writings about COVID-19 have pointed to exactly that profit motive, as underlying the United States' genuinely abysmal public health performance.

Fun times, indeed.

By their lies, shall ye know them.

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World authorities are still lying about the probable origin of SARS-CoV-2