One of the world's top virologists and a strong proponent of the natural origin of COVID came out with a paper in the first half of 2020, that I'm too lazy to look up. He basically said you could tell from the backbone of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that it probably wasn't designed, because the backbone didn't resemble others that virologists commonly use when creating new viruses. However, that left open the possibility that maybe someone set out to intentionally hide that the virus was engineered. Which presumably would be the case if you were creating a bioweapon.
I'd think the possibility the virus was created by the Chinese as a possible weapon though would be remote. If that were the case, you'd think they wouldn't have unleashed it first on themselves. What would be the sense in doing that intentionally? And you'd think they'd be careful enough with a bioweapon not to have an accident.
There's plenty of blame regardless of how this arose. Some very bad bugs have come out of China:
https://www.wionews.com/photos/7-kil...undated-311134
Still they have wet markets and conditions that promote bird flu.
If you assume they weren't developing a bioweapon, I don't know what reflects worse on China - natural origin or gain-of-function research and a lab leak. Either way there are probably things the Chinese could have done that would have averted a pandemic. Originally Posted by Tiny
given that we both know that Fauci moved to quash any talk of a lab origin and pressured "top virologists" to discredit any lab origin findings i question the motivations of this top virologist who likely is getting government grants and has a financial incentive to tow the Fauci line.
it was after all Fauci who indirectly funded gain of function research by directing funds to EcoHealth Alliance (giving Fauci a layer of plausible deniability) for this research.
NIH Documents Provide New Evidence U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan
U.S.-funded experiment in China posed biosafety risks but did not cause Covid-19 pandemic, scientists say.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/...tion-research/
Grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Anthony Fauci. The award to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization which studies the spread of viruses from animals to humans, included subawards to Wuhan Institute of Virology and East China Normal University. The principal investigator on the grant is EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, who has been a key voice in the search for Covid-19’s origins.
what is more probable .. that a bat in a cave 1,000 miles away flew all the way to Wuhan only to be captured and sold at a wet market (no bats or pangolins were shown to be sold at the Wuhan wet market for years prior to covid) or that it came from research on gain on function?
the new "source" is now raccoon dogs because there might be a case that they were sold as food there.
three years later nothing has been uncovered to show covid in any animal anywhere China or otherwise yet the press at the behest of the perpetrators China and Fauci the fraud dutifully tow the narrative including "top virologists".
