[LINK] Origin of Covid — Following the Clues

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 7/05/2021 10:37 am, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Is this at all likely?  I don't know enough about genetic engineering
> to know.
>
> https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
>
>
>
IMHO, you don't need to know anything about genetic engineering, just
human nature:

The important two paragraphs in that whole report are:

Doubts about Natural Emergence

"Natural emergence was the media’s preferred theory until around
February 2021 and the visit by a World Health Organization commission to
China. The commission’s composition and access were heavily controlled
by the Chinese authorities. Its members, who included the ubiquitous Dr.
Daszak, kept asserting before, during and after their visit that lab
escape was extremely unlikely. But this was not quite the propaganda
victory the Chinese authorities may have been hoping for. What became
clear was that the Chinese had no evidence to offer the commission in
support of the natural emergence theory.

This was surprising because both the SARS1 and MERS viruses had left
copious traces in the environment. The intermediary host species of
SARS1 was identified within four months of the epidemic’s outbreak, and
the host of MERS within nine months. Yet some 15 months after the SARS2
pandemic began, and a presumably intensive search, Chinese researchers
had failed to find either the original bat population, or the
intermediate species to which SARS2 might have jumped, or any
serological evidence that any Chinese population, including that of
Wuhan, had ever been exposed to the virus prior to December 2019.
Natural emergence remained a conjecture which, however plausible to
begin with, had gained not a shred of supporting evidence in over a year."

The Chinese had a vested interest in coming up with something, anything
that supported Natural Emergence, even if it was marginal.

That they didn't, speaks volumes.

When you look at the vested interests and behaviour of the people
promoting Natural Emergence, the "lab escape" argument seems very strong.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au