Wuhan lab, a manufactured virus, and the hapless bats and pangolins that got a bad rap
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Inscription Covid-19 on abstract China map. Coronavirus disease named Covid-19. Map with contours of China with towns that confirmed coronavirus infection
By LINDA BOYLE
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, a former science editor for the newspaper states the Covid-19 virus was created in the lab. Author Nicholas Wade maintains the latest data demonstrates the virus occurred due to laboratory synthesis and not from nature, wet markets, or the poor pangolins and bats that got a bad rap.
Didn’t we know in 2020 there was a virology lab in Wuhan that was studying SARS-CoV-1 and other coronaviruses?
And didn’t the SARS-CoV-2 originate from that town?
And wasn’t it the cause of a worldwide pandemic?
And didn’t the Chinese government refuse to release information?
And didn’t our government shut down this narrative?
Dr. J. John Collins thought as much after reading Wade’s article. In a letter to the WSJ, he began by saying, “Covid came from a Wuhan Lab? Who could have guessed?” He then went on to say, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not a zebra.”
The fact that the virus was birthed in a lab and not in nature is seen in the “Furin cleavage site.” None of the more than 1,500 members of this coronavirus family contain this cleavage site to exchange DNA material. The specific “codons” or “words” that define this particular cleavage site are preferred in humans and not coronaviruses.
While most viruses need to have repeated tries to jump from animal host to people, SARS-CoV-2 immediately infected humans. It would seem this virus was preadapted to humans by initially growing in humanized mice – a specific step called for in the DEFUSE protocol.
[DB1] The DEFUSE protocol is what the three biologists (Bruttel, Washburne and VanDongen) stated could have made the virus. The project was submitted to The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for U.S. funding but was denied.
The [DB2] authors of the proposal submitted to DARPA included Dr. Peter Daszak of Ecohealth Alliance, Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Baric was the lead on technology; however, Daszak wanted most of the work to be done in Dr. Shi’s laboratory or at the Wuhan lab.
In recently obtained documents, Dr. Daszak stressed that having U.S. researchers named would help to get U.S. government financing. He said, “Once we get the funds, we can then allocate who does what exact work, and I believe that a lot of these assays can be done in Wuhan.”
Dr. Daszak denies any involvement in the creation of SARS-CoV-2. Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that the study he pushed for was exactly how the virus was created at the WIV.
Wade suggests that perhaps this research was carried on anyway at the Wuhan lab which may have secured funding through the Chinese government.
Wade notes that a piece of the puzzle missing is the “identity of the parent viruses from which SARS-CoV-2 was derived.” That puzzle piece is hard to get, as the Chinese authorities don’t want to identify viruses they have in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
However, Wade maintains the documentation and scientific evidence “seems sufficient to understand the genesis of the pandemic that killed millions.”
When speaking to Congress last year, Dr. Anthony Fauci finally admitted “the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory” as mainstream media pushed.
For over four years various well-respected doctors have told us the Covid-19 virus was manufactured in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In September 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a former post-doctoral student at Hong Kong University, was on various TV shows and stated she had proof. She was also the keynote speaker at Alaska Covid Alliance 2021 event in Anchorage where she also stated that the Covid virus came from the WIV.
Those doctors and other professionals who dared to claim the Covid virus originated from the WIV were vilified as passing out “misinformation.” The mainstream media and major medical professional organizations went nuts, as did the awesome fact checkers at Facebook and Twitter.
The Kool-Aid was drunk. There was no going back. It was critical to suppress these contradictory professional voices as it didn’t fit the mainstream narrative.
Now even the Wall Street Journal writes that the virus was manufactured in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Yet, I still know people who believe this virus was from bats and pangolins (who weren’t even there) in those wet markets. It’s hard to change that mind set — especially since you’ve believed what the government told you.
Wade goes on to say many will not believe this narrative because the mainstream media have been preaching the wet market theory for four years. Wade further states the journalists are “too beholden to their sources to suspect that virologists would lie to them about the extent of their profession’s responsibility for a catastrophic pandemic.”
I am reminded of a quote by Nietzsche, “Truth does not mind being questioned; A lie does not like being challenged.”
That appears to be where we are today with our government. We have challenged its talking points and the bureaucrats are doubling down.
But we have a choice. We can blindly follow or do a little research for ourselves and our families. Pfizer doesn’t like that people aren’t taking the boosters, and they are losing money.
No matter how hard public service announcements and public health departments try to push these jabs, Pfizer’s sales have dramatically decreased to $8 Billion, down from the $57B made in 2023.
In the end, those brave doctors who countered the government’s message were disparaged and some even lost their licenses to practice medicine.
We should challenge the next pandemic and not allow the government to shut down our economy, close our schools, separate us from family and friends, and take away our Freedom of Speech. It succeeded in the past pandemic and will no doubt try it again.
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.” – William Faulkner
Linda Boyle, RN, MSN, DM, was formerly the chief nurse for the 3rd Medical Group, JBER, and was the interim director of the Alaska VA. Most recently, she served as Director for Central Alabama VA Healthcare System. She is the director of the Alaska Covid Alliance.
