“Personally I think the Chinese got hold of the virus from overseas—that lab in Canada maybe?—and careless handling by their own lab employees let it get out before they understood what they were dealing with, let alone worked up an antidote.”
I think that’s most likely. They complete the lab in Wuhan. Their spies saw a chance to snatch some in Canada, so they brought it home. BUT, the training and the protocols are not fully developed and/or understood. So the sample breaks loose.
The theft from Canada last summer would line up perfectly with the outbreak - quietly making the rounds for a few months until breaking loose in Wuhan in November.
As to malicious intentions - who knows? If nothing else, the Chinese do have an interest in better understanding these viruses, considering how they’ve been hammered by SARS, Bird Flu, Swine Flu, etc. I don’t blame them for wanting to get that stuff under control...but they just weren’t careful enough.
At the end of January the head of Harvard’s chemistry department was arrested for helping China set up a secret biological research program in, guess where? . . . Wuhan, including trying to smuggle biological agents.
Coincidence? Don’t think so.
“Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.”
COVID19 bio-weapon was made in a secret PLA lab in the North. then tested in the Uigur test area were it killed 5,000 successfully. both the town and the sewers were destroyed. the canisters were then loaded on trucks bound for the L4 covert PLA lab in wusan for storage or to await deployment in Japan. On the way, near wusan, there was an accident which spilled the canisters out of the trucks and they were stolen by enterprising locals.
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The Chinese are not stupid. and the canadians had nothing to do with it.