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China, Fauci and the Origins of Covid Did the virus come from a Chinese lab funded by the celebrated doctor’s U.S. government institute?
WSJ ^ | May 7, 2021 4:39 pm ET | By James Freeman

Posted on 05/07/2021 2:18:38 PM PDT by conservative98

Before Covid-19 ravaged the world, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded coronavirus research that included work at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The idea was to study the ability of such viruses to attack humans, but could a Fauci-funded experiment actually be the source of the deadly global infection? In an exhaustive account of the viral possibilities published this week by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade argues that the Chinese lab is the most likely source of the world-wide agony.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biosafety; biosecurity; bioweapon; china; coronavirus; covid19; disease; ethics; faucd; fauci; firefauci; gainoffunction; gofr; niaid; nicholaswade; wuhan; yes
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1 posted on 05/07/2021 2:18:38 PM PDT by conservative98
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2 posted on 05/07/2021 2:19:55 PM PDT by conservative98
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3 posted on 05/07/2021 2:28:02 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: conservative98

There is not a good way of proving this from examining the virus though it does have an unusual genome and is perfectly suited for binding to the human ACE receptor.

The Chinese government’s behavior at the beginning and throughout the pandemic has been suspicious to say the least.


4 posted on 05/07/2021 2:28:51 PM PDT by packagingguy
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This wouldn’t be the first time such evil has been perpetrated. Releasing a scourge and then showing up as the heros to defeat it.

Psychiatrists and psychologists have been doing this for years. Phony destructive “treatments” that turn people into lunatics and killers. Then claiming “We got to them too late”. Give us more money to fix it.” Then the problem gets worse.

Same pattern.


5 posted on 05/07/2021 2:29:17 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: conservative98

Of course it came from a lab, did it come from the level 4 lab in Wuhan ? perhaps, but since the Chinese were working on these virus in level 3 and level 2 labs also in Wuhan, one of them next to the market I think that is more likely.

everyone is focusing on the L4 lab which may actually have nothing to do with it.

I also think the evidence shows that there were many viruses released, either accidentally or possibly a failure in the proper disposal of their test animals.


6 posted on 05/07/2021 2:29:17 PM PDT by algore
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To: grey_whiskers
Trying to accuse and blame other countries and their leadership is like trying to blame and accuse Congressional leaders in our country. They are protected and will never be arrested nor face criminal prosecution.
7 posted on 05/07/2021 2:32:36 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: algore

You’re not supposed to throw your lab rats in the trash.

Nor, take them home and eat them.


8 posted on 05/07/2021 2:32:47 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18er that, we)
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To: caww

Think again.
If the American people find out or are persuaded Fauci and the Dems are behind the COOF?


9 posted on 05/07/2021 2:33:47 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: conservative98

Yes it did.


10 posted on 05/07/2021 2:33:58 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Trying to accuse and blame other countries and their leadership is like trying to blame and accuse Congressional leaders in our country. They are protected and will never be arrested nor face criminal prosecution.
11 posted on 05/07/2021 2:34:31 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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Nope..not going to happen..


12 posted on 05/07/2021 2:36:24 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: grey_whiskers

You mean Fauci himself might have had something to do with the creation of the Fauci Flu?


13 posted on 05/07/2021 2:36:37 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: algore

“ possibly a failure in the proper disposal of their test animals.”

Interesting. Never thought of that.


14 posted on 05/07/2021 2:38:03 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: conservative98

Zuckface and HoChiJack will now block WSJ


15 posted on 05/07/2021 2:48:18 PM PDT by A strike ( Barr to Gitmo, Fauxi to Florence supermax, Roberts to Terre Haute)
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To: conservative98

This is the article which the article wrote about

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/


16 posted on 05/07/2021 2:54:05 PM PDT by HollyB
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From the article:

“It is clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was systematically constructing novel chimeric coronaviruses and was assessing their ability to infect human cells and human-ACE2-expressing mice,” says Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University and leading expert on biosafety.


17 posted on 05/07/2021 3:03:23 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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To: conservative98

Ho Lee Bat Scheize!

It’s documented that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were doing gain-of-function experiments designed to make coronaviruses infect human cells and humanized mice. This is exactly the kind of experiment from which a SARS2-like virus could have emerged. The researchers were not vaccinated against the viruses under study, and they were working in the minimal safety conditions of a BSL2 laboratory. So escape of a virus would not be at all surprising. In all of China, the pandemic broke out on the doorstep of the Wuhan institute. The virus was already well adapted to humans, as expected for a virus grown in humanized mice. It possessed an unusual enhancement, a furin cleavage site, which is not possessed by any other known SARS-related beta-coronavirus, and this site included a double arginine codon also unknown among beta-coronaviruses. What more evidence could you want, aside from the presently unobtainable lab records documenting SARS2’s creation?


18 posted on 05/07/2021 3:04:58 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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And then,

Proponents of natural emergence have a rather harder story to tell... No one has found the bat population that was the source of SARS2, if indeed it ever infected bats. No intermediate host has presented itself, despite an intensive search by Chinese authorities that included the testing of 80,000 animals. There is no evidence of the virus making multiple independent jumps from its intermediate host to people, as both the SARS1 and MERS viruses did. There is no evidence from hospital surveillance records of the epidemic gathering strength in the population as the virus evolved. There is no explanation of why a natural epidemic should break out in Wuhan and nowhere else. There is no good explanation of how the virus acquired its furin cleavage site, which no other SARS-related beta-coronavirus possesses, nor why the site is composed of human-preferred codons. The natural emergence theory battles a bristling array of implausibilities.


19 posted on 05/07/2021 3:06:11 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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To: conservative98

Blockbuster.

Deny that, Fuuuci!


20 posted on 05/07/2021 3:08:33 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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