Posted on 01/06/2024 7:10:48 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The June 2017 meeting at America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) held by Shi Zhengli – known as 'Batwoman' because of her work on sampling and sequencing the animals' viruses – will bolster fears of Western collusion in a Chinese cover-up after Covid resulted from a reckless laboratory experiment.
A new cache of documents, obtained by Freedom of Information campaigners and seen by The Mail on Sunday, reveal the extent to which the controversial work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was supported, and often funded, by America.
They show that US researchers seeking funding for work to engineer 'spike proteins' – making it easier for the bat viruses to infect human cells – misled the authorities about the risks of the experiments in order to maximise the chance of receiving grants.
The documents, obtained by US Right To Know, a non-profit public health research group, include an order made by Chinese intelligence on January 3, 2020 – two days after the world was first told about Covid – which decreed that its scientists should either share their samples with the government or destroy them 'on the spot'.
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Those of us who've been paying attention, and who are willing to think for themselves, have known the truth since 2020.
It’s so weird to see the US/China collaboration all through this - and at a time when China was beginning to be considered a major threat to Western interests.
One for the ping list?
We know the truth. The question is will the Stalinists ever acknowledge the truth. IMHO. It’s population culling definitely.
Yup...beta version.
The truly ramped up “gain of function” will enable global depopulation rivaling or exceeding the “Black Death”...and guess where that originated!
Yvonne Craig (died at age 78):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEJyjVUC6Hs
Most people assume it was an accidental leak. Couldn’t it have been deliberate?
None dared called it treason!
Interesting coincidence:
Chinese intelligence ordered the destruction of lab materials, etc, on January 3, 2020, the very same day Trump ordered the strike on Iranian Rev Guard Corps General Soleimani:
“Jan. 3, 2020 U.S. strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iraq.”
NIH concern
Within weeks of the pandemic’s outbreak, Wuhan Institute of Virology Senior Scientist Shi Zhengli published a preprint about RaTG13 and submitted its sequence to a public database.
Its resemblance to the novel coronavirus gripping the globe set off sirens among top virologists and NIH leaders Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, their emails show.
“In case you haven’t seen this preprint from one week ago,” Collins said in a February 1, 2020, email to Fauci obtained by U.S. Right to Know.
“No evidence this work was supported by NIH,” he said.
The NIH leaders joined a teleconference hours later with top virologists concerned about signs SARS-CoV-2 was engineered, which included discussion of similarities between the emerging novel virus and RaTG13.
Neither the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s preprint nor the final version published in February 2020 acknowledged any U.S. funding.
However, an addendum published nine months later revealed that the WIV partially sequenced RaTG13 in a 2016 study under its original name, RaBtCoV/4991.
This 2016 study did acknowledge funding from an NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance, a longtime partner of the WIV lab.
U.S. ties to COVID cousin
Documents obtained and analyzed by U.S. Right to Know confirm that the U.S. government helped fund the discovery of RaTG13.
Progress reports for the NIH grant awarded to EcoHealth Alliance confirm that the 2016 study was “published from work funded by this NIAID R01 [grant].”
A University of California Davis letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., goes further, suggesting that USAID may have been involved with its discovery.
“In China alone, we sampled >10,000 bats and ~2,000 other mammals, using PREDICT protocols to discover 52 novel SARS related-CoV’s [coronaviruses], including the closest relative of the Wuhan nCoV [SARS-CoV-2],” reads the letter.
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/us-funded-discovery-of-close-covid-19-relative/
Metabiota - Viral Surveillance for the PREDICT Program 20150410
https://globalprojects.ucsf.edu/project/metabiota-viral-surveillance-predict-program-20150410
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Would this be the same Metabiota funded by Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca?
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“In China alone, we sampled >10,000 bats and ~2,000 other mammals, using PREDICT protocols to discover 52 novel SARS related-CoV’s [coronaviruses], including the closest relative of the Wuhan nCoV [SARS-CoV-2],” reads the letter.
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/us-funded-discovery-of-close-covid-19-relative/
And what were the experiments actually showing?
The researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology used a human coronavirus and exchanged its spike proteins for spike proteins from bat coronaviruses. The purpose of this was to determine whether bat coronaviruses have the potential to infect humans. If the human virus still functioned with a bat virus spike protein, that means the bat virus the spike came from could potentially infect humans.
There is no "gain-of-function" here. Taking a virus that infects humans and seeing if it will still infect humans if one of its proteins has been exchanged for a protein from an animal virus is not "gain-of-function."
I see the term "gain-of-function" thrown around a lot by conspiracy theorists. I wonder if any of them can actually explain, scientifically, what "gain-of-function" research is? In the words of Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."
...Emily Kopp, who works at the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know...
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Dr. Malone, Dr. Frisch (sp?), Dr. Makary, and Dr. Simone Gold, just for starters, thank you. And they're not the only ones. Hell, Rand Paul and Ron Johnson thank you, for that matter.
Then what did that term mean when Anthonyt Fauci invented it and used it, in that same context?
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