THE ORIGINS OF THE COVID-19 GLOBAL PANDEMIC, INCLUDING THE ROLES OF THE CHINESE THE ROLES OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov ^ | 6/12/2020 | HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINORITY STAFF INTERIM REPORT

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

During the 2003 SARS pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used its stranglehold on journalists and dissidents in China to hide information and obfuscate the source of the outbreak. CCP leaders failed to inform the World Health Organization (WHO) about the virus for four months. In the wake of this malfeasance, the world demanded reforms to the International Health Regulations that govern how countries are required to handle public health emergencies. Today, it has become clear that the CCP failed to heed these lessons. The ongoing pandemic is a tragic second chapter to their mishandling of the 2003 SARS outbreak.

There are still many unanswered questions as to the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the root of the global pandemic. Almost daily, new information comes out of China and elsewhere showing the scale of CCP efforts to hide and cover up the outbreak. This interim report is an effort to put the information that is publicly available into context, define what questions regarding the virus and the response are still outstanding, and provide recommendations on how to improve the global response moving forward. This report is focused on the early phases of the pandemic, prior to the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 23, 2020. It will be updated and expanded in the weeks and months ahead, but certain facts are established.

It is beyond doubt that the CCP actively engaged in a cover-up designed to obfuscate data, hide relevant public health information, and suppress doctors and journalists who attempted to warn the world. They deliberately, and repeatedly, disregarded their obligations under the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR). Senior CCP leaders, including CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping, knew a pandemic was ongoing weeks before it was announced. By responding in a transparent and responsible manner, the CCP could have supported the global public health response and shared information with the world about how to handle the virus. It is likely the ongoing pandemic could have been prevented had they done so, saving hundreds of thousands of lives and the world from an economic meltdown.

WHO Director-General Tedros has responded to the CCP’s cover-up by praising the CCP for their “transparency.” The WHO has repeatedly parroted CCP talking points while ignoring conflicting information. Director-General Tedros’ full-throated defense of the CCP’s response and embrace of their revisionist history, as well as the impact of his actions on the global response, is incredibly concerning. There remain many outstanding questions that require us to seriously examine the WHO’s handling of COVID-19. However, it has become clear that the WHO also failed to fulfill certain duties required by the IHR.

Reflecting on what we have uncovered so far, the failures of the CCP to protect their citizens and fulfill their obligations under international law have resulted in disappeared journalists, a world seized by a public health emergency, and hundreds of thousands of dead. As such, it is incumbent upon the United States and likeminded WHO Member States to ensure the accountability and reforms necessary to prevent the CCP’s malfeasance from giving rise to a third pandemic originating from China during this century.

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HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINORITY STAFF INTERIM REPORT

LEAD REPUBLICAN MICHAEL T. McCAUL

[Gene Eric]

>> THE ROLES OF THE CHINESE THE ROLES OF THE CHINESE

I typically get just one egg roll with my Gen Tao’s chicken dinner

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They shop short of accusing China of engineering a WMD and deliberately unleashing it on the world.

Probably a bad idea to recognize an act of a shootin' war with and between nuclear powers. Better to make them pay dearly by non-nuclear weapons means.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[little jeremiah]

They shop short of accusing China of engineering a WMD and deliberately unleashing it on the world.
Probably a bad idea to recognize an act of a shootin’ war with and between nuclear powers. Better to make them pay dearly by non-nuclear weapons means.

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Agree. CIC is the one to declare that it was an act of war. Which he may or may not do, we shall see. They need to pay very, very dearly and I have no doubt that Trump is doing and will do so even more.

And now CCP is declaring a second wave, how timely.

[elbook]

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ITS TIME FOR : NATIONAL DISTANCING

Wuflu was such a successful weapon for them they are cooking up 20 21 22 to afflict the rest of the World with.

Remember - the ChiComs rule their country at the point of a gun and dont care if they lose a few million of their own people to gain Power.

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[kaehurowing]

Third pandemic starting in Beijing right now.

[Salvation]

for later.

[WildHighlander57]

kaehurowing wrote:

“Third pandemic starting in Beijing right now.”

Yep, same virus, not a new one.

[Chewbarkah]

I’m not ready to sign on to my own conspiracy theory, but given the Democrats ruthless weaponization of the CIA and desperation to oust Trump, can we rule out that they unleashed the pandemic as a means of winning the election in November? The Dems are polling to win right now, even with a demented candidate, for one reason only: morons blame whoever is in office for the pandemic. Qui bono? The Chinese sure are not winning any prizes from it.

[Bob Ireland]

I note that it is a 'minority' report. The only thing the majority is interested in is getting rid of Donald J. Trump and slaughtering the Constitution - enslaving folks like us.

[VTenigma]

I’m with you on that, but not the Dems, the deep state. The dems are only part of that.

[Grandpa Drudge]

Here is the blueprint for Modifying (man made) SARS-Cov based Virus

Published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Strates of America) March 14, 2016

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/11/3048

SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence

From the first paragraph of this article:

“This manuscript describes efforts to extend surveillance beyond sequence analysis, constructing chimeric and full-length zoonotic coronaviruses to evaluate emergence potential. Focusing on SARS-like virus sequences isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats, the results indicate a significant threat posed by WIV1-CoV. Both full-length and chimeric WIV1-CoV readily replicated efficiently in human airway cultures and in vivo, suggesting capability of direct transmission to humans.”

And from the results summary in this article:

Using the SARS-CoV infectious clone as a template (7), we designed and synthesized a full-length infectious clone of WIV1-CoV consisting of six plasmids that could be enzymatically cut, ligated together, and electroporated into cells to rescue replication competent progeny virions (Fig. S1A). In addition to the full-length clone, we also produced WIV1-CoV chimeric virus that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone (WIV1-MA15, Fig. S1B). WIV1-MA15 incorporates the original binding and entry capabilities of WIV1-CoV, but maintains the backbone changes to mouse-adapted SARS-CoV. Importantly, WIV1-MA15 does not incorporate the Y436H mutation in spike that is required for SARS-MA15 pathogenesis (8). Following electroporation into Vero cells, robust stock titers were recovered from both chimeric WIV1-MA15 and WIV1-CoV.

And the connection to Wuhan Labs in China is highlighted in the

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology for access to bat CoV sequences and plasmid of WIV1-CoV spike protein. Research was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the National Institute of Aging of the NIH under Awards U19AI109761 and U19AI107810 (to R.S.B.), AI1085524 (to W.A.M.), and F32AI102561 and K99AG049092 (to V.D.M.). Human airway epithelial cell cultures were supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease under Award NIH DK065988 (to S.H.R.). Support for the generation of the mice expressing human ACE2 was provided by NIH Grants AI076159 and AI079521 (to A.C.S.).

[Grandpa Drudge]

And an interesting side note:

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) is managed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, in case you were wondering if he had any connection to this.

[citizen]

Proofreading thread title is your friend.

[citizen]

I think President T will hold the CCP accountable.

[Grandpa Drudge]

My assessment is that the PNAS article indicates strongly that NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, managed br Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, managed by Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi cooperated to create what ultimately became the chimeric virus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic.

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/11/3048

My further assessment is that the gop-foreignaffairs report is investigating CPP for malfeasence, but apparently not interesting in understanding where this virus originated, they are only interested in blaming CCP for the cover up.

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