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U.S. Stops Funding W.H.O., China Increases Funding, Chinese Labs Dismissed as Source of COVID-19

The dirt keeps being swept under the rug.

I guess it is necessary to comment on the World Health Organization report released in March 2021 that determined that the CVOID-19 virus most likely leapt from animal to humans through an emissary animal.  The report, issued after teams of researchers were final allowed into China, in a highly supervised fashion, is not much of a revelation.

It is generally accepted that the initial source of the virus is an animal, most likely a bat. But there is zero evidence that it went from a bat to another animal to humans.  There are loads of evidence that the virus, or a close relative of it, was harvested in the Wuhan Institute for Virology.  It is also known that research on transmissibility was being conducted in the Wuhan labs, and there are some reports of staff there being infected.  And of course there is the emergency response by General Chen Wei to secure the facility shortly after the outbreak (previous post here).

With what I suspect is an obvious nod to the fact that the WHO investigators’ due diligence was far from professionally adequate, they acknowledge that they came to the conclusion that the Wuhan Institute for Virology was not the source of the virus release based on several hours of interviews with selected Institute personnel. I suspect that they made the statement to appease China, while at the same time sending a signal to the world that they really were not allowed to investigate to any serious degree.

According to more recent reports in April 2021 there is confirmation that for the past nine years there has been a civil-military program centered in Wuhan with a mission to investigate animal viruses and their keys to transmissibility. There was “a major project called ‘the discovery of animal-delivered pathogens carried by wild animals’, which set out to find organisms that could infect humans and investigate their evolution.” Adding that “if pathogens spread to humans and livestock, they could cause new infectious diseases ‘posing a great threat to human health and life safety and may cause major economic losses, even affect social stability.’”

Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of viruses were identified making the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the largest repository of bat coronaviruses in Asia, including at least one that is very closely related to the current COVID-19 virus.  Apparently, there is some evidence of information metadata manipulation to obscure the origin of some viruses and/or research. (source here)

I haven’t seen the original source documents, but it is consistent with other known facts related to the research undertaken in Wuhan at both the Virology Institute and at nearby animal disease laboratories.