If it turns out that the report from Public and the WSJ that Ben Hu was "patient zero", the first person to get Covid-19, then it was an accidental lab leak where the lead researcher got infected and went to the hospital. Ben Hu, the lead researcher on the GoF research there, denies that this happened, but no one will release the lab notes or hospital records. So as with most big stories in this age of non-journalism, lots of smoke and mirrors will be employed to keep everyone unsure and non-reactive.
So now I’m wondering about the spread of COVID on militant bases, among active and retired military personnel. About the military’s use of mitigating practices: testing, tracing, isolation, masking, ventilation, filtration, treatment. Vaccines, pharmaceuticals.
Just imagine if there was a weapon one could deploy against a population whose leaders would minimize its existence and not take sensible action to mitigate its effects? Would something like that even be plausible?
Unfortunately, there isn't going to be a discussion about this because we don't have anything resembling journalism in this country, or most of the western world. People may talk about it in person, or online, but there will never be a public reckoning on this debacle. It will just be ignored or ridiculed by the Corporate Owned News. I am a scientist (neuro and immuno) and none of the scientists I know talk about this. When questioned, many voice opinions that the evidence favors the lab leak and that it probably did come from GoF research at the Wuhan lab. But they don't seem angry or motivated to do anything about it, and I assume this is in part because there is no public outcry, and certainly no official soul-searching. So this will fade like many other major scandals have done over my lifetime. It is very unfortunate because in every case the guilty parties have gotten the message that they can get away with just about anything.
If we accept military deception as a given regarding any dubious bioweapons program, we should also question how our attentions have been directed to the Wuhan and its lab as the origin of COVID-19.
Conveniently, the World Military Games (sports) were held there in October 2019--an ideal global dissemination vector.
Since we have been pointed to look at Wuhan, perhaps elsewhere is where we should focus. For example, we might want to revisit Russian claims regarding Western bioweapon development in Ukrainian labs.
I am more inclined to accept a deliberate engineered-virus release located at a time and place hypothesis that, if a bioengineered basis to the virus ever became publicly accepted, would attribute blame to the Chinese and not the actual culprits.
The GoF research in question was done at the Wuhan Virology Lab by Ben Hu et al. under grants from the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance. Yes, there are/were biolabs in Ukraine, and they probably have/had some nasty stuff there, but that is not where this virus came from. The closest viral relatives are all from China, and were all being investigated at the WVL.
Appreciate your kind reply; understand the known GoF research link to Wuhan. But I have a problem with the “accidental” part of the lab leak hypothesis. Given how the pandemic seems to have conveniently aligned with globalist/WEF/WHO machinations, if the virus’ release was deliberate, would they choose to release it in the immediate vicinity of the lab in which it was made?
biodefense spending started in earnest under Reagan. this was the topic of a paper i presented in a Peace Studies class in college. i found out we were moving $$ out of the nuclear arms race (yay!) into biological/chemical options (no!) b/c the “cost per kill” was many times lower.
this “cost per kill” language came from a FOIA report that compared the cost of nuclear war to the cost of using chemical and biological agents.
i’d been a kid who grew up around rockets which gave me nightmares of nuclear war. so naturally I was interested in Peace Studies as part of “disarmament” work. the paper made me realize that by the late 80s nukes were a distraction. they were pursuing biologicals b/c they’re more cheap and stealthy, which makes them easier to use—and more flexible RE military strategy. pffft.
Thanks Thomas, well put. A complementary take, from a few years back but still current, drilling into the science and the media angle: https://blackthorn.substack.com/p/the-lab-leak-hypothesis-an-agonizing-media-dilemma-about-managing-the-narrative-vs-empowering-the-mob
If it turns out that the report from Public and the WSJ that Ben Hu was "patient zero", the first person to get Covid-19, then it was an accidental lab leak where the lead researcher got infected and went to the hospital. Ben Hu, the lead researcher on the GoF research there, denies that this happened, but no one will release the lab notes or hospital records. So as with most big stories in this age of non-journalism, lots of smoke and mirrors will be employed to keep everyone unsure and non-reactive.
So now I’m wondering about the spread of COVID on militant bases, among active and retired military personnel. About the military’s use of mitigating practices: testing, tracing, isolation, masking, ventilation, filtration, treatment. Vaccines, pharmaceuticals.
Make that mitigating and risk reduction practices.
Just imagine if there was a weapon one could deploy against a population whose leaders would minimize its existence and not take sensible action to mitigate its effects? Would something like that even be plausible?
Unfortunately, there isn't going to be a discussion about this because we don't have anything resembling journalism in this country, or most of the western world. People may talk about it in person, or online, but there will never be a public reckoning on this debacle. It will just be ignored or ridiculed by the Corporate Owned News. I am a scientist (neuro and immuno) and none of the scientists I know talk about this. When questioned, many voice opinions that the evidence favors the lab leak and that it probably did come from GoF research at the Wuhan lab. But they don't seem angry or motivated to do anything about it, and I assume this is in part because there is no public outcry, and certainly no official soul-searching. So this will fade like many other major scandals have done over my lifetime. It is very unfortunate because in every case the guilty parties have gotten the message that they can get away with just about anything.
If we accept military deception as a given regarding any dubious bioweapons program, we should also question how our attentions have been directed to the Wuhan and its lab as the origin of COVID-19.
Conveniently, the World Military Games (sports) were held there in October 2019--an ideal global dissemination vector.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-report-says-wuhan-military-games-spread-covid
Since we have been pointed to look at Wuhan, perhaps elsewhere is where we should focus. For example, we might want to revisit Russian claims regarding Western bioweapon development in Ukrainian labs.
I am more inclined to accept a deliberate engineered-virus release located at a time and place hypothesis that, if a bioengineered basis to the virus ever became publicly accepted, would attribute blame to the Chinese and not the actual culprits.
The GoF research in question was done at the Wuhan Virology Lab by Ben Hu et al. under grants from the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance. Yes, there are/were biolabs in Ukraine, and they probably have/had some nasty stuff there, but that is not where this virus came from. The closest viral relatives are all from China, and were all being investigated at the WVL.
Appreciate your kind reply; understand the known GoF research link to Wuhan. But I have a problem with the “accidental” part of the lab leak hypothesis. Given how the pandemic seems to have conveniently aligned with globalist/WEF/WHO machinations, if the virus’ release was deliberate, would they choose to release it in the immediate vicinity of the lab in which it was made?
Perhaps.
biodefense spending started in earnest under Reagan. this was the topic of a paper i presented in a Peace Studies class in college. i found out we were moving $$ out of the nuclear arms race (yay!) into biological/chemical options (no!) b/c the “cost per kill” was many times lower.
this “cost per kill” language came from a FOIA report that compared the cost of nuclear war to the cost of using chemical and biological agents.
i’d been a kid who grew up around rockets which gave me nightmares of nuclear war. so naturally I was interested in Peace Studies as part of “disarmament” work. the paper made me realize that by the late 80s nukes were a distraction. they were pursuing biologicals b/c they’re more cheap and stealthy, which makes them easier to use—and more flexible RE military strategy. pffft.