Thread by @hz_udhr

Journalistic masterpiece - object & thorough.
Agree with many sharing it that it is a must-read for understanding the origin.
Since this is a very long article, let me share some notes in case they save anyone's time.
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nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covi…

If you have only one minute, these two paragraphs have the essence:
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This article essentially turns what the WHO believes to be the most unlikely - lab leak - to the most likely.
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It shows how compromised the research community is.
I have always been puzzled by the ubiquitous presence of Daszak defending the WIV. It is like asking a suspect's close friend to investigate the crime.
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The natural emergence hypothesis cannot explain a lot of things that happened in China.
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Please remember this key phrase Gain-of-Function (GOF). In former CDC director Redfield's plain English, it means making the virus "grow better and better and better" (e.g., very infective like corona). The WIV was doing this with our tax money.
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Shi, who subcontracted from Daszak, was busy creating highly infectious viruses. The CCP has issued orders to have the tightest control of any information regarding the virus from Chinese scientists. What are they trying to hide?
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Spike protein from corona has killed over 3 million people by now.
Daszak was glowingly talked about the success of the WIV in reprogramming the spike protein.
This may sound like a conspiracy theory, but it is a verifiable fact!
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The WIV was cooking very dangerous viruses that should be in a BSL4 lab. They have a questionable one, but most importantly, Shi's work is done mainly at BSL2 (i.e., US dentist office safety level).
Do you trust a US dentist playing highly infectious viruses in his office?
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Three people from the WIV fell sick with Covid symptoms within a week. We do not know how many more considering how tight the CCP controls the access.
What is the odd for this to be unrelated to the viruses they were cooking?
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If you just want to know a little bit more technical details about how corona gets into a cell with the help of its spike protein, then wreaks havoc in the cell and replicates itself, this succinct paragraph suffices.
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Ons strong evidence is related to the furin cleavage site that is brilliant and critical for corona invasion. These two paragraphs tell us the odds for the site to be created by a lab are much higher than that of natural creation.
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I am very familiar with NIH grants and I know subcontracting has little to do with NIH heads, so I was defending Fauci regarding the WIV subcontract though I am not his fan. No more after reading these two paragraphs. They have to answer some questions.
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This article should be a go-to reference for corona origin until new significant evidence is found.
If only 10% of journos published articles as objective and thorough as this one, the world would be much better.
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