Thread by @TheSeeker268

China may still be hiding the truth about the origins of Covid-19: One year on, urgent questions remain about how and why this pandemic erupted
inews.co.uk/opinion/china-…

"there are fears the World Health Organisation is appeasing China, which desperately wants to blame other nations as the source, while the scientific establishment is closing ranks to protect some key figures."

"Many experts suspect this is a natural zoonotic virus that spilled over from animals... Some credible figures, however, point to circumstantial evidence swirling around a top-security laboratory in Wuhan...

...which was carrying out cutting-edge research into bat coronaviruses linked to a similar respiratory disease that killed some miners eight years ago."

"Now the WHO, which kowtowed to Beijing in the first weeks of this pandemic with disastrous global consequences, has finally launched an inquiry. Its terms of reference accept this unusual new virus was “well adapted to human transmission from the moment it was first detected”

"– yet incredibly, give China the right to vet its team of experts and largely seem to rely on their evidence.

The 10-strong WHO team includes Peter Daszak.. He dismisses talk of leaks as “baseless” conspiracy theory, although we have seen in the past such things can happen."

"Now it has emerged he secretly drafted, then persuaded 26 top scientists to sign, a statement in The Lancet condemning “conspiracy theories” suggesting that Covid-19 does not have natural origin."

"Daszak has also been asked by the journal to chair a task force on the origins, which seems bizarre given his stance and ties to Wuhan."

"It is worth noting the top security official at WIV has admitted to safety concerns at the lab. Meanwhile Nature, another influential science journal, has had to clarify a landmark paper written by Shi Zhengli, its star virologist, and two Wuhan colleagues."

"After complaints, Nature asked the Wuhan team to publish an “addendum” that confirms this virus was linked to the miners."

"They admitted also having unshared samples of eight more Sars viruses sampled from bats in the mine, which is about 1,000 miles from their city. This is, at the very least, all rather curious."