Thread by @Ayjchan

Feb 9, we heard from WHO-convened team (which is 50% scientists in China, 50% international) they were going to stop looking into "extremely unlikely" lab origins & start investigating #PopsicleOrigins

One team member said this decision was to "respect" the Chinese counterparts.

Feb 22, one of WHO-convened team members says the COVID-19 virus could've come from Thailand, even naming one market.

DESPITE closest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 being from China

DESPITE the virus in Thailand not even using the same human receptor 🤯

bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…

Jan 2020 China said the virus likely came from wild animals sold at the Wuhan seafood market. May 2020 they said the market was just a later cluster, not the origin.

Since then, they've suggested that covid-19 was imported into China through cold chain.

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1359683096275111937

Back in Nov, I was already 🤣&😭 reading the Terms of Reference for the WHO-convened #originsofcovid global study. But some people told me this was just what @WHO had to do in order to get into China and access data. They told me to wait for the report...

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1325609736591593472

Now the team is back. They didn't access early patient data (don't need their names, but not even their questionnaires? occupations?) or pre-COVID banked blood samples (China cited patient consent issues).

And members of the team are going on about SE Asia & frozen food origins.

At their lengthy press conference in China, the following statements were made and later reported in the media as pointing to the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was originally imported into China. who.int/publications/m…

It seems to me like the WHO-convened team understood what China wanted them to look into, espoused the investigation of #PopsicleOrigins at their presser, and now team members are floating theories of covid originating from SE Asia.

Hide your rabbits! Hide your ferret badgers!