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15 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Raina MacIntyre, a professor of @Globalbiosec at UNSW, says the bat virus that infected the copper miners could have been deliberately mutated into COVID-19
9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/und…
One thing is clear: China still owes many answers on the 2012 Covid-19 like mini-epidemic in Mojiang. However, WHO does not even want to ask the basic questions on the subject, and instead has tried to suppress investigations into it.
This scenario is far-fetched: Once you picked up a virus that is deadly to humans, you would like to test it in animal/cell models to gain insight into its "genetic evolution" and "cross-species transmission" mechanism.
Correction: Make that "this scenario *isn't* far fetched"

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So just to be clear: the road to the mine, where SARS-CoV-2's closest relative was collected, has been blocked. Surveillance cameras are all over the place, and people have been arrested for getting close to the mine.

I'm sure it's totally normal.
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If only we had people that, you know, were asking basic questions like, whatever happened to this project?
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ft.com/content/e625f1…
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Dangerous Practices of Sovereign Science: "Little has been done to alter a pattern in which scientists decide for themselves what risky research is warranted, and confront controversy only after the work is done and disseminated."
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In 2019, EcoHealth Alliance, for the first time, made a wire transfer of $195K to the Institute of Microbiology, CAS.

It's the same institute which was leading the CAS Special Project "Pathogen Host Adaptation and Immune Intervention".
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