Thread by @GrayConnolly

I started this #Coronavirus thread in Jan 2020 after this stark experience of arriving in Tokyo & being politely shuffled along by Japanese customs & immigration. Activities of the Japanese & Russians bordering China were always a good signal of what was really happening....👇

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1219392203769831424

The Japanese never believe (esp post SARS) anything that the PRC says esp re public health & viruses. Japan (not unlike Australia) is islands and people who lack immunities to various viruses esp from China. This was a matter of life and death for the Japanese.

Meanwhile, Russia (in a #DragonBear pact with China) also did not believe the PRC's stories. The Russians have a very good idea of what happenes in China esp in its security apparatus. The Russians knew enough to close what is for them a valuable border

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1228797914970869761

You did not have to be Sherlock Holmes in Feb 2020 to put all this together. If ‘wet market’ transmission was correct - not incompetence/malfeasance at the Wuhan Lab - then given wet markets across Asia, we should have these very contagious & deadly viruses rampant all the time.

Is any of this "smoking gun"? No, not yet anyway. But the onus was always on the PRC to come clean & explain fully the #Coronavirus origins. That never happened - instead, Beijing engaged in lies & obfuscations. The only inference that one can draw is an adverse one.