A very strong point made by @SharriMarkson in this exclusive about the slow release of info pertinent to tracing #OriginsOfCovid
Early 2020, I remember the internet flooded with pics of Chinese people eating bats. It's now 1.5 years later, and we're finally seeing bats in labs.
Early 2020, I remember the internet flooded with pics of Chinese people eating bats. It's now 1.5 years later, and we're finally seeing bats in labs.
https://twitter.com/SharriMarkson/status/1404024554129747976
If, in Jan 2020, we had known all of these key points, I suspect it would've been clear that a lab leak was plausible:
1. WIV worked with at least 9 closest relatives to SARS2 known at the time, collected from Yunnan mine where people suffered viral severe respiratory disease.
1. WIV worked with at least 9 closest relatives to SARS2 known at the time, collected from Yunnan mine where people suffered viral severe respiratory disease.
2. WIV did their SARSrCoV live virus work at BSL2, and the animal infection experiments at BSL3.
3. WIV kept bats in the lab and did virus infection experiments with them.
3. WIV kept bats in the lab and did virus infection experiments with them.
It also would've been good to know:
4. None of hundreds of animal samples from the seafood market tested positive for the virus.
5. No bats (or pangolins) were sold at the seafood market.
4. None of hundreds of animal samples from the seafood market tested positive for the virus.
5. No bats (or pangolins) were sold at the seafood market.
Getting questions about evidence for bats inside WIV. WIV filed a bat cage patent in 2018. The design of the cage matches the one shown in the 2017 video taken inside of a lab.
Some are asking how do we know that lab is inside WIV. We don't know for sure.
Some are asking how do we know that lab is inside WIV. We don't know for sure.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1351519374742614037
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