Thread by @therealarod1984

US virologist Ralph Baric, author of the 2013 paper “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence,” says Wuhan Dr. Shi's Coronavirus work in a less safe security level of BSL-2 is “an actual scandal”

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technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/102…

"NIH decided the risk was worth it. In a...fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Unnoticed by most...was a key difference...the Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), much lower than Baric’s BSL-3+

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"what occurred is a scenario Fauci himself had outlined in a 2012 commentary...Fauci wrote “Scenario [where] an important gain-of-function experiment involving a virus with serious pandemic potential...leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?”"

#Sick

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Wuhan Lab & Coronavirus studies "which was funded in part by the NIH grant, had been done in a BSL-2 lab. That meant [these viruses] were being studied under conditions that...matched “the biosafety level of a US dentist’s office.”"

technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/102…

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It just keeps getting worse. We chose Wuhan because it was cheap.

"one factor at play was the cost and inconvenience of working in high-containment conditions. The Chinese lab’s decision to work at BSL-2...“effectively increased rates of progress by a factor of 10 to 20"

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“That’s screwed up,” says Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin, who coauthored the seminal paper arguing that Covid must have had a natural origin, but his views have since changed. “It shouldn’t have happened. People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs."

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The genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 does not resemble that of any virus the WIV was known to be culturing. Baric believes a natural spillover is the most likely cause. But he also...in May of this year, joined 17 other scientists in calling for a thorough investigation of Wuhan

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The New York Times, in June, has Dr. Shi on record as admitting BSL-2. "Dr. Shi said that bat viruses in China could be studied in BSL-2 labs because there was no evidence that they directly infected humans"

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nytimes.com/2021/06/14/wor…

An article from yesterday, 7/20/21

"Unluckily for Shi...some of the coronavirus research...at WIV [was] conducted at...BSL-2..."equivalent to a dentist office" & "far below the level of safety needed to work with such viruses...at BSL-3 or above""

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interestingengineering.com/did-covid-19-l…

After 18 months of contradictions from our govt & scientists, its almost certain C19 originated in the Wuhan Inst of Virology & US taxpayers funded this through Fauci's NIH.

Maybe this is why they play the “blame the victim” card with the unvaxxed.

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desertsun.com/story/opinion/…

"Analysis of the Origin of COVID-19" sent to US Congress on 7/15:

* research in Wuhan conducted under insufficient biosafety level
* Initial outbreak in Wuhan makes lab a leading hypothesis
* no evidence of animal-to-human Xmission & or animal host

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prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

In Jan 2018, US embassy officials took the unusual step of visiting a bioscience laboratory in Wuhan—and what they saw caused so much concern that they sent two official warnings back to DC. Columnist Josh Rogin of WaPo has obtained one leaked cable

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thedailybeast.com/leaked-cable-s…

China on Thursday rejected the WHO's plan for the 2nd phase of coronavirus origin-tracing in Wuhan, especially to probe the lab leak theory, as it dismissed reports that some of the employees of the facility were infected with C19 before it spread.

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newindianexpress.com/world/2021/jul…