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Alina Chan Profile picture
@Ayjchan
Sep 28, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Virologists claiming SARS-CoV-2 spilled over at multiple markets are, imo, unintentionally, participating in a disinformation campaign.

It has been repeatedly clarified that the market the earliest "known" covid case visited was a Walmart-equivalent RT-mart. Not a wet market.
Please see page 38 of the China-WHO annexes.

This superstore market that the first case was brutally exposed to was *GASP* in the same district as the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
who.int/docs/default-s…
Yet, journalists are still reporting misinformed experts as saying that they're stunned that a lab escape virus would make its way to a market/superstore.

Do some scientists no longer buy their own groceries? How do you expect Wuhan scientists to get food to cook and eat?
If experts continue to be stunned by why so many early cases were linked to markets, please take a good look at the criteria used to identify early cases in December 2019/early January 2020.

Page 161 China-WHO joint study annexes.
At the time, a superspreading event had occurred at Huanan Seafood Market. Unsurprisingly, investigators raced to track cases linked to Huanan. Without a link to the Huanan market, cases were only considered if they exhibited 3 severe pneumonia symptoms - favoring the elderly.
This is corroborated by the map (has errors!) of December 2019 cases in Wuhan. The home addresses of patients colocalizes with where the elderly were concentrated in Wuhan.
ayjchan.medium.com/a-response-to-…
Compare left (figure from Holmes et al. preprint, they didn't have access to data so used Adobe Illustrator to reverse engineer China-WHO figure) and right (population density in b, elderly density in e).
From the reports of the earliest Covid cases in Wuhan, it's straightforward that what we were seeing were not the earliest cases. Even WHO said so to the Washington Post...
"WHO spokesman, said.. the question of where the first-known patient lived relative to the river was not relevant to competing hypotheses about the origin of the virus.. because “the current first known patient is most probably not the first case.”"
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
I look forward to debunking the multi-market myth on the AAAS panel in ~36 hours.
I'll try and muster my best facepalm.

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May 14
New York🇺🇸-based MV Hondius cruise passenger who disembarked on Apr 24 went to a Hanoi🇻🇳 conference last week for extreme travelers (150 guests who've visited 100+ countries), potentially passing through Hong Kong🇨🇳 Bangkok🇹🇭. Her current location is unknown @JSweetLI reports...
@JSweetLI ... previous hantavirus outbreaks didn't have this kind of opportunity to race around the world.

"MV Hondius is a pricey, adventurous expedition—costing passengers between $8,500 to $17,000—and so it attracted world travelers crossing bucket list sights"
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@JSweetLI Hantavirus-exposed cruise passengers going on world tour are not breaking any laws. @WHO had said they were low-risk contacts, only changing to high-risk around May 9 or 10.
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May 13
Some question the motivations of the whistleblower this morning.

His testimony can be checked by looking at names of experts recommended by Fauci to IC, the 2022 CIA report & 2023 report before it was changed overnight, and a redacted form of the 2,000-page classified report.
The 2022 and 2023 CIA reports on Covid origins should not be especially difficult to obtain since John Ratcliffe is the current CIA director.
If Fauci recommended the Proximal Origin authors to multiple intel agencies, this will not be difficult for Senators to verify as well.
Read 11 tweets
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May 12
From the 2018 Andes strain hantavirus outbreak:

One patient did not have physical contact and simply said "hello" to the infected person as they crossed paths at a birthday party.

2 patients sat at different tables separated by 1-2m from the infected person. Image
This info was in the supplementary appendix of the @NEJM study describing the cases.
nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1…
@NEJM Not saying the Andes hantavirus is as transmissible as covid or measles.

But a virus doesn't have to be that transmissible to cause a pandemic. HIV caused a pandemic without being spread through the air.
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May 11
The 16 US passengers from the hantavirus cruise can choose to isolate at home for the next 8 weeks?

Do they all live alone in single family houses? Are they allowed to have people over to care for them & clean their homes?
Although not specific to the Andes strain, the scientific literature shows hantaviruses often cause severe illness in children and can be fatal.

Why are we taking this risk of transmission to family members in the US?

1 child fatality is too many.
US passengers who previously disembarked the ship are being monitored in Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas and Virginia.

Will an updated list of affected states be published once the new group of US passengers leave the quarantine facility to self-isolate at home?
Read 12 tweets
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Apr 28
Senior advisor to Anthony Fauci finally charged for concealing federal records following a criminal referral from former House COVID Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup.

“I can either send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 2021, email. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
"Information in the indictment indicates the co-conspirators are Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of Manhattan-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, and Dr. Gerald Keusch, an associate director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory..."
In 2023 emails shared by @gdemaneuf, Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance and Gerald Keusch from Boston's high containment pathogen lab conspired to recruit prominent friends to push back on calls for increased oversight of research that can kill millions of people.

David Morens (the above charged senior advisor to Fauci) and Peter Hotez are cc'ed on these emails.Image
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Mar 13
Listened to 'Privatizing the Apocalypse', a conversation on the dangers of virus hunting & pandemic resurrection between @Rob_Reid & Sam Harris @MakingSenseHQ

The number of people capable of causing pandemics is growing. Governments are not tracking & regulating this research.
Link to podcast:
samharris.org/podcasts/makin…

Link to substack:
robreid.substack.com/p/the-deep-lun…
One point I appreciated in their discussion was that a virus doesn't need to be 100% lethal to upend society.

It just has to be lethal enough that essential workers decide they won't go out and expose themselves and their loved ones to death.
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