By the way I had a good laugh at the 60 minutes story about Daszak in Tioman.
They make it sound like it is in the middle of nowhere, even saying that it is 'West of Borneo' when it is actually directly of the coast of peninsular Malaysia.
I went diving there in the 90s like so many tourists in Asia.
It's rather easy to go there: there is a little airport (short landing or you hit the hill!) and then you take a boat to your beach.
It's not even volcanic as they say (you need to go towards Sulawesi for that - great diving sites there too).
So much for the 'courageous adventurer' story with Peter in his kaki.
Good laugh! @PeterDaszak
Both articles have left the scientific domain for the opinions one - if not the political opinions one - by asserting that the Laos BANAL BatCoV finds reinforce the zoonotic origin hypothesis. nature.com/articles/d4158…
Now let's cut through the noise and go back to the horse mouth, Marc Eloit the main author of that paper - from the Institut Pasteur.
On the key issue of the absence of the not-banal-at-all FCS in all the BANAL BatCoVs:
"It is possible that it was acquired in a lab" @Ayjchan
Science turns nasty in Covid-19 origins argument on Twitter | South China Morning Post archive.is/2021.10.14-234…
Jesse Bloom:
“I no longer think it’s a conspiracy theory that the furin cleavage site could have been engineered,”
He also added that he was “stunned” to see the DARPA proposal and questioned why the scientists involved didn’t come forward to disclose it earlier.
Holmes said that it was “staggeringly inept” for Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, and the scientists involved in the DARPA application to not have made it public “when everyone is looking for transparency”
"Nous pensons que la mission d'EcoHealth Alliance est importante pour les générations actuelles et futures, mais qu'elle ne pourra se faire de façon éthique et responsable avec Peter Daszak à sa tête",
"[Comment] EcoHealth Alliance s'est transformée, sous la férule de son président, en quelques années d'une association écologiste bien tranquille en un récipient de fonds fédéraux pour des projets qui peuvent souvent intéresser le ministère de la Défense..."
"[Daszak] a fait preuve d'une formidable volonté de cacher des informations qui allaient à l'encontre de son récit sur une origine naturelle. J'espère qu'il sera invité à témoigner sous serment au Congrès"
Jamie Metzl, ex membre de l'adm. Clinton et ex collaborateur de Joe Biden
@JamieMetzl@ugauthier Indeed. The only thing that China will remember is our weakness.
After WHO head Gro Harlem Brundtland slammed China in 2003 for its cover-up, the answer from China was to make sure it cold never be shamed again, by diluting the power of the WHO.
@JamieMetzl@ugauthier "Those days are gone, she says; member-states have now limited what the head of the WHO can do and say."
@JamieMetzl@ugauthier As soon as 2004, China pushed back and won. It covered up the first two primary cases of SARS-Lab infection at the then top P3 in China (a CDC lab in Beijing) and managed to kick out the WHO from the investigation, not even publishing a report.