"LAOS PI or Co-Investigators to conduct field
trip to assess markets, identify wildlife in them & arrange for shipment of bats and other high-risk host species to WIV Laboratory in China"
"Experimental work using humanized mice will be
conducted at the Center for Animal Experiment Biosafety 3 lab of Wuhan University"
Lab Mice also at WIV ABSL3! (P. 234)
Laboratory mice will be housed in the BSL-3 small animal facility Center for Animal Experiment
at Wuhan Institute of Virology . Two senior Wuhan Institute of Virology veterinarians (Drs. An XueFang and Zhang Fan) will oversee the experiments"
Why we need to see Dr. Daszak's Emails (P. 234)
"The Veterinarian in charge will notify the on-site Co-P l (Dr. Zheng li Shi) and the Principal Investigator (Dr. Daszak) by telephone and email if there are any issues regarding animal health and welfare"
Pathogenicity studies of 2 novel bat SARSr-CoVs on transgenic mice expressing human ACE2""
Source of Support: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Amount: $44,776
01/01/2019 -12/31/2021
Interferon responses in SARS - Like Coronavirus infected Bat cells
National Basic Research program of China
Total Award Amount: $100,298
01/0 1/2018-12/31 /2022
Location of Project: Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS
Why a bad idea, you may ask?
Explained here (Pages 53 and 54):
"unknown or undetected highly pathogenic bat viruses would have been able to replicate clandestinely in WIV bat cell lines as they would not have been constrained by a bat immune system"
Turning and turning in the petri dish,
The scientists cannot hear the warnings;
Genes recombine; the barriers cannot hold,
Evil virology is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack critical thinking, while the professors
Are full of furious bias.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the cover up is now banned?
Lab Leak! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Human Folly
Troubles my sight:
3. Somewhere in Wuhan
somewhere in the cell lines of a Chinese laboratory
A shape with pangolin body and the head of a bat,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its long tongue, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant molested bats.
🧵As promised, here is my counter critique & rebuttal of some points made by @gadboit about the Pangolin Papers Hypothesis.
His theory seems to be that SARS-COV-2 emerged like Aphrodite, from BANAL BAT viruses, possibly with some FCS tweaking & no Pangolins coronaviruses needed.
@gadboit 🧵2. @gadboit claims BANAL-52’s 96.8% similarity & ACE2 binding make it closer to SARS-CoV-2 than PCoVs (~91%) & that PCoV features could come from bat CoVs.
But GD PCoV’s RBD (97% identity) needs no mutations for hACE2, unlike BANALs.
A. “The Pangolin Papers” presents a robust argument for the lab-mediated origin of SARS-CoV-2, particularly centered on experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) during 2018 and 2019.
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By a Concerned Citizen of Reason,
Published in The Rational Gazette on X
March 24, 2025
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3. Gaol'd Wretches
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