After fully reading the article, I think @sciencecohen does write a fairly well balanced analysis, especially the last half, and lists most criticisms of EHA and WIV.
He also mentions #DRASTIC and hot links to our DEFUSE documents.
Thank you @sciencecohen and shame on @theintercept for failing to do so and instead uploading our work to document cloud to avoid linking to our website.
" Daszak readily acknowledges the Chinese government’s lack of transparency. “Do I think China’s done a lousy job of openly discussing what happened? Oh, absolutely,” he says. He says he also has encouraged WIV to make public its audits of Shi’s lab"
Daszak's Claims (2) Walking Back?
"Finally, there’s the possibility that WIV unwittingly had a bat sample with SARS-CoV-2, which somehow leaked. “Of course it’s possible—things have happened in the past,” Daszak says. But he has seen no evidence"
"Prior to his involvement with Drastic, Bostickson told us that he had spent nearly a decade empowering ‘activists living under repressive regimes through collaborative sharing of electronic and audio-visual materials’" (Rage University)
1. Transfer of Biological Samples from a BSL 3 Facility
A stern warning from Xavier Abad Morejón de Girón, Biosafety level 3 Laboratory Manager at CReSA – Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal, UAB-IRTA, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain
"improperly treated and therefore still infectious materials transferred out of a BSL3/4 facility could lead to potential proliferation of bio-weapons and increase the biohazard to the community"
3. Two Ways to Transfer
A biological sample can reach the outside of a BSL3
area in two ways: either without inactivation (infectious) if it must be transferred to another BSL3 facility
or
after undergoing an inactivation process to render the biological sample non-infectious
1. An FCS insert scenario proposed by @daoyu15 explained by @pathogenetics thus:
"Some say the FCS is not the right sequence "Man" would design, but here @daoyu15 presents the exact workflow "Man" would use to generate the FCS sequence see in COVID-19, with a design rationale"
"HCoV-OC43 cleavage site RRSRR was introduced (in an experiment by Belouzard et al, 2009). A similar experiment in China could use either RRARR or RRSRR from MHV-JHM or HCoV-OC43 via a "Lazy Loop Insertion"