Thread by @Ayjchan

This is like trying to guess the shape of an iceberg when you can only see what's above the surface.

Where are the November case data? We know that by December there had been a superspreader event at the seafood market and cases numbered in the hundreds.
nytimes.com/2021/11/18/hea…

How is it possible that basic contact tracing wasn't done?

China showed us again and again throughout the pandemic how fast and effectively they could contact trace the h*ll out of any new Covid-19 case. Most recently locking down an entire Disneyland.

The @WHO spokesperson even said the errors in the China-WHO joint report on #OriginOfCovid were not important because “the current first known patient is most probably not the first case.”
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

Another member of the China-WHO team even said the Covid-19 infections could go as far back as September 2019.
wsj.com/articles/covid…

If we search the news for the earliest covid-19 case, it might be a Brit from November 2019 who was told by his doctor in Wuhan that he had the novel coronavirus.
reuters.com/article/us-hea…

Or a 55-year-old man who fell ill on 17 Nov 2019. scmp.com/news/china/soc…

Also, it continues to disturb me that prominent scientists & research journals @Cell @ScienceMagazine are amplifying figures for which data is inaccessible and not verifiable, provided by scientists in China who may not be free to speak on #OriginOfCovid

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1424413708604825601

At bare minimum, the figure captions in @Cell and @ScienceMagazine should clearly state that the data is not accessible, was provided by Chinese scientists on the China-WHO joint study, and that the figure was reverse engineered using Adobe Illustrator pathfinder.

@CELL @ScienceMagazine Materials & Methods:

We used Adobe Illustrator pathfinder to reverse engineer a highly pixelated figure made by Chinese scientists for which data is completely inaccessible.

@CELL @ScienceMagazine People, we know the timeline that has been presented to us is totally 100% wrong.

They said the 1st doctor to sound the alarm encountered the first covid patient on 27 Dec 2019.

But that same day, the Wuhan authorities already had the genome sequence of the virus.

No need to take my word for it. Eddie Holmes also had seen evidence that the Chinese gov had the SARS2 genome sequence on 27 Dec 2019, and this was relayed in Jeremy Farrar's book:

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1419678507475476480

According to the @washingtonpost on 23 Dec 2019 wildlife markets were ordered to shut down.

So the question is when exactly did the Chinese authorities first hear about a cluster of cases at a live animal market in Wuhan?
washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

@washingtonpost "A clampdown on Enshi's wildlife trade at wet markets began on Dec. 23, 2019, according to state media, eight days before China publicly acknowledged the new virus... It could have been preventive, as rumors emerged of market vendors falling mysteriously ill in Wuhan."

I know some scientists are super thirsty but we have to stop drinking this wildlife trade Kool-Aid.

Easy steps
1. Does data exist? Has it been collected?
2. Can you access and share the data?
3. Who is the source of the data? Are there competing interests?

This is so basic. For scientists. For journalists. For anyone who has critical thinking skills.

Anyone who can do basic math knows there's no way Covid cases were only recognized after 27 Dec 2019, if nearby markets were ordered to shut down on 23 Dec and the authorities already had the virus genome on 27 Dec.