The Lancet Statement Emails
Firstly, credit to US Right to Know, one of the organizations that has been instrumental in exposing the cover-up conspiracy through a series of FOI requests, including Baric’s emails discussing the drafting of The Lancet Statement. This underlines once again that the answers to all our questions don’t lie in the minutiae of scientific squabbling - that’s a dead-end - that the suspects love to draw the unwary into. Rather, all the evidence we need is in the communications between the key actors. Don’t need to be a scientist to understand it - if you can read English, that’s enough.
We already know that Linfa Wang chaired an emergency response conference at WIV from Jan 11-14. They don’t do FOI’s in China, so short of Linfa being interrogated and coming clean, we’re unlikely to know the exact details of what was discussed in those meetings, but we can still deduce certain happenings.
One of those is a resolution to ask Peter Daszak to organize a statement in support of WIV - i.e The Lancet Statement
From: Daszak Feb 8, 2020
To: Rita Colwell (LS signatory, EHA director)
You should know that the conspiracy theorists have been very active, targeting our collaborators with some extremely unpleasant web pages in China, and some have now received death threats to themselves and their families. They have asked us for any show of support we can give them.
Some important points there:
- Built-in use of conspiracy theorist othering
- The conspiracy theories started in China. The extremely unpleasant web pages - they were from Chinese citizens. That was all shut down of course - but the lab-accident speculation, that was branded as racist in the west, started in Wuhan - where it ran wild. As it would, when a super contagious coronavirus breaks out next to the world’s leading coronavirus lab in the middle of your city.
- The death threats - they were against Bat Lady. I don’t doubt they were real (as in online hate speech). Along with Weibo blowing up with lab-accident speculation, that gives an insight into the extreme stress Shi Zhengli was under.
- They have asked us for any show of support we can give them. This is pivotal: the Lancet Statement was a request from WIV,
Put two and two together - the idea for the Lancet Statement was hatched at the WIV conference and began as a request from Wang Linfa immediately following that conference.