Yuan Zhi-ming: WIV Biosafety Boss
Yuan Zhiming, Director Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, WIV (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Ph.D. biotechnology, Sun Yat-sen University, (trained, worked, respectively) in France, Denmark, United States
Deputy Director WIV since 2000 (pre-SARS), Focuses on: drug discovery of aborviruses, genomics, insecticidal proteins, genetic modification of Bacillus spp (a microbial agent similar to Anthrax)
2003-present: Chairman Institutional Biosafety Committee, Group leader Sino-French biosafety legislation cooperation.
Bear in mind this:
Gabriel Gras, French bio-security expert: (The BSL-4 lab) was built under the close cooperation between China and France. There is no doubt about its compliance with the highest international biosafety standards. The theory that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab is not credible.
Xinhua: There is a "zero percent" chance that .. COVID-19 .. leaked from .. WIV (said) Gras .. (who) was employed as a technical expert at the French embassy in China for the implementation of the French-Chinese cooperation on emerging infectious diseases between 2012 and 2017.
Yuan Zhi-ming was Boss of Sino-French biosafety at the time. We can guarantee he & Gras worked closely together. Gras's input is useful for understanding Yuan.
XinHua: During his stay in China, Gras participated in implementing the 2004 Sino-French Cooperation Agreement in Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases, and supervised the construction and accreditation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology's BSL-4 laboratory in 2017.
Gras explained that operating a BSL-4 lab is very expensive. ..
Tell us somethin we don't know. We're the ones paying for all this ...
Really? So your confirming BSL-2 labs had them. Bloody hell!
Gabriel Gras: Using a BSL-4 lab to work with a coronavirus is like using a 20-tonne crane to move a 30-kg refrigerator, which would be completely illogical.
Wow! So firstly, you're arguing Covid is only the 30-kg fridge? What the hell kinda deadly extinction event bugs are you lifting with your 20-tonne cranes in the BSL-4s?
Secondly, Gabriel Gras, WIV designer, Sino-Francer: Did you explain your completely illogical argument to your colleague, Yuan Zhiming? Or Bat Lady & Batman for that matter - or Linfa, Chair of the Bat Advisory Board?
Dazza boasts they'd collected 15 000 bat virus samples, which were stockpiled at the high-security BSL-4 Bat Lab, WIV, as you'd know Gabriel), including RaTG13, stacks of others from the same Yunnan caves area - man, they mined that Yunnan caves area within an inch of it's life. Way, way more than the mythical guava miners. Then expanded to other global hotspots. Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, West Africa, searching, driven (on the public's dime) to find the Holy Grail of bat virus candidates :
One that can be gain-of-functioned into the Next Disease X.
To be the ones to get there first - in the lab - in the Bat Lab.
Ahead of the curve. To protect us ... to develop therapeutics for future control of emerging SARS-like infections (Shi/Daszak, 2016)
WashPost: Yuan said at the (July 2020) news conference that his team took a virus database offline because of “the large number of malicious attacks,” and he complained that he and his colleagues are under great pressure from rumors.
(Pretty sure Billy Bostickson/Drastic broke that first.)
Yuan Zhiming: I want to emphasize that .... the Wuhan Institute of Virology has never designed, made or leaked the novel coronavirus.
Yuan re WSJ leaked security report on sick researchers in Oct: I've read it, it's a complete lie.
Not sure i don't agree with him on that. If there really is a leaked US security report that sheds light on the origin of a humanity shaping bio-event, make it public. Why not? That's the murky world of scio-security. Normal people don't have a security clearance to know the truth.
Key points:
Genetic modification specialist, WIV since pre-SARS, strong French connection, biosafety boss. If there was a leak , it was Yuan's fault.
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