Daszak's Unique Position
Bat Lady (Shi Zheng-li), The Dark Knight (Linfa Wang), & Batman (Pete)
Peter Daszak - The Guardian
Our 15 years of work in China now puts us in a unique position to identify, with a remarkable degree of confidence, the likely origin of Covid-19.
Agreed - it does. It also puts you in a conflict of interest position - whereby one might be tempted to suppress incriminating evidence and spread disinformation in order to cover one’s arse.
(W)e reported 781 genetic sequences of bat-origin coronaviruses previously unknown to scientists (including) the closest known relatives to Sars-CoV-2.
Good. Again confirming that the closest known relatives to SARS-Cov-2 were held at WIV prior to the Covid outbreak. Not only RaTG13, but other undisclosed bat viruses collected from SE Asia. If you have other viruses at WIV closely related to Covid, why haven't you released them? Sorry, made them public is better phrasing, coz you may well have released them, with a few modifications.
All are carried by horseshoe bats that are found across southern China (1000 kilometres away) and neighbouring countries. (even further away)
But not Wuhan. That’s why Batwoman thought it had leaked from the lab.
Our report firmly concludes that Covid-19 originated in bats, in a hotspot of viral evolution along the border of Yunnan province in China, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
Hang on Pete, that’s illogical and/or misleading. All it proves is that Covid is related to a strain of virus that you held at WIV, which we knew already. It doesn’t prove the geographical origin of the outbreak.
Unfortunately, this sort of logic (illogical logic) will not deter conspiracy theorists (such as former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, the guy you’re arguing with).
You're right there, it won't deter us from getting to the true origin of Covid. If anything, it casts more suspicion on WIV - the real "hotspot" of viral evolution - with a little evolutionary help from your friends. The Bat Pack were busily experimenting on these viruses, to make them contagious to humans, when, against all your predictions, there was an outbreak in Wuhan, right next door to the Bat Lab. Now you want to rule out a leak from WIV? That’s not logical.
RatG13, the closest known relative to SARS-Cov-2, was collected from the same Yunnan cave where 6 miners contracted a suspected SARS-like illness in 2012 according to a Kun Ming Medical University paper at the time. Three of them died.
On one hand, WIV scientists (Shi Zhengli) dismissed that 2102 report as being neither based on evidence nor logic, (b)ut used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me, saying the miners merely had a fungal infection, not a coronavirus.
On the other hand, they’re saying, with a remarkable degree of confidence, that the same viruses collected from that cave, the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2, is super contagious & responsible for Covid. That is also illogical.
For the record, there is no firm evidence that a deadly bat-coronavirus has ever directly infected a human in the wild & become contagious to other humans. Despite what you hear. The narrative always involves some mysterious intermediary species. The more we investigate the origin of Covid, the more that intermediary species looks to be the scientists themselves.