Robert Garry
Stalwart atTulane (since 1983), founded Zalgen labs (which has profited hugely from Covid).
NIH funded bioweapons expert (according to Andersen, who lists Garry as a Friendly Genius on his website), Feb 1 Teleconferencer.
The TWIV love-in panelist puts it best: 608 So you got into immuno-suppressive retroviruses - before HIV came along - and then worked on HIV - and then you got into emerging diseases - emerging infections - ahr - now of course we have a global pandemic of SARS-Covid-2, so i’m gonna be really really closely tracking what you do next! (general laughter)
Me too!
TWIV forgot to mention Ebola. The founder of The Consortium (with Andersen) which was mixed up in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where they were researching Ebola as a bioweapon (to develop countermeasures). Origin never found but a narrative was: the toddler, the hollow tree, and the bat in a remote Guinea village.
Claimed Prox O draft was finished by Feb 1, 2020, the night before Feb 1 Teleconference.
Garry on TWIV, 12:20: Eddie and the rest of us recognized that this was a virus that was gonna you know - it had a big chance of going the way it went just because the respiratory virus - and yeah - we started working on it really quite early. .. the first draft I think was complete in like February 1st.
Panelist, 13:04: So Robert, right from the get go there were theories about - well there were two right - which persist to this day - one is that it was manufactured in a lab and the other that it simply escaped in some way - so those were both - that’s part of the reason you wrote this right? - to deal with those ?
Garry: Well yeah! And when we wrote it we basically told ourselves, and it’s in an email chain and other things like that, we said we have to be totally agnostic about how this virus might have emerged.