Thank-you Lancet, Billy, Dan
(Very under reconstruction) If your quest is to trace back Covid's Cover-up to its source material, you wind up with two documents:
The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2
The Lancet Statement
The old one-two.
They are both dear to my heart, coz, they formed my entry-point into: Investigating the Origin of Covid
Here's how it went down:
Jan 24, 2020: (Japan) Dan started a thread on Formosahut about nCov. We (/he, firstly) began noticing/recording some striking anomalies.
In early Feb, I mentioned a couple of these to my sister, Emeritus Professor in Microbiology at Melbourne University at the time.
The reaction was oddly bristling. The pejorative phrase conspiracy theorists was bandied around (as if those words, in & by themselves, constitute a winning argument). That took me aback - somewhat. Luckily/unluckily, i've grown to recognize oddly bristling as a symptom of ... : something ... (often related to insecurity ...)
Sent her a Feb 23 story from the Taipei Times on a scientists' symposium in Taiwan.
Fang Chi-tai (方啟泰), National Taiwan University: Mutations of viruses that occur naturally only result in small, singular changes. One would not normally see a naturally mutated virus suddenly take on four amino acids.
While such a large mutation is not impossible, it is highly unlikely.* (bold added)
Email from:
Interesting hypothesis.
I haven’t see (sic) any support for the idea.
The mutation of the corona to add 4 aa (amino acids) is unusual – but certainly not impossible.
Email to: Technically, that NTU symposium is support for the idea, no? Those who raised questions about its origin (Taiwan's leading uni) were also scientists from Taiwan and France.
Shouldn't a lab-origin be at least investigated? As you say, nature adding 4 aa is highly unusual at best, so why not consider simpler explanations?
Email back:
The expert (sic) don’t believe in a conspiracy
https://www.thelancet.com/
The relevant 4 amino acids are different between SARS-1 and SARS-2 => see below. But the evolution pattern is clear. See below.
Cheers
I clicked-on-the-link. Innocently. Not comprehending the quantum journey it was about to send me on. It was:
I read it. It's not very long. Main point:
27 world-leading experts solemnly declaring to the world that the The CCP totalitarian regime is:
open and transparent
The language,language is weirdly over-the-top - condemning conspiracy theorists who might question the above premise - raving about unity/solidarity/standing together. With Youthe CCP! There's an attached petition which you can digitally sign it youto agreeshow - like a petition.support.
Email to. Don't sign that. It's unscientific to demanding (sic) solidarity with China (notorious for censoring/distorting information) on a subject that's still under investigation, and to be howling down any dissenting view as a conspiracy. It sounds suss.
There was no reply.
Somewhere into our next Zoom-call, which my sister had enthusiastically uptaken, i bring up The Lancet Statement. I already know i'm not supposed to mention Covid (except in a The Science says do this or that draconianhuman thing,rights invasion, rah, rah, rahrah, whilst spitting on the Covidiot conspiracy theorists) from all the bristling signals, but ... it's all anyone is talking aboutabout, so ... i can't resist ...
I read your Lancet Statement. China is not "open & transparent". Take it from someone whowith studieda degree in political sociology/sociology who lived next-door to the CCP for 23 years. Why did you send me that? Did you seriously think i was gonna sign it?
Look, it's 27 of the most qualified virology experts in the world saying Covid's origin is definitely zoonotic. They know what they're talking about. They know a lot more than you.you about virology.
DoI'm they?sure they do. Do they know that CCP is a totalitarian regime?
Of course.
Then they would know WIV is a top-security lab, right?
Look-Look, i work in a high-security lab - i know how strict the protocols are. There's no way it could happen. It's not possible.
DoWell, it is definitely possible, coz it's happened before. Happened with SARS-1 a bunch of times.
Yes, that's correct, but standards are much stricter today.
Ok, do you think a totalitarian regime controlling that top-security lab would be controllinginfluence what their scientists in a top-security lab can or cannot say?
As scientists, we don't play politics, we report the facts - we leave the politics out. International scientists collaborate on a purely scientific level. I know, because i do it every day.
Yeah - no. Don't sign that. & stop disseminating it! It's veryso political - demonstrably false.
How is it false?
How is it false? The CCP are "open and transparenttransparent" about not being open and transparent.transparent for starters.
Condemning people as Conspiracy Theorists coz they question that premise is silly.
Calling for solidarity/unity with CCP is silly/dangerous.
Those 27-experts are pedalling disinformation on CCP's behalf. Only question is what'What's motivating them to do that? Stay away from it, that's my advice as a political sociologist: you will get badly burned.
Ok, look, I shouldn't have sent it to you, i forgot about your Taiwan bias
Bias? Biased toward democracy & openess?
Look, I'm sick of talking about coronavirus - I do it all day - it's everywhere. Let's change the topic. Have you been doing any woodwork?
Next Zoom-call, a couple of weeks later, The Topic, in The World, was still Covid. Even more so. It was no longer like SARS - that killed 774. DespiteIn my sisters best efforts,fact, it inevitablywasn't cameme up.who I mentioned:
I read Proximal Origin of SARS-Cov-2 - it was cited by the Lancet Statement scientist as evidence.
Yes, I readintroduced it. The most parsimonious explanation is it came from pangolin sold at a wet-market.
I looked into the authors - they've all got massive CCP COIs. Ian Lipkin really jumped-off the page, do you know him?
Yes, I've heard of him.
He's got COIs up to his eyeballs. He's friends with Chinese Ministers
During the call, my sister sent an animated cartoon praising China's transparency/response/lockdown mentality - ridiculing the US's/Trump's.
Having watched it, i asked: Why are you sending me CCP propaganda?
That's not CPP propaganda. It's just a cartoon from the ABC.
Looks exactly like it.
Her partner, was also on the Zoom-call. He fact-checked it as we spoke.
Actually it is. It does say this was produced by the PRC.
Great. This is the crazy situation we're living in where CCP propaganda is platformed/plugged by the ABC. Why is a tax-payer funded org spreading CCP propaganda?
Maybe because it's right. Anyway, let's not talk about Covid. I'm sick of talking about it.
(Edit: More than 2 years later - there's still no evidence of the ABC having done a single investigative piece on the origin of the most impactful event of our lifetimes. What does that mean?) (Re-edit, 5 years later, there's still no evidence of the ABC having done a single investigative piece on the origin of the most impactful story of our lifetimes.)
Ok, let's agree to disagree. I read Proximal Origin of SARS-Cov-2 - it was cited by the Lancet Statement as scientific as evidence.
Yes, I read it. The most parsimonious explanation is it came from pangolin sold at a wet-market.
Right. I looked into the authors - they've all got massive CCP COIs. Ian Lipkin really jumped-off the page, do you know him?
Yes, I've heard of him.
He's got CCP COIs up to his eyeballs. He's friends with Chinese Ministers
The cartoon & conversation was followed up with another email from:
Conspiracy theories near you!! (her bold)
Police break up anti-5G protesters spouting controversial COVID theory
It was meant as a Strawman-style insult - anyone who questions The Science's origin of Covid is a tin-foil hatter, haha! Though, if you click on the link, the protesters are saying 5G depletes immunity - therefore makes people more susceptible to disease. That's not crazy thinking according to a paper in Nature (of all places) on the subject:
The next phone conversation was our last. By then i'd dug a bit deeper. Started reading the papers cited by the The Lancet Statement, specifically Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 (aka the Pangolin Paper)
Do you know that WIV was in fact doing GoF research on coronaviruses?
Maybe they are, so what? It's a high-security lab. There's no chance of an escape. I work in these environments.
Not maybe, definitely, Shi Zheng-li has published papers on it.
Look, anyone who knows anything about epidemiology knows that Coronavirus is natural in Origin. I really don't need to talk with you about this subject.
I agreed to disagree about being banned. Asked: Why do scientists have so little interest in discovering the truth? Her last words to me I'm sick to death of hearing about your boring conspiracy theories. Then hung up.
The End.
That's sad. Another silent casualty of Covid. I know this person is well-intentioned at heart. Part of this journey is trying to understand how good people came to behave in reactionary ways - to cover-up the truth. Then figure out how to bring them back - to re-communicate - in a way that doesn't vilify them - but - where the past is not swept under the carpet. That can't be the answer. We can't jump from censorship/ridicule to
- we've moved on -
In order to move-on, you've gotta be there in the first place . I can't move on from Timbuktu, for example, coz i've never been there.
First job for society is to develop a space where questions are allowed to be asked about this event that changed every human's life. Let's get there, set up camp, explore - then we can talk about how to move on. Otherwise we're moving on to the exact thing we need to move away from.
If the system is broken, which it is - we can still fix it.
But i'm getting ahead of things. The point is: by the time i'd digested The Lancet Statement, i knew:
this new virus is a lab-leak
There was/is no other reason for scientists to be issuing blatantly unscientific statements.
I checked a paper that the Lancet Statement cited in support of its premise - it was called Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.
Welcome to The Rabbit Warren
Started researching/writing/discussing Prox O on Formosahut with Dan - first posted on May 18, 2020. Don't know how many drill-down referenced analyses of Prox O & its authors' COI's there were at that time - not many - none that i saw - by world-leading scientists or not.
It was quickly clear the pangolin premise was rubbish, but the fascinating part was the authors who concocted it. The COI's were glaring.
Formosahut is a tiny forum - it's Dan and I basically -with a small readership - the recess of the recesses of the internet. Privately, I posted extensively on Lipkin's and Holmes's Wikipedia pages - painstakingly referencing every statement - no personal opinions - no adjectives - mainly using their own words. Information only. I thought it would be bullet-proof for those reasons, controversial as it was. It lasted two weeks. Pretty sure Lipkin and Holmes saw it. Lipkin in particular went from all-over-the-media-like-a-rash to radio silence.
After that it was like being attacked by those octopus machines from Matrix. The lead Wikipedia vandal was a user called Thucydides411 - but he had significant back-up. I was overwhelmed - blanked n blocked - with the usual conspiracy theorist name-calling. If you accept that the United Front Work Dept is a well-organized force, then you'll know that Wikipedia is a prime medium to infiltrate/control. What it did show is:
This is an information war.
On one side: the so called right-wing nutter conspiracy theorists, who calmly present referenced information, ask reasonable questions.
On the other side: the so-called progressives, who get angry, resort to name-calling, refuse to discuss details, use their power to censor/ban the discussion. Then replace it with misinformation - telling themselves it's for the common good.
This is the world we are living in.
In some ways it was satisfying to hit a nerve - but being shut down at every turn when all you're trying to do is investigate what the fuck happened here - it's not pleasant.
Then - out of the blue - some contact came the other way - an intrepid Covid-origin researcher somehow found me. I knew he was intrepid coz no-one else had done it. That was:
@Billy Bostickson from Drastic - the Great Man (though i didn't know who he was at the time)
Rabbit warrening - lonely is not the right word - a lot of it's exciting - some of it is very funny - but you are alone - in the warren. You lose touch with some stuff - it's normal. The wall of rejection/censorship when you try to share your findings - there's a reason why they call it the wall. (At first i couldn't work it out - why is the media refusing to report the story of the millennium when the facts are staring them in the face? Wouldn't that run against their instincts?) But that's ok, the thing about a challenge is you're not meant to be happy all the time - if you are - it's not a challenge.
But you are happy knowing there's someone in the real world shining a light. With others - a hardworking network. Showing leadership/energy/positivity. People have different abilities to different extents - Billy is Olympic-standard at light-shining - right when the world needed it - when the people we had trusted to do it - the experts - were betraying that principle.
Billy could retire tomorrow, play golf, grow tomatoes, history will immortalize him. Unless it turns out like the edited CCP ending to Fight Club - in which case he's fucked...
The censorship on the origin of Covid persists to this day. There's still been no open-investigation anywhere as to who is directing it or why. No-one has been held to account.
The outright vilification of origin-researchers has dropped off though - skipped a beat as a sentiment - but barely - before re-deployment to the vaccine-hesitant.
Meanwhile, the Covid Atrocity presents two challenges:
1. Expose the conspiracy to commit fraud
2. Prevent the desired outcomes of the frauders from becoming entrenched reality
The second one is the hardest - the most important - the most urgent.
It's no good proving Covid was a lab-exit if the perps get everything they wanted - more funding for a global bio-state - run by One-Everything.
* From humble beginnings of the 4 mutations to Covid highly unlikely (but not impossible) - Zoonotic Origin morphed (overnight) into extremely likely (World Health Organization Investigation into the Origin of Covid ruled (to the World) that non-zoonotic origin was "extremely unlikely"