Thank-you Lancet Statement
If you're tracing back the Covid Cover-up Conspiracy, you wind up with two documents:
The Lancet Statement
The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2
They are dear to me coz they were my entry point into seriously investigating the origin of Covid.
Dan started a thread on Formosahut about nCov on Jan 24 - we began noticing/recording some anomalies. I mentioned this to a scientist I was on good terms with.
The reaction was bristling - that took me aback - slightly. Sent a Feb 23 story from the Taipei Times on a scientists' symposium raising the possibility of an engineered virus lab accident.
The email back was:
The experts don't believe in conspiracy
link to the The Lancet Statement
I read it. 27 world-leading experts saying scientists from a CCP-run bio-defense/weapons lab were open and transparent.
The language, was weirdly over-the-top - condemning conspiracy theorists - raving about unity/solidarity/standing together. With who? Totalitarianism?
Yeah - no. Whatever you do - don't sign that. You will get badly burned.
The CCP are open and transparent about not being open and transparent. The 27-experts were spreading misinformation.
Begging the question: Why?
The response was an animated cartoon praising China's transparency/response/lockdown mentality - ridiculing the US (literally made by the CCP - disturbingly, now that i check, platformed/plugged by the ABC. More than 2 years later - there's still no evidence of the ABC having done an investigative piece on the origin of the biggest story of our lifetimes. What does that mean?)
Later i was sent an derogative article about a 5-G protest.
Then banned from talking about Covid altogether. I'm sick to death of hearing about your boring conspiracy theories.
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. You can't move on from Timbuktu if you've not been there. Society has to develop a space where questions are allowed to be asked about this event that changed every human's life. Let's get there first - then we can talk about how to move on.
If the system is broken, which it is - we can still try to 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
That was a rush.
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 Don't know how many drill-down referenced analyses of Prox O there were at that time - not many - none that i saw - by world-leading scientists or not.
It was quickly clear the science 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 - the recess of the recesses of the internet. Privately i was trying to alert many media outlets about Ian Lipkin - getting only robo-responses.
Out of the blue some contact came the other way - an intrepid Covid-origin researcher found me. I knew he was intrepid coz no-one else had done it. That was:
@Billy Bostickson from Drastic
Rabbit warrening - lonely is not the right word - a lot of it's exciting - funny - but you are alone - in the warren - you lose touch with some stuff - it's normal. Then there's a wall of rejection/censorship when you try to share your findings. (At first i couldn't work it out - why is the media refusing to report the story of the millennium?)
So you're happy there's someone in the real world shining a light. Showing leadership/energy. 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.
The censorship on the origin of Covid persists to this day.
The outright vilification has dropped off though - skipped a beat as a sentiment - but barely - before re-deployment to the vaccine-hesitant.