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, it was platformed/plugged by the ABC. More than 2 years later - there's still no evidence of the ABC having done a single investigative piece on the origin of the biggest story of our lifetimes. What does that mean?)
Later i was sent an derogatory 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
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 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 - the recess of the recesses of the internet. Privately i was trying to alert many media outlets about Ian Lipkin in particular - getting only robo-responses or nothing. I posted 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. Pretty sure Lipkin and Holmes saw it. Lipkin in particular went from all-over-the-media-like-a-rash to radio silence. It lasted two weeks.
Then it was like being attacked by those octopus machines from Matrix. The lead vandal was a user called Thucydides411 - but he had significant back-up. I tried fighting it but was overwhelmed - got blanked and 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 for them to control. What it did show me that this is a information war where our opponents have zero regard for the truth, details, or discussion. Since then i have seen this scenario play out a million times.
The so called right-wing nutter conspiracy theorists calmly present referenced information, ask sensible, important questions.
The so-called progressives become hysterical, resort to name-calling, refuse to discuss details, use their power to censor/ban the truth - then replace it with misinformation.
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 the truth - 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 - 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/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.
The censorship on the origin of Covid persists to this day. There's still been no official 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.