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Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2

Of the two documents that fooled the world the most important was Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2. 

It supplied the science basis for engineering the world-view of Covid’s origin. 

The BBC described it as the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak.

Pub: Mar 17, 2020 by Nature (draft completed Feb 1 - the date of the teleconference - where it was presented by Farrar/Andersen/Holmes - supplied the backbone for discussions)

The premise: 

  • Horseshoe bats, possibly carrying RaTG13, (Mojiang cave incident, Yunnan*) managed to infect a population of at least  21 caged Malayan pangolin such as those smuggled into Guangdong (1000 km away).

(*dismissed by WIV/EHA as a coronavirus incident)

  • The pangolin were then transported to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan (1000 km another away), where they were slaughtered for sale. 

  • Before their death, the bat virus is theorized by the authors to have pulled off an average of 50 years (according to Holmes - 20 years if you’re in a rush) of profound evolutionary change. In the caged pangolin environment. Where it aced the ACE-2 spike protein barrier to human infectivity - resulting in patient zero at the market - as many early cases of COVID-19 were linked to the Huanan (Seafood) market in Wuhan - then patient whatever-many million we’re up to now. 

The Conclusion:

As such: Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. .. (P)angolins...provide a much stronger and more parsimonious explanation of how the virus originated through natural selection.

Yeah, right.

Despite it being known at the time (!) that:

  • pangolin are shy solitary creatures - not good vectors for pulling off Holmes’s 50 years of seismic mutations to go from closest (publicly) known bat genome - with no human transmission - to - the most contagious/deadly coronavirus in humans ever known to man. 

  • Yes, pangolin were/are trafficked, but the window for evolution to work its magic is narrowed down to, evolutionarily speaking, the infinitesimal time frame of: captured/caged - shipped - killed - sold - with 100% mortality rate. How does 20-50 years of high-density living fit into that? Fits fine in a lab - but with your pangolin smuggling/natural evolution story?

  • no pangolin were sold at the Nan Hua Seafood Market. 

  • no market animal tested positive (80 000+ tests later, no pangolin or bat has tested positive, anywhere in the world)

  • the first cases weren’t from the market

There’s your pangolin premise - collapsed in a heap - before it gets out of the starting gates.

Pile on all the fancy science you like after that - it’s a moot point - your pangolin premise is still 

  • wrong    - 

Everything based on it - is - therefore - wrong - sorry to say.

Remember, this is not benefit-of-hindsight. These datums were known before Prox O was

  • written

  • peer reviewed

  • published by Nature

  • endorsed by the one-science community

  • blanket-reported in the media as officially debunking the lab-leak. 

That means: all of the above chose to ignore glaring errors in the fundamental pieces of information that the paper was based on. To perpetrate a fraud.

That makes them hands-on complicit in the Covid Atrocity.

The Authors:


Edward C. Holmes: only non-Chinese scientist allowed into original genome sequence loop), teleconferencer, honorary professor at Fudan, Guest Prof, China CDC, Beijing  (2014-2020), has known Farrar & Gao since their career intersections at Oxford/Wellcome in the 90’s.

Andrew Rambaut: evolutionary biologist specializing in emerging human viral pathogens (funny how the more human viral pathogenicists emerged as a fund-attracting force - the more emerging human viral pathogens we seemed to get), genomic surveillance enthusiast Feb 1 Teleconferencer, first person Holmes called with the sequence - published on his website, SAGE member (with Jeremy Farrar).

Fast Factoids: Proximal Origin: 

  • displays a beautiful irony in it’s title - by revealing the authors proximal origins to SarsCoV-2

  • was, according to the authors, purpose-written to quell conspiracy theories around a possible lab-leak (theories originated by Chinese netizens, btw)

  • was partially funded by NIH/Francis Collins (H3Africa co-funder)

  • draft, according to Garry, was complete .. Feb 1st - same date as authors held strategy-session conference call with Farrar and Fauci. (Flashback: On Jan 31, Andersen (lead author) emailed Farrar/Fauci/Collins saying it looks engineered. That means - literally overnight - the authors changed their thinking 180 degrees, then re-researched/re-wrote/re-edited to - first draft - delivered (at MOU’s Feb 1 teleconference) a paper that clearly show(s) SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.) 

  • Or …they made it up.

  • 1707 citations so far - mostly positive ones. An altmetric score of 36,768 - which blows the previous world record of 11,980 out of the water.  Once Prox O breaks new ground as Exhibit A in the cover-up - which it’s about to - all bets are off

  • mega-platformed (via Nature, Guardian, CNN et al media) the pangolin/wetmarket discourse to irrefutably show Covid couldn’t possibly be a lab-leak. 

All this In the crucial nascent period. Where if we’d known it was a GoFFed-up lab bug on the loose - we could have reacted accordingly.

But wait - there’s a silver lining!

Nature, Sep 2020: Through the ‘Solidarity’ trials, the WHO has launched a global campaign to test therapeutic agents and vaccines on an unprecedented scale5. 

No, we’ll get to that in a different thread Nature, but we’re not going to be diverted from this question:

Was Proximal Origin knowingly concocted/promoed with the full-might of One-Everything - to cover up the origin of Covid?

We know the authors - we know all those who sold-it-on - but who was the master-mind? Who had the sheer audacity/the power to put this radical plan together? To create the lie - then enforce it - to shape/control world culture? 

You’re thinking Fauci - yes of course he’s in the mix - but the man who took the reins - in a crisis - brought it all together is:

  • Sir Jemery Farrar    - 

  • Convened/chaired the Feb 1 teleconference -

  • On-sold-it Feb 2 in a teleconference to Tedros 

Doesn’t seem like a long rap-sheet - but these were crucial plays - without which - none of this could have happened.

Farrar sees himself, as others do, as indeed he is: a PR genius. An ahead-of-the-curve calculator - decisive - man of action - not afraid to think big. This was Jeremy’s time to shine. For the public good. 

Once you make that decision - the truth - no longer matters - you prosecute your case the same way a good lawyer would.

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