Have been here only sporadically lately, so pls forgive if this has been covered.
Any digs on follow-the-money / connections w/ ChiFi, et. al., and possible China bio weapon use of COVID?
https://epochtimes.today/is-wuhan-coronavirus-a-bioweapon-here-are-what-the-facts-say/
2/1/20 EpochTimes, by Chris Chia (excerpts)
Is Wuhan Coronavirus A Bioweapon? Here are what the facts say.
Some media reported that the bioweapon was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is about 32 km away from the pestiferous Huannan Seafood Market, the epicenter of the deadly virus, as the Google map below shows.
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1st Confirmed Case in China Had No Exposure to Seafood Market
In a recent study entitled “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” published on 24 January 2020 in The Lancet by a group of Chinese doctors, the first confirmed case of the 2019-nCoV infection in Wuhan was 1 December 2019. And this patient was not exposed to the Huannan Seafood Market.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) Has Strong Expertise in Coronavirus Pathogens
In their website, WIV reported in January 2018 that their biosafety pathogen level 4 (most deadly level) lab is operational The lab is capable of conducting experiments on highly pathogenic microorganisms that can cause fatal diseases. This was China’s first such lab. It is possible that more labs have been built by China thereafter in secrecy.
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Chinese Military Involvement in Coronavirus Pathogens
One way to find out how much Chinese military involvement there is in coronavirus work is to understand how much they know about the coronavirus, particularly those coming from bats with SARS-like properties.
We turn to GenBank, an open access genome sequence database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, a part of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. The sequences in GenBank are contributed by labs all over the world.
On GenBank’s website, I searched for genome sequences in their database using keywords “bat”, “SARs-like” and “coronavirus”, as shown below. I obtained 170 result entries.
Of the 170 result entries, 91 entries are from this military institute, constituting 53.5% of all bat SARS-like coronavirus sequences known in the world. Also there are an additional 25 entries from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and 38 entries from the National Institute of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention based in Beijing.
In all, China’s submitted sequences constitute 90% of all bat SARS-like coronavirus sequences. It does look like China is an authority in this area.
When I only used keywords “bat” and “coronavirus”, I found 63 entries from the Changchun Military Veterinary Institute.
Why are two Chinese military institutes taking such strong interests in bat SARS-like coronavirus, contributing approximately 90% of all known sequences? Is Chinese military trying to weaponize these pathogens?
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Does China Have A Bioweapon Program?
Yes, according to Dr. Dany Shoham, a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel. In his paper, “China’s Biological Warfare Programme: An Integrative Study with Special Reference to Biological Weapons Capabilities” published in the Journal of Defence Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 April-June 2015, pp. 131-156, he mentioned that it is highly unlikely that China will pass the opportunity not to use biotechnology for military use.
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Key Takeaways
In summary, here are a few takeaways from this article:
It is unclear where the 1st contracted case in Wuhan received the virus.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has amassed substantial information on pathogens, including the bat SARS-like coronavirus.
Chinese military has amassed substantial information on the bat SARS-like coronavirus, having mapped out 50% of all known genome sequences.
Chinese has never stopped pursuing an active bioweapon program.