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- The Fifth Anniversary of the Global Covid Epidemic
- The Important Covid Origins Research of Jim Haslam
- The Demonization of China for the Wuhan Lab-Leak
- Haslam’s Exoneration of China for Creating Covid
- Haslam on America’s Covid Cover-Up
- Haslam on the Covid Infections of American Animals
- Haslam’s Astonishing Lab-Leak Scenario
- Conflating Covid Bioengineering with a Covid Lab-Leak
The Fifth Anniversary of the Global Covid Epidemic
In recent years the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times has left the Wall Street Journal as America’s best major newspaper, a development that no one had expected when Rupert Murdoch purchased that venerable publication in 2007. Over the last couple of years, I’ve spent fewer and fewer minutes each morning reading the nonsense that the Times publishes, and one of these days may finally give up on it entirely.
Consider, for example, the global Covid epidemic that began in early 2020 and dominated all the world’s headlines for the following couple of years. According to the careful analysis of the Economist, “excess deaths” due to Covid probably totaled around thirty million, and the disease certainly disrupted the lives of many billions more, while most of the American population spent much of the next year or two living under intermittent lockdowns.
The massive Covid coverage in the Times was led by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., a 45-year veteran of the newspaper, whose byline graced countless front-page stories during that period. But in 2021, the Times organized a lucrative Peru outing for wealthy high school students and the reluctant McNeil was cajoled into leading it. Unfortunately, some of those students reported McNeil for the “politically incorrect” language he had casually used, and despite his illustrious career the journalist was summarily purged from the Times, later telling the shocking story in a widely-discussed, four-part essay on Medium.
As the world suffered under the pandemic, the Times and every other Western media outlet had declared that Covid was a natural virus, denouncing as “conspiracy theorists” anyone who suggested otherwise, with Facebook enforcing that consensus by banning anyone who dissented from it.
But in May 2021, that established narrative was suddenly transformed by Nicholas Wade, a very distinguished science journalist who had spent decades at the Times including serving as its Science Editor. Wade self-published an 11,000 word blockbuster article pointing to the overwhelming genetic evidence that Covid was artificial and arguing that it had likely leaked from a lab.
- Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
Nicholas Wade • Medium • May 2, 2021 • 11,000 Words
As I explained later that same month:
Despite such extremely inauspicious beginnings and the cautious and subdued tone of his text, the consequences were dramatic. Although nearly all the facts and evidence that Wade discussed had already been publicly available for most of the past year, his careful analysis and considerable journalistic credibility quickly transformed the intellectual landscape. He began his long article by explaining that from February 2020 onward a huge ideological bubble had been inflated by political propaganda masquerading as science, a bubble that was afterwards maintained through a combination of journalistic cowardice and incompetence. President Donald Trump had proclaimed that the virus was artificial, so our media therefore insisted that it must be natural, even if all the evidence seemed to suggest otherwise.
Wade’s careful presentation immediately punctured that bubble, and upended the public discussion of an epidemic that had killed millions around the world. By May 28th, the Wall Street Journal carried the headline “Facebook Ends Ban on Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made,” so that in less than one month a self-published article had already changed what nearly three billion individuals around the world were allowed to read and write. This illustrates the totalitarian control of information on the Internet held by American’s huge Tech monopolies, which determine the limits of permitted discussion worldwide at the flip of a switch. Can there be any better example of the ridiculous, Stalinesque climate of intellectual censorship currently enforced by those corporate giants?
The impact of Wade’s article was considerably enhanced by an important column by McNeil that soon followed, in which the latter completely reversed his own position and seconded the conclusions of his former colleague. Thus, the Times journalist who had spearheaded his paper’s entire Covid coverage now endorsed the theory that he and every other mainstream writer had spent more than a year dismissing as “far right” lunacy, with that volte-face obviously having a great deal of impact upon the public debate.
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Lab-Leak Theory
Donald G. McNeil, Jr. • Medium • May 17, 2021 • 4,700 Words
The rapidity of this dramatic sudden shift in the public media narrative struck me as almost Orwellian, and I applied that metaphor in the article I published discussing all these developments.
- American Pravda: George Orwell’s Virus Lab-Leak
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • May 31, 2021 • 5,200 Words
Perhaps because Times had defenestrated its leading Covid journalist in 2021, the fifth year anniversary of that gigantic epidemic has so far passed without any notice in that newspaper. Meanwhile, a week or two ago, the rival Journal published a lengthy front-page article revisiting the hotly debated question of whether Covid was natural or had instead leaked from a lab.
- Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak
The idea that the pandemic’s origins lie with a research facility in China was once labeled a conspiracy theory
Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel • The Wall Street Journal • December 26, 2024 • 2,800 Words
The Important Covid Origins Research of Jim Haslam
Throughout 2020 and 2021, the overwhelming focus of my work had been the Covid origins controversy, and this had substantially continued into 2022. But over the last couple of years, my interest has shifted toward the Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza conflicts, and I’ve only occasionally covered Covid matters, which have anyway largely faded from the headlines along with the disease itself.
As a consequence, I failed to notice the later arrival of an important new participant in the Covid origins debate. In October 2022, an independent researcher named Jim Haslam began posting on that topic. His Substack account was entitled Reverse Engineering the Origins of SARS-CoV-2, and over the last couple of years I’d very occasionally seen reference to his work, which claimed that Covid was a bioengineered virus that had leaked from the Wuhan lab. But since I was preoccupied with other matters and his views seemed entirely similar to those of so many others whom I’d encountered from early 2020 onwards, I didn’t pay much attention to his work. Every now and then I’d see it mentioned or cited somewhere and would resolve to take a look, but I never got around to it.
However, Ukraine’s unexpected December assassination of a top Russian general named Igor Kirillov at his Moscow home suddenly revived the issue. Lt. Gen. Kirillov had been in charge of Russian biowarfare defense and very soon after the Russian invasion, his organization claimed that America had established dozens of biolabs filled with illegal bioweapons on his own country’s border. Many Western analysts have suggested that these dramatic accusations drew permanent Ukrainian enmity and eventually marked him for death. But aside from myself, no one else mentioned that Kirillov had attracted far greater attention later that same year when he suggested that Covid had been an American bioweapon unleashed against China and Iran, so I published an article discussing his killing and recapitulating some of my own evidence that strongly substantiated Kirillov’s accusations.
- Assassinating a Top Russian General
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 23, 2024 • 5,600 Words
That piece attracted many responses, one of which mentioned that Haslam had recently published a Covid origins book that came to very different conclusions. Given my renewed focus on the subject, this seemed the perfect opportunity to finally explore his work, so I quickly ordered the book and read it.
Independent researchers who present a Covid analysis not aligned with that of the mainstream media obviously face huge difficulties in getting their manuscripts into print, and this is especially true of a topic such as Covid that faded from the headlines a couple of years ago. Therefore, I was hardly surprised that Haslam’s book was self-published on Amazon, nor that it lacked any endorsements or favorable cover-blurbs.
This was compounded by the explosive nature of his conclusions, which went far beyond those of the various lab-leak advocates whose work I’d previously read. Back in late 2021 I’d published a review of a half-dozen such Covid origins books, most of which were released by major publishing houses and reviewed in mainstream media outlets. But I now found the analysis and information contained in 90% of Haslam’s book far superior to any of those, although the remaining 10% unfortunately fell into an extremely different category.
- American Pravda: Confronting Covid Crimestop
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 13, 2021 • 6,400 Words
During his long March discussion with Tucker Carlson, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University had made some controversial statements about the origins of Covid, and he reaffirmed these a second time just a few weeks ago, with these two interviews together generating tens of millions of impressions on Twitter and millions more views on YouTube. Sachs’ ideas apparently relied heavily upon Haslam’s research findings, so although the very highly regarded chairman of the Lancet‘s Covid Commission never mentioned Haslam’s name, he seemed to have tacitly provided a strong endorsement of the author’s analysis.
Although reasonably well-written and edited, Haslam’s book lacked any index, severely reducing its value, and although I assumed that I could use the text search feature of the Kindle version for that purpose, the latter suffered from some sort of indexing problem that rendered it useless, so I hope that the author will soon correct this.
An even more serious problem was inherent in any printed work. Haslam’s controversial Covid analysis relied upon a vast number of references, sources, and documents, which would normally be provided as online links. However, the analogous footnotes or endnotes of a print edition are obviously much less useful, so Haslam did not even bother including any of those, any more than had the earlier Covid origins books released by major publishers. This forced his readers to take almost all his statements on pure faith, a huge difficulty as I began reading through a book whose chapters were filled with so many extremely controversial claims.
Fortunately, the many lengthy posts published on his Substack largely solved this problem, linking to all the hundreds of source documents that he had relied upon. Therefore, I think his book should best be regarded as a mere overview of his ideas, while anyone interested in exploring those in any depth should instead rely upon his online writings. Furthermore, his online analysis also provided a multitude of diagrams, charts, and other graphic images totally lacking in his book, as well as numerous videos that also contained information important for his conclusions. His book consisted of thirty chapters and his Substack contained fifty-odd different posts, so associating those two sources of information would have been much easier if each chapter suggested the post or two that best documented its claims, and perhaps he will add such a feature in a future edition.
On the more positive side, seven of his longest posts from late 2022 and 2023 were labeled #1 through #7, with these totaling nearly 60,000 words and apparently providing much of his core analysis. So after finishing his book I carefully read all of these, along with perhaps another 50,000 words of other posts, though I skipped over the dozen or more short ones that were labeled “Weekly lab leaker.” Providing some sort of road-map to his most important posts and a brief summary of their contents would be a helpful addition to his Substack.
The central thesis that Haslam set forth can be summarized in just a couple of sentences. Just like all the other lab-leakers, he believed that the Covid virus was bioengineered, but argued that its creation took place in an American lab rather than in Wuhan. According to him, the Chinese virologists who were so heavily demonized in the Western media from 2020 onwards had almost no role in that process and were completely innocent, even being unaware that Covid had been created.
Thus, the virus that killed tens of millions and devastated the world was an American virus, and this remarkable conclusion surely explained Prof. Sachs’ striking March 16th column suggesting that America owed the world gigantic financial compensation. Given Haslam’s hypothesis, it’s easy to understand why his book needed to be self-published and will almost certainly be totally ignored by every major Western media outlet.
Although there are several separate strands to Haslam’s analysis, I thought he made a pretty strong case for most of these, while also solving some of the strange mysteries that had puzzled so many observers. His analysis seemed to straighten out a number of the mistakes, unintentional or otherwise, that earlier lab-leak advocates had quoted back-and-forth so many times until they became widely accepted truths. But Haslam’s important work can only be properly understood when placed in the context of what so many Americans and others around the world had originally come to believe about the origins of the Covid disaster.
The Demonization of China for the Wuhan Lab-Leak
When word of the outbreak of a mysterious new viral disease in the central Chinese city of Wuhan reached the world’s media in the first few days of January 2020, American tensions with China under the Trump Administration had been at a very high level, and right-wing activists had already spent years heavily demonizing China, portraying our main geopolitical competitor as a global font of evil.
Almost immediately, our CIA-affiliated propaganda outlets such as Radio Free Asia began emphasizing that the city was home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), one of China’s most advanced viral research facilities. Some journalists and activists even promoted the theory that the Covid virus had been a Chinese bioweapon that had accidentally leaked from one of its labs. Indeed, as Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News journalist Sharri Markson later recounted in her 2021 book What Really Happened in Wuhan, some influential anti-China activists argued that a faction of the Chinese government might have deliberately released the deadly virus in one of their own largest cities as part of a murky political power-struggle, though she herself claimed never to have been convinced by that suggestion.
While these sorts of anti-China theories soon became widespread within the conservative wing of the mainstream media, far more extreme beliefs began circulating in less respectable venues. For example, within a few weeks numerous Internet websites began republishing the alleged text of a 2005 speech by a top Chinese general in which he declared that China planned to use biological weapons to exterminate most of America’s population, then conquer the world and send forth hundreds of millions of Chinese to colonize our own newly depopulated territory along with that of many other countries. Although such outrageous notions were hardly endorsed by mainstream conservatives, Alex Jones eagerly promoted them to his audience of many millions, and through social media they probably somewhat filtered into the consciousness of many ordinary Republicans and conservatives.
With so many right-wingers having become convinced that Covid was a leaked Chinese bioweapon, related propaganda soon attracted huge attention on the Internet. Anti-China activists and anti-China websites began promoting anti-China propaganda-videos allegedly showing large numbers of ordinary Chinese suddenly dropping dead in the streets of Wuhan as a result of the fearsome Chinese bioweapon now uncontrollably circulating in that city. In those early days, even respectable mainstream analysts wildly over-estimated Covid’s fatality rate.
As a result, a powerful narrative took hold among many Americans of that ideological ilk. The evil Chinese had created a devastating biological weapon that they had probably been planning to unleash against America and the rest of the world but they were so incompetent that they had instead allowed it to leak into their own society. Thus, their malevolently fatal own-goal might bring down America’s most powerful global rival.
At the time, I regarded all these theories and accusations swirling on the Internet as ranging from the very doubtful to the totally deranged, and my opinion has never changed. But some of the more explosive ones became wildly popular on social media, and this surely explains why Donald McNeil and other mainstream journalists covering Covid lumped them all together, dismissing all the lab-leak scenarios as “far right conspiracy theories.” Meanwhile, Facebook came under increasing pressure to ban or censor these controversial Covid views as dangerously inflammatory.
But as so often happens, the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. This was especially true in the case of a highly technical issue then only known to professional virologists, involving something called a Furin Cleavage Site (FCS). Soon after the Chinese released the full Covid genome on January 10th, virologists noticed Covid contained an FCS, a structure that allowed it to easily enter human cells and therefore greatly increased its infectivity. Covid without an FCS would have been almost harmless, but an FCS-equipped Covid ultimately caused some thirty million deaths and inflicted enormous disruption and damage upon the world economy. And oddly enough, no previous coronavirus of the Covid type had ever been found with an FCS, which raised some eyebrows among virologists. But until Wade published his seminal article in May 2021, few mainstream journalists had paid any attention to that crucial fact.
During this period, two distinct ideological camps formed. The entire mainstream establishment closed ranks around the belief that Covid was a natural virus, while an agitated alternative lab-leak community formed around the conviction that Covid had been bioengineered, and in such an ideologically super-charged atmosphere anyone who challenged the assumptions of either group might be ferociously attacked. This can be seen in the case of a rather minor figure in the Covid controversy, someone who was only very occasionally mentioned in our media stories.
Australian virologist Danielle Anderson held an academic appointment at the National University of Singapore (NUS) but for several years had also been working at the Wuhan lab, splitting her time between those two research institutions. She happened to be the only Westerner working at WIV during the period in question, and after the lab-leak theory was revived in mid-2021, she was interviewed by Bloomberg, declaring that the Western media’s portrayal of the lab and its operations was totally at odds with what she had herself seen there. She argued that the likelihood that Covid had leaked from that facility seemed almost nil.
- The Last—And Only—Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out
Virologist Danielle Anderson paints a very different picture of the Wuhan Institute
Michelle Fay Cortez • Bloomberg • June 27, 2021 • 2,200 Words
As I wrote at the time:
Based upon a few sentences in American government cables, our media has repeatedly alleged that the operating standards of the Wuhan lab were poor, but Anderson’s own experience had been entirely different, with the safety protocols so impressive that she later suggested they be adopted at her own research organization. For many months, former members of the Trump Administration had been promoting some questionably-sourced “third party” intelligence claiming that three lab workers became seriously ill in November 2019 with Covid-like symptoms, but Dr. Anderson could recall no such cases, and believed that she would have heard about them. She had generally enjoyed a very friendly and open relationship with her Chinese colleagues, with scientific gossip regularly being shared back and forth. Under these circumstances, she felt certain that if a suspected lab-leak had occurred, she would have heard about it, but there had never been a hint of any such incident.
Furthermore, the creation of a dangerous virus such as Covid would have required many layers of official authorization by lab administrators, and she doubted that a decision of such importance could have been taken without word getting around. While she admitted that it was theoretically possible for some rogue Chinese lab researcher to have secretly undertaken such a project and bioengineered the virus, then accidentally infected himself or others, she rated the likelihood as “exceedingly slim.”
So based upon her personal experience at the Wuhan lab, she thought it very unlikely that the Covid virus was developed there and equally unlikely that any lab-leak had ever occurred. For these reasons, she still leaned towards a natural source for the viral outbreak.
As a result, Dr. Anderson was ferociously vilified by agitated lab-leak advocates, some of whom denounced her as a traitor and an obvious stooge of “the ChiComs.” In fact I think I remember reading that the mild-mannered scientific researcher was so harshly attacked on Twitter that she was driven off that platform. Over the years, I’ve regularly cited Anderson as probably the single best eyewitness to what had actually happened at the Wuhan lab, and I’ve always considered it highly suspicious that all the leading lab-leak proponents such as Alina Chan and Matt Ridley seemed to pretend that she didn’t exist.
Anderson’s eyewitness testimony has only very rarely been mentioned in our media while the explosive claims of the lab-leakers have steadily gained ground among Americans. A 2023 survey showed that two-thirds of our population believed that Covid came from a lab in China, and since then support for that theory has further increased. I haven’t seen any recent international surveys on the origins of Covid, but given that our own country heavily dominates the global media, I’d assume that the worldwide numbers are also quite high.
Haslam’s Exoneration of China for Creating Covid
Little of this recent political history was presented in Haslam’s narrative, which instead heavily focused on the scientific issues rather than the ideological battles of the last few years. But in an interview a few days ago, he mentioned that he himself had earlier believed that Covid had probably been created by China’s military and might have been a Chinese bioweapon until the release of secret American documents and his own extensive research completely changed his mind over the last couple of years.
Perhaps as partial atonement for such past mistakes, he devoted one of his longest posts to the unfortunate case of a leading victim of that over-heated ideological atmosphere, namely Dr. Shi Zhengli, a senior virologist who had spent nearly her entire career working at the Wuhan lab. Widely known as “the Bat Lady,” Dr. Shi was for several years subjected to unprecedented vilification across much of the conservative-leaning American media, often portrayed as the likely creator of Covid and hence the individual responsible for so many millions of deaths.
When a mysterious and dangerous viral outbreak suddenly erupted in the city that was home to China’s most advanced center for viral research, only the most obtuse could have failed to recognize that remarkable coincidence, and Shi later explained how she immediately became terrified that a virus from her own lab had somehow gotten loose and was responsible for the emerging catastrophe. But after frantically checking her database, she was very relieved to see that Covid was not among any of those viral samples. The closest match she found was to a virus labeled RaTG13, a sample that she’d obtained a decade earlier but never bothered investigating, and although it was more than 96% identical, the 1,200 nucleotides that differed represented a yawning genetic chasm that would have required many decades of random mutations to cross.
However, given that Covid was so close to the one in her collection, she decided to publish a February 2020 paper providing the genome of the latter virus and suggesting that the strong similarity supported the idea that Covid was probably also natural.
Unfortunately for Shi, the results were explosive. Many American activists had already convinced themselves that Covid had leaked from the Wuhan lab, and once they discovered that the closest viral match anywhere in the world was found in Shi’s virus collection, they became certain of that fact. Many of them soon argued that Shi or one of her close Chinese colleagues had bioengineered Covid from the original RaTG13 virus.
Although others over the years have defended Shi against those accusations, Haslam does an extremely thorough job, demolishing the case against her in the 10,000 words of Post #4, and instead praising her as a heroic whistleblower. He explains how her decision to publish that virus rendered her the primary target of worldwide accusations:
Shi’s attempt at transparency turned her into the #1 international suspect, because her lab possessed the closest (known) genetic match to SARS2. Looking back, Shi’s publication may go down as the bravest decision in this sordid tale of cowards.
“We can never prove something that doesn’t exist. All these attacks on us come from the U.S. and are unfounded. We never had this novel coronavirus in our lab, let alone handled it. Before December 30, 2019 such a virus did not exist in our lab. There could not have possibly have been a lab leak. So this kind of attack is invalid.” Shi’s remarks are quoted from an August 2020 interview.
However, he noted that Shi’s entire expertise actually centered upon breeding and caring for bats, rather than any sort of genetic bioengineering. Her strictly limited skills in that latter field was in very sharp contrast with those of her occasional collaborator Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina (UNC), who was the world’s leading expert in such genetic manipulation:
You can tell someone’s scientific interest by looking at their patents. Her American collaborator Ralph Baric held patents for reverse genetics and vaccines. But Shi and her WIV colleagues were breeding and feeding bats. WIV filed two recent patents on breeding and feeding bat cages. She perfected her methods over the past decade of “raising bats.”
The “artificial breeding method for wild bats” patent was a detailed six-step process. Meal preparation for the bats includes one week of detailed temperatures, proportions and time for preparation of…worms. Step two is a paragraph of instructions for hand feeding bats via tweezers, what Linfa called the “puppet show.”
In sharp contrast with Shi’s very limited bioengineering expertise, Dr. Baric could even synthetize entire viruses from merely a listing of their genetic structure.
In 2013, Shi emailed an unpublished Chinese bat sample called SHC014 to Baric. Shi could not isolate the sample, so Baric used his patented reverse genetic method to create an infectious clone (lab created version) in North Carolina. The paper was controversially published two years later in 2015.
Baric did not isolate the Chinese bat virus; he created the Chinese virus based simply on its genome sequence, sent by Shi via email. He ‘resurrected the virus’ based on an emailed sequence. To repeat, Baric’s lab in North Carolina was able to create a live Chinese virus based on an emailed genome sequence. No other lab on the planet can do this with a 30,000bp genome. We know because he brags about being able to do it, in front of his own international peers! (5:34:00)
Shi was listed as a co-author on the 2015 hot potato paper for sharing an unpublished SHC014 Chinese bat sample, which the WIV could not synthesize (engineer). UNC was the only US Government select agent coronavirus lab where “some virus growth studies will be conducted in primary human airway” cells. That 2015 paper was on Fauci’s mind at midnight, just two hours after being told SARS2 “looks engineered” on January 31, 2020.
- In 2015 interview Baric described the controversial paper (9 min) and furin cleavage sites (15 min) being the biological key for jumping species.
To appreciate the engineering capabilities of modern virology, Nicholson Baker in NY Magazine, laid out a plausible lab leak hypothesis (that convinced me). But to provide the evidence for potential genetic engineering, Baker had to reference the Corona King, Ralph Baric 40 times, which was three times more than Shi. For Yuri Deigin’s Medium piece, he referenced Baric nearly as many times as Shi.
The 30 year NYT science writer Nicholas Wade claimed Baric “taught” Shi how to engineer SARS2, and called it “their work” linking to a paper that Shi had zero to do with regarding engineering. Co-authorship is a complicated scientific subject, but corresponding author (last name listed = lab) is more important due to ‘tacit’ knowledge, which is “we can know more than we can tell.”
Wade claimed that “if the SARS2 virus were to have been cooked up in Shi’s lab, then its direct prototype would have been” the 2015 paper. Shi couldn’t reverse engineer that paper and it was actually a prototype for UNC to follow in creating SARS2.
Up until January 23, 2020, the nearest sample previously collected to SARS2 was a distant PLA lab near Shanghai. The samples were collected from an island closer to Japan than the Mojiang mine where RaTG13 was collected…
When Shi published the natural RaTG13, she showed the world SARS2 was unnatural. It brought attention to the “peculiar” furin cleavage site (PRRA), making it stick out like a bright neon virologist sign. A Taiwan professor described it as “unlikely to have four amino acids added all at once.” It is “the magic sauce of this virus, whether it’s natural or genetically modified, this is why this virus is circulating in humans.” Shi’s UNC collaborator, Ralph Baric of UNC, remained quiet about the furin cleavage site. Others rang the alarm bell, only to be quieted with NIAID grant money.
- SARS2 is the only sarbecovirus with furin cleavage site (PRRAR). It’s easy to remember as roar: R-R-A-R.
- “We didn’t perform any experiment with any coronavirus in which we attempted to insert a furin cleavage site. It’s not within my expertise, that’s simple.” Shi
Shi published RaTG13 the day after the lockdown started on January 23rd and just one month before China CDC clamped down on all lab origin papers. All of this happened the same week the PLA took over the WIV. If Shi did not publish RaTG13, the nearest match to SARS2 would be two PLA lab samples (ZXC21 & ZC45) from Eastern China, that have nothing to do with her Wuhan lab. Ironically by publishing RaTG13 in 2020 she brought more attention to her lab.
Haslam emphasized that once Shi published the RaTG13 genome, leading virologists began noticing that the remarkably close match to Covid (also known as SARS2) primarily differed in that the latter included a Furin Cleavage Site (FCS). Many of them immediately recognized this as very strong evidence of bioengineering. Perhaps some of them even recalled that Baric had previously published papers describing the use of bioengineering to insert an FCS into viruses that lacked such a structure.
When the full SARS2 genome sequence was published on January 10th, a Tulane virologist was aware of the deadly Furin Cleavage Site in SARS2. But he would not suspect engineering until after January 24th when Shi published the similar SARS like strain called RaTG13. It was without the furin cleavage site called “PRRAR.”
“Things were made worse when (the WIV) published the (RaTG13) bat virus sequence – a bat sampled in a different province for which they have a large collection of samples,” from an Eddie Holmes email on February 8th. He was 60/40% in favor of the lab leak theory (80% on burner phone) during the February 1st teleconference, but the Australian virologist now blames the Wuhan wet market.
Holmes was the first to publish the SARS2 sequence January 10th breaking China’s code of silence. Holmes also did not suspect engineering until after Shi published RaTG13 on January 24th; replying “Fuck this is bad.”
- Holmes emphasized that Shi’s BSL2 lab was not working on anything genetically close to SARS2 in 2018-19 because their unpublished paper (with RaTG13 sequences) was under a four year embargo.
The Scripps virologist who told Fauci that SARS2 “looks engineered” on January 31 would later lie. After the Fauci gate emails were released in 2021, Kristian Andersen claimed RaTG13 was published after the Fauci February 1st teleconference, but it was before, so Shi publishing RaTG13 was the SARS2 engineering tattletale. Again, when Shi published the natural RaTG13 sample on January 24th, she showed the world SARS2 was unnatural.
The SARS2 ‘engineering rumors’ and Fauci’s teleconference started days later. Both the Scripps and Tulane virologists were later added to Fauci’s ongoing $82M CREID network, which potentially funded the creation of SARS2 (more details below). The Tulane virologist recently admitted the CREID grant proposals were submitted in 2019. He now claims SARS2 was a “product of nature.” Duke was the leading CREID contractor, with both Linfa and Dani of Duke-NUS listed as Southeast Asian CREID contractors, but not Shi.
Haslam argued that Shi’s publication of the RaTG13 genome proved her innocence and that if she hadn’t done so, the apparent bioengineering of Covid/SARS2 might have remained hidden:
Yes, everything about RaTG13 was weird and a close match to SARS2, but why even publish RaTG13 if you have something to hide? Because they had to? WIV published RaTG13 one full week before Wuhan University published 4991, which itself did not know about RaTG13, so they also had nothing to hide.
It was not easy to see that SARS2 was engineered. It was synthetically designed to look natural to the Chinese bat immune system. Even longtime biosecurity expert Richard Ebright told US media on January 29th that “based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus.” This line was repeated on February 5th to Chinese media (same infamous article about Shi swearing on her life).
- #4: I, Shi Zhengli, guarantee with my life that SARS2 is not related to ‘my’ lab
How an Asian woman’s transparency became a Western man’s conspiracy
Jim Haslam • Substack • February 5, 2023 • 10,200 Words
As a coda to all of this, Haslam later published a 2024 post that scathingly attacked Alina Chan and Matt Ridley for their 2021 book Viral, which had strongly suggested that Dr. Shi was responsible for Covid. While I agreed with much of his criticism, I thought his verdict was far too harsh considering that their manuscript had probably been finalized only about a year after the epidemic began and before much of the important information had been released and properly digested. When I’d reviewed their book soon after it appeared, I’d also been critical, but emphasized that most of the other Covid books published around the same time were so extremely bad that theirs stood head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Haslam on America’s Covid Cover-Up
Later in 2023, Haslam followed up this lengthy Post #4 narrative with Post #6, describing in greater detail the stunned reaction among so many top virologists as they digested the obvious evidence of bioengineering in the Covid/SARS2 genome.
On January 24th, 2020, a world-class evolutionary virologist walked into his San Diego office, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and logged into his favorite forum, Virological.org. Dr. Kristian G. Andersen (KGA) of the Scripps Institute was excited to download the latest mutations from the (not yet named) Wuhan coronavirus…
Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology published a never-before-seen bat sample, called RaTG13. Shi uploaded its sequence to GISAID (a competitor to the NIH NCBI database) on January 24, 2020. This was technically the second time Shi uploaded RaTG13, but oddly, the NIH server (NCBI) didn’t release parts of the genome until 2022…
KGA aligned the natural RaTG13 sequence over the circulating SARS2 virus and the results were astonishing. The world-class evolutionary virologist called his evolutionary colleague Bob Garry of Tulane University.
I aligned (SARS2) with the 96% (similar RaTG13) bat sequence from WIV…they are essentially identical at the amino acid level – well all but the perfect insertion of 12 nucleotides that adds the furin cleavage site (PRRAR)…I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario…where you insert exactly 4 amino acids (PRRA)…at the exact same time to gain this function…do the alignment of the spikes at the amino acid level – it’s stunning – Bob by February 1st.
KGA then called Dr Eddie Holmes of the University of Sydney on Jan 30th to show the alignment, exposing the furin cleavage site. They also noticed two restriction sites flanked the furin cleavage site, so both were “nervous.” Eddie said he was “about 80% sure this thing had come out of a lab.” KGA was “60 to 70%” and admitted that “I drank about three beers after that early call with Eddie”…
Bob Garry knew about the SARS2 furin cleavage site (PRRAR) by Jan 12th, when Eddie published the complete SARS2 sequence on the Virological forum. But KGA, Bob, and Eddie didn’t suspect engineering until after the WIV published RaTG13 on Jan 24th.
Dr Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh was looped in. Andrew had created the Virological forum just five years earlier, during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. His website was designed to share and discuss the available sequences during an outbreak rapidly. Still, now the SARS2 origin was too sensitive of a subject to discuss on his public forum.
These four world-class evolutionary virologists created a private Slack channel on Feb 1st. Andrew noted, “RaTG13 is identical except for the four residue insertions.” Eddie said this “would also be exactly what was expected by engineering.” They were preparing for the infamous February 1st teleconference…
Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust was the Fauci of the UK. Early in the outbreak, he tried to get scientists to share SARS2 sequences. But after the WIV shared RaTG13, he was scared enough about the origins of SARS2 to buy a burner phone…
One week after the WIV uploaded RaTG13, on Jan 31st, Farrar told a collection of money managers how bad it would get. The furin cleavage site made SARS2 a “prepandemic potential” pathogen…
Farrar had been trying to contact Fauci all week to warn the same and finally got through on the 31st. Farrar introduced Fauci to three concerned virologists: KGA, Bob, and Eddie…
Four world-class evolutionary virologists with PhDs from Harvard, Texas, and Cambridge emailed Fauci to say that we find “the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” Why? Because the WIV had published RaTG13 one week earlier. The 80-year-old Fauci would be up until 3 AM covering his tracks.
At the behest of Farrar, Fauci finally called one of the concerned virologists. KGA told Fauci about Baric’s 2015 paper, which “looked like a how-to manual for building the Wuhan coronavirus in a laboratory.” UNC just months later uploaded the genome sequence for this 2015 paper, which meant Baric’s No See’m method was too “obscure” for Chinese copying.
KGA also told Fauci about the “furin site mutation.” Fauci replied, “They should report it to the appropriate authorities…FBI.” Farrar’s book said that KGA asked, “Am I supposed to call the FBI? What burden of proof were we looking for?”
It was widely reported that Fauci wanted to call the FBI, because of this midnight email, but Fauci was parroting what KGA told him via phone. In recent testimony, KGA repeated that he wanted to call the FBI, but Fauci told him he would do it. KGA had some FBI “brochures and pamphlets” ready to go!
The following day, KGA, Andrew, Bob, and Eddie started preparing for the teleconference in their newly created Slack channel. Andrew noticed Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in the Netherlands would be on the call. “It will be interesting to know what Ron thinks. He will not want it to be a Gain of Function escape.” KGA noted, “Ron will likely push back hard – which is fine.” Eddie shared a Montana lab paper, which inserted a furin cleavage site into a bovine (e.g. deer) coronavirus at the exact same location (R667) as SARS2…
KGA gave a six-page presentation to the audience, comparing the unnatural SARS2 (top) and the natural RaTG13 (bottom).
KGA then zoomed in on the alignment of RaTG13 versus SARS2, exposing the now easy-to-see furin cleavage site. Again, this was only possible because Dr Shi of the WIV had published RaTG13 precisely one week earlier…
KGA ended the presentation with references for his engineered hypothesis. All of the papers were from Baric, including the infamous 2015 Baric-Shi Nature Medicine paper, along with five others.
As Haslam explained at length, most of the top virologists initially declared that the Covid/SARS2 virus had very likely come from a lab, but they eventually shifted to claiming it was a natural virus:
- KGA was 60-70% lab origin.
- Bob said the RaTG13 alignment was “stunning,” but Tulane had previously been accused of a lab leak…
- Eddie was 60/40% via email and 80% in private…
- Andrew was “agnostic” but noted the unusual furin cleavage site.
- Mike Farzan, who discovered the SARS1 receptor, was 70/30% lab origin…
- Farrar was 50/50% lab origin but also funded self-spreading vaccine research…
What started as KGA’s lab leak ‘report’ slowly evolved into a natural origins paper. On Feb 4th, Eddie submitted the first draft, which speculated about possible reasons for a natural origin…
By Feb 12th, the draft had evolved from KGA’s lab leak report into Eddie’s natural origin paper. Nature Medicine’s editor replied, “Yes, please!” but they had to edit it down to 2,200 words and 30 references. Little space was left for nuance, and by Feb 25th, Eddie had convinced himself and the others that SARS2 had a natural origin…
The entire scientific enterprise (grants, funding, administrators, publication, patents, medals, Scripps 89.5% overhead) rested on the natural origins idea because otherwise, “it would shatter the scientific edifice top to bottom.”
- #6 If you believe the WIV engineered SARS2, then published RaTG13:
You are probably a simpleton (unlike KGA)
Jim Haslam • Substack • August 30, 2023 • 5,800 Words
Thus, his detailed narrative described how plans by top virologists to publish a paper highlighting the obviously bioengineered nature of Covid were gradually transformed into their publication of an exceptionally influential paper taking the exact opposite position. No new facts had changed their minds but merely the steady application of political and grant-making pressure, and I found Haslam’s reconstruction quite convincing.
Haslam on the Covid Infections of American Animals
When a natural virus first begins infecting humans, it has almost always jumped from some other mammalian species, which is considered the wildlife reservoir for that disease.
Since the entire scientific establishment declared that Covid was natural soon after the outbreak began, major efforts were undertaken to locate the local species that served as its reservoir, but these completely failed. No Chinese species has ever been found that contained the Covid virus, and this gradually began to raise serious doubts about the assumptions of its origins.
Oddly enough, however, several American animal species were eventually found to be heavily infected with Covid, including deer, a certain species of field mice, American mink, and American bats. Covid was obviously not a natural American virus, so this constituted a major puzzle, both to myself and to many other curious observers.
Haslam may have solved this mystery through some shrewd scientific detective work in his Post #2, and thereby also possibly identified one of the American biolabs responsible for Covid’s creation.
He began by noting that massive efforts failed to find infected Chinese animals, while chance tests on American animals had strangely succeeded, and proceeded from there:
- The WHO later tested 80,000 Wuhan area animals and all were negative.
- Chinese researchers trapped and tested more than 17,000 Chinese bats, all negative…
Two years later in 2022 the Wuhan wet market is still on the front page of NYT based on two non peer reviewed papers (by virologists on NIAID’s payroll). Just three weeks earlier the NYT asked if Coronavirus is in your backyard? North American white tailed deer are infested with Covid! Sounds like Fauci is rallying the virology boys?
- WHO report investigated antlers and Sika deer meat at Wuhan wet market, but results were all negative.
- Sika deer meat is found on American exotic menus but you will not find North American white tailed deer in China…
Why were only humans infected with Covid in Wuhan? Not a single infected animal was infected in all of China? No mink. No deer. No deer mice. No bats. Nothing inside the vast borders of China.
Most of the animals you heard about catching Covid were experimental infections (raccoons, rabbits, monkeys, etc) in a biolab. Or they were domesticated animals living in captivity like mink on farms, cats and hamsters as house pets, tigers and monkeys in zoos. Or they showed low levels of antibodies and not actual virus transmitted back to humans. None of these experiments show efficient animal-to-animal transmission.
We will find the natural animal reservoir (asymptomatic infection) but it will emerge “in new animal reservoirs in the US” with “spillback” in the New World, not here in the Old World. Start thinking outside the (nation-state) box.
- The virgin SARS2 virus from Wuhan (lineage A) can infect and transmit in American deer, American deer mice, American mink, American bats and Fauci’s RML biolab bats.
- American deer mice are housed in Fauci’s RML biolab, serve as a self spreading vaccine model, and efficiently transmit SARS2
- UNC/WIV ‘humanized’ lab mice are not transmission model for SARS2, which doesn’t infect lab mice and are safe i.e. not airborne and transmissible…
- US researchers found “stunning” and “gobsmacked” levels of Covid in American deer, but without symptoms, becoming the only “wildlife reservoir” on the planet.
- Covid only infects American deer (Odocoileus virginianus) not European (Cervus elaphus red) deer or Asian (Sika) deer…
North American white tailed deer are housed in US bioabs, serve as a self spreading vaccine model, and efficiently transmit SARS2 over plexiglass dividers
- North American white tailed deer are a US lab “large animal model” for “aerosolization” transmission studies (on chronic wasting disease).
- “Bottle-feeding and hand-raising deer fawns have a profound effect on their suitability as research subjects in general and inside biocontainment housing in particular.”
Just like Shi’s patented biolab bat colony, hand raising and bottle feeding each deer makes an ideal biolab animal transmission model, for self spreading coronavirus animal vaccines.
- #2 Why did the ‘Batman’ fly into Wuhan?
Because a contagious bat vaccine has jumped species
Jim Haslam • Substack • October 16, 2022 • 5,500 Words
In this and several other posts, Haslam argued that infected American animals were among those used for lab testing of Covid as the infectivity of the virus was tuned, with the most likely site for that testing being Dr. Vincent Munster’s Rocky Mountain Lab (RML) in Montana.
Haslam’s Astonishing Lab-Leak Scenario
Perhaps 90% of Haslam’s work covered the scientific evidence that the Covid virus was bioengineered and his closely-related analysis of the massive cover-up that was soon launched to conceal that obvious reality. Although I lack the personal expertise in virology to render a definitive verdict, nearly all of his arguments seemed convincing to me, and he presented large amounts of documentary evidence that I hadn’t previously seen or considered.
He demonstrated that neither Dr. Shi nor any of her Chinese colleagues possessed the technical expertise to create the Covid virus by inserting an FCS, and that the virus had instead very likely been created by Dr. Baric of UNC, once again seeming to muster a great deal of supporting evidence for his conclusions.
I found all of this material quite interesting and persuasive, but hardly surprising. Based upon entirely different arguments, I’d already become convinced by the early months of 2020 that Covid had been produced in an American lab, but had never much known or cared about the particular lab responsible.
Therefore, as various leaked documents over the next several years roiled the Covid origins debate, leading more and more analysts to accept a major American role in its creation, I paid little attention to that controversy. All the facts that were coming out merely confirmed my own longstanding assumptions, so I smiled with satisfaction that the rest of the world years later was finally inching towards the same conclusions I’d reached just weeks after the epidemic first began.
Haslam’s analysis took this much further, arguing that not only had American funding and American biotechnology been involved, but that the Covid virus itself had actually been created in an American lab, probably through the joint efforts of Dr. Baric of UNC and Dr. Munster of RML. Once again, I found this quite interesting, but hardly surprising. As early as 2021, I had learned of Dr. Baric’s tremendous expertise in viral bioengineering, so I’d come to regard him as a leading suspect.
However, the remaining 10% of Haslam’s work provided his own reconstruction of how the Covid virus created by Baric and Munster had reached Wuhan in China and created an epidemic in that city, and I was utterly shocked by the story he told.
The first chapter of his book was entitled “Identifying Patient 0” and as promised he identified the source and circumstances of the global Covid epidemic, beginning his explanation in the very first paragraph and providing all the astonishing details across the following dozen pages:
On an October morning in 2019, Assistant Professor Danielle Anderson waited for the bus to the new BSL4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)…a new FedEx package awaited her…
Dani is uniquely qualified to enter the BSL4 lab and conduct specialized tests. Above all, she is a trusted team member on both sides of the world…
The RaTG13 bat sample contained one notable modification. Ralph Baric of UNC, the American designer, had inserted a furin cleavage site in the middle of the genome….The vaccine’s co-designer, Vincent Munster from Rocky Mountain Lab, also needed this feature because it facilitated the vaccine’s onward transmission. Dani’s task was to test the final Western product inside the Eastern lab…
Dani received a FedEx package in the “cold chain” containing a new serum…She was experimenting with a novel genome called “HKU3r-CoVs.”…
The HKU3r-CoV virus that Dani injected into the bat was…later identified as SARS-CoV-2…
Dani was safely spacewalking in her Wuhan positive pressure suit through the BSL4…
A needle from Montana punctured her positive pressure suit in Wuhan. A vaccine designed to prevent the jumping of species had jumped species in the BSL4. The vaccine intended to infect a Chinese bat had infected her human lungs. The synthetic genome, designed to resemble a Chinese virus, was now in Wuhan’s first human patient…
From her experiments, Dani knew that the incubation time was 2-5 days, giving her ample time to self-isolate in her small Wuhan dorm room…
A few days later, the BSL4 lab went into lockdown, and weeks later, the entire city of Wuhan followed. The world soon did the same…What began as a SARS1 animal vaccine became SARS2…It self-disseminated around the globe while searching for the return address on the FedEx package Dani had opened on that fateful October day…
Dani Anderson self-isolated in her downtown apartment for the rest of October 2019…
Dani’s one-month indoor quarantine passed without incident. She tracked her symptoms, but the vaccine evaded her mammalian immune system. Despite wearing a face mask, the vaccine was designed to shed high virus levels in the upper respiratory tract. The incubation time passed, but it was too late. Being an avid runner, she might have spread the virus asymptomatically.
Upon reading the first few paragraphs of Haslam’s book and the pages that followed, my eyes nearly popped out of my head. For several years, I’d been regularly citing Dr. Danielle Anderson as “the single best eyewitness” to the internal workings of the Wuhan lab. But according to Haslam, she had actually been Patient Zero, the asymptomatic “Typhoid Mary” who had personally started the gigantic global epidemic that had devastated the entire world. I was utterly flabbergasted at that revelation. Anderson’s carelessness with a needle-stick had cost us 30 million lives, probably making her responsible for more deaths and human suffering than any other single individual in all of world history.
In a recent interview with a German podcaster, Haslam minced no words, declaring that he was 99.999% certain that Anderson had been Patient Zero, the individual who had infected the entire world.
But what was Haslam’s evidence for such a dramatic claim? His book contained no source notes nor references, so I carefully examined the related posts on his Substack, and found a very similar account of how the outbreak had supposedly occurred in Post #1 of the series, the very first item he had ever published on his Substack. However, in that online version, a disclaimer at the top indicated that the entire post was a “Wuhan lab leak hypothetical based upon an accident” and he was also more cautious in his account, writing that “Maybe a needle punctured her hand while trying to handle the tiny wild bat, turning her human lungs into the superspreader.”
So what elements of his lengthy published account of the source of the Wuhan outbreak were actually documented? As far as I could tell, absolutely none at all. His entire narrative was purest fiction.
- There is no evidence that Anderson received a FedEx containing the Covid virus.
- There is no evidence that Anderson began inoculating Chinese bats with the Covid virus.
- There is no evidence that Anderson accidentally suffered a needle-stick, infecting herself with Covid.
- There is no evidence that Anderson self-isolated after such an infection.
- There is no evidence that Anderson suffered an asymptomatic Covid infection and became Patient Zero.
- I’m also extremely skeptical of the supposed evidence that Anderson’s BSL4 lab went into lockdown following her alleged exposure to Covid.
Indeed, in her 2021 Bloomberg interview, Anderson explicitly stated that after returning to Singapore, she was tested for Covid prior to being vaccinated, and the tests revealed that she’d never been infected.
It seems to me that anyone who writes a book accusing a particular individual as having been responsible for 30 million deaths should at least be able to muster a few shreds of supporting evidence.
The problem with this portion of Haslam’s narrative was considerably magnified by his writing style. Nearly his entire book consisted of short, declarative sentences, a punchy style that presented his information in a very forceful manner. This approach was quite effective when he was writing about settled scientific matters or when he was certain of his facts, but it was a dangerous style when he was describing matters that are ambiguous or doubtful, let alone purely fictional. Similarly, I found the rather blustery, emphatic style of his podcast interviews rather off-putting, especially given that he apparently seemed to lack any scientific or journalistic credentials.
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However, let’s set aside the burden of proof and merely consider the likelihood of the hypothetical lab-leak scenario that Haslam has advanced. He explained why Baric would never have entrusted his Covid virus to any of the Chinese workers at the Wuhan lab, and since Anderson was the sole Westerner there, she must therefore have been the human vector for any lab-leak. Despite the lack of any supporting evidence, let’s simply consider the plausibility of his hypothesis.
According to Haslam, Anderson knew that she was the only individual in Wuhan with access to the Covid virus and that she might have accidentally infected herself with a needle-stick, so when the huge epidemic began a few weeks later, she must have known she was personally responsible for everything that subsequently happened, both in Wuhan and the rest of the world.
Yet there seems not the slightest trace of any psychological agitation or guilty conscience in any of her media interviews or public talks on the Covid disaster over the next several years. I find that exceptionally difficult to believe.
Keep in mind that Anderson was not a crazed sociopath nor a political/military leader, ideologically inured to the deaths of millions of people. She was just a mild-mannered scientific researcher, whose careless lab mistake accidentally inflicted massive suffering upon most of the world. Could she really have maintained her total composure under such extreme circumstances?
Journalists are trained to detect lies or deception by those whom they interview. Obviously, their efforts can often be defeated by trained Intelligence operatives, experienced PR professionals, dishonest politicians, or sociopaths, or any others who are skilled at lying and deceiving. But Anderson didn’t fall into any of those categories, not even being an experienced political administrator such as Anthony Fauci. She was just an ordinary research scientist.
David Quammen is a very experienced science journalist and he interviewed her by video in early July 2021 for his book Breathless, reporting some of her statements about the Wuhan lab in a paragraph in his ending “Credits” section. Yet he considered her such a peripheral figure in the Covid outbreak that her name never appeared anywhere else in his 350 pages of text. I think something like 15 million people had already died at that point and much of world was still locked down. Is it really plausible that Anderson would have been such an incredibly cool customer that she never showed a hint of the huge emotional agitation that would have led him to suspect anything? The Bloomberg journalist who interviewed her around the same time also noticed nothing unusual.
Neither I nor most of us possess the virological expertise to render solid verdicts on complex technical issues. But I think each of us of can judge personal psychological reactions with some degree of confidence, and Haslam helpfully provided several video clips of Anderson being interviewed about Covid in January and February 2020, just a few weeks after the beginning of the gigantic global epidemic she had allegedly unleashed, an epidemic that seemed likely to kill millions. I suggest that individuals watch those clips and decide for themselves whether they believe that Anderson could have knowingly been responsible for that enormous disaster:
Here’s a short clip from her 2021 Bloomberg interview:
Here’s her 15 minute presentation at a 2022 Australian conference on Covid, given after the worldwide death toll had probably topped 20 million:
I’m belaboring this point because Haslam has declared he is 99.999% certain that this poor woman has the blood of 30 million innocent people on her hands, and he actually believes that those interviews demonstrated that she was “laughing at all of us” for having avoided any discovery of what she had done.
Each of us must judge for ourselves, but my reaction is entirely different. Based upon all her video interviews and presentations, none of which I’d previously seen, I find it extraordinarily unlikely that she had any connection whatsoever with the Covid outbreak, let alone that she knew she was personally responsible for the entire pandemic. Only the best actress in the history of the world could have carried off such astonishing performances and I’d need to see a mountain of hard evidence before I would change my mind about that.
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But once we do some further thinking, we quickly see that Haslam’s lab-leak scenario is even more wildly implausible than what I have already described.
Let us assume that Anderson was the sort of utter psychopath who could retain total composure despite her personal responsibility for the deaths of millions. Her supervisor was Singapore virologist Linfa Wang, who was directing her work in Wuhan, and he obviously would have been informed if she had accidentally suffered a needle-stick and needed to spend a full month self-isolating as a result. So he too would have also known the exact circumstances of the Wuhan outbreak.
Indeed, in his Post #5 Haslam noted that Wang resigned from his position on January 10, 2020. He seemed to regard that as a sinister admission of guilt, demonstrating the latter’s recognition of his own role in the emerging disaster, but I’m very skeptical of this. Wang’s resignation came the day after broadcasts on America’s CIA-affiliated Radio Free Asia propaganda outlet had suggested that genetic engineering at the Wuhan lab might have been responsible for the spreading epidemic. For several years, Wang had worked with the Wuhan lab, so under such circumstances, it’s easy to understand why a mild-mannered Chinese-born scientist such as Wang, trained in the West and working for a Duke University research center, would want to avoid such heated political controversy.
Wang was a far more prominent figure than Anderson during the Covid outbreak, and he was later interviewed numerous times at great length about the origins of the epidemic, defending Dr. Shi and generally taking the same “natural virus” position as all of his professional colleagues in virology. Just as in the case of Anderson, none of his interviews or presentations seemed to display the slightest sign of any secret knowledge that his subordinate had been personally responsible for the disaster, but I suggest that others watch several of those clips and judge for themselves:
Here’s a lengthy interview he gave to Bloomberg in late January 2019:
On October 1, 2021, Science Magazine staff writer John Cohen hosted an amicable hour-long debate on the origins of Covid, in which Wang was one of the four virologists participating. None of his behavior provided even the slightest hint that he knew the terrible secret of how the epidemic began in Wuhan:
In 2022, PBS Frontline broadcast an 80 minute, somewhat propagandistic documentary entitled “China’s COVID Secrets,” in which Wang was one of the key individuals interviewed. In one of those segments, he explained that he had been among the first individuals outside China to learn of the sudden disease outbreak occurring in Wuhan, but once again, I detected absolutely no indications that he was concealing such stupendous guiltly knowledge:
I’d think that a diligent investigator could locate dozens of other clips of Wang, none of which would seem much different. So to accept Haslam’s lab-leak scenario, we are forced to assume that just like Anderson, Wang was also a psychopathic liar, who was “laughing at all of us” as the pandemic unfolded.
Moreover, Wang would have had no reason to conceal the truth since he himself hadn’t been responsible. Wang and Anderson had been working together for years and I’m sure that they were friendly, but if his friend and subordinate had carelessly been responsible for 30 million deaths, I just don’t think that personal friendship would have covered that situation. By the time the epidemic began, Anderson had already returned to Singapore, so Wang wouldn’t have feared that the Chinese might execute her, and I’m not sure that either Singapore or her native Australia would have even prosecuted her for what was a completely accidental lab mistake. Obviously, her scientific career would have been over, but that’s the sort of thing that happens when you accidentally kill 30 million people.
I think a final consideration firmly nails down the total implausibility of Haslam’s reconstruction.
According to his account, Anderson’s BSL4 lab was evacuated and put into lockdown after her exposure to Covid while she self-isolated for most of the next month. So obviously large numbers of the Wuhan lab workers and their managers would have been entirely aware of what had happened, recognizing that Anderson was responsible for the Covid outbreak that soon engulfed Wuhan and began spreading throughout all of China, a gigantic national disaster caused by the only Westerner working at the Wuhan lab. Under those circumstances, why wouldn’t the lab officials and the Chinese government have publicly admitted what had happened, denouncing Anderson as the guilty culprit?! Under Haslam’s reconstruction, everyone in China was totally innocent while the only Westerner working at the Wuhan Lab had been guilty.
With American propaganda blaming China for the Covid lab-leak, the Chinese would have (very justifiably) thrown Anderson under the bus, perhaps even hinting that since she was indirectly paid by Pentagon/Biodefense grants, her disastrous mistake might have even been part of a deliberate American attempt to infect China. Everyone in the world would have blamed Anderson for the global disaster and even the most fanatically anti-China Neocons would have been forced to admit that the Chinese were entirely innocent.
Conflating Covid Bioengineering with a Covid Lab-Leak
Although I’ve been extremely critical of Haslam’s claims that Dr. Danielle Anderson unleashed the Covid plague upon the world, I should strongly emphasize that this portion of his analysis—the 10% that presents his particular lab-leak scenario—has little if any connection to the other 90% regarding the bioengineered American origins of the virus, which seems quite thorough and solid. So if we reject the former, the latter still remains completely intact. He has convincingly explained how the Covid virus came into existence and who created it, but he was forced to grasp at extremely implausible straws to explain how it then reached Wuhan and came to be released into that city.
Over the last five years, I have published a long series of articles, now totaling nearly 200,000 words, and I regard these as entirely complementary to Haslam’s work. None of my many articles have focused on the scientific or technical aspects of Covid that he has made his forte, nor on the details of exactly who created the virus or how it was done, at most very occasionally citing some of the leading Covid researchers who have intensely studied that topic.
As an example of my extremely narrow focus, until this article I had almost never mentioned Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan lab nor Dr. Ralph Baric of UNC nor even Anthony Fauci in this context. I was obviously aware of the huge role those individuals played in the heated ongoing Covid origins debate, and my own casual speculations were fairly close to the conclusions that Haslam has much more rigorously established, but since those individuals had nothing to do with my own analysis, they never came up in any of my writing.
My own scenario begins exactly where Haslam’s leaves off, arguing that once the Covid virus had been created in America, rogue elements of the Trump Administration used it to launch an exceptionally reckless biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), a botched attack whose blowback ultimately infected our own country and the rest of the world. I have consistently maintained this position since April 2020, arguing that the evidence for it is overwhelming, but during all those years almost no one else on the Western Internet has been willing to endorse that hypothesis, or even recognize its existence.
I think we should also consider Haslam’s own circumstances. China is viewed with enormous hostility by many Americans, and his exhaustive research has completely exonerated the Chinese from having had any role in the Covid disaster, instead implicating one of our own esteemed academics Prof. Ralph Baric as the creator of the virus. These are extremely bold and courageous positions for someone to take who is writing under his own name as a citizen-researcher while he holds down a job in the regular economy. It’s very easy to understand why he would so firmly exclude any possible notion of an illegal American biowarfare attack from his considerations.
Based upon his video appearances, he seems a relatively young man, perhaps in his late thirties. The brief last page of his self-published book carried the heading “About the Author” and although he provided no biographical details, he emphasized that he wasn’t an anti-vaxxer and that he also absolutely rejected all “conspiracy theories,” including those involving the JFK Assassination or the 9/11 Attacks. So could we possibly expect him to take a far more dramatic position on the Covid epidemic that killed well over a million Americans?
But for those who are willing to reject Haslam’s theory that Dr. Danielle Anderson accidentally started the entire epidemic, here’s a brief summary of some of my own major pieces of evidence against the lab-leak hypothesis and favoring the contrary biowarfare hypothesis, a summary list I’ve occasionally provided to people:
(A) There doesn’t seem to be any evidence I can see that a Wuhan lab-leak actually occurred, and in a Bloomberg interview, Danielle Anderson, the Australian virologist who was working there at the time, was very doubtful that anything like that had happened. She also claimed that the WIV safety precautions seemed outstanding. (Obviously, if Anderson had been actually Patient Zero, responsible for the entire global epidemic, her statements to the MSM can’t be trusted.)
(B) In early January, just days after the initial Wuhan outbreak became known and long before it was seen as any major global event, our intelligence agencies were already spreading the story that it might be a bioengineered virus that had leaked from the Wuhan lab, which seems like a suspiciously rapid propaganda response.
(C) From January to August 2019, Robert Kadlec’s department had run the federal/state Crimson Contagion exercise to protect America against the possible leakage of a dangerous respiratory virus that might hypothetically appear in China, and just a couple of months afterwards, Covid suddenly appeared in Wuhan. That seems like a highly implausible coincidence for the accidental leak of a virus in Wuhan. Since the late 1990s, Kadlec has been one of America’s leading experts and advocates of biowarfare.
(D) With low lethality but very high communicability, Covid had the ideal characteristics of an anti-economy bioweapon according to a forty-year veteran of American biodefense. Furthermore, it appeared in the key transit hub of Wuhan, timed almost perfectly to reach widespread local circulation at the time of the Lunar New Year travels, thereby infecting the entire country.
(E) It’s generally agreed that Patient Zero in Wuhan was probably infected around the end of October, plus or minus a couple of weeks. By an astonishing coincidence, 300 American military servicemen were in Wuhan during late October for the World Military Games, which provided an ideal opportunity for slipping in a couple of covert operatives to release the virus at that point. Again, the almost perfect match of timing seems very suspicious. How would Americans react if 300 Chinese military servicemen visited Chicago and immediately afterwards a mysterious viral disease began spreading in that city?
(F) During “the second week of November” a unit at our Defense Intelligence Agency was already preparing a secret report warning of a “cataclysmic” disease outbreak occurring in Wuhan. But there was no visible outbreak at that point, with perhaps only a couple of dozen people infected in a city of 11 million. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone in China was aware of the circulating Covid virus at that point. So the timing of that secret DIA report seems a smoking gun, demonstrating foreknowledge.
(G) The Covid virus almost immediately jumped to Qom, Iran, which became the second global epicenter of the outbreak, especially hitting the Iranian religious and political elites, and this occurred just after we had assassinated Iran’s top military commander. Qom’s local Chinese population was absolutely negligible, so it seems very implausible that Covid would have randomly spread there before anywhere else in the world. At that point, China and Iran were the two countries viewed with greatest hostility by the hardliners in the Trump Administration, so it seems an astonishing coincidence that they would be the first two countries in the world hit with a Covid epidemic. In fact, the Iranians publicly accused America of an illegal Covid biowarfare attack at the time and filed a formal complaint with the UN.
Certainly any one or two of these items might easily be explained away as mere coincidences or such, but I think the sum-total of them makes the biowarfare attack hypothesis by far the most likely explanation for what happened. Indeed, I think the only reason that more people haven’t come to exactly this same conclusion is that our mainstream media has almost never reported any of these facts, and the same has been true for nearly all of our alternative media outlets as well.
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In many respects, I think that the body of Haslam’s work provides a perfect illustration of an important point that I have been making for nearly the last five years. The 90% of his analysis that focuses on the bioengineering origins of the Covid virus appears excellent, even outstanding. But the 10% that presents his lab-leak scenario seems like almost total lunacy to me.
Since the early months of 2020, there has been a confusing conflation of those two entirely separate issues, namely whether Covid was bioengineered and whether it somehow leaked from the Wuhan lab. This severe muddle has greatly hindered our attempts to understand what happened, with those two different questions having been almost always lumped together by journalists and researchers. For example, in late 2022 I reviewed some of the most recent Covid origins evidence, and then summarized this material in a section entitled “Considering the Excluded Third Possibility”:
I think these exchanges demonstrate that to a considerable extent, the two main camps on the Covid origins debate have been talking past each other.
The testimonies provided by Quammen and Holmes strongly challenged the possibility of any lab-leak at Wuhan, suggesting that this proves the virus must have been natural, even though few arguments on that latter point were ever made; at most, they raised some doubts about the strength of the evidence for bioengineering.
Meanwhile, the articles and papers by Wade, Sachs, Bruttel, and others have provided strong evidence that the virus was artificial. All of this has usually been interpreted as support for the lab-leak hypothesis, even though very little evidence was ever presented that any lab-leak had occurred.
Yet the apparent vector-sum of these conflicting arguments is the conclusion that the Covid virus neither leaked from the Wuhan lab nor was natural, and this suggests that the public debate has been improperly restricted to just those two possibilities.
For more than 30 months I have emphasized that there are actually three perfectly plausible hypotheses for the Covid outbreak. The virus might have been natural, randomly appearing in Wuhan during late 2019; the virus might have been the artificial product of a scientific lab in Wuhan, which accidentally leaked out at that time; or the virus might have been the bioengineered product of America’s hundred-billion-dollar biowarfare program, the oldest and largest in the world, a bioweapon deployed against China and Iran by elements of the Trump Administration at the height of our hostile international confrontation with those countries.
The first two possibilities have been very widely discussed and debated across the Western mainstream and alternative media, while the third has been almost totally ignored, despite top Russian, Iranian, and Chinese government officials having publicly accused America of releasing Covid in a deliberate biowarfare attack.
Once we carefully separate the bioengineering question from the lab-leak question, we can much more easily explain the disaster that killed well over a million Americans and disrupted all our lives for several years.
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- Assassinating a Top Russian General
- American Pravda: Confronting Covid Crimestop
- American Pravda: George Orwell’s Virus Lab-Leak
- A Thousand Times Greater Than the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
- American Pravda: Covid Epidemic as Lab-Leak or Biowarfare?
- The Alt-Covid Community Begins Unraveling the Origins of Covid
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I beat you by over ten years* in dumping the NY Times. But I did it mostly because of economic reasons. The Saturday edition, which was the issue I usually read doubled in price in a short period and I said bye-bye. I’ve since heard that it’s gotten worse in quality and going further Marxist which makes me feel even better as I saved a lot of money. 😄
*I used to get a free on line edition which became more and more abridged until I finally cut it off a few years after I stopped paying for the paper copy.
I enjoyed Covid all things considered. Free lounging around all the time is what we humans are supposed to do. Besides, look at the bright side….it dented the human population some what. That’s a necessity in this day and age
I do not believe the numbers.
The so-called “China Virus”, or “Kung Flu” is part of the U.S. regime’s anti-China misinformation campaign of inciting anti-Chinese hatred. The key is to dehumanise and demonise the Chinese by filling American minds with fabricated lies of horror. Donald Trump allegations that COVID-19 have been released by a laboratory in China are unsubstantiated because no evidence has been provided by Trump. “Labelling COVID-19 the ‘Chinese Virus’ or ‘Kung Flu’ is entirely in keeping with Trump’s pattern of dog-whistling. Trump’s racist slurs over the pandemic being the ‘Chinese Virus’ or ‘Kung Flu’ must give China pause for disgust with the Trump’s racism. The terms are also designed to trigger racist fears of foreigners (Chinese and Muslims as disease-carriers), while preserving plausible deniability” (FAIR, 24 March 2020). “It is pure fabrication”, said Wang Yanyi, the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a civil facility researching treatments against existing viruses. “We didn’t even know about the existence of the virus, so how could it be leaked from our lab when we didn’t have it?” She added. Chinese state councillor and foreign minister Mr. Wang Yi rejected U.S. “lies” over the origin of COVID-19.
Trump’s racist label is a convenient misnomer designed: 1) to deflect attention away from U.S. criminal actions and from Trump’s bungled response to COVID-19 pandemic, cataclysmically affecting both the health and well-being of Americans and the U.S. economy; 2) to demonise the Chinese people in the same way 9/11 was used to demonise Muslims and Islam; and 3) to offer Trump’s regime a cover about a possible U.S. bio-warfare against China gone awry.
“Excess deaths due to Covid” or excess deaths due to the way Covid was treated?
Thank you Mr Unz for all the information I – for several reasons – wouldn’t be able to find.
When it comes to an opinion on the nature/provenance of the -according to some- non-existent virus I have none, due to my poor insight. But I strongly suspect that your arguments/findings on the matter of this disease are correct, simply because I was hit by it (i.e. the “flu”) in the spring 2020. My suspicion might sound unfounded/moronic as most people tend to catch some kind of flu at least once within a period of a few years. What happened to me however was truly weird, as I before March 2020 had not suffered from any kind of flu or cold for the last 50 years. I was back then 71 years old.
The author certainly meant Donald G. McNeil rather than Douglas G. McNeil?
Interesting. You still continue to fail to mention the Chinese taking down the WIV shared virus database with the west, occurring in September 2019, if I recall that timeline correctly now, however historically, you had mentioned it way back, but only to sloppily discount that occurrence out of hand as a nothingburger. I don’t think Eddie Holmes thought that was a nothingburger.
I think it likely there is still obfuscation emanating from both the west (primarily America) as well as from China to a much lesser degree, though (like I have maintained all along … Chinese masterfully played for dupes). Maybe the Chinese had already grown suspicious of something, about the western scientists, as early as September 2019.
If Jim Haslam’s claims are credible with respect to the core western virologists (and Fauci) changing their minds to instead go on to publish their unwarranted paper about good evidence for sars-cov-2 as by way of wild animal vector, … well, that is lying, just as I suspected they all were lying all along (you and I had quite the difference of opinion on Eddie Holmes reliability as a witness, … you thought he was good that way whereas I was reading/sniffing cryptic untold guilt in his statements, …. you and I argued about that).
Anyways, as far as I know Alina Chan still seems convinced there is evidence of sickened WIV lab workers in October 2019, yet I do understand those claims still remain controversial. And Chan wasn’t mentioning Dr. Danielle Anderson, that way.
The biggest take away here, I think, if I am reading you correctly, and if we can take Jim Haslam’s claims, for the 90% portion, as credible, is that whitetail deer in North America (and maybe even wild rodents?) may have been infected even before the human outbreak. I recall, that when such deer infection was mentioned in the news, some time after the commencement of the human outbreak, it was by way of slant that this thing is so pervasive and contagious that it had already spilled over into our wild animal vectors from humans. So, if Jim Haslam’s claims are credible this way, …. it does give one pause, … wow, we all were played for utter massive dupes then, …. the evidence this originated from North America right before all our eyes all along. Jeez, … that would make me (and you and I guess even Jeffery Sachs), as dupes. I for one don’t like successfully being played for a dupe. It sure doesn’t help that the people that claimed they had the goods on Baric and company, by way of a myriad of documents (that crazy Martin lawyer fellow, for instance) couldn’t put together a narrative that anyone could really understand, …. so it seemed Martin was just a smoke-blower (and that assessment is still probably true, in any event). And why couldn’t Robert Kennedy Jr. do a better job of narration on Baric and company? And why does Jim Haslam even have to make up a story about Dr. Danielle Anderson? I bet plenty of those Military Games attendees from the U.S. are outdoorsmen too. Maybe at least one of those got infected by hunting and butchering infected deer, for meat, prior to to traveling to Wuhan.
Of course I am completely unconvinced about The Economist’s (dirty rag, pretending otherwise, that) take that the all cause mortality escalation, at say 30 million worldwide, was solely due to the virus, and not also in part, by way of the interventions. The IFR’s as per the early cruise-liner infections, don’t support that high of an IFR, for just the virus, for instance.
As well, your theory about rogue neocons doesn’t make sense, for the umpteenth time. Because the western interventioners, never raised any concern whatsoever, about these rogues, apparently among them, then. Think about it. If Fauci and company knew sars-cov-2 was sourced from America, as Jim Haslam claims, but it wasn’t Fauci and company as the guilty parties but instead some rogue neocons, then why not one sniff of intrigue around that? Instead we got Fauci and company championing particular downstream interventions. Probably because it was Fauci and company as the guilty parties, in cahoots with DOD, featuring the blowback upon America and the west (and the whole world) as a feature, not a bug. Probably has something to do with the Greater Israel Zionist project the faux-western elites in control obviously have a hard-on for. When will you finally ‘get it’?
You are correct Ron. As a side remember the French soldiers who participated in the Wuhan military games, well they got sick, and after while went public to the French press stating ‘they got it, while at the games… that’s a powerful piece of evidence, because as you said no one knew in October /November that virus was circulating., but what would be the chances of French Military games participants coming down with COVID- ie meeting patient zero if he was a ethic Chinese, more likely the American games participant was patient zero
Too much coincidence to go with any of the alternatives.
The Bio-Eco viral warfare attack is the one to go with.
Thank you Mr. Unz, I’ve been following your work on this subject from the beginning, with an open mind. Really. I’m very willing to accept your representation of reality.
I also consider alternatives. You always maintain that there are three or four possible Covid scenarios. Yet you completely leave out a scenario that is quite widely shared for sceptics around the world. The Canadian scientist Denis Rancourt, who has published many papers on the ‘Covid Pandemic’. Or Nick Hudson, the director of PANDA. Many many others.
Their view, as I understand it, is that the ‘pandemic’ was a media creation. The deaths were caused by the REACTION to the media storm, for example lockdowns, denial of treatment, etc. The ‘flu disappeared’, miraculously, and suddenly a ‘novel coronavirus’ appeared with exactly the same symptoms. The PCR test was key in the promotion of the fake pandemic, as was the declaration of the WHO. The fake pandemic led to the massively profitable experimental mRNA based ‘vaccines’. Of course there’s more, many more aspects, to this scenario.
My point is that you never consider the above possibility, nor do you debate with the leading most articulate proponents of the above theory.
Perhaps, in the interest of a public understanding of such a key period, such a key event, you should do so?
Ron- Do you think Dr. Baric was aware he was designing a bioWEAPON. Emphasis on weapon there as he may have designed the virus not knowing that Pompeo, Bolton, et al would actually use it as a weapon.
One would also assume that the agent who released the virus in Wuhan would have to be a complete psychopath as he must have known it was a bioweapon.
There is another party that is interested in creating deadly viruses. Israel.
All the leading vaccine companies, excluding China but including Russia have CEO’s of Jewish origin.
The CDC apart from Fauci (who appears to be a mason) is dominated by Jews.
So if there is any culprit, Israel should very quickly be examined as a guilty party.
Israel also lead the covid “vaccination” program. They are also involved heavily, not just in creating atom bombs and have missile capability, but are also heavily invested i other weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.
For what motive?
In Jewish apocalyptic world view, all gentiles will be exterminated except maybe a few noahides slaves. (The best of gentiles kill them, crush their heads like the best of snakes).
Jews who oppose this vision are also regarded as traitors, amharetz who according to talmudic literature should by slit like a fish.
Covid could be a test run for further biological weapons.
“In recent years the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times has left the Wall Street Journal as America’s best major newspaper…”
How appropriate, as Wall Street is the centre of US power and decision-making.
@Ron Unz
“Prof. Sachs’ striking March 16th column suggesting that America owed the world gigantic financial compensation”
“…although the very highly regarded chairman of the Lancet‘s Covid Commission never mentioned Haslam’s name, he seemed to have tacitly provided a strong endorsement of author’s analysis.”
How does anyone address “the science” before or without addressing the science of the pathology of the personalities involved?
The latter includes those personality-impaired individuals tasked and handsomely compensated for providing an approved, palatable story for the masses 5 years, as you say, into 30 million “excess deaths”.
Once again and long before the actuarials got to work, the numbers showed “measurable and mounting excess deaths” by January 2021 AND that number was not accounted for by the CDD’s and BVS’s COVID DEATHS, FLU DEATHS and PNEUMONIA DEATHS.
Yes, the 3 numbers were lumped by the experts.
What was telling, was the fact Fauci and The Purveyors of the COVID Hysteria never adjusted their numbers upwards when the opportunity arose. In part, Fauci et al couldn’t adjust their numbers upwards because they promoted the idea of 25 million deaths, Fibonacci progression in mortality from COVID and already included Flu deaths and Pneumonia deaths in the “official COVID death count”.
I watched and listened Anthony Fauci stake claim to The Discovery of the AIDS Virus on a medical school stage in 1985.
I’ll admit the Talent of The Spellbinders improved over the past 40 years
As for the French military athletics catching COVID in the Wuhan games,this one of some links now..
https://theweek.com/coronavirus/106933/french-athlete-caught-coronavirus-in-october
Your sarcasm is subtle. You must have read this article:
The State of Things Pandemic – Week 51 2024 and seen this graph:
Thanks for an excellent report. I tend to the view it was a US construct, and probably released in China intentionally. I suspect the Chinese knew it too which might explain the completely over the top reaction they unleashed on their citizens, they simply didn’t know how dangerous it would be.
Also note that Aussie PM was assigned the task of blaming it on the Chinese, corrupt individual that he was, he was happy to do so, he has been well rewarded in post political life as were so many of the lock down politicians. The reasons why it was done is still jet to be positively identified, rather than merely speculated.
Interestingly, Michael Gordon, then of the NYT, and Warren Strobel, then of Knight Ridder, were conduits for opposing camps in the run-up to the Iraq War. The latter was later vindicated and got a movie made out of it.
https://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/stille/Politics%20Fall%202007/Readings%20–%20Weeks%201-5/Massing%20--%20Now%20They%20Tell%20Us%20-.htm
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_91981
The only weak point of your superb COVID detective work, Ron, is the assumption that the perpetrators were so incompetent that they didn’t expect the blowback that impacted the US and its Western-based empire. It’s pretty obvious that those launching an ultra-contagious anti-economy bioweapon would war-game the likelihood that it would ignore national borders and become a global pandemic. Unlike you, I assume they expected it to play out the way it has, including the million or so American deaths, and viewed the outcome (including crippling China’s economy for two years, thereby launching the great decoupling, while blaming Beijing for the “Chinese virus” and gaining the opportunity to experiment with biodefenses including mRNA vaccines) as “worth it” as the late Madeleine Albright might pithily put it.
Another good article on the origin of covid, thanks!
The truth is that Jim has totally debunked Ron’s conspiracy theory. More than that, Jim calls Ron an “unwitting accomplice” of the real conspiracy and cover-up: https://jimhaslam.substack.com/p/tis-the-season-for-a-cover-up. Obviously Ron doesn’t understand Jim’s analysis at all and is distorting it like everything else. He doesn’t even mention that Anderson was part of the DEFUSE team that planned to develop viruses just like Covid and that she lied about her work in Wuhan.
There was no deadly virus in the first place. Take a country like Germany where the average age of death by Covid was 82 years. Natural cause of death was simply relabeled and accounted for more than two third of all deaths while the numbers for the usual causes like cancer, stroke etc fell massively. The whole Covid campaign was about making money (think of all the virus campaigns in the last 25 years that were built for selling vaccines) and derailing the Trump campaign in 2020. China is locking down parts of the country for more than 50 years and the pretext is always health while the main reason is holding the anti-communist opposition down. Most of these measures include the Wuhan and Shanghai regions because they are the gates to central China (revolt in Wuhan brought down the emperor in 1911). Virus research lab activities might well be the first step of a campaign built around claims for compensation.
What precisely is Haslam’s theory on the virus’s creation? Some American captured an infected bat in China, took from it a rare coronavirus variant for which the closest match just happens to be a decade-old virus in the WIV’s records (RaTG13) but which had never been made public, and then handed it over to Baric to add the FCS?
Perhaps I’m missing part of the puzzle, but it seems like what happened with RaTG13 runs against this hypothesis. Baric or whoever the culprit is would not have known about RaTG13, surely, nor could they have anticipated that Shi Zhengli would effectively frame herself by deciding to upload it.
This is too convenient for the culprits, in my view.
Formerly Walt.
I can’t get this site to accept my normal post name off my phone.
Absolutely convincing, and devastating. The cleavage site and the early appearance in Iran clinch it above all for me.
Excellent analysis.
My knowledge of viruses and genome sequences and related medical-lab matters is for all purposes zero. Like basically everyone, except those who make a living in those fields, I have no choice except to take a proclaimed expert’s word for what Covid is and how it functions. People who are said to be “scientists” (a word that is shorthand for anyone with alleged special knowledge, hence almost meaningless in its common usage) do not even agree if viruses are life forms or not. However, even without understanding what it is, its effects – that is, how it was used – are obvious. Iran is proclaimed by the American Jewish media to be an enemy of “America” – and the Iranian leadership is decimated by a “Chinese” virus. Other examples abound, but that one is enough.
‘Over the last couple of years, I’ve spent fewer and fewer minutes each morning reading the nonsense that the Times publishes, and one of these days may finally give up on it entirely.’ — Ron Unz
Ditto. Usually I just scan its headlines online for shits and giggles, along with the titles in its OpEd freak show of dual-loyalty zionist editorial flacks and fifth columnists.
Even the occasional article on a scientific, medical or technical topic which sounds interesting nearly always is found to be a superficial summary whose key facts (if any) could fit in a sentence or two.
Death to the Lügenpresse.
The NYT was on the forefront of censorship, deception, omission since 1946 …
https://sincerity.net/stylebooks/
Ron,
If my comments to your “assassinating a top russian general” post contributed to trigger your interest in Jim Haslam’s book, that’s fine for me.
I tend to agree with you that the book reading is not that easy; personnally, I’m still reading it a second time.
A huge point is the role of the NIAID Rocky Mountain Lab, with input from Dutch citizen Munster, apparently the world class leader in virus aerosol transmission, as much as Baric is the world class leader in virus chimera construction. This means that Fauci has an immense and direct responsibility. Presumably this will be a key point when US Senate will resume its Covid investigations.
One point you do not mention is that the backbone of Baric Covid 19 chimera would not be the Chinese RATG13 virus, but a Banal virus from Laos, identified by the Singapose-based Duke team (Linfa Wang,often named ‘batman’ – Dani Anderson), both being 96% identical to Covid-Sars2 virus.
Regarding Dani Anderson’s role and Haslam’s patientO story, it seems to me you’re missing one key point : In Eco-Health Alliance Darpa Defuse grant request, it was expressly mentioned that testing on chinese horseshoe bat would be done by Anderson in Wuhan BSL4 lab. It now appears that everything mentioned in the Defuse proposal was actually done and financed by NIAID through later grants under CREID program.
Nevertheless, I fully agree with you that the PatientO story remains a weaker point in Haslam’s scenario; in any case Haslam’s scenario does not help fully understanding many aspects of the Covid virus ‘deployment’ throughout the world, the Qom epidemics, the simultaneous start of Covid epidemics in tens of countries etc.
At the end of the day, Haslam story may well be a way to throw Fauci under the bus as a scapegoat without directly exposing the role of US Defense and intelligence agencies (including in US crisis management and vaccine forced deployment) – so a way to limit the exposure of US state responsibility in the worst global crisis ever experimented by modern world. This responsibility, already mentioned by Jeffrey Sachs, is something US government, elites, economy and society just cannot afford.
I still do not understand why you mention a 30M death toll for Covid 19, even if originated in a magazin, unless it includes all deaths reported as Covid (following administrative and financial incentives), those due to interruption of treatment with antibiotics, effect of propaganda against Hydroxyclroroquin and Ivermectin, end-of-live treatments administered to elders in nursing homes, lack of prophylaxy during the pandemics for heart deseases and cancers, and last but not least, the adverse effects of so-called ARN (m) vaccines. But this is another story.
anyone who ever looked through any intelligence textbooks/manuals knows operations are conducted with obfuscation, counter tracing, deception and evasion tactics, with larger operations often employing them in carefully designed multilayered structures.
people who try to purely ‘follow the evidence’ easily get lost on false tracks, haslan could be one of those or another layer of deception, so wouldnt put too much stock in the remaining 90% either.
‘birds eye’ view works best when dealing with those
Who benefited from Covid?
or
Cui Bono?
Follow the money.
Hint: It’s the usual suspects. Every. Single. Time.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/the-dirty-secrets-behind-covid-19/
Ron, you are way too smart and honest to have any faith at all in the New York Times.
If I read it at all, and that is rarely, it is to find out what lies are currently in fashion and what preposterous arguments are being used to support those lies.
Otherwise, it is a total waste of time and can be counted on for nothing.
WSJ is not much better as it is an agenda driven publication, not one too concerned about what is or is not true.
Honesty is always the best policy. Because you are honest, I may disagree with what you write, but I know that you are at a minimum writing what you think is true.
Superb takedown of Haslam’s “the Aussie did it” thesis. The fact that the other 90% of his book is on target is not surprising, since all effective propaganda contains some truth — and in this case, quite a bit of it. Sounds to me like Haslam was and is on a mission for the Deep State, and I suspect that he does not need to worry too much about “hold[ing] down a job in the regular economy”.
snake venom
Five Years and Three Hundred Million Deaths!
That’s the total deaths in the world over those 5 years, as estimated (fairly accurately) from this graph. (I’ll take a screen shot later and paste it in these comments.
Yes, there was a spike in ’20-’21 (about the same size and shape as the one in centered on 1960 – the Chinese Mao induced famine), but lets keep a little Perspective here, shall we?
So, it was a 10% increase in mortality, just going by your headline, assuming good data, with no analysis of the big decrease in healthcare quality and availability due to the PanicFest and Totalitarianism and economic devastation associated therewith. (As opposed to the Communist China Mao stupidity, at least here it was almost all already unhealthy people (obesity, for one thing) near the ends of their lifespans who did almost all of the dying early.)
I know you have your story to tell of the origins, Mr. Unz, but, seriously, let’s keep the whole thing in perspective. That link above points to a Peak Stupidity article from early May of ’20. Some of us had it – common sense.
Rogue element of Trump’s regime sounds like some partisan bs propaganda. Is it really that hard to believe it could be rogue elements of the deep state acting without potus or congressional knowledge? Saying it was Trump makes it less believable so why include that in every iteration of covid article you write? It seems like a narrative being pushed by repetition. With no evidence presented regarding Trump’s connection to rogue elements, this is seriously flawed speculation. I can’t stand Trump or the vast majority of politicians but to diagnose a problem you first need to identify the facts. More likely it was an attempt to manage the orange man bad narrative. As bad as commenters who want to blame everything on the jews.
This piece is unusually muddy and too verbose. While 1 sec of social media clickbait lines are a terrible way to understand any issue, there’s also something to be said for just getting to the point.
The article is saying someone on substack talking about covid (very bad start) is making some claims about how covid appeared.
I think the claim is it’s America’s fault, in the end blaming some stupid woman under the employ of this Baric figure. I’m curious, does he ever blame the process itself, i.e playing Dr Frankenstein, playing God, creating these monsters, and then damn whatever happens ? Or is that bit fine ?
It seems to me that as soon as you open the portal on this, there is going to be the risk that someone will get infected and then spread it. It could be any lab assistant. Is the lab assistant ‘guilty’ ?
Unz is saying ‘no’, he doesn’t accept that, he carries on his claim it was a deliberate bioweapon intended to hurt China.
Have you seen my culling plan? 😈
It’s probably my fault for not warning people ahead of time, but this is NOT a discussion thread about Flu Hoaxing or anti-Vaxxing, and such off-topic comments will be trashed.
If I have to trash 95% of the comments, that’s perfectly fine with me.
Does Haslam address the role of mRNA technology in this mess?
No, that’s not correct. Those stories about French soldiers or other participants getting sick with Covid are total nonsense.
The most crucial aspect of Covid is that it’s ultra-contagious. If those French soldiers had returned to France infected in November 2019, France would have had a gigantic Covid epidemic before the end of the year, many, many months sooner than had actually later happened.
For exactly that reasons, there’s zero chance that Covid was circulating among the participants at the World Military Games in late October 2019, or that any American participants were infected.
I think it’s likely that we just used the presence of those 300 American military servicemen to slip in a couple of operatives who released the virus in Wuhan at that time.
imo, anyone hoping trump and rfk jr., will bring baric and fauci to justice will be disappointed once again. from what i’ve seen, trump 2.0, will blame the chinese, as was their original plan after releasing it at the wuhan military games, just a couple of weeks after, as much as declaring their intent to do so, at event 201.
this bioweapon attack on china was the beginning of ww3, designed to destroy their economy and result in regime change, bringing down xi and bringing in puppets, to begin the looting of china and eventually the entire world. china’s lightning fast lock down upset their plans and the fact that china developed a traditional “real vaccine” as quickly as we took the mrna based clot shots out of the freezer, prove both their understanding of the origin of the disease and the danger of these untested genetic engineering experiments, sold to the world as vaccines.
within a year china had fully recovered both from the disease and the economic damage done, through this henious bioweapon attack and worst war crime of all time. the west meanwhile spiraled out of control, deciding to push forward their attack on russia, by having their ukranazi proxy zato army step up their attacks on the russian speaking parts of eastern ukraine.
well the russian response to the unending provocations, has now destroyed 3 iterations of their proxy force, while the own goal of illegal sanctions have gutted the economies of the u.s. and its vassals in the west. china and russia have been brought together closer than ever, in order to take on this common enemy. any hope of propping up their ponzi economies by looting china and russia have failed spectacularly and have driven them past the point of return.
the u.s. titanic ship of ship is taking on debt, at a trillion dollars every 100 days and they are now left with only their vassal states and their own citizenry, left to cannibalize, which will only kick the can down that road that leads to their complete bankruptcy.
when bobby kennedy released his book, i had great hope that the truth would eventually emerge but learning about his connections to epstein and his disgraceful support of the murderous genocidal israelis, has dampened all hope of that for me. i hope that i am proven to be wrong.
And let’s not forget how a wide assortment of bigoted, faux dissident, lickspittle pundits — including Derbyshire and Mercer here at TUR — shamelessly piled on. Or how those who called them out were accused of disloyalty.
Hard to say about Baric. He was very proud to have developed the no-see-ems technology that hides all traces of bioengineering in a virus, and many people have suggested the only obvious reason for its use would be to create a viral bioweapon that had “plausible deniability.” Why else would anyone try to hide such bioengineering evidence?
However, my guess is that although he may have developed Covid as a potential bioweapon, he wasn’t aware that it had been deployed in Wuhan until the outbreak suddenly began. Under my reconstruction, the attack was carried out by rogue elements in the Trump Administration, with Pompeo being the most likely suspect.
Since the biowarfare attack on China (and Iran) hadn’t been authorized, they’d want as few people as possible to be aware of their plans, and there was absolutely no reason to inform Baric since copies of his Covid virus were presumably available in various other places including Ft. Detrick and possibly Langley.
However, I wouldn’t really describe the operatives who released it in Wuhan as “psychopaths.” After all, America has had a huge biowarfare program for around 75 years and presumably large numbers of operatives have been trained to deploy bioweapons over those decades. There’s actually very strong evidence we even used illegal bioweapons during the Korean War.
So if particular American operatives had been training for years to deploy bioweapons and they were then just given the order to actually do ahead and do that in a country they regard as hostile, why would that be any different that pilots bombing cities or any other type of military action?
Do you read the Times in the hopes of garnering new, worthwhile information? Or rather, do you read it because you seek to discover the current Party Line?
I should think that the more money a particular news outlet has at stake, the less likely it is to tell the truth. From what I gather, advertisers seek audiences, and the larger the audience, the less likely it seems to me that it wants to hear the truth.
A couple of people who know what they are talking about discussing Covid-19 and the perverse incentives to ramp up the numbers:
Video Link
Regarding the World Military games, first, French representatives were not the only participants who came back thick. Many other national teams had the some ‘experience’
Second, the US team – one of the most numerous – came out with surprisingly low results, a potential explanation being that many US participants had more intelligence or special forces skills than sport ones.
Then regarding the epidemic which was not triggered by the time in France or elsewhere : it may well be that the virus at the time was not yet fully the one which developed worldwide by early 2020.
An explanation would be that the Rocky Mountain Lab input (improving the virus capability to spread as an aerosol) was not yet included at the time, i. e. that the Baric chimera with only Baric-added features was spead during the Military Games, showing that without the features added by Munster, no epidemic would be launched.
https://counter-currents.com/2025/01/protecting-brand-islam/
Yeah it’s THEM, UP THERE, racist white people in their castles doing everything, they’re hiding the UFOs. We could have free energy, and infinite stuff and peace on this earth if it wasn’t for THEM.
A number of points are problematic. Let’s go through them.
Crimson Contagion was a dismal failure. It demonstrated that the U.S. would fair extremely poorly in a foreign virus scenario. Any plan would have been CANCELLED based on this outcome. The fact that there was a known uncontrollable incident is evidence that the U.S. was *not* involved.
High communicability is a terrible characteristic for a bio-weapon. In the age of jet travel, high communicability guarantees full planetary impact. By definition, an effective weapon is one that can be targeted at an enemy and only impact them.
If one wants to hypothesize that the entire planet was the target, then there is no need for a highly convoluted conspiracy to place patent zero in Wuhan. The CCP could be equally set-up with a much easier release in Shanghai or Beijing.
It’s generally agreed that Patient Zero in Wuhan was probably infected around the end of NOVEMBER, not October. Even +/- a couple weeks the World Military Games had been over for some time before patient zero.
Why has this report not leaked? Everything else has…
Why did it take 6 months before anyone heard about it?
This dubious bit of non evidence hit the corrupt U.S. media in April 2020. The claim of “the second week of November” is an obvious fail as it is before the patient zero date at the end of November.
This April 2020 story about something 6 months earlier does nothing to clear WIV, though we could discuss why American media is so obviously wrong. It seems highly likely that this mysterious document either never existed or was misrepresented to create a fake story.
• Iran has a limited pool of international relationships. The CCP is a very important one and contacts are regular.
• The WUHAN-19 virus has significant impact on the elderly. Simultaneously, it can be carried by younger individuals with few indications or fully asymptomatically.
• Much of Iranian leadership is a gerontocracy, dating back to those with leadership positions in the 1979 revolution.
Given these realities, it is unsurprising (almost inevitable) that the virus jumped to a specifically vulnerable population in Iran.
Just the opposite. These facts make a spectacularly incompetent biowarfare attack hypothesis among the *least* likely explanations. A leak from WIV is by far the most likely scenario.
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Far left academia had ties to WIV. EcoHealth Alliance [EHA], UNC, etc. After the WIV lab leak, there was an effort to distance these institutions from the problem. It was led by notable figures including Sachs and Fauci.
These individuals were also tied to the BigPharma cash grab, primarily under the Biden administration. Safe, effective, and inexpensive treatments such as Ivermectin and HCQ were quashed in favour of lucrative opportunities for BigPharma and their DNC donation recipients.
PEACE 😇
the us military was in charge of the covid response, including in charge of vaccines which were ready to go the minute the virus appeared. the us military is the elephant in the corner. l dont know anyone who contracted the virus and was hugely negatively affected but l do know people who were harmed by the vaccine
Ready for another one?
Westerners; grow up. Don’t romanticize China.
Video Link
From another, follow-up, PS post, Perspective vs. Hysteria:
This is your nation:
This is your nation on menopause:
I’m sorry to say that my common sense and reading of articles, including one that our host here recommended (Nick Wade’s), has me not agreeing with Mr. Unz here. However that’s not really my problem with the Covid one-niner. It was the hysteria, drummed up by mass media in the quest for billions of eyeballs and Governments around the world for the purpose of testing out more Totalitarianism, that I have a problem with.
This hysteria we’ve seen is something you might expect though, when you get rid of that evil Patriarchy. The difference is: Patriarchs don’t have periods.
People in Iran were dying first. Then China. We did it.
USA government is nothing but a bunch of mass murderers.
Believing that the COVID virus accidentally escaped from the Chinese lab is as preposterous as believing that JFK moved his head to intercept the bullet in its random trajectory.
No, it’s the libertarians, they hold all the power. Or it’s the anarchists.
Then why didn’t you take the altruistic option and kill yourself?
You know, it’s never too late to reconsider (seeing as it’s a necessity).
COVID is not the same as SARS2. Yes, I’m being pedantic, and yes, it’s important. In fact I think that to some extent the conflation between the two has been deliberate propaganda.
COVID19 is the disease, and SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes it (SARS2 is apparently an incorrect abbreviation used by Haslam). In the above extract it’s clear that when you say “Covid” you mean SARS-CoV-2. Now the Greek official periodic documents with statistics used to say “Deaths with COVID”, and after a few months they changed that to “COVID deaths”. But those deaths counting as “COVID” were actually deaths with SARS-CoV-2, i.e., deaths in which SARS-CoV-2 was detected. This didn’t happen only in Greece, it happened in the U.S. as well; I recall the doctor in “Plandemic” emphasizing that “you don’t die with an infection, you die from an infection”.
I happen to be recovering from COVID19 (for the third time), and if a bus hits me and kills me, and then you test me, I’m confident you’ll find SARS-CoV-2. This way my death will obviously be a “death with SARS-CoV-2”, and if regulations dictate that this be reported as a “COVID19 death”, this is how it will be reported.
In fact, this is exactly what happened. All dead people in Greece were getting a PCR, and if it was positive at 40 cycles, the death was considered a COVID19 death. 40 cycles is a ridiculously high number. Fauci himself has said that beyond 36 it will only detect dead nucleotides. The apparent purpose was to instill fear with a large number of so-called “COVID19 deaths”, which the public understood as “deaths from COVID19”.
All indications are it was planned to go worldwide. Event 201 happened on 18 October 2019, and a week or so later the disease began. Too much of a coincidence.
No deadly virus and no lab leak…just a carefully constructed pack of lies!
The entire thing falls apart either way.
• There is no reason to believe Trump was personally involved. While he was advocating “decoupling”, risking WW III by using a WMD does not fit his character or record. Likelihood virtually 0%.
• Anti-Trump “rogue elements” would be part of the pro-CCP establishment. If they wanted to disrupt Trump’s re-election, they would not have gone all the way to Wuhan to hatch an overly complex conspiracy. It would have been easier to target MAGA voters with a U.S. release. For example, at a NASCAR event.
Blaming the U.S. for the initial release does not function well as a logical construct. It is highly believable that the virus escaped from WIV.
PEACE 😇
The New York Times (NYT) has been an American propaganda piece, par excellence, for leftist, Jewish interests for as long as I can remember. Yes, it has gotten worse or, better said, better propagandized. The NYT has made it its business to include non political subjects to enhance readability and keep many renewing prescriptions. This sophisticated rag should have been named the National Times moons ago.
I always thought your theory of the Iran outbreak was overly complicated. A simpler explanation for the hard hit Iranian leadership was their close contact with Chinese diplomats. China was an important and growing trade partner with Iran in 2020.
Re: Bioweapons Labs
Bulgarian Journalist focused on the topic. 2 of many articles:
Overview Article from 2018 – lots of details
https://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/
Documents expose US biological experiments on allied soldiers in Ukraine and Georgia
24.Jan 2022
https://dilyana.bg/documents-expose-us-biological-experiments-on-allied-soldiers-in-ukraine-and-georgia/
She also downloaded the entire treasure trove of US Embassy – Kiev’s bio-weapons lab documents before the docs were delated from the US Embassy website in early 2022. The originals can be found on her website shown above.
I enjoyed Covid all things considered. Free lounging around all the time is what we humans are supposed to do. Besides, look at the bright side….it dented the human population some what.
No it did not.
Most of the fatalities were in seniors.
Which undermines the theory that there was some conspiracy to reduce the population.
COVID is a lousy virus if that is the goal. It mostly fills the hospitals with the obese and disease prone. It’s a huge drain on public resources.
a recent (Nov 28th 2024) video with Jim Aslam provides interesting information on Jim’s character, and approach.
Interesting to see how much Peter McCullough seems amazed by Jim’s findings.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/was-sars-cov-2-designed-as-a-spreadable?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=1119676&post_id=152038104&r=22olsm&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&triedRedirect=true
It is obvious that Ron doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The central part of Haslam’s theory is the Defuse project. This is what connects Baric, Munster, Danielle, Linfa, Fauci and the WIV. Yet Ron fails to mention it simply because it contradicts his own silly theory (which is complete nonsense). Ron must have been really disappointed when he realized his hero professor Sachs favors Haslam.
Thanks treasure.
The virus disappeared abruptly on February 24, 2022.
Masks, vaccinations, social distancing and other measures of state terrorism were suddenly no longer necessary.
Where did The Virus go? Back to your lavatories; I mean laboratories?
Video Link
I can’t get the audio to play. Am I the only one? Fyi
Very well said. Ron is really just a conspiracy babbler who doesn’t understand even the most basic biological facts.
How to count the never ending lies?
Lies of Our Times (LOOT) was a political magazine published between January 1990 and December 1994. The magazine was published on a monthly basis.[1] Ellen Ray was both its co-founder and publisher.[2] It served not only as a general media critic, but as a watchdog of The New York Times, which the magazine referred to as “the most cited news medium in the United Slates, our paper of record.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_of_Our_Times
https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/Aug1990-V1-N8/
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The above pic of Baric looks ready to eat a baby – raw.
5ds
Agree but for the contention that 9-11 was not done by professed freedom fighters [against all US or Russian backed regimes, and against US military bases in their holy land] who pulled off a stunt [semi successfully] that brought the US to the knowledge that there could be consequences to US for our policies towards them. Horrific ,evil and wrong, but there WAS satisfaction in a very purely abstract way, not actual, as people suffered horribly and were murdered, but in an abstract geopolitical way, the way US talks about the world, there was in that abstract geopolitical way satisfaction at seeing the Americans who spent the whole 20th century dropping bombs on men, women, kids with impunity, or vetoing with a simple, smug stroke of a pen every UN resolution which would have brought a modicum of justice to the Palestinians, there was in that abstract sense satisfaction seeing the US get a taste of its own medicine. By a bottom- up rag tag militia not by some competing superpower. Contrary to the warmongering Neo- Cons, Alquada and the Saudi regime were enemies. They launched the new millennium, of the people, bottom up not top- down nation state. Just saying.
I always thought your theory of the Iran outbreak was overly complicated. A simpler explanation for the hard hit Iranian leadership was their close contact with Chinese diplomats. China was an important and growing trade partner with Iran in 2020.
I think lab leak is most likely but the quick spread into Iran is highly suspicious.
It is definitely one of the stronger points on the side of a designed bioweapon or taken from the wild and released on purpose.
Though I overall side with lab leak I don’t find Ron’s theory to be far fetched.
If you were going to use a virus like a weapon then it would make sense to drop it like a smoking gun on someone else.
You wouldn’t just walk outside your military lab and release it. It also wouldn’t be wise to drop it directly on your enemy. The better path would be to make it look like someone else’s lab leak. You would also want to release on another neutral country so there isn’t a clear target B. Well that could have happened with Milan.
But with that said I think Israel would be a more likely culprit in that scenario. Perhaps they thought it would be deadlier in the over 60 crowd and that they could set back Iran’s nuclear development by taking out a few key scientists.
In any case it really needs to be investigated. That is what bothers me in all this and I appreciate that Ron is asking these questions. 5 years on and no real investigation from our government. Both the government and MSM are afraid of touching it. 3 mile island was relentlessly investigated by both public and private resources while COVID origin discussions are still regulated to the internet.
And of course the “lab-leak” theory is neurolinguistic programming by Wisner’s wurlitzer. It herds you away from the logical premise: given the evidence, the null hypothesis here is release of a banned biological weapon. CIA’s concerted vilification of China was elaborate OPSEC, an attempt to impede attribution of CIA’s historic crime: undeclared war by illegal and inherently indiscriminate WMD in manifest breach of the UN Charter. So Sachs is exactly right: the CIA regime bears responsibility for reparation, restitution, and compensation with interest for internationally wrongful acts in breach of jus cogens.
The CIA mad scientists are criminally liable too, in universal jurisdiction. As Kennedy says himself, CIA has been at war with his family for generations. And Kennedy is now all teed up to make sure those psycho fuckers swing for this. It’s a better vantage point than DCI would have been. The circumstantial evidence is good enough for Nuremberg work but the technical evidence is a smoking-gun slam dunk. The corpus delicti requires propria motu ICC pursuit of, in the first instance, Gates, Pompeo, Kimber, Haines, Daszak, Kadlek, Garry, and Baric. Considering US courts are unwilling or unable to try them, complementarity means China and Russia can pick them up at will. It’s open season on you sneaky coward vermin.
So the hysterical shit-fit below is exactly what we would expect, frantic vilification of Kennedy as monster, madman, killer, deadly enemy.
https://www.metafilter.com/206998/The-Insane-Case-for-Finding-Common-Ground-With-RFK
Let’s hope it’s worse than they think, and Kennedy can send all the CIA assholes up the river to Shenyang. It might take a nuke war but it’s worth it to eradicate these psychos.
Indeed. Sorting through all the “information” about this issue is to me a lot like hunting for something good to eat in a sewer. How long does it take to realize there is nothing good or useful there (except learning how liars do their thing). Like Twain joked, three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
From the article:
” …separate issues, namely whether Covid was bioengineered and whether it somehow leaked from the Wuhan lab. ”
Actually, I believe the above issue is the same, and the totally separate issue is whether or not this COVID was a variant of existing bacteria and fungal organisms here in the US such as BLASTOMYCOSIS.
Soldiers came to the games
with a virus in their veins
giving all their Crown of Strains;
a present from Fort Detrick
Homeward bound contestants
all sickened with the flu
were carrying contagion
deployed by you know who
We must be number one
we must kill the competition
even if it takes
a biological emission
Once the enemy is ravaged
we’ll sell our vaccination
but not too soon until we prune
our elder population
The gift that keeps on giving
to the Super Pharma Suits
aiding in the sieving
of the coughers that it loots
Dissenters will be broken
better get on board
The Overlords have spoken
take the prick or get the sword
Which jab do you prefer
heart attack or stroke?
if you wanna work or have a roof
better come and take a poke
There are just too many of you
most will have to go
We must reduce the populace
to maintain our status quo
The internetz had rumours to be on the lookout for the military games before they happened.
A more plausible explanation is that the american team was patient 0, and where sent to wuhan, on purpose, to spread the virus worldwide while blaming the chinese.
Ron seems to evade that this pandemic was cooked for years as part of a cabalistic ritualistic conspiracy before being served to the world.
close, Baric in North Carolina was experimenting with RaTG13 in 2018. Fauci paid Shi $$$ to share Chinese bat samples with Baric before publication. Baric told Fauci that he wanted Shi arrested for publishing RaTG13, leading to Feb 1, 2020, teleconference. Start here and read backward to Dani Anderson post #1
https://jimhaslam.substack.com/p/6-if-you-believe-the-wiv-engineered
Never accept anything as fact until after government officials have denied it three or more times.
If you follow this rule, you will never go wrong.
Sorry, a stupid typo. It’s fixed.
You get it Dany, or you’re on your way to getting it. Thanks for prodding Ron to read the book, he like you hates the Dani side of the story, so maybe focus on the Munster side. His fellow scientist (unknowingly) ratted him out with their transmission experiments.
Being 90% accurate is already an outstanding performance.
But the takedown of Dani Anderson’s role is not really convincing at all.
As noted already, her role (being in Wuhan BS lab in order to test Baric’s virus building product on horseshoe bats, with no other personal cited in the grant request cost appaisal) was fully provided for in Ecohealth Alliance DEFUSE grant request presented to DARPA. And it appears all work proposed to DARPA was eventually performed, financed through NIAID CREID grants.
Also she strangely presented her activity in Wuhan BSL4 lab as related to Ebola virus – a pure lie. She is a coronavirus scientist, perhaps deserving the Batgirl nickname as much as Batwoman for Shi (Wuhan BSL2) and Batman for Wang (Duke Singapore).
Regarding the closing down of Wuhan BSL4 lab in Octobre 2019, this is mentioned in several US press articles based on phone traffic statistics, such as the following:
Cellphone data could indicate October shutdown at Wuhan lab.
Note also that Dani Anderson was a member of the Lancet enquiry task force on Covid19 virus origin (headed by Peter Daszak) which Jeffrey Sachs interrupted when he realised how much the whole task force team a) was preventing any progress of the search towards Covid 19 origin, and b) was ridden with conflicts of interests.
Slight quibble since 1918 when NYSlimes became the American voice of CPUSA and the genocidal Soviet Union
The COVID patient-zero human interest story (plucky girl scientist Dani!) comes from the same CIA template as the schmalz of Garry’s Ebola experiment (little African girl playing under the bat tree…) The CIA bots got very huffy when I said, uhh, those bats migrate south, not north to the unregulated lab in Kenema. It just goes to show, impunity makes you sloppy, that’s why CIA is full of clowns.
Well, duh.
I tend to doubt that Kadlec or anyone else in the Crimson Contagion exercise was aware of what was about to happen, so they probably treated it as the typical bureaucratic exercise, which was a huge problem when it became a real-life situation soon afterwards.
One of the ironic things I’ve often mentioned is that just before the Covid epidemic began and international organization had ranked America as #1 in the world for handling any sort of epidemic, with Britain ranked #2, while China was #51.
But we ended having about the worst results for any developed nation, while China did an outstanding job. The problem is that America is #1 in propaganda and we tend to believe it ourselves:
Sorry Ron but there is no excuse for the use of bioweapons which by their nature are aimed at innocent civilians. While Baric and his ilk and the American soldiers who deploy Baric’s lab products overseas may have impressive CVs their souls are on the same developmental level as vermin.
Constructed by the same people who brought us the holocaust™️.
Hi Ron,
You said:
Unfortunately America and its operatives are psychopaths precisely because we have normalized biowarfare which in itself is perniciously evil, and even worse, and according to your own narrative, are willing to carry out such evil.
Of course psychologist are making a link between psychopathy and narcissism, where the narcissistic personality, when exposed or threatened, is capable of extreme anti social behavior of a psychopathological type. Of course not all narcissists exhibit true psychopathic behavior, but the rudiments are there, and the pervasiveness of this character type, the narcissist/psychopath is certainly cultivated to an inordinate degree that it has become normalized and collectivized.
The Crimson Contagion exercise significantly predates the patient zero date. Therefore, any plotters would know that releasing a virus would be very negative for the U.S.
Why would they go ahead with a guaranteed failure?
If there had been a conspiracy plan, it would have been aborted based on the Crimson Contagion results. This strongly suggests that that the release was an accident, such as a lab leak, not intentional.
There were two primary reasons why the U.S. did poorly:
-1- Certain states, most notably New York, forced infectious individuals into nursing homes. This generated a huge amount of unnecessary spread among the key vulnerable demographic.
-2- BigPharma quashed inexpensive, safe, and effective options such as HCQ and Ivermectin. The allowed them to cash in on more expensive treatment plans that were often late and less successful.
Believing BigPharma’s propaganda was clearly a fail. Backlash to that helped RFKjr surge in popularity.
PEACE 😇
Ron’s conspiracy theory that American military people brought the Covid hoax from Ft Deterick MD to Wuhan China and sprinkled it about town for some nefarious purpose is a reasonable theory.
Equally believe able and reasonable is the conspiracy theory that the Chinese of the Wuhan lab created covid hoax flu for some nefarious purpose. And infected the military games participants to carry covid hoax to the rest of the world.
Then there’s the only reasonable theory. Covid hoax, like all seasonal flu and non genetic respiratory problems originated in southern China.
BECAUSE
(1) the hot humid warm all year round climate of S China plus it’s semi aquatic agriculture rice paddies and duck ponds plus many rivers and cabals makes S China the perfect breeding ground for many diseases especially seasonal flu. Not the fault of S China farmers. They grow food that grows well in the hot humid climate. As opposed to NW China arid semi desert perfect for wheat and sheep.
(2) For hundreds of thousands of years S China has been the winter home for trillions of birds. When spring comes those birds fly home all over the earth and spread whatever diseases they created or picked up in hot humid S. China.
That Kansas state USA area that saw the outbreak of Spanish flue 1918 1919 is one of the major migrating bird flyaways of the earth. In 1910 there was a major outbreak of a similar equally deadly flue. The local public health agency established a very strict quarantine. The locals cooperated. I believe it was Haskell county KA, a major major migratory bird flyaway.
” while China did an outstanding job”
Nice joke Mr. Unz. China had one of the worst results of any country. Massive economic damage through multiple extreme lockdowns, very low vaccination rates especially among the elderly, 100% flooded by Covid in 2022, higher age-adjusted excess mortality than many Western countries.
The places that did an outstanding job are Sweden and Florida. Relaxed response, no lockdowns, excellent results. Of course you can’t admit this because it refutes you bioweapon conspiracy.
You also wondered why China didn’t expose the U.S. if Jim Haslam is correct. Simple: because China and the U.S. were collaborating on the same project. This shows you understand very little.
No, it is not your fault. As you pointed out last year:
Let us never tolerate outrageous (unapproved by Jews) conspiracy theories.
Fixed indeed. Thank you sir!
Nobody would release the Covid virus assuming it stays in one place. That’s why Mr. Unz’s theory is so stupid and laughable. It’s not anti-economy either, countries without lockdowns like Sweden fared very well. Boomers like Mr. Unz were tricked by bioweapon propaganda videos.
Five Years and Thirty Million Deaths
For a second there I thought Ron had an epiphany. After reading a few sentences I soon realized no such luck.
Excess deaths due to Covid DO NOT total around thirty million. They DO NOT. That is a flat out lie.
Excess deaths due to Covid TREATMENTS and remedies and lockdowns, etc,, are definitely way in excess of thirty million.
Longer does not mean righter.
Exactly. The answer goes without saying — B.
I notice Denis Rancourt is not quoted. Nor refuted. And he says, plain as day, THERE WAS NO PANDEMIC. And he uses nothing but excess death statistics to prove it.
Pretending like valid opposing arguments don’t exist is a classic Freshman Comp ploy. By the time you are a sophomore, you are supposed to be over transparently lame shit like that.
Jim,
I don’t hate the Dani side of your book; rather, I believe it is not as strongly supported by evidence as the rest of it. See my post 81.
Was Dani Patient O early October, or one or several US military member during the Games, later, or another scenario remains open for me, even if I feel that Dani is far from being a trustable witness.
As a matter of fact, I tend to think that the virus which likely spread in Wuhan in October 19 or so was not the one which triggered an epidemic in Wuhan in Jan 20. As an exemple it would not yet have reflected RML / Munster input of a highly transmissible aerian capability.
Through this, I mean that your excellent work does not provide us with the final, exhaustive version of the Covid pandemics launch.
What the Wuhan flu episode demonstrates again, is that government is now nothing but an apologist for corporate power, the mass legacy medias role is to lead the masses, by the nose ring, to whatever field the corporate sector want them to graze in.
Big pharmaceutical wanted large profits so they invented a crisis, first time they tried it in 2009 it didn’t take. If at first you don’t succeed then try, try again!
We now see the military kit providers creating conflict everywhere for profit and theft, that is why they’re so much crisis in the world, big corporations are forming a conga line to wait their turn to create mayhem then cash in, the government do as they’re told.
This is how greed and capitalism always goes, it eventually eats itself in the quest for more, the roots of this evil can be traced back to the gangster Alfred Sloan of GM who devised the destruction of public transport to sell more buses and to lobby and support politicians to take over open spaces for the car and interstate highways that use so much energy and resources to build these pathways.
We see the power of the corporation in promoting those who are useful, Keith Stamer, the man who covered up the rape of his fellow Britons daughter’s so corporate Britain could continue the influx of cheap labour and to divide and rule.
People your governments are full of traitors and criminals, you have no obligation to vote for them or continue to allow them to rule, you want change then you have to do it, power never destroys itself.
Fauci did it. On purpose. With U.S. funds. To attack the Islamic Republic first of all:
https://www.academia.edu/122647432/Moses_the_Sorcerer_Meta_Analysis_
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Yep…(((they))) certainly know how too spin a yarn!🤥
Sure, I’m obviously well aware of that NBC story, but I’m extremely skeptical of its claim that the BSL4 lab was actually shut down:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/report-says-cellphone-data-suggests-october-shutdown-wuhan-lab-experts-n1202716
I think it’s just dishonest propaganda and I finally discussed it last year:
https://www.unz.com/runz/how-rand-paul-and-rfk-jr-avoided-the-elephant-in-the-room-on-covid/#the-canadian-perspective-of-elaine-dewar
Take a look at page 18 of the underlying document:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6884792/MACE-E-PAI-COVID-19-ANALYSIS-Redacted.pdf#page=18
The entire analysis was only based upon five(!) devices, probably a tiny fraction of the total number present at the BSL4 facility, and the device-count for October isn’t all much different than many other months. Indeed, anyone looking at the actual data would assume that the shutdown had actually occurred in March and April.
What probably happened was that some Neocon PR operative pitched the story at NBC reporters, and since TV people tend to be gullible idiots, they aired it without carefully looking at the underlying data.
Enter the probability of secret vaccines developed alongside the viral bioweapon, highly effective and different from the announced “vaccines” that themselves were (and are!) intentionally debilitating and destructive to healthy polities. Who would think of it? Fauci!
https://www.academia.edu/122647432/Moses_the_Sorcerer_Meta_Analysis_
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I should have also mentioned the swarm of creepy commenters.
Arriving with the dempanic to propagandize about COVID provenance, That Would Be Telling’s first (May 15, 2020) mongered WWIII:
TWBT then dialed it back to play the alternating chummy/condescending scold with respect to treatment. (It was deft and engaging, though, and drew informative, highly readable refutations from commenters like Kratoklastes.)
There were a lot of propagandists working from home in those days.
this bioweapon attack on china was the beginning of ww3, designed to destroy their economy and result in regime change, bringing down xi and bringing in puppets, to begin the looting of china and eventually the entire world
And how would such a virus stay in China if that was the plan?
China had hundreds of daily international flights.
So let’s release a virus to attack China that will certainly spread everywhere else? It’s going to be an international pandemic.
It doesn’t make sense. If this virus was engineered or studied as a weapon then they would know the incubation period and that a China release wouldn’t be contained.
I only see an attack on Iran making sense as a weapon. Release in China as a false flag when the real target is Iran. Maybe they assumed the morality rate would be higher as it isn’t something you could fully test.
The other problem with an attack on China is the potential for mutation. You risk it mutating and then coming back to your home country in a deadlier form. That is what happened with Spanish flu. It actually wasn’t that deadly but then mutated into a much worse form that killed young men through an overreaction of the immune system.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
I agree with the analysis that Baric probably knew he was designing a bioweapon, but was not aware that it would be deployed in Wuhan.
On the agent psychopath question, I think there is a material difference between dropping bombs on people one suspects to be terrorists, versus unleashing a biological weapon in a country that you would know for sure would kill many innocent people, especially the elderly.
It’s the difference between a pilot dropping bombs on a suspected ISIS facility and the infamous Apache helicopter video that Wikileaks released wherein American soldiers were gleefully shooting down innocent Iraqis. I would say the latter soldiers were clearly psychopaths.
One could argue that the agent who released the Wuhan virus didn’t know that that virus would go on to kill 30 million people, but I don’t think a plausible argument could be made that he/she must not have known that many thousands of people would fall ill from the virus and die. A mild flu season kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
( https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-turning-discovery-into-health/influenza )
( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124915/flu-deaths-number-us/ )
I don’t think a psychological normal person would be fine with being responsible for killing 20,000 innocent people in country not at war with his/hers.
A counter argument might be to ask if the person who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki was a psychopath. I would say probably not since the person can have all sorts of rationalizations about it being necessary to end the war and save thousands of lives of his fellow countrymen.
I don’t think a normal person could comfortably make the same rationalizations for a preemptive bioweapon attack.
The USA didn’t assume that it would stay in one place. They just assumed that the USA and its allies were much more well equipped to handle it than their enemies were, as many American propaganda articles insisted in early 2020. This is consistent with most American strategy, which is almost always harmful to the USA or to its vassal states. American planners just wager that others will be harmed more than the USA is by these strategic decisions. There are quite a few examples of this just from the last few years, from USA’s economic warfare against China’s electronics industry to sanctions against Russia.
Ron’s conspiracy theory that American military people brought the Covid hoax from Ft Deterick MD to Wuhan China and sprinkled it about town for some nefarious purpose is a reasonable theory.
Equally believe able and reasonable is the conspiracy theory that the Chinese of the Wuhan lab created covid hoax flu for some nefarious purpose. And infected the military games participants to carry covid hoax to the rest of the world.
Then there’s the only reasonable theory. Covid hoax, like all seasonal flu and non genetic respiratory problems originated in southern China.
Yea seems reasonable until you consider that case zero *just happened* to be in the only city where they were studying that type of virus. In a country of 1.14 billion. What an amazing coincidence.
A natural release is the least likely theory. That is also the official explanation of the Chinese government that never allowed a full investigation. An explanation that they changed multiple times.
An intentional or accidental release makes far more sense given the evidence.
For hundreds of thousands of years S China has been the winter home for trillions of birds. When spring comes those birds fly home all over the earth and spread whatever diseases they created or picked up in hot humid S. China.
Birds have the lowest risk of infection:
https://www.birdnote.org/podcasts/birdnote-daily/can-birds-spread-covid-19
Birds are more like flying reptiles. That have more in common with dinosaurs than mammals.
We would see bird specific mutations if that had been the case. When COVID jumped to rodents and back again they actually found new mutations that don’t apply to humans. That was the lucky break we had from omicron. It appears to have jumped to a rodent population and then evolved to be more contagious but less deadly. For the record I was for letting Omicron rip and ending all lockdowns and restrictions. Omicron is exactly what we needed.
Question to Alden :
Why China, rather than India, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. ?
Because those counties benefit from dry and cold climates ?
Because birds migrating from the North stay in China without travelling further southwards ?
I don’t know if this qualifies as “Flu Hoaxing”, but “Covid” was originally called “SARS2”. That triggered my memory for “SARS” not being what was advertised. This is from 2003.
https://www.the-scientist.com/cause-of-sars-disputed-51794
Plummer went off script saying they couldn’t “grow” the virus. That assumed the “virus” was natural ( assuming Stefan Lanka is wrong, and viruses do exist).
Given “Covid” was patented, any work/study on it had to be approved by the patent holder – Ralf Baric. The “leak” narrative was carefully structured from the beginning, as a “leak” can be active as in your tap leaking, or passive as in a clandestine action. You have covered the former. However, if the latter as many have implied, why would the Chinese knowing infect their own population, which does not have replacement level birth rates? Too many things don’t add up about the Wuhan narrative.
Other problems with the narrative are the nursing home illnesses in Maryland after Fort Bragg bio-weapons lab was shut down in June 2019 https://www.science.org/content/article/top-us-biodefense-lab-pauses-work-after-safety-lapses
and “Covid” found in Spanish sewage samples in March 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/coronavirus-traces-found-in-march-2019-sewage-sample-spanish-study-shows-idUSKBN23X2HP/
So much for Wuhan.
And of course the “lab-leak” theory is neurolinguistic programming by Wisner’s wurlitzer. It herds you away from the logical premise: given the evidence
And how would you know it wasn’t Cindy Loohu who had a glove rip in the lab and walked outside without telling anyone? The Wuhan lab actually had prior complaints about sloppy work from Westerners that visited.
My guess is a lab leak but I can’t say that with 100% certainty. How are you able to declare the theory to be false?
the null hypothesis here is release of a banned biological weapon.
The Chinese government didn’t allow a full investigation. You can’t declare a null hypothesis when outside investigators were not given full access to the evidence.
China was elaborate OPSEC, an attempt to impede attribution of CIA’s historic crime: undeclared war by illegal and inherently indiscriminate WMD in manifest breach of the UN Charter. So Sachs is exactly right: the CIA regime bears responsibility for reparation, restitution, and compensation with interest for internationally wrongful acts in breach of jus cogens.
And how would this weapon be kept within China?
Any general virus released in China is going to come back and hit NYC. You just can’t avoid it.
The only way for an attack against China to work is through a virus that has a higher mortality rate among Asians. That isn’t the case for COVID.
If anything one should assume that the totalitarian government of China is better equipped to handle such a virus. They can quickly declare lockdowns and pass any needed laws. It’s an admitted advantage of autocratic governments. So a general virus is a pretty lousy weapon if the goal is to hurt China and not the West. There is simply no way of avoiding it coming back and hitting dense cities like NYC and especially given that they have thousands of Chinese going back and forth each week. Which means multi-national cities would be hit early and hard.
You’re basically arguing that the CIA loaded a gun that shoots both themselves and China. Maybe fully explain why they would do that before declaring a null hypothesis in a case that is impossible to test.
Thanks, Kurt. That was great. I’m in LUV with 99!
Now I see some idiots masking up for some other bird flu or some crap.
“Ahaaa, the old Flu Manchu PanicFest trick – second time I fell for that this decade!”
SARS CoV2 is a virus unlike any seen before. Its primary weapon, the spike protein, causes numerous maladies, of clotting, immune dysfunction, neurological symptoms, reproductive effects etc. It has a long way to go, as it mutates, or ‘new variants’ are released by the US bio-warfare machine, as occurred with the ‘mysterious’ sudden appearance of Omicron in Botswana in late 2021, with thirty or so new mutations, but no link with then known variants.
SARS CoV2 is a US bio-weapon, possibly a population reduction (by direct attrition over time and fertility compromise) weapon, and definitely an attack on the hated race enemy, China, and an excuse to demonise them with lies reminiscent of the ‘Uighur genocide’ villainy, and demand ‘reparations’. And, I believe that anyone taking note of anything Sharri Markson, in my opinion a FANATIC Zionazi and apologist for the Gaza genocide, or the anthropogenic climate destabilisation denialist Ridley, say, is stark, raving, bonkers.
For the ruling Western elites their own populaces are the enemy as well as is China. To cull the herd of ‘useless eaters’ at home as well as abroad is one of their great priorities, before they cause irreversible ecological collapse, or revolt against their Masters.
Nonsense made up on the fly. It was well known in 2020 that East Asia was leading in terms of SARS virus detection and management. Western countries had no experience with it at all. That’s why everybody was using Chinese protocols!
Ironically the political rationale given by some scientists who proposed a natural origin to COVID was to thwart anti-Chinese hysteria and military escalation against the country. Your analysis would’ve buttressed their argument but at the unacceptable loss of their innocence.
Due to time constraints I’m unable to give this piece the time it deserves. So I’ll rely on my fellow commenters to answer the following: Does Ron still believe that those of us from the beginning who were doing the Paul Revere bit regarding the nature of the mRNA modification and the elites pushing it (and prospering from it) are mouth-breathing morons?
there were no secret vaccines. you guys are completely delusional.
The simplest explanation is that it was done by vaccine manufacturers and their supporters in the deep state who benefited immensely from the mRNA shots and the precedent it sets for such technology in the future of healthcare in the West and the perpetual cash cow they’ve created.
Then there was Achmed E. Newman, already reaching a conclusion to the question posed on March 19th of ’20, The Kung Flu – SHTF or Infotainment Panic-Fest?, that, yes, it was an Infotainment Panic-Fest.
However, I was worried at the time it’d be both, as I could see that economic devastation resulting from the Totalitarian policies being enacted could bring on a financial SHTF. (Spoiler alert: Due to 60 years of US Gov’t fiscal stupidity, it IS coming, Kung Flu notwithstanding.)
As much as I like reading the illustrious and insightful Steve Sailer on this very site, he got so derailed by the PanicFest for 3 months that he wrote about 80-90% of his posts on the subject for a while, and I dropped off of there to get away from it.
Steve Sailer got better. So did my wife. I’m not talking about some hyped up crap being discussed here but the hysteria purposely induced.
I’d bet a penny to a pound that the ‘vaccine’ given in Israel was different from that imposed on the goy world. In the Australian Senate in 2023 a Pfizer spokesman revealed under questioning that the ‘vaccine’ given its employees in Australia was different from that injected into the public, and was NOT tested by the local Therapeutic Goods Administration.
…he still thinks COVID is real?
Is it possible as per the evidence that you have uncovered, that sars-cov-2 may have escaped from Vincent Munster’s lab in Hamilton Montana (Rocky Mountain Laboratories), to effect wild deer in the vicinity, by the fall of 2019, and an outdoorsman type, a deer hunter, who butchered his successful kill for the meat, contracted the primordial strain of sars-cov-2 (that you name as WA1) soon before he, also as a Military Man, and athletic avid outdoorsman, partook of the Military Games in Wuhan?
I don’t mean to discount your strong evidence that Dr. Danielle Anderson lied about the nature of her work at WIV (a huge smoking gun I agree, but then again, she may have lied about her precise work there, for other reasons, other than being patient zero herself). I just want to understand the scope of possibilities as to patient zero. How do we know that the deer reservoir of sars-cov-2 in North America, came from human to animal transmission? As these North American deer, are asymptomatic, but carriers, to me, that is another type of potential smoking gun, that perhaps is obscured, because no one looked at wild deer samples from the Montana vicinity, for the 2019 period, perhaps?
Thank-you in advance for your consideration.
Good afternoon, Alden!
That’s the most reasonable, indeed, that is, except that I don’t think that there is such a virus is the hoax. It’s how it’s been made use of to make people hysterical (see OP title for exhibit A) that’s the hoax – “scam” one might say.
I’m no virologist nor ID Doc, so when people said it was the bats in Spring ’20, I believed it. They do eat a lot of crazy stuff down in southeastern China (dogs aren’t the half of it). However, my memory of Biology from HS is enough for me to find the Nicholas Wade article that Ron Unz recommended to supposedly support his theory. It supported only that the virus was purposefully created, i.e., did not mutate on its own from a bat-harming to people-harming virus.
Mr. Wade’s article did not support the whole “America Done It!!” theory. The real story is right out in front of everyone’s face with real people and real facilities that we know about. This “Gain-of-Function” research is simply BioWeapons research – only difference would be the logos on the websites.
Yes, the Fauci-funded lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC did this work but then due to laws and that everything can be done cheaper in lower-wage and lower-Q/A (BSL-2 instead of BSL-4 safety) China, the research work was outsourced to Hubei, Wuhan. That it got out of the lab is not something I’m shocked about.
I do agree with you, due to having a memory, that these new diseases that crop up every decade or so come from the SE Orient most of the time. Calling this one the “China Flu” (Trump’s term) was not un-called for at all.
Lol! Sometimes all you gotta read is the headline 💩 🚽 🪠 🚽 🪠 🚽 🪠
I stopped listening to Ron Unz’s report about a third through. Medical data do not mix well with political analysis. I personally think it is the blind men and the elephant fable. In 2020, WEF Governments, that is just about every Government in the world, worked together on a global agenda as they were all facing economic and political collapse. China however did not vaccinate its population with mRNA because China has a depopulation problem. All the political Parties that implemented the extreme Covid measures are facing political ruin now. But the media gloss over that. The exception being China where the CCP now has a strangle hold. Donald Trump has returned because Covid measures in America are blamed mostly on Jared Kushner and Biden.
The main issues are—we didn’t get all these pandemics until China was brought into the WTO.
Ever since it was–there were stories about flus and viruses every year or two.
The Globalists said the pandemic started in China–and despite its population density–it was able to beat the virus through their amazing hygiene standards.
Plus, Africa was spared Covid because their medical system was so advanced (they actually said this).
In January 2020, CNN did a website report titled 3 Billion Trips–about Chinese traveling around China and the world through their new transportation systems. Not a single mention of covid.
Another suspicious thing was that Tom Hanks, Angela Merkel, and Boris Johnson all got covid-19 within a 3 month period.
Flu and the common cold was re-labelled Covid-19.
In truth–the real bioweapon conspiracy was the Pfizer-Moderna jabs. The lockdowns were also part of the plan to attack the western population.
China’s government was an accomplice in collusion with most western governments.
Covid does not exist, it is a scam and a psyop to get people scared into taking the MRNA kill shot as part of the WEF, UN Agenda 2030, CDC, WHO, etc., depopulation agenda. What covid is, is the flu and colds and pneumonia all renamed in one of the biggest genocide operations in the history of the world.
Now the same elites behind the covid scam and psyop are pushing the scam and psyop bird flu, which also does not exist, but these demons from hell insist on trying everything in their power to depopulate the earth and they have the father of the MRNA kill shot elected to POTUS so the scam will intensify in the coming 4 years, thanks to Trump and Biden.
The elites pushing the genocide depopulation are not human, they are reptilian shape shifters , see David Ickes book The Biggest Secret, it can be had on amazon.
I like these articles that freak out all the CIA bots. CIA gets very touchy when someone points out that we got em on a hangin offense.
Any of them related to Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in August 2019? Blackrock “going direct” stuff?
Just a thought.
Ron is still a few years behind the real narrative.
Yes, it was an engineered virus. But it was deliberately released, most likely in China/Wuhan so the blame would fall on the Chinese.
The fact that there is endless media debate and finger-pointing about the vaccines’ efficiency/toxicity, the source of the virus, the imposition of martial law, suppression of freedom of speech etc but never the restructuring of the financial system is telling.
The primary purpose, we can now see clearly, was a re-inflation of the world financial system which had been progressively deflating since 2008 regardless of massive “quantitive easing”. Lockdowns coupled with unprecedented money printing combined to create the hyper-inflationary environment we see today.
Ron, with respect, I do not find your reply very convincing:
1) The call stats story is dated early May 2020.
Unless I’m mistaken, at that time the ‘official’ story in the US was that of a SARS COV 2 virus natural origin. So, are you sure Pompeo and other government officers were at the time fully busy demonstrating the lab leak theory? Any lab leak theory was likely to put pressure on the US role, given that CIA, State Department, etc. were fully aware of the US-funded gain-of-function-like work performed in Wuhan with most critical work remaining performed in the US.
2) Why would you trust US and UK intelligence sources for this specific page of an overall tricky story?
The migratory birds gazillions of them every year fly into China from the north west and east in early fall late sumner September and October. They fly north west and east back home every year in spring. Not further south
The diseases the birds created or caught in S China don’t manifest themselves in humans during the summer when people are outside and windows are open.
But in fall and winter when people are inside all the time breathing each other’s germs people get those respiratory problems flue sinus pleurisy bronchitis sore and strep throats colds.
It’s common knowledge in medicina, geography environment epidemiology biologists and those who study birds wild or domesticated
Whatever you think and believe is irrelevant to the facts.
it wasn’t supposed to stay in china, you deepstate troll. this was an attack on the entire world and their “own people” included. it was also the beginning of their “great reset”, where they reset all the assets of the middle class into their offshore bank accounts. since they launched this greatest war crime of all time, nearly 40% of the small businesses have been destroyed and canabalized, while the top ten billionaires double their net worth and the rest up 50%.
this was used as excuse to cancel the bill of rights, stripping us of our constitutional rights, in the name of a disease that they created, patented and made billions of dollars, creating on a vaccine that wasn’t a vaccine and a cure that wasn’t a cure. if this wasn’t enough, they then forced people to be human guinea pigs in their genetic engineering experiments from hell. their “vaccine” could never have passed fda testing for this dangerous novel technology, that had failed all previous trials and created more reported side effects than all other vaccines combined.
while they failed spectacularly attacking china and russia, they succeeded in advancing us towards the police state, they have envisioned ever since they attacked “their own” people on 9/11. it’s even worse for the e.u., that have had the economies purposefully destroyed, as their ignorant citizens are now pushed towards a war with the russians, that aren’t their enemies.
But that’s not really happening, is it? Sure, the fake vaccines are not effective or safe, however the mass killings you speak of have not happened.
Well…
IF it was bioengineered, and released against China (where all the scientists ALWAYS said “it” would come from) but also against IRAN!?!?
Who is Iran’s biggest enemy? Israel and the jews.
Who was America’s biggest “enemy” at the time, and the always assumed birthplace of “the next big pandemic”? China
So, you start it in China, because that fits multiple narratives, and then you get it into the leadership of Iran, and kill many of them, but The West is too busy talking about China, lab leaks, bat-women, and fucking pangolins to notice.
So, China gets the headlines, and jews get to attack their primary enemy, while everyone is distracted.
So, “red meat” GOP Americans get to hate on China, and the jews get to attack Iranian leadership, and the Democrats use it to steal the election from Trump.
AND THIS TIME, Trump was WAAAYY more pro-Israel than Biden, so ((they)) let him get elected.
Final analysis- It was the jews!
You stated there was only one reasonable theory.
Don’t get upset if we ask that you explain yourself.
Or maybe try to not be so authoritative on a subject where there hasn’t been a single proper investigation.
it wasn’t supposed to stay in china, you deepstate troll. this was an attack on the entire world and their “own people” included
So I’m a troll for asking you to explain your own theory?
You described it as a bioattack on China. Should I quote you?
You didn’t describe it as an attack on the world. Don’t get so defensive over your own theory. Was China the target or are you going back on that description?
where they reset all the assets of the middle class into their offshore bank accounts. since they launched this greatest war crime of all time
Who exactly is “they” and how would they know that such a virus wouldn’t mutate into a form that permanently reduces all savings accounts?
this was used as excuse to cancel the bill of rights, stripping us of our constitutional rights, in the name of a disease that they created, patented and made billions of dollars
Which rights did you lose?
they then forced people to be human guinea pigs in their genetic engineering experiments from hell. their “vaccine” could never have passed fda testing for this dangerous novel technology
Who was forced to take a vaccine?
I see, thanks. So Ralph Baric would have been one of very few people who even had foreknowledge of RaTG13. That is damning. It’s plausible that Baric had eyed Shi Zhengli as a patsy even before covid was released. That would serve as a sort of safety offramp in case people did not believe covid had a natural origin.
I don’t find it impossible that Anderson could be a sociopath and lie through her teeth. Nor do Insee any reason her boss would be informed if she did not inform him. Be that as it may Ron, you discussed opportunity but not motive. I would be curious to know who Anderson associated with professionally and personally. Seems we don’t have enough information about her to dismiss motive of some kind.
You really make me laugh , Ron. The way you are able to swallow ridiculous propaganda whole.
LOL
There is no virus, Ron.
“Covid” is nothing but a hoax— a fairy tale concocted to persuade the masses to accept poison labeled as “vaccine”. And in this way control the population.
If you don’t believe the numbers check out Ed Dowd.
He’s a Wall Street analyst, a numbers guy.
https://usawatchdog.com/sugar-juice-fraud-propped-up-failing-biden-economy-ed-dowd/
Easy. After jogging all over Wuhan asymptomatically spreading covid there, Ms. Anderson hopped on the next plane to Qom to pursue her compulsive jogging habit, and inadvertently spread it in a 2nd country, despite knowing by then that she had caused an outbreak in Wuhan with her compulsive jogging.
Thank you for being one of the few voices in the wilderness pointing out that if the virus was engineered in a lab, it was probably also deployed as the bioweapon it is, rather than ‘accidentally released’. As someone pointed out, ‘deliberate use’ of a bioweapon is the null hypothesis. The default assumption. If you find a soldier on a battlefield with a bullet hole in his head, you don’t assume he accidentally shot himself. You assume the enemy killed him, unless there is clear evidence contrary to that.
As to what happened in USA and vassals: how do you go about developing a live virus vaccine? Do you infect a group of animals, cull the ones who get really sick, use the survivors to infect the next batch of animals, cull the ones who get really sick, rinse and repeat until you have a virus that doesn’t make any of the host animals really sick? Is that a good approximation of the method? Would you give your host animals drugs that stopped the infection dead in its tracks, like Ivermectin, or would you make sure every single animal susceptible to catching the virus got it? Say, by giving them a false sense of security by telling them it’s spread through ‘droplets’ and that a paper mask and a small plexiglass barrier, or 6ft of air, will keep them safe? Then maybe inject them all with a ‘vaccine’ that does nothing to stop transmission, but tell everyone it ‘stops the virus dead in its tracks’?
Now ask me what I think of the hospital protocols used to ‘treat’ covid-19. They gave patients gasping for oxygen propofol/midazolam and large doses of morphine. This is a euthanasia protocol. Meanwhile, celebrities and the wealthy were given Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and a cocktail of other drugs that had them back on their feet within 24 hours. They weren’t trying to cancel Joe Rogan for taking the Ivermectin; they had all taken it too. They were angry because he told the world he got the Ivermectin. Us little people weren’t supposed to know about it.
They warehoused contagious patients in retirement homes, thereby infecting the regular residents, then walled them off and refused to so much as give them water, killing just about everyone. That alone saved NY and my own Quebec billions of $$$ in future maintenance costs for elders dependent on the State. And then there’s the ‘vaccines’, which were known to not stop infection and transmission, in fact anyone could figure that out by reading Wikipedia for 10-15m. Also, they were already created before the covid pandemic was declared. Why? Well, they have/had plans to coerce all of us to take a yearly mRNA ‘vaccine’, engineered and produced by the misanthropes at the CIA.
“He doesn’t even mention that Anderson was part of the DEFUSE team that planned to develop viruses just like Covid and that she lied about her work in Wuhan. ”
Yes, it’s hilarious that Anderson (Dani) was part of a program that was supposed to create a virus IDENTICAL to SARS2, ie Ecohealth’s DEFUSE, and then pretend to know nothing when SARS2 suddenly appeared in Wuhan, where, according to DEFUSE, assays of this manufactured virus were supposed to be undertaken. If I were somewhat responsible for thirty million deaths I’d shut up about it too, nobody is going to break down in tears and take credit for that.
I’ve read Haslam’s substack and am part way through reading his book (I agree with Mr Unz it is poorly written but it makes a good souvenir). Mostly his theory makes sense, ie the DEFUSE proposal was funded by NIAID under different grants, but then he becomes obsessed with the fact that various US lab animals can be infected with SARS2 and just seems to go off the rails with ‘self-spreading bat vaccine’ speculations.
None of this part of Haslam’s theory makes much sense. SARS2 is apparently not particularly infectious to horseshoe bats, but since it is derived from a horseshoe bat coronavirus why weren’t the horseshoe bat infective bits left in? Why is it massively infectious to humans instead? His book is all over the place on this issue.
It’s obvious that the creator of SARS2 is Ralph Baric, who is the person named to do this job in the DEFUSE proposal. The University of North Carolina agrees since they are aggressively suppressing his laboratory documentation from public view. When Baric was asked by the Congressional Committee “Did you create SARS2”, he proceeded to give a non-answer. If you are asked this question and give a non-answer the only conclusion one can draw is that the answer from Baric himself isn’t “No”.
This paper might put a giant hole in Haslam’s ‘SARS2 went to Rocky Mountain Labs for further development and leaked/passaged to US lab animals’ theory:
”Ancestral SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural virus because it cannot support sustained transmission in any animal species: Ancestral SARS-CoV-2, with its metastable D614/Furin Cleavage Site phenotype, cannot be maintained outside of a laboratory environment”
https://zenodo.org/records/14562838
Some papers which suggest that the military games were the source of the pandemic:
”Solders Returning from the Wuhan Military Games in Oct 2019 Seeded the World with COVID-19 Without Which a Pandemic Might Have Been Averted”
https://zenodo.org/records/14585310
“The October Surprise”
The global mass murder by Bill Gates, “US” and “UN”.
No “Arabs” with box cutters, no “Pandemic”, only scum with control over media.
Poison shot in the hospitals, if you want to see a Alien, look at the working slave cast, only following orders, as in nazi Germany. It only take One psychopath to rule them all.
Its nothing strange with it. Its what happen when such as nazi Germany, “US”, Dr Mengele, Bill Gates, murderer Trump and mad “scientist” war criminal Elon Musk are not in their right places, hanging in the Gallows.
And on this site, you of course have Ron Unz, erasing every post about Newtons laws valid in “US”.
Another unhinged example for the blow up of the Atlantic cables.
The default assumption. If you find a soldier on a battlefield with a bullet hole in his head, you don’t assume he accidentally shot himself. You assume the enemy killed him, unless there is clear evidence contrary to that.
There is more than a bullet hole.
There is a missing scientist along with evidence that China was trying to hide what happened in the lab.
It’s not merely a case of an outbreak and the resulting actions. There is computer evidence from before the leak.
There is also lot of strange action and occurrences on the part of China.
I am open to the bioweapon theory but I don’t think you have looked at all the evidence related to lab leak.
Have a look at this story:
‘World’s first Covid patient’ who vanished from Wuhan a year ago still missing
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-first-covid-patient-who-23334046
No one can declare a null hypothesis. There are too many unanswered questions.
As to what happened in USA and vassals: how do you go about developing a live virus vaccine? Do you infect a group of animals, cull the ones who get really sick, use the survivors to infect the next batch of animals, cull the ones who get really sick, rinse and repeat until you have a virus that doesn’t make any of the host animals really sick?
There is no live virus vaccine and they didn’t use animals.
You’re so opinionated on the subject and yet didn’t bother to read about how the vaccine works or how it was developed.
This was not the first mRNA vaccine and it was tested on volunteers. That is how it was fast tracked.
Well, they have/had plans to coerce all of us to take a yearly mRNA ‘vaccine’, engineered and produced by the misanthropes at the CIA.
If it is all a CIA conspiracy then why did the Federal government back the WHO report on a natural release instead of blaming China?
It may have been nonsense, but it was not made up on the fly. It was the consensus opinion among the American elite, propagated by all western think tanks, born of western supremacism and hubris. It’s the same reason they believed their garbage weapons would give the Ukraine an edge against Russia or that Yemen could be subdued if they got a taste of superior American airpower and so on. American elites actually believe their own bullshit. Also known as “getting high on their own supply” or “drinking their own Kool-aid.”
Just about anyone who wanted to keep their job? Jeez.
I think it’s stupid and evil to start biological warfare.
They even think they’re in control of nature, but the virus mutates, and the mRNA vaccine quickly loses its effectiveness, which hurts the vaccine interests behind Pfizer and moderna.
With their stupid intelligence, next time, maybe a whole zombie virus (such as a prion) comes out, and then they will think that they have the best technology to deal with everything, but when the protein structure changes, their self-proclaimed best technology will be ineffective.
It may have been nonsense, but it was not made up on the fly. It was the consensus opinion among the American elite, propagated by all western think tanks, born of western supremacism and hubris.
Which American elite would be you referring to? The ones that told us to go out to eat and that blaming China is racist?
Pelosi is on video hugging Chinese in Chinatown and telling Americans to not be afraid. Then a few months later the Democrats were shutting down even outdoor restaurants. Our elites are a bad joke.
Both Republicans and Democrats called it hysteria in the early months. The Democrats made it an opportunity to accuse White people of racism.
China and the rest of Asia were absolutely more prepared from Sars. I think they went overboard in their lockdowns but they took it seriously while our elites were telling us to keep shopping and ignore the virus.
Let’s not forget that Trump was called racist for wanting to shut down flights from China. Our elites in the media were in agreement that he was being racist and not “following the science” aka White guilt first science. Fox News was no better and in fact had video that mocked people for not eating out. KEEP SHOPPING AND EATING YOU STUPID RACIST WHITES. That was the message of our wonderful elites. Then they decided that outdoor restaurants were too dangerous.
Just shut up and go away ignorant moron. I’m right and you’re wrong.
That same song used to be accompanied by a mini-skirted “dancing fool” who was even cuter than Barbara Feldon. Seems to have disappeared from the web, though.
The fly in the ointment about Covid being a bio weapon is that it is not that deadly. Highly infectious but deadly only to a small population subset. If you wanted to release a bio weapon wouldn’t you use a deadlier virus strain?
Thanks for reading guys. No Covid doesn’t infect Chinese horseshoe bats. I asked British bat biologist living in China. But here is the winning 2018 DARPA Preempt team developing contagious bat vaccines in Egyptian fruit bats, Syrian hamsters, and deer mice:
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/colorado-state-university-documents-on-bat-pathogen-research/
My comment is too long so presented as a post
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154308875?source=queue&autoPlay=false
Generally I agree with Jim on 90%. The disagreement is I think it was Bioterrorism. For some reason nobody wishes to consider this possibility in the Age of Terrorism.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154308875?source=queue&autoPlay=false
Sounds good Dany, you started a good conversation here, glad you get it. By the end of the book I don’t care when/where this thing started, we should only care where it went (Montana).
Just about anyone who wanted to keep their job? Jeez.
There was never a Federal proposal to require the vaccine for all jobs.
You probably spent too much time on anti-vaxx websites.
Or go ahead and cite the bill if you think I am wrong.
Even Biden backed away from the idea of tying it to an optional stimulus credit. The Democrats were worried that Blacks would backlash. Blacks have low vaccinations rates.
Which means the Feds were afraid of even paying people to voluntarily take it.
Unless you mean the military where they have long been expected to take shots that are given to them. That is in the contract.
Yes, I’m absolutely sure. For example, here’s a May 3, 2020 story in the Guardian with the headline: “Mike Pompeo: ‘enormous evidence’ coronavirus came from Chinese lab.” Trump had made a similar public statement a few days earlier:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/mike-pompeo-donald-trump-coronavirus-chinese-laboratory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/donald-trump-coronavirus-chinese-lab-claim
As another example, Sen. Tom Cotton, a top Republican, said in February 2020 that Covid was probably a bioengineered Chinese virus that had leaked out of the Wuhan lab, and Stephen Bannon, Trump’s former top strategist had been saying the same thing for quite some time. An NYT article described how those views were very widespread among rightwingers and given lots of attention on FoxNews.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html
Sometimes they would back off a little under MSM pressure or hedge themselves, but their inflammatory statements always went viral on rightwing social media.
It was only a few years ago and although I never had any interest in the science of Covid, I followed the politics of Covid very, very closely at the time.
The mainstream establishment/MSM totally supported the “natural virus” theory, but the Trump Administration and its rightwing supporters all claimed that Covid was a bioengineered Chinese virus that had leaked out of the Wuhan lab, with many of them saying it was a bioweapon. I think the conservatives also leaned in that direction but most of them were too intimidated by the scientific establishment to say so at the time.
Just before Trump left office, Pompeo’s State Department released a “Fact Sheet” saying that several Wuhan lab researchers had apparently been infected with Covid in 2019, just before the epidemic began, and a top Pompeo aide publicly made the same claim a couple of months later, always cited as very strong evidence for the lab-leak theory.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/12/former-us-investigator-covid-19-may-have-come-from-bioweapons-research-accident/
The WSJ ran a big front page story on the same thing later:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228
In his 2021 column, McNeil admitted that for more than a year he and all the other mainstream journalists had dismissed the lab-leak theory as “far right” lunacy that they grouped together with “Pizzagate, the Plandemic, Kung Flu, Q-Anon, Stop the Steal, and the January 6 Capitol invasion.”
You might want to read my 2021 review of a half-dozen or so Covid origins books, which I’d cited in my article:
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-confronting-covid-crimestop/
The books by Jasper Becker and Sharri Markson came out in September 2021, but they were probably mostly written during 2020, and they strongly advocated the Chinese lab-leak theory. Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin took the same position in his book and his other writings.
I went over all of these issues in tremendous detail at the time, so you really should read some of my articles from that period:
https://www.unz.com/page/covid-biowarfare-articles/
I agree. Bio warfare against China is going on its 2oth year.
@John Johnson
Before decrying China’s actions as ‘strange’, you would need to know what they were trying to accomplish and whether their actions were successful. Assuming ‘USA bioweapons attack on China’ is true, and also ‘Wuhan Institute set up as fall guy by CIA’ is also true, then China’s public-facing actions are reasonable. They stopped info sharing with the West, locked down the country to prevent the spread of a lethal bioweapon until such time as it was de-fanged, so to speak, and did their best to keep their economy chugging along in what was plainly an attempt to destroy said economy. Who knows what went on behind the scenes when they realized what USA was up to. But Fauci, Kadlec, Baric and friends aren’t planning any trips to China, I’ll wager.
Wrong on both counts. The currently-circulating covid variant is the live-virus vaccine. We (poors) are the animals used to develop it. The Omicron strain was developed by another state actor, possibly China using humanized mice strains, to get ahead of the too-slow process USA was using.
And the mRNA injections were not vaccines, full stop. Since they did nothing to stop you from catching or spreading the virus, and did nothing to stop or even slow the pandemic. But they did give me myocarditis, as expected. As you would expect if you bothered looking up on Wikipedia what they actually do. I didn’t, before rolling up my sleeve. So there’s that. I didn’t believe they could censor any mention of adverse events to the degree they actually did, so by June ’21 I thought I would know already if there were significant harms.
And the mRNA ‘vaccines’ were developed before fall 2019. There was a sham ‘testing’ that happened afterwards, but the product existed and had already been mass-produced to the degree necessary to run a clinical trial with tens of thousands of subjects.
Good question. Here is the best deer antibody study. 3 positive samples from 2020 were collected in January. The 2019 sample was false positive.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2114828118
And multiple spillovers from humans to deer. See them as dogs who smell our COVID-infected scent.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121644119
A Science podcast when they discuss deer as a contagious vaccine model
http://web.evolbio.mpg.de/HEVIMAs/
No. That’s because it was an anti-economy bioweapon. In my original April 2020 article I cited the analysis of a retired forty-year veteran of American biodefense:
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-coronavirus-catastrophe-as-biowarfare-blowback/#growing-evidence-of-american-responsibility
I always thought Omicron’s huge genetic throwback with mild(er) symptoms but aggressively self disseminating to displace the ever worsening sequence of accumulating mutations, novel—>delta, were too much like a successful self diseminating vaccine…
Exactly. I’d always suspected the same thing about Omicron, and reading between the lines of some of the news stories emphasizing its very strange structure, I wondered whether lots of other people didn’t suspect the same thing.
Before decrying China’s actions as ‘strange’, you would need to know what they were trying to accomplish and whether their actions were successful.
Stop speaking as if you were in the lab at the time.
It’s very strange that:
1. A Chinese scientist wrote online about a strange new virus well before the outbreak
2. A Chinese scientist from the lab completely disappeared and had her picture removed from the website
3. China changed their story multiple times on the origin. They changed both the animal and the location.
4. China would not allow a full WHO investigation and restricted access to the lab
5. A US intelligence leak showed that Wuhan employees were treated at a local hospital before the outbreak even though at the time our intelligence agencies were backing the WHO theory.
It’s all very strange and that is not my subjective opinion. Most people would find the above to be quite strange and you were not there and cannot explain all of those actions.
Assuming ‘USA bioweapons attack on China’ is true, and also ‘Wuhan Institute set up as fall guy by CIA’ is also true, then China’s public-facing actions are reasonable.
I already said the bioweapon angle is possible. It however is not an air tight theory but I do think it is more likely than the “just natural” release originally claimed by various governments and the US media.
It however doesn’t explain the events before the outbreak and why they made a scientist disappear.
It doesn’t explain China’s changing story in the early weeks and their restrictions placed on investigators. If China truly believed that Wuhan was not the source then they would have been more open to an investigation.
I’m fine with discussing all of these theories but you and others seem to expect conformity on a subject that we can’t test. That type of attitude is what degrades our mainstream media. We know best so stop talking.
Wrong on both counts. The currently-circulating covid variant is the live-virus vaccine.
That does not meet the definition of a live-virus vaccine.
https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/understanding_six_types_of_vaccine_technologies
It’s a mutated virus. You can claim without evidence that Omicron was bioengineered with the intent of overtaking the original but it would still be a virus.
Viruses normally (but not always) mutate to be less deadly. They spread better when they don’t kill the host.
And the mRNA injections were not vaccines, full stop. Since they did nothing to stop you from catching or spreading the virus, and did nothing to stop or even slow the pandemic.</i
That is not how a vaccine is defined. Both the flu vaccine and the chickenpox vaccine do not prevent the spread of the virus. Read the previous source on definitions.
But they did give me myocarditis, as expected. As you would expect if you bothered looking up on Wikipedia what they actually do. I didn’t, before rolling up my sleeve.
We have gone over the myocarditis and it’s not only extremely rare but mostly in young men. Your odds of dying or being permanently damaged from COVID is far higher. I really don’t care if people get the vaccine at this point but the myocarditis was rare and came from the very same VAERS system that the anti-vaxxers decried as unreliable.
And the mRNA ‘vaccines’ were developed before fall 2019.
Yes and I mentioned that in this very thread which is in part why they were able to develop it so quickly. Please read my posts before responding.
The article and the amount of work that has been put into it is excellent, thank you Mr. Unz.
It is always hard to determine past actions by following the bread crumbs, especially from afar. Nevertheless, your reasoning and deductions make a lot of sense. However, I do question three points (these points were raised by another commenter “Wild Man”…the quotes are from his comment):
1.“I think it likely there is still obfuscation emanating from both the west (primarily America) as well as from China to a much lesser degree, though (like I have maintained all along … Chinese masterfully played for dupes). Maybe the Chinese had already grown suspicious of something, about the western scientists, as early as September 2019.”
– There were (and are) clearly “games within games” taking place. I find it hard to believe that the Chinese government with its massive surveillance powers, extensive scientific prowess, and experts on the scene were unaware of the true genesis of the virus (and thus they assisted in obfuscating the identification of where the virus came from and that it was lab-made). The theory of the Wuhan miliary games being the release site for the virus had very early on been discussed and it made the most sense. And again, the Chinese government took measures to detract from this line of investigation and even fueled the escalating fears (the now apparent use of gruesome face-planting victims dropping as they staggered through the streets, stories of morgues filled to over-capacity, the dramatic use of unnecessary lockdowns, mass-testing)…Why?
a)It would seem inescapable that China has either supported the “one-world government” plans of the neocons (until such time as it proved more advantageous to jump ship – which is a very common Chinese business tactic: to agree to go along until the other party has sunk significant costs, at which point they copy (e.g. uber), oppose (e.g. google), takeover (e.g. McDonalds), or tacitly control (e.g. Apple)) or
b)China was manipulated or bought into supporting the lie or
c)by pointing out the true malefactor, after having supported the initial lie, China would be admitting culpability.
2.“Of course I am completely unconvinced about The Economist’s … take that the all cause mortality escalation, at say 30 million worldwide, was solely due to the virus, and not also in part, by way of the interventions. “
-I too am sceptical about the true numbers of excess mortality, if any, caused by the virus itself. I have no doubt, that there has been and will be tremendous excess mortality due to the biotoxin injections, and the consequences of the response to the virus (such as the lockdowns and resulting mental distress and psychological damage). In regards to the supposed-virus itself, the numbers have clearly been inflated (by administratively attributing all deaths following a positive test) so as to justify lockdowns, civil liberty infringements, and the forced biotoxin injections.
3. “Probably because it was Fauci and company as the guilty parties, in cahoots with DOD, featuring the blowback upon America and the west (and the whole world) as a feature, not a bug.”
-This to me, makes more sense. By asking “who benefitted from this?” we could argue that such a plan, if successful, would benefit the neocons and their Zionist partners who have had China, Iran, and even Europe in their cross hairs for a long time. Fauci has survived multiple administrations not by merit but by a combination of ruthless capability and amoral willingness to do anything. He has served the neocons well.
Chapter 19 discusses similarities between the 2016 NIH mRNA patent and the 208 DARPA Defuse bid. It’s the same technology based on the same spike protein. Baric referenced the NIH patent team in his DARPA Defuse proposal. More here if interested: https://twitter.com/jhas5/status/1747107361469223132
More like 75th year. Possibly longer. Ron has written about the Korean war-era biowarfare attacks on China, IIRC. Using materials and methods taken from the Japanese at the end of WW2?
@John Johnson
It’s impressive, I guess, how wrong you manage to be, yet so full of confidence and chutzpah.
I gather Ron doesn’t want us discussing the merits of the pseudo-vaccines. I do of course have opinions on myocarditis as a side effect, which I gained the hard way. It’s not rare. Like, at all. And no, it doesn’t ‘resolve’. Every case of myocarditis causes some degree of permanent heart damage. Take my heart, for instance, which is now 9% scar tissue. Yay! I get to be a guinea pig! Let’s see how long I get to live!
Ron, I agreed early on that your economic bioweapon theory best fits what I know, although I think the evidence is still circumstantial at this point. What is frustrating in your approach to the Covid phenomenon as a whole is that more systematic investigations exposed early in 2020 the certainty of a genetically manufactured Covid2 and who engineered it.
In April 2020, Chris Martenson, though only an MD, spotted that the change in the critical furin cleavage site of a standard Corona virus, or even the altered Covid1 was far too complex to be a natural mutation, and courageous virologists quickly confirmed that it had to be genetically engineered.
By the summer of 2020, David Martin, who had been studying the whole Fauci criminal saga that started in the 1980s with the HIV skulduggery, tracked the 20 year process of creating Covid2 through the multiple applications in the Patent Office. These highly detailed research reports are open to the public. They revealed that the Ralph Baric project had completed the essential genetic engineering that went into Covid 2 by 2016. It remained to find a Corona virus vehicle that would make the best fit. My understanding is that Baric brought the “bat lady” to UNC and used her wide knowledge of bat Coronal viruses to find the right vehicle. The truth of this should be easy to verify.
Coming this late to the same conclusions, you seem unaware of a whole network of serious, politically uncompromising investigators relying on scientific expertise who knew all this early on, many from all over the world sharing their input in organizations like FLCCC, and by systematically connecting the dots concluded that the roll out of Covid2 was a carefully planned project repeatedly tested with gaming exercises. As such, it seems obvious that the goal to release of the virus as an act of biowarfare was carefully planned as well, not just a rogue element affair. It remains to discover how that was carried out.
Yes. Blaming this on Trump or Pompeo gives them far too much credit, and presumes a reach that neither had. This was a huge operation spanning decades and costing many billions of dollars. And the network of biolabs in places like Ukraine and other former SSRs (and most of Africa) shows they’re ready to do it all over again, and blame someone else.
Just like the DoD would not launch a nuke at Afghanistan just because Trump gave the order, they also wouldn’t launch a major bioweapons attack just because a clown like Pompeo gave the order. Just because the chain of command is less obvious, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Well, I hope. I have less confidence in that now than I did before the Ukraine war.
It’s impressive, I guess, how wrong you manage to be, yet so full of confidence and chutzpah.
It’s impressive that you tried lecturing me on basic vaccine definitions and got that wrong.
I gather Ron doesn’t want us discussing the merits of the pseudo-vaccines.
I don’t know what you mean by that as he has allowed a full range of opinions on the vaccines. We still have flat out virus deniers that claim the virus doesn’t exist even though it can be viewed with an electron microscope. That means he allows complete reality deniers. What is he censoring? During COVID most of the posters were outraged by his position on the vaccines.
I do of course have opinions on myocarditis as a side effect, which I gained the hard way. It’s not rare.
Well let’s look at data from VAERS:
Our results demonstrate that the incidence rate of myocarditis among survivors of COVID-19 is 2-fold higher than that observed in nonvaccinated subjects with COVID-related myocarditis in a recent study by Barda et al. (21 vs 11 cases per 100,000 individuals)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9743686/
21 cases per 100,000 individuals and they were mostly in men under 25.
Yes that would be rare.
That is data from the same VAERS system that anti-vaxxers told us could not be trusted on mortality rates. But they will source VAERS based on myocarditis.
Having healthy Vitamin D levels was almost a guarantee of a good outcome. So they locked the elderly, and the rest of us, inside, and did NOT recommend supplementation. Fauci was allegedly taking 5000 u/s a day, but he did NOT recommend it for others, even for dark-skinned people living at high latitudes, and in winter half of the year. Genocide is painless, it brings on many changes.
The Iran hit hints at Zionazi involvement, and they possess MASSIVE bio-warfare capabilities, and, of course, control the USA.
Of course a racist troll like this faecal smear would simply assert that the awful ChiComms cannot run a lab as superior Whiteys, like itself, can. As Unz pointed out, the one foreign researcher present ridiculed the smear, as well as the ‘sick scientists’ lie. The disinformers need complicit trolls like this to regurgitate their lies.
Without any special evidence, my assumption is that Omicron is likely the real DoD field experiment and that remdesivir and the mRNA vax were mere distractors for camouflage, possibly earlier also rans, while scrambling true (independent, effective) treatment efforts , AND patent medicine payoffs to big MIC players e.g. (pharma, hospital systems)
Covid, the biggest con pulled on mankind, ever!
The vax more deadly than the disease.
Trust between government and people irretrievably broken.
Never again.
Oh, so they knew that the majority of countries around the world were going to implement economically destructive policies as a reaction? That’s sounds like the kind of conspiracy I could get behind. Personally, I think the release was unintentional, but the resulting hysterical reactions and Totalitarian measures were, if not planned, ready to go at any time.
Kind of like, what, the flu? It didn’t used to ruin the economy. Why now, in ’20? The election? Testing out new methods of control?
Face it, you fell for it. You’re doing amazing investigations into events that happened a half century to a century ago, but when it comes to the here & now, you missed the whole of what was really going on. Perhaps in a few years, you’ll sit down on a Sunday afternoon, read 14 books about it, and change your mind.
If bio-warfare theory is out, Anderson theory might just make sense as she seems to have been one of the handful of Westerners working at the Wuhan lab. If it wasn’t bio-warfare and if the virus was made in the US and had to have ended up in Wuhan somehow, the likely ‘culprit’ would be a Westerner, someone like Anderson.
Btw, does Fedex have a service of delivering top secret material? If not, it’s rather weird that something so dangerous would be sent via Fed Ex for pickup.
If it was bio-warfare, the supposed ‘blowback’ was most likely anticipated and desired. After all, unless the virus was specifically designed to affect only Chinese or East Asians, there would have been no way to contain it as China is part of global trade and travel. The bio-warfare agents would have known it would spread outside China sooner than later.
Even though Covid was very harmful and destructive to many Americans(and to the world), the elites only care about their own power. And as the result of Covid, the super-rich got super-richer and the super-powerful got the justification to consolidate more control and power. What do these types care if millions got killed, millions lost their jobs or businesses, or millions got sicker. It’s all about themselves.
US foreign policy certainly doesn’t care if millions die or if an entire nation is brought down like in Syria. It’s all about the big boys playing to win. Likewise, sports team owners don’t care about the players. They can always get more players. It’s about the franchise, the business.
PS. Is Dr. Baric related to Colonel Sanders?
There’s nothing redeeming about 30 million deaths. For me what Covid did was make a mockery of the fake holocaust of the Jews, with the inflated, magical number of 6 million deaths. Yet Covid deaths also had identifiable culprits – the US government, with its victims spread around the globe. Still, hardly any reference to Covid mortalities as a holocaust. The Jews continue to monopolize the holocaust narratives.
The diabolical beauty of the modified mRNA gene injections is that the modification, using N1-methylpseudouridine to ‘ ..enhance immune evasion and protein production’, makes the spike protein more prolific, longer lasing and hence, dangerous, the spike being a cytotoxic agent.
The choice of the cytotoxic spike protein as the target for the ‘vaccine’ rather than any other viral protein, shows that production of spike was the aim. That would have been bad enough if the spike was restricted to the deltoid muscle, but we knew pretty quickly that was NOT the case. The ‘vaccine’ spreads widely, making most if not all organs and tissues potential spike factories. The immune system recognises the foreign entity, so attacks the tissue involved, resulting in, among others, myocarditis and pericarditis, but, hey, they’re just ‘minor’, after all.
That this was all planned was apparent when I saw the injections being given without the traditional ‘draw-back’ to ensure that the needle was NOT in a blood vessel, and thus the blood circulation.Apparently the WHO ended the time-honoured practise on the spurious grounds that it made injections ‘more tolerable’, in 2018, just in time.
So you copied your whole conspiracy theory from a commenter in early March 2020 on the now defunct Russian propaganda blog The Saker? Who couldn’t spell Detrick and Battelle correctly and promoted the then popular conspiracy theory that the US released the virus during the Wuhan Military World Games and later attacked Iran? And then you went on distorting everything else for five years to match your nonsensical plagiarized conspiracy theory? And you never realized Pompeo WANTED people to believe this was a bioweapon? This whole Covid affair really has exposed you as a flat-earth tier moron.
Thanks for your reply, but you haven’t answered the question: If SARS2 is self-spreading bat vaccine, why was it designed or developed to be highly infectious to humans?
I can’t see why the virus would be shipped from Baric to RML in the first place. What is to be gained from this if the Chinese horseshoe bat is the target? What could done at RML anyway? Aerosolization? What is that? Making it more infectious? But to what?
If your theory is correct perhaps it is possible that the brown envelope was sent to Danni Baby the hot Aussie chick in Wuhan for horseshoe bat tests, with a similar envelope being sent simultaneously to Funster Munster at RML for virological fun and games. After all they have lots of money to get rid of. This would make sense if the Quay paper is correct. Danni or whoever leaked it got the virus ‘hot off the beaker’ from Baric. If she had got it after Funster had played around with it, then it would already have mutated via serial passaging through his various animal victims. So the whole RML thing could be a red herring as far as Covid origins goes.
If the virus genome was designed to be massively infectious to humans straight out of the beaker (this would easily determined by Baric or one of his minions with computer software), then this seems to me to be more consistent with the original goals of DEFUSE. This was to use the manufactured virus as the basis for the relevant protein antigens to be manually sprayed on bats in order to pre-emptively stop a zoonotic transfer to the laughably named ‘American Warfighters’.
Since the whole virus was not intended to be used, the original DEFUSE proposal would not create the possibility of zoonotic transfer. I highly doubt that even Baric would be stupid enough to create a virus with such a massive potential for zoonotic transfer as SARS2 and also intend it to be a self-spreading vaccine.
The low infectivity of SARS2 to horseshoe bats would also be known to Baric during the creation of the genome via software. This might have been a safety measure intended by him, as the original intention was to use proteins derived from the manufactured virus only. Or, his manufactured virus being in the early stages of development he decided to start with a low horseshoe bat infectivity and work up from there.
So the only conclusion I can come to, not being a virologist and not in full possession of the facts, is that work was still ongoing on the original DEFUSE proposal, not the development of a self-spreading bat vaccine.
I’m surprised you haven’t connected the dots to 5G.
5G was activated at the same time that “COVID” happened.
Haiti didn’t get 5G, and wasn’t effected very much or at all by “COVID”.
EMF frequencies can cause sickness and even death. Dr Sharon Goldberg has stated in a Senate hearing that EMF can cause diabetes and mental health problems.
When they activate 6G, 7G, …etc., it will probably cause more “pandemics”.
What would this rewound thread be without the most prodigious propagandist of all, John Johnson?
Classic deflection:
Classic appeal (see also Jack D and Steve Sailer) to identity:
Thanks for the memories.
A “covid death” in the US was the death of any individual who had tested positive (and there’s a laugh- the PCR “test”) in the previous 2 weeks, later raised to three weeks. They famously included the drunk who fell off a ladder. Simply because that is where the money was.
The entire official narrative about covid was a wall of lies from start to finish.
Here’s one aspect that’s largely ignored:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/criminality-financial-incentives-concerning-hospital-covid-deaths-why/
All Federal employees were required to take the jab. Many private sector employees were implicitly coerced to do the same. These are the facts.
About the emergence of Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2): I work for a French-speaking Belgian media outlet and, as such, I was tasked with listing the first manifestations as they were reported in the (mainly French-speaking) press. I started this work in early January 2020 and I still remember very clearly 2 or 3 articles from French regional dailies reporting the testimony of French athletes present at the World Military Games (which took place in the city of Wuhan from October 18 to 27, 2019). Several of them returned from China with severe flu symptoms… and, for some of them, they were still seriously ill more than 2 months after their return. One athlete interviewed stated that she had very quickly alerted her (military) hierarchy about a suspicion of Covid but that she had quickly received an order of strict confidentiality.
These articles were not followed up. But they reported the very low level of sporting performances in October 2019, not only of the French but especially of the American athletes who, however, generally make it their duty to surpass their Chinese sporting colleagues.
Unbelievable. Over 10,000 words, countless links and videos and you still managed to avoid the elephant in the room. The CDC can’t find the virus, any virus per FOIA requests documented by Christine Massey of fluoridefreepeel.ca
If you can’t isolate the virus, you cannot sequence its’ genome. You can’t test for it. You certainly cannot develop a vaccine against it.
Virology never isolates their viruses, they presume it’s in the genetic material. They then poison it with antibiotics – after having taking the sample outside of its’ natural environment – and when the sample breaks down (from being poisoned by the antibiotics) they say those are viruses. Previous to Rockefeller taking over medicine to use up his oil by-products, this breakdown was known and called exosomes. In other words, material the body has broken down due to being poisoned has been INVERTED to be called a cause instead of an effect. EVIL = LIVES.
Pause for a moment to think of the debt of gratitude the world owes Russia for putting an end to America’s bio weapons program in the ukraine.
Not really. I can’t be sure, but I think it was probably the other way round.
We’d been among the very first to publish an article pointing to the extremely suspicious coincidental timing between the 300 American military servicemen visiting Wuhan and the huge Covid epidemic that broke out immediately afterwards, and our piece got enormous traffic and readership, including from within China itself.
So I think it’s much more likely that he’d heard about the idea either directly or indirectly through our work and he then decided it made a lot of sense and mentioned it in some of his writings. The difference was that he claimed to be a retired forty-year veteran of American biodefense and when I checked around a little, I was able to generally confirm the likelihood of his claimed background.
So whereas what we published had merely been speculative and pointed to the coincidental timing, his verdict carried far more weight on that question, and he greatly extended the conclusions based upon his extensive biowarfare expertise.
Wow! An exhaustive look into so much that is not discussed. On-going great work! Thx
“As the world suffered under the pandemic, the Times and every other Western media outlet had declared that Covid was a natural virus, denouncing as “conspiracy theorists” anyone who suggested otherwise, with Facebook enforcing that consensus by banning anyone who dissented from it.”
“But in May 2021, that established narrative was suddenly transformed by Nicholas Wade, a very distinguished science journalist who had spent decades at the Times including serving as its Science Editor. Wade self-published an 11,000 word blockbuster article pointing to the overwhelming genetic evidence that Covid was artificial and arguing that it had likely leaked from a lab.”
MR. UNZ…. I’d like to respectfully point out an error. It’s an error I believe has been purposely promoted from the top to sow confusion.
The actual name of the alleged virus is “SARS-CoV-2”. The group of SYMPTOMS allegedly caused by the virus is called “Covid-19”. Therefore, it’s not correct to say that “Covid is a natural virus” or that “Covid leaked from a lab”. That’s like saying a fever or cough escaped from a lab. We should be saying “SARS-CoV-2 is an artificial virus…or SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab.”….etc.
It’s astonishing how common this mistake is. Maybe I’m just splitting hairs here, but I think it’s an important distinction. Especially in light of the plethora of lies that came out of that alleged “pandemic”.
Yes, of course— some of the most outrageous, laughable and ridiculous lies ever told.
But Ron, and apparently most of the commenters here, are unable to see that.
LOL
Absolutely fascinating and as usual well researched and documented. Kudos Mr. Unz. My question is, who needs to know this information so it can be seriously investigated? RFK? Jay Bhattacharya?
Will probably be disregarded like all the evidence implicating US government in the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.
“…careful analysis of the Economist…”
LOL
The NYT is no good, but another ridiculous propaganda organ (the Economist) is ok.
Well, your first article in the Covid/Biowarfare series is from late April, while his comment was from early March. Prior to that tons of bloggers discussed the Wuhan military games. So your argument seems to be quite circular. At any rate you referred to him while he didn’t refer to you or your website. But more importantly, this OldMicrobiologist guy didn’t provide any evidence or expertise, it was just a speculative comment on a pro-Russian blog. In his reply in 2021, he stated that a research origin was just as likely and that a biowarfare attack didn’t make much sense. So as I said, only flat earthers and Qanon types would think this supports their conspiracy theory. Even the Chinese themselves didn’t claim this!
Omicron :
Perhaps a tentative “vaccine” (not sure the word is fully appropriate), but with limited effect – to say the least – on contagion, disease transmission, and too many residual side effects for a “vaccine”.
In a nutshell, a milder version of a mild virus, which opened an avenue for the governments to stop all social measures and “vaccine” mandates without loosing face.
Unclear origin of this variant, by the way, as very far from previous variants, hence lacking natural affilation with them
Thanks for the kind words. But these days RFK Jr. won’t even touch the assassination of his own father and his uncle, so I very much doubt he’d go out on a limb for this.
And I’ve actually met and spoken at length with Bhattacharya, and I’d say there’s about zero chance he would either.
Look, I’m pretty sure you’re just that anonymous troll who regularly hangs around here spouting nonsense, but I’ll go ahead and respond anyway.
If you’d carefully read my comment, you’d have seen that although my own first article had appeared in April 2020, I’d mentioned that our website had published an article a couple of months earlier that had first raised the striking coincidence of the Military Games and the Covid outbreak. It ran on January 27th and attracted huge traffic, including from China, and over 800 comments:
https://www.unz.com/article/was-the-2020-wuhan-coronavirus-an-engineered-biological-attack-on-china-by-america-for-geopolitical-advantage/
I’d naturally referenced it in my own April 20th article if you’d ever bothered reading it.
It’s even worse than you make out. The spike protein binds to ACE2 receptors. These are found in artery walls and the smooth muscle of the heart. The spike protein is an antigen, designed to provoke an immune system response. So the body generates antibodies for the spike protein. Those antibodies then bind to cells with a spike protein attached, which are, again, in artery walls and the heart. Then white blood cells come along and destroy any cell that has those antibodies attached.
So if everything functions properly, as designed, the net result is that our white blood cells hunt down and kill the cells of our heart. This was the planned result. The stronger your immune system, the more damage to your heart.
Sure. I don’t claim any expertise in virology or microbiology, but my lay impression is that there’s really no clear diving line between a spreadable vaccine and a disease, which blend into each other depending upon the degree of virulence.
So in effect, Omicron acted like a very highly spreadable vaccine for Covid. Maybe it was designed for that purpose or maybe the world just got lucky.
If Omicron really was designed as an ultra-ultra-contagious vaccine, we’re all very lucky that the designers did such a good and careful job on its lethality. If it had been as dangerous as Covid let alone the Delta variant, it would have probably produced a gigantic body-count.
Like I said, I don’t really know anything about these issues, so I’m merely spectulating.
What a load of nonsense from start to finish. It is scientifically irrefutable that no pathogenic virus has ever been found or identified in human history. Read the findings of Drs Stefan Lanka, Sam and Mark Bailey, Tom Cowan, Andrew Kaufmann and others and go to The End of Covid and other similar publications. Als go to the site of the magnificent Christine Massey who, again today, confirmed that no medical authority on the planet has been able to confirm the finding or the existence of a virus on the planet (confirmed again today by the CDC). They have all confirmed the opposite, i.e. that no virus has ever been found or identified.
Obviously, this also means that the “engineering” of viruses is impossible. We can create toxins but not a living organism designed to kill humans.
It is almost inexplicable that people continue to cling to the absurd idea of existing viruses when no such evidence exists or can be found.
My GP called me out of the blue one day and asked if I was taking Vitamin D. I told her yes, I had a bottle from the pharmacy and I was taking it daily. She upped the dose and gave me a prescription for it. I’m keeping my GP until she retires.
Sure enough, I never got covid. My wife got it twice, we continued sleeping in the same bed, often face-to-face. I never got it. The only reason I took the stupid jab was because they told us once a certain % of the population got it, they would re-open and life could go back to normal. Which was a lie, of course, because the people who made the vax knew it would do nothing to stop or slow the spread.
The furin cleavage site was what convinced me that the virus was man-made years ago.
The Ecohealth Alliance was a non-profit that Peter Dazak was in charge of. Anthony Fauci gave grant money to Peter Dazak to perform viral research at Wuhan lab in China, ostensibly to continue gain-of-function research even though Barack Obama told him to cut that stuff out back when he was president.
The ability of the Deep State to release a virus that shuts people in their houses and forces them to wear masks sets up a mail-in ballot situation, and also a “masked voter” situation where a person could vote more than once if he had multiple I.D.s. The election worker standing six feet away from him can’t force him to lower the mask physically. The masks also allow for people to engage in political violence anonymously where surveillance cameras cannot identify them which enables large numbers of people to get rowdy and riot who would not otherwise do so. This helps “color revolution” efforts by the Deep State. The Deep State is supportive of Amazon, and got to ability to shut down many mom & pop businesses that didn’t sell food in 2020-2021 .
This led to many of these businesses failing. This helped Amazon (and it’s Deep State investors). The newly available real estate that got foreclosed on got bought up by private equity real estate funds favored by the Deep State.
Finally pharmaceutical companies got to push new products they wanted you to take twice a year that the government would be forced to buy (and taxpayers get bilked for) that enabled them to fiddle with your RNA. Over time this would allow them to perhaps make certain areas less fertile if they simply put a few additives in shots sent to Mississippi but not Massachusetts.
Dazak was probably the intended “fallback” cover story (and patsy) if natural origin was disproven. The truth is probably that some Deep State “silo” in the National Security apparatus (think a minion of Robert Kadlec) was ordered to release few vials of something Ralph Baric had cooked up several years beforehand. I imagine the Deep State has four or five new viruses that they could release sitting in storage now.
We are a fairly nice people, but our powers-that-be aren’t nice people. There really isn’t much we can do about this. Too many things about Covid were beneficial to the Derp State and WHO/WEF for it to be a dumb sccident.
This is incorrect. It was the abuse of power that disrupted billions of peoples’ lives, not the virulence or pathological effects of Covid 19 per se. There is a world of difference here. Mr. Unz should stop repeating this fallacy.
It is also extremely dubious to attribute all ~30 million (?) excess deaths in recent years to Covid 19. Were all the interventions really so “safe and effective”? For starters, how about Covid hospital protocol deaths? Was that tsunami of horror all a baseless rumor? Then all the slumming indoors eating more sugar. All perfectly innocuous? And, naturally, we ask if using a novel GMO to fight a harmful GMO did not cause widespread collateral harm.
A third error chronic to this series is the “third explanation”, according to Mr. Unz, to explain the origin of Covid 19. Namely Covid 19 is
i.e. America did it. But if it was Fauci, Pfizer & Big Dope, that is not America. If it was Pompeo & Israel First neocons, again, that is not America. Furthermore, there are other possible actors in a case of a biological warfare.
Note: The rash of early deaths in Iran may have not been a respiratory viral infection. I mean if Israel is making thousands of pagers and walkie talkies explode, maybe they also have a chemical agent that mimics a bad case of Covid 19? Sure would be convenient.
In any case, the persistent firewall in this series that refuses to discuss the great harm done by the lockdowns and overreaction to Covid is an inexcusable defect.
I have news. You have not been confirmed or found yet. You are invisible, and extinguishable, non-distinct from nihilism.
Without any special evidence, my assumption is that Omicron is likely the real DoD field experiment and that remdesivir and the mRNA vax were mere distractors for camouflage, possibly earlier also rans
Ok and what about the other dozen or so mutations that split off Omicron? Are those natural mutations or lab modified?
Why would we assume that a mutation was developed in a lab? That light cold you get was once a deadly flu.
Have you given a name to your Parallel Universe? The one that no other can perceive, deduce, or notice?
Ron hasn’t ever touched Dr. Denis Rancourt’s research. May be cause Ron still has it in back of his mind as a member of that chosen tribe. Not worth his time to deal with a goy’s perspective. LOL
I always thought Omicron’s huge genetic throwback with mild(er) symptoms but aggressively self disseminating to displace the ever worsening sequence of accumulating mutations, novel—>delta, were too much like a successful self diseminating vaccine
Viruses normally mutate to become more contagious but less lethal.
It’s easier to spread when the patient stays alive.
Omicron has all kinds of junk code that doesn’t apply to humans. That is why it was theorized that there was a species jump.
It’s very costly to modify a single gene and Omicron has about 50 mutations compared to the original.
It isn’t as if there were merely two competing viruses.
This is news to me. Why did Mr. Unz not bring up this encounter in the essay or series? Is he saying Dr. Jay is afraid to take up Mr. Unz’s theory, or that he does not consider the theory to be credible?
Why has Mr. Unz never brought up Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the Great Barrington Declaration in this series? After all, Dr. Jay is the one who has been vindicated. Contrast him with Dr. Sarah Cody, the woman who led the charge for lockdowns and “shelter in place.” How well did that turn out, for our children’s education, for small businesses, for getting other timely elective medical treatments, etc.?
As Unz makes clear in his March 2020 essay, she was the epicenter of this horribly misplaced public health policy that ran in stark contrast to the Great Barrington Declaration and the wisdom of Sweden. Yet at the time Unz lauds her as the woman who “may have saved a million or more American lives, probably more than anyone else in our entire national history.”
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-government-employee-who-may-have-saved-a-million-american-lives/
She did no such thing. Unz was completely wrong about this at the time. He has had quite a few years to stand corrected. Tic toc.
p.s. This 2023 interview on Uncommon Knowledge with Dr. Jay gives a little insight about the behind the scenes push and shove going on in Palo Alto back in 2020.
https://www.hoover.org/research/man-who-talked-back-jay-bhattacharya-fight-against-covid-lockdowns
The hypothesis of Patient Zero, already very tenuous, is further weakened by one point. If Anderson accidentally needle stuck herself with the virus, could it really have reproduced in her body? This seems most unlikely. Remember this entire family of viruses are RESPIRATORY viruses, e.g. their main (sole, perhaps?) means of spread is via aerosols or droplets. Even if an injected virus “took”, it’d still seem a tall order, a very tall one indeed, for it to migrate to any part of the respiratory system where it could spread to other hosts.
Thanks Ron,
As I was questioning your mention of a lab leak in May 2020, the material relating to end 2020 or 2021 which you mention is somehow off-topic; but I take the point that Trump and his immediate circle were still mentioning the lab leak assumption in May 2020, a time where the entire main stream media and US administration and intelligence were publicly aligned on a natural origin.
At the time, being supported by Trump, the lab leak theory was considered as bad currency.
I was glad to see that you mentioned both the military games in Wuhan, and the defense intelligence report about the virus spreading in Wuhan a month before it actually was. I had been familiar with both of these facts early on. and since I have long known that all of Washington’s “official narratives” are nothing but a pack of lies, that seemed to be the most logical explanation for the subsequent pandemic. As far as I am concerned, while the American people are, for the most part, good and generous people, the powers behind the government in DC are nothing but criminal scum.
I’m not a virologist and I was casually speculating about Omicron having been a self-spreading vaccine.
But it was very fortunate that something so ultra-contagious also turned out to be so mild.
And the extremely large number of genetic modifications (“mutations”) in Omicron made me suspicious. It was almost as if a skilled bioengineer had spent some time very heavily fiddling with Covid, trying to get a version that was ultra-contagious but mild.
Many things have formal/scientific names and common names. Using a common name like Covid (for the virus SARS…2) is not necessarily an error or mistake. Rather, it can improve ease of communication and understanding. In fact, long and complicated names often invite confusion.
I wish you would correct him on something a little more juicy!
Sure. My impression was that around May 2020 almost all Trumpists and other rightwingers were still supporting the lab-leak theory along with a good fraction of ordinary conservatives, and few of them ever really changed their position though they stopped being so vocal as the MSM continually battered and denounced them. But once Nicholas Wade revived the lab-leak theory a year later in May 2021, they all jumped up and shouted “I told you so!”
But consider the timing of the particular item that began this exchange. On April 30th, Trump said Covid was a Chinese virus that had leaked from the Wuhan lab and on May 3rd Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the same thing. Both of them got massive coverage for those accusations but the MSM ferociously attacked them for having provided no evidence in support, although Pompeo claimed he had “enormous evidence.”
Then on May 8th by a remarkable coincidence, NBC News published that report that dishonestly claimed that the Wuhan lab had been shut down during October 2019, right around the time the leak had allegedly occurred. Naturally, all the lab-leak people cited it as powerful proof they were correct.
That’s why I said it was so likely that some Neocon PR operative had pitched the story to NBC and the ignorant TV people had never bothered carefully looking through the 26 page document that allegedly demonstrated that claim.
As I have gotten older, I have become more cognizant of phenomenon that is irreparable, irreconcilable, useless, irreversible, etc. The U. S. of Assholes is some such place. It is too late to even approximate the relative paradise of the late 1950s. That is gone, like a one time strike on the gong.
If you have resources, perhaps you could travel surrounded by a virtual reality until reaching a Cajun festival in Southern Louisiana.
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If you do not have a time machine, then there is Russia, which to many people is better, tastier, and juicy, than the JUSA ever was.
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On the other hand-or foot, in this case:
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I really respect Senator Ron Johnson for heading up the Covid 19 Second Opinion panel discussion. That was educational and moving.
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Thank-you very much for the response and the interesting links. The 3rd link you provided is especially interesting and I urge everyone here among the commentariat (and Unz) to read and listen to the offerings provided in the 3rd link.
This 3rd link clears up alot of confusion that abounds among the general public about the state of technologies with respect to self-spreading vaccines, which in the main, seem to usually be modified viruses. There are apparently several types of such modified viruses intended for use in different ways (some types are meant to kill the target-host of a new invasive species within particular narrow habitats, for instance; a common approach early on, with respect to the development of these technologies, in Australia, in particular).
But the sense of ‘self-spreading vaccines’ pertinent to our discussion here, is of other types, meant to confer immunity to disease vectors among target-hosts. For example, suppose a known virus backbone, generally quite harmless though, to the target species, yet transmissible within species, is used, but with sequences added to also produce a novel protein structure, so as to enable an immune response to this new antigen (protein), thus conferring individual immunity within a host, via the usual cascade of immune system response, to this novel antigen, that may be a novel antigen taken from another viral disease vector, but in this case non-disease instigating, because the other protein portions of the disease vector, that confer pathogenisis, are absent.
It seems that, as far as we can decipher as to the intentions of the scientists involved, the lab development of sars-cov-2 had the above stated precise aim in mind. One of the issues around this ‘enhanced-immunity-conferring’ type of self-spreading vaccine, is the issue of said self-spreading vaccine obtaining good transmissiblity properties, but not so good that such becomes unmanageable. I will go on to personally speculate here, this: Sars-cov-2 was probably developed with the precise aim of conferring enhanced immunity, for bat species, for disease vectors they tend to carry, which are very harmful to humans but for which bat immune system can well handle, which therefore probably meant that the lab-generated sars-cov-2 virus backbone was intended for further downstream genetically modified insertions for the viral production of proteins associated with these very harmful (for humans) disease vectors, once it was stabilized as a good vector for bat transmissiblility, but otherwise with the confines of good manageability, transmission-wise.
Jim Haslam, I have two questions for you, that I hope you will take the time to answer for me, to aid my understanding around this fascinating topic:
1) To your mind, is sars-cov-2 clade WA1 the actual primordial lab-generated version of sars-cov-2, or alternatively, do you see WA1 as the closet clade to that, that we have evidence for, as far as human infection? What I am getting at here, as by way of some of the details of your theory, I think you may be maintaining that Dr. Danielle Anderson was infected by the actual primordial lab-generated version of sars-cov-2 (actually intended to be transmissible, but manageable transmissibility-wise, within bat species, to my mind [to my mind at least currently that is]), however I may be confused as to what you meant, and instead you might mean that she was infected, by way of lab-accident within her work at WIV’s BSL-4, by a clade generated at Vincent Munster’s lab in Hamilton Montana (Rocky Mountain Laboratories), that had already been serial passaged via one (or a combination thereof) of the five animal species, used there, for such experimentation, apparently, and such serial passage work would produce clades slightly novel to Baric’s primordial clade. Which eventuality, do you think is the accurate one? How do you know?
Of course I understand that the unlucky individual in Washington State identified as infected with the WA1 clade, may also not have been infected with a purely primordial clade (or 2nd-order primordial animal serial-passaged clade, as the case may be), due to the potential for serial human passage within the early innings of the Wuhan outbreak. I guess what I am asking is, how ironclad is the smoking gun, as to what we know of Baric’s primordial lab-generated clade, and direct causation from that, with respect to the Wuhan outbreak, by way of the early Wuhan outbreak clades, of which I surmise WA1 was, in any event, one of these early Wuhan outbreak clades? Like that nature of this my question is about this: How much complicated transmission activity may have occurred, clouding a clear pathway from Baric to Wuhan outbreak, without the introduction of complicated unknowns, that then make it hard to decipher just precisely how this outbreak occurred, in finest detail? For instance, by way of the first 2 links you provided me (and thank-you for that, I muchly appreciate it), it seems unlikely an accidental spillover to wild whitetail deer in the vicinity of Hamilton Montana had occurred, but then on the other hand, none of the early sampling among wild whitetail deer was done in the precise vicinity of Hamilton Montana. And of course, that is just one of many potential scenarios that potentially cloud the issue as to how precisely, in the finest detail, the Wuhan outbreak occurred.
2) What I described in the 3rd paragraph above indirectly pertains to the sars-cov-2 mRNA vaccines widely distributed in the west. In humans, the spike protein of sars-cov-2 is what is deemed particularly pathogenic (many pathogenic metabolic pathways identified). Yet that protein portion was used for protein production within hosts, by way of mRNA action, in order to confer disease-free immunity by way of the presentation of a ‘safe’ antigen. Except it’s not particularly safe, it seems (despite the engineered modifications to spike protein, within these western vaccines). This in itself is a vast topic and manifold avenues around this have been well discussed among the commentariat, here at The Unz Review, but not so much by Unz, instead he consistently avoided and derided this narrower topic, by way of deferring to some expert friends he apparently knows, with the appropriate scientific expertise, that all, to a man or woman, told him that these concerns were all a nothingburger, apparently, and so Unz went on to consistently smear and censor members of the regular public among the commentariat here, such as myself, that identified these manifold concerns via alot of reading, that his expert friends downplayed as ‘morons that don’t know what they don’t know’, at least as far as Unz communcated that to us. So what does Jim Haslam have to say about the ongoing controversy around the potential for the modified spike protein to be somewhat pathogenic in humans, at least for some unlucky people, maybe because of specific metabolisms, as presented as antigen, within the western mRNA vaccines?
I myself possess an over-active innate immune response (overactive mast cell system) that was slowly doing me in until I found a rare pediatric pharmaceutical mast cell inhibitor, at mid-life, by mere happenstance, that worked, and was mainly leery of the mRNA vaccines for that reason, for myself personally, yet as retired by that time (I’m 65 now), I could avoid, but in Alberta Canada where I live, it would have been very hard for me to make the case to an employer, that I should be exempt because of this type of ‘autoimmunity’ problem, I think. The overbearing nature of the vaccine coercion, within the west during the covid era was extremely strange and like nothing I have ever seen before. There are red flags aplenty, around that, to my mind, that centrally feature Fauci and company. As well, I had provided easy peasy calculations, by June 2021, shared here among comments at The Unz Review, that there was a negative self-interest quotient, for such vaccine-taking, for the under 30 year-old demographic, as measured in potential for person-years of life lost, vs. risking a natural infection, with some superior immunity so-conferred that way (superior immunity by way of successful recovery from a natural covid infection). And yet the governmental coercion was only quadruple-downed, for younger and younger folks too (with even worse such negative self-interest quotients), in inning after that. Crazy.
But it was very fortunate that something so ultra-contagious also turned out to be so mild.
It was indeed very fortunate and I don’t think our politicians were paying attention.
They could not break from the doomsday mentality of lockdowns and masks.
Your website is one of the view places where an open discussion was occurring.
The MSM was not allowing discussions on whether or not we should allow Omicron to run its course in an effort to supplant the original. I tried suggesting that on a mainstream website forum and my comment was immediately buried. Bad virus is bad was the mentality.
And the extremely large number of genetic modifications (“mutations”) in Omicron made me suspicious. It was almost as if a skilled bioengineer had spent some time very heavily fiddling with Covid, trying to get a version that was ultra-contagious but mild.
It’s possible there was some blast technique that explains the junk. Some crude brute force method where they sort of hybridize two strains. There also could have been some controlled old school method of intentionally exposing a massive rodent population and then selecting the winners.
I think a wild mutation is most likely but it’s entirely possible that a country knocked this out as a preventative measure. I’m not trying to dismiss the theory as it is completely possible. Genetically modified mosquitoes are currently being released in Brazil to fight dengue. One method involves modifying bacteria so the precedent is there.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Anyway, Agree.
Mister Unz, have you noticed that your article from January 2020 came from an UFO and aliens website? The author is Robert Vannrox, who claims to have worked for Project Majestic: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0645310255. He relied on all kinds of shady sources and even promoted the infamous hoax videos that showed Chinese people supposedly dying in the streets (“What kind of evil person would unleash such a weapon?”) Not sure that was a great source…
What a load of nonsense from start to finish. It is scientifically irrefutable that no pathogenic virus has ever been found or identified in human history.
It is almost inexplicable that people continue to cling to the absurd idea of existing viruses when no such evidence exists or can be found.
Wow we still have flat out reality deniers.
Are electron microscopes real?
The Globalists said the pandemic started in China–and despite its population density–it was able to beat the virus through their amazing hygiene standards.
Plus, Africa was spared Covid because their medical system was so advanced (they actually said this).
We don’t have good data from China or Africa on infection rates.
China was telling us that everything was fine when they had locked down an entire city. There is video of urban Chinese people screaming in the night and begging for help.
Africa is still the dark continent. They never had the ability to test all of their potential cases and they never cared. They also didn’t have the ability to roll out what were donated vaccines. There is video of them in a landfill.
Life is not high value in Africa. They have a different outlook than the West.
Including various nucleate (white) cells of the blood itself leading to massive clotting events and death in some individuals? Autoimmune reaction against one’s own blood?
Toxic on multiple time scales and multiple tissues: in some, rapid anaphylaxis, in others Arthus reaction, autoimmune reactions in others. Ultra-wicked.
“Well tolerated” means bad, “reduced immunogenicity” means bad, “more tolerable” means bad, “urgent unmet need” means bad, etc.
This is a science fiction post meant solely for entertainment: any resemblance to real world events or actual biochemistry or physiology is just in your mind. You know, just a story, like Clockwork Orange.
The coercion around the gene therapy injections was utterly antithetical to the Nuremberg Laws, the World Medical Association Helsinki Declaration and the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, not to mention the habitual mambo-jambo about ‘Western Moral Values’. Yet none of these were ever mentioned, let alone pursued in courts or parliaments.
The cover story about the insane banning of ivermectin etc was that no effective medications could be allowed lest the Emergency Use Authorisation for the modified mRNA gene injections be rendered null. But they knew, or came to know, that the shots were ineffective, poorly manufactured, contaminated etc, so why the urgency and coercion?
The answer seems obvious to me. The whole farrago is meant to resolve the ‘useless eaters’ problem. Hitting China was secondary. The spike is a multi-faceted bio-weapon, and will ‘evolve’, naturally, or in some Western bio-warfare lab out of the hundreds maintained, into ever more ‘useful’ forms. Possibly the primary focus will be fertility, where plausible deniability will be easy, given all the other pollutants destroying human and other animal fertility. And some groups will have received other, less destructive, versions of the so-called ‘vaccines’, or placebos, a situation that will be hidden behind the usual panoply of lies, come what may-that would give the game away.
This is the closest to facing the facts about Donald McNeil that Ron Unz seems prepared to get. Alas, the quoted comments make only a very small dent in Mr. Unz’s earlier description of O’Neil and his work as having “graced” the Times’s pages and of that work’s hence being important and authoritative.
Those who are less susceptible, however, to the siren songs of credentialism might well come away, as I did, from reading McNeil’s utterly sanctimonious pieces about (1) his victimization by slightly overenthusiastic racial offense–hunting dogs and (2) his rationale for having become a smug, self-satisfied, card-carrying supporter of social and career ruin for blasphemers against the Establishment’s covid orthodoxy—prior, that is, to Wade’s piece having pointed to a New Orthodoxy—feeling sensations that might perhaps aptly be described as jaundiced. In short, with the feeling that McNeil’s being pushed in front of a speeding stretch limo by a diversity hire on the NIH staff would be the worthiest end imaginable to the life of this insufferable son of a bitch.
Dear Ron,
You have just published 12,700 words of rubbish.
“Independent researchers who present a Covid analysis not aligned with that of the mainstream media obviously face huge difficulties in getting their manuscripts into print, and this is especially true of a topic such as Covid….”
That’s not true. As long as the published discussion of “COVID” didn’t explicitly contradict or question the existence of a “virus” supposedly responsible for the “pandemic, the official propaganda was largely confirmed, and so it was ok. All sorts of garbage like this WAS published—— the “virus” this, the “virus” that. In fact, this is the garbage that underlies the sum and substance of your article.
“Haslam’s controversial Covid analysis relied upon a vast number of references, sources, and documents….” (all apparently steeped in propaganda). Therefore, “…he (Haslam) believed that the Covid virus was bioengineered…”
“Although I lack the personal expertise in virology to render a definitive verdict, nearly all of his arguments seemed convincing to me, and he presented large amounts of documentary evidence that I hadn’t previously seen or considered.”
The only thing you are lacking, Ron, is common sense. You rely on (and believe) credentialled clowns (virologists) whose careers and livelihoods depend on virus research.
Here is the overriding and instant question: Why has “the virus” (Sars Cov19) never been found, or proved to actually exist?
Answer: Because it doesn’t exist. It’s a fiction. The emperor has no clothes.
That explains a lot, doesn’t it.
lol
Your knowledge is obviously not up to date. No virus has ever appeared in an electronic microscope. Why? Because viruses do not exist. Go to the websites of Drs Sam and Mark Bailey to learn the facts, which you should then add to your general knowledge.
no reason it can’t be an attack on china and the whole world, stop splitting hairs you troll, straw man argument, sign of a troll.
as to who “they” are, why your zioneocon deep state masters, you troll. they don’t give a shit about savings accounts, johnny boy, they want to hyperinflation to make the dollar worth less and less until it’s completely worthless and their 36 trillion dollar debt disappears with the dollar, that can then be replaced with digital block chains of economic slavery, allowing them to monitor all transactions and prevent any they don’t approve of, stealing the value from all dollar based securities. why do you think bit coin is at 6 figures?
as to my rights, they forced me to shut down my brick and mortar based small business under threat of arrest or losing my license. they then forced me to lay off all my employees and inexplicably paid them twice the normal rate of pay for months after. this illegal and unconstitutional lockdown of small business, destroyed almost a third of these business, whose assets they stripped for pennies in the dollar. the businesses that could reopen couldn’t get their employees back, because they were paid not to work and 5 years later almost 40% of small businesses have been closed.
as to the human guinea pigs, ask the pigs in the military, health workers were also forced against their will or fired, schools required it to attend campus. so stop your transparent trolling, it’s completely obvious as you are on the wrong side of every issue of importance discussed on this site. fuck off troll.
Prodigious, yes, but it belies the saying “practice makes perfect.”
“Life is not high value in Africa. They have a different outlook than the West.”
Right, we cry for every Palestinians child maimed or murdered by Jewish sharp shooter sin cold blood or wholesale in shelters like a fish in a barrel.
Do you think Dr. Baric was aware he was designing a bioWEAPON.
The most recent invention by a High IQ White, which led to the maiming and deaths of 99% Whites to this day that no White wants to boast about.
My God man, you may as well also ask if Deborah Birx or Anthony Fauci were aware of their Ernst Stavrov Blofeld positions in the scamdemic, or if Hillary Killary, really wanted to just give us deplorables a summer vacation to remember when the bitch talked about putting Americans in ‘Fun Camps’.
Gee Wally, do you really think that minions of the 1% White and White Jew elites really understood what they were doing?
June Cleaver: Boys, the whole thing was some nigger’s fault, now go get washed up for lunch.
UNC, NYU, Rutgers, and just about every other landmark university and college are infested with spook intelligence agency projects and personnel, along with Prisons, Hospitals, Mental facilities, you name it.
MK-Ultra projects took place in notable ‘higher education’ and ‘research institutes’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Mm. Stanfield Turner, the Director of Central Intelligence, testified today that the C.I.A. had secretly supported human behavior control research at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges or universities as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies.
He told a joint hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Health subcommittee that recently discovered financial records indicate that during the most intense period of the project, code‐named MK‐Ultra, the agency had supported 185 nongovernment researchers in 149 separate research projects. He said that the main action years of MK‐Ultra were from 1953 through 1963. The projects, he said, had included tests of LSD and of a “K,” or “knockout drop.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/04/archives/80-institutions-used-in-cia-mind-studies-admiral-turner-tells.html
Baric’s other paystubs are probably marked with a DoD, Naval Intelligence, DARPA, (just pick one or more) shell company/department.
And Baric was involved with when Moderna had a vaccine weeks before the plandemic started appearing in the slimestream media or anywhere else. (Baric was on the email communications with Moderna about the ‘vaccine that existed before the pandemic did’ along with other UNC staff connected with his dept. Internet references to those emails may have been scrubbed.)
This link below talks about the vaccine.
https://thewatchtowers.org/secret-documents-reveal-that-moderna-sent-the-coronavirus-vaccine-to-the-university-of-north-carolina-weeks-before-the-pandemic/
Another old article on Baric:
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=90626
This article was interesting:
https://jimhaslam.substack.com/p/baric-referenced-a-2017-molecular
Dumb jewish propaganda from a dumb jew propagandist
Exactly. From what I vaguely recall, he claimed to have been employed as a government agent in a UFO project and had been gifted ESP powers as part of his work.
Here’s how I introduced his material in my own April 2020 article:
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-our-coronavirus-catastrophe-as-biowarfare-blowback/#growing-evidence-of-american-responsibility
The best way to view that exploding Tesla stunt is chaff for CIA banned biological weapons. A lone nut from the army yammering about ZERO POINT ENERGY!!1!Q!
Because now that you know CIA used banned biological weapons, the only way they can get your mind off it is with some new Double-Triple-Secret/ZAP24 thing. It’s even more esoteric plugged-in insider shit. And it’s not criminal in universal jurisdiction like CIA germ warfare is.
This is crackpot stuff. There’s no way thirty million died of COVID. I know of one person who died of covid, and they put him (a priest) on a ventilator. I know of several people who died or came near death after taking the vax though. Including young people.
People coming down with ALS, aggressive cancers (look up Patricia Janeckova – 18 June 1998-1 October 2023!)
Those behind the vax must face execution.
Things we know;
1. Many Level 4 labs world wide, and even labs in Universities do dangerous lab work.
2. MANY accidents have happened and can happen.
3. There are people and politicians who kill or give orders to kill and murder, or fund killing and murder completely without remorse.
4. It is often true that people who are the worst finger pointers, sans proof, are broadcasting their guilt.
5. There is still a tremendous amount of mystery on the part of the medical community as to exactly how the human body works, including the immune system, let alone how it is affected by the mind and spirit, proven out in the increasing degree of illness in society, be it physical, mental and emotional, or spiritual.
6. Most people cannot accurately define the word drug, or understand why it works when it does or why it does not when it does not. They cannot distinguish between a drug and a medicine. Although some claim to know all about it despite an inability to get results.
7. It is unethical to experiment on people without their accurately informed consent.
8. There are people who will use any excuse to start or have a war and have no abilities toward OR desire to sort things out peacefully.
9. None of the above is off topic.
I look forward to the day when the word bio weapon is “archaic” and is replaced with biodisaster. The idea that such things could be controlled in such a fashion to narrowly target an enemy legally in a war type situation may be a clever moneymaking scheme on the part of a “clever” techie selling snake oil to a gullible government that thinks nothing of throwing billions of dollars away on weapons-that-aren’t, even if they are dangerous.
I look forward to the day when war is also archaic, and that the only valid “war” is against man’s inhumanity to man. No, that definition of man is not archaic.
It’s too bad that Ron hasn’t given any time to Dr. Denis Rancourt who has many disciplines and his hard nose approach to sticking to what he his research reveals and not caving in to academic or political pressures is admirable in this current state of affairs. Too bad cause I learned so much from Ron who has been equally courageous with his articles, research, and the his website.
Regarding your statement, “I have consistently maintained this position since April 2020, arguing that the evidence for it is overwhelming, but during all those years almost no one else on the Western Internet has been willing to endorse that hypothesis, or even recognize its existence” is correct, to my knowledge. The only other to my knowledge is Larry Romanoff. As a matter of fact when I first read your accusation I thought “great, others are getting on board.” My timing could be off but I’m positive he made the same accusation.
While I’m here let me say how much I appreciate you, Unz.com and all its contributors. I’m a much more informed U.S. citizen because of everyone’s hard work. My thanks to you all.
You get the wrong view of what has happened.
Franks, Americans, Canadians and Germans at the very least collaborated (colluded ?) with Chinese in Wuhan to make a patch and paste bio-hazard and then an even worse bio-hazard they named vaccine.
Especially the second kills or controls you in many ways (inflammation, negation of autoimmune system, infertility, cardiovascular death by a thousand cuts, through 5G broil/control/etc and who knows what else)
I am not sure if somebody independent enough got some of the Chinese versions tested to see what really is in them that should not be.
They don’t give a fig about money, fame and similar. What they are into is mega mass death and control as total as they can have.
An estimation of total 2 billion by Covid+Vaxx deaths is just about right.
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By the way does by any chance 迪路 translates to bewildered or total failure?
You’ve done excellent work doing the hard work to show that all the official “stories” on the outbreak are wrong. I’m not sure the Trump administration, per se, was responsible for the outbreak but I am sure that the US Intel community was probably responsible. I never thought the official explanations made any sense since I was intellectually armed with a pretty good knowledge of the history of US germ warfare research as well as the CIA and associated friends, i.e., contractors, MI6, Mossad and so on. The crisis also provided the opportunity for States to impose draconian methods to control their own populations. I think that was more to the point than just infecting Chinese and Iranian people first–though it was a bonus–you would have to be an idiot to think the virus would not spread everywhere–it was always the intention of course. I knew this early on as a result of my study of the Deep State, how it works and what its agenda is. There will be other incidences of this sort in a few years.
Thank you Mister Unz. Not sure it was a smart decision to rely on people like Metallicman and OldMicrobiologist. In those early days there was a lot of confusion and panic. Iran later confirmed their outbreak came from China not USA. The China videos were hoaxes. Many participants of the military games reported sickness, so not an attack on China. Many premature conclusions.
Dr. Charles Hoffe: D-dimer test positive for most recipients.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/the-ethical-doctor-david-v-goliath-dr-charles-hoffe
Many workers in the USA who were not direct government employees or military personnel were coerced by a series of “vaccine mandates.” The “Federal Contractor Mandate” was intended to economically pressure all employees of government contractors to get the vaccine. This is all people who work for companies which sell products and services to the US government. The rule included a “flow-down” provision which applied to the subcontractors of the contractors. This was designed so the government contractors would effectively force this requirement on their suppliers who were not even direct sellers to the government. The rule applied down to subcontractors with at least 100 employees. This mandate was used to pressure many people into being vaccinated against their will in order to preserve their jobs. This particular vaccine mandate was eventually quietly dropped since the government lawyers could tell it would be overturned in the courts. It did a lot of damage while still being considered active policy. I think is was considered policy for about a year during which time corporate legal advisors were recommending that employers needed to comply. Two other vaccine mandates came out around the same time. One was supported by the courts and the other rejected.
This was all part of the sordid carrot and stick approach to pressure people to get an inadequately tested novel vaccine against a disease with demonstrated low lethality.
What about Quay’s paper? D614 (similar to WA1) transmits efficiently in all those animals I keep talking about, which is why Quay will not mention any of them, but we debated on Twit.
If SARS2 is self-spreading bat vaccine, why was it designed or developed to be highly infectious to humans? Humans aren’t the only mammals on the planet. A virus circulating in humans doesn’t mean it was designed for humans. And no, Covid doesn’t infect humanized mice, which have nothing to do with humans.
The phrase “inoculate bats” and “wildlife vaccine delivery” appears 5 times on the cover page of DARPA Defuse. DARPA wanted to spend $40M to preempt the next zoonotic spillover event before it infected our 100,000 “warfighters” in Asia. Chinese horseshoe bats harbor SARS-like viruses, and SARS1 from 2003 shut down US military bases in Singapore.
Baric planned to develop that Chinese bat vaccine in American bats (which Covid infects) on US soil, specifically at the USGS bat lab in Wisconsin. But Munster beat Daszak and Baric with his cheaper (i.e. more dangerous) transmissible technology inside RML. Munster won at $8M for an Australian bat vaccine, while Baric and Daszak lost at $14M for their Chinese bat vaccine. Baric bid on safer (i.e., more expensive) transferrable technology (Xerox PARC) by spraying bats as they left the bat cave. Baric’s approach was not contagious, making it safe but expensive.
Munster’s contagious technology, being cheaper, won 2 of the 5 DARPA Preempt projects. His method involved injecting one animal, with the vaccine spreading automatically to the next—much like how diseases spread among humans. And not just bats: it worked on deer mice, deer, mink, etc. Baric didn’t get involved with transmission research, as his humanized mice are not a transmission model.
Why use RML? Since Fauci funded their Defuse project, Fauci used his personal biodefense lab, which aerosolizes agents for biodefense against natural diseases. Reread Defuse and replace USGS with RML, which serves as the academic counterpart to Fort Detrick. This is called dual use research of concern. An animal vaccine is basically a weak virus or Baric’s live attenuated bat vaccine to use Major Murphy’s language.
In late 2018, after losing Defuse, Baric teamed up with Munster to infect live bats at RML. They declared that SARS1 (i.e., WIV1) doesn’t infect Egyptian fruit bats. They had a wish list for a furin cleavage site and aimed to test the final product on Chinese horseshoe bats. Guess what? SARS2 has a furin cleavage site and infects Egyptian fruit bats—which aren’t even found in Wuhan. This 2018 RML paper was cited by Sachs on Tucker Carlson.
This is the uncomfortable part of the lab leak story: we are 60-million-year-old bats. Bats aren’t birds; they’re mammals. We share a similar ACE2 receptor and furin in our mammalian cells. Anything designed for them could transmit to us. Covid is not a human virus; it’s an animal vaccine. Covid wasn’t an intentional act of terror—it was a Western scientific science fair experiment gone sideways in Wuhan, where Dani tested a contagious Chinese bat vaccine in her BSL4.
The book was written to answer a question: Why does this Old World virus (SARS2) thrive in New World lab animals such as American deer, deer mice, mink? It also aims to reset the lab leak narrative. Compare notes with Dany the blond, who is further along than most readers.
The weirdest detail about SARS-2 I can remember is:
* Apart from Wuhan and Qom the biggest SARS-2 initial outbreak was in northern Italy.
* A northern italian biomedical institute had done a study of some other things (rashes IIRC) and collected an archive of biological samples from people and when they checked samples collected at various dates they found that the earliest sample they had that showed presence SARS-2 was collected in September 2019:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33928622/
“Our results suggest an early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy, before the first COVID-19 cases were described in China.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36029839/
“No strong evidence of infection was found in samples collected between August 2018 and July 2019 from 100 patients. The earliest sample with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA was from September 12, 2019, and the positive patient was also positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG and IgM). […] We conclude that a SARS-CoV-2 progenitor capable of producing a measles-like syndrome may have emerged in late June-late July 2019 and that viruses with mutations characterizing B.1 strain may have been spreading globally before the first Wuhan outbreak.”
https://academic.oup.com/bjd/article/184/5/970/6702348
“COVID‐19‐related dermatosis in November 2019: could this case be Italy’s patient zero?”
That seems to deviate from most established narratives. Maybe if other archives of biological samples were examines in other parts of the world interesting results might emerge.
«But it was very fortunate that something so ultra-contagious also turned out to be so mild.»
Not that mild: without containment or vaccines it would kill 1-3% in areas with high percentages of people with weaker immune system (for example countries with many oldies in “the west”). Famously the UK Prime Minister is reported to have said that a disease that has a 97-99% “basic” survival rate should not be considered an issue.
The issue however is that it sucks to be part of that 1-3%, and given that in those countries the natural death rate is around 1% per year, a doubling or tripling of it poses enormous logistical problems (also because of the number of non-lethal cases).
It was quite unfortunate that SARS-2 did not have the basic death rate of around 0.1-0.3% as the “flu” can have, nor 10-30% as a plague can have, but “in between”, so easy to dismiss as “mild” yet quite damaging.
Anyhow the greatest issue with COVID-19 was not whether it was artificial or natural or whether it was spread accidentally or deliberately (which could have happened even if it natural), but that most governments of “the west” refused to contain it with test-trace-isolate because such public-health approaches are “collectivist” and resorted instead to half-baked general lock-downs and therefore had many more illnesses and deaths than those governments that used test-trace-isolate.