[Grem] The Wuhan Virus may have been deliberately engineered ......

[Emoke Greschik]

 How COVID-19 may have been deliberately engineered in a China biolab
*The Wuhan Virus may have been deliberately engineered in the laboratory by
joining parts of different viruses together using what is called
recombinant technology. *
Wed Apr 22, 2020 - 4:04 pm EST
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-covid-19-may-have-been-deliberately-engineered-in-a-china-biolab

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April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews <http://lifesitenews.com/>) – Let’s start with
the bats, the species known as Intermediate Horseshoe Bat, to be exact.
The Chinese Communist authorities claim that the China Virus, called
SARS-CoV-2, is a naturally occurring coronavirus that is carried by the
Horseshoe Bat. They also claim that the virus “jumped” from its normal host
to humans at the Wuhan “wet” market.

Both of these claims are demonstrably false.

Let’s start with the Wuhan “wet” market. As I told
<https://twitter.com/StevenWMosher/status/1249376965435555843> Jesse
Watters on his FOX news show, “Watters World,” last week, if the “wet”
market was actually “ground zero” for the outbreak, the authorities would
have burned it to the ground. Instead, they have now reopened it.

It is an open secret in Wuhan that, as a team of researchers from Wuhan
noted <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079563/> in late
February, that there were no bats in the market and that direct
transmission from bats to humans in the market was “unlikely.”

Two other researchers had reported
<https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https:/www.researchgate.net/publication/339070128_The_possible_origins_of_2019-nCoV_coronavirus>
the same thing a week earlier, namely, “[T]he bat was never a food source
in the city and no bat was traded in the market.”  But these researchers,
both surnamed Xiao, went even further.  They pointed out that there were
bats in Wuhan--thousands of them—but they were being kept in two biolabs
not far from the “wet” market where they were used for research purposes.
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They identified the two labs as the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).  The Wuhan CDC
is the national center for China’s bat coronavirus research.  Wuhan
Institute of Virology uses recombinant technology to create and study new
coronaviruses. The conclusion of the two Doctors Xiao was that “somebody
was entangled with the evolution of [SARS-CoV-2] … the killer coronavirus
probably escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.”

Their word choice is a little awkward because the researchers were writing
in what is for them foreign language. But what they clearly mean is that
the China Coronavirus now plaguing the planet is not the result of a
natural recombination of two different viruses in nature through an
intermediate host, as many claim.  Rather it was deliberately engineered in
the laboratory by joining parts of different viruses together using what is
called recombinant technology.

More on the science of how this was done later.  Right now all you need to
know is that, within a few hours of its publication, their paper
<https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https:/www.researchgate.net/publication/339070128_The_possible_origins_of_2019-nCoV_coronavirus>
on “The possible origins of [SARS-CoV-2] coronavirus” was withdrawn.  This
same fate has since befallen several papers by Chinese authors who have
attempted, at great risk to themselves, to reveal the truth about the
origin of the outbreak to the world.

Now back to the bats.

China’s chief bat hunter is an employee of the Wuhan CDC named Tian
Junhua.  Mr. Tian’s full-time job since 2012 has been collecting bat
viruses for research purposes. Over this time he collected thousands of
live bats, as well as countless samples of bat urine and feces, from caves
over six hundred miles distant from Wuhan. The tiny mammals obviously
didn’t get to the city under their own power, but were trapped and
transported to the two biolabs by the industrious Mr. Tian.  As the two
Drs. Xiao wryly noted, “The probability was very low for the bats to fly to
the market.”

As a result of the efforts of Mr. Tian and others, China now boasts
<https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/30/china-researchers-isolated-bat-coronaviruses-near-/>
that it has “taken the lead” in global virus research. It claims to have
discovered over 2,000 new viruses since the SARS Coronavirus epidemic of
2003.  To give you a sense of the scale of China’s effort, the total number
of viruses discovered over the last two hundred years is, at 2,284, only
slightly more.  China’s frenzied collection efforts have nearly doubled the
total number of known viruses, and includes hundreds of new and possibly
dangerous coronaviruses.

That’s a lot of potentially harmful pathogens to keep track of.  But it is
also a huge cache of coronaviruses to harvest parts and pieces from if you
are looking to make an already deadly coronavirus even deadlier.

And that seems to be exactly what a group of researchers at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, led by a woman named Shi Zhengli, may have been
intent upon doing right up until the end of 2019.

We all know what happened then.
The Technology

Shi Zhengli received her master’s degree from the Wuhan Institute of
Virology in 1990.  After earning her Ph.D. in France, she returned to WIV
to direct the Institute’s research project into bat coronaviruses.  If Mr.
Tian is China’s batman, Dr. Shi is China’s batwoman.

Some of the articles published by
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/disappeared-chinese-research-paper-traced-covid-19-to-china-biolab-in-wuhan>
Dr. Shi and her team of virologists describe
<https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711> naturally occurring SARS-like
coronaviruses that,  like the SARS virus itself, could infect human beings
directly.

But Dr. Shi’s group was not content to merely study existing coronaviruses.
They were also genetically engineering new ones.  In a 2008 article in
the Journal of Virology, she and her team described how
<https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899> they were genetically engineering
SARS-like viruses from horseshoe bats to enable them to use
angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to gain entry into human cells.

In other words, more than 10 years ago, Shi’s team was already creating
entirely new and deadly coronaviruses.  They did so by inserting that part
of the dangerous SARS virus that allows it to infect people into a second
bat coronavirus, which was then able to attack human cells just like the
original SARS virus does.

But simply recreating a new SARS virus was only a first step.  Shi and her
team wanted to move beyond that to create completely new, and potentially
even more deadly coronaviruses. For that she needed a new and more advanced
recombinant technique.  She may have found one in research being done at
the University of North Carolina by Prof. Ralph S. Baric.

Prof. Baric had developed a technique for quickly and easily producing what he
called <https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-4939-6964-7_5>
“infectious clones.” This involves taking coronaviruses from horseshoe bats
and genetically engineering them to more easily infect human cells.

Why would he--or anyone else for that matter--do such a thing?

Baric explains
<https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-4939-6964-7_5>: “In 2013
preemergent SARS-like Coronaviruses were identified
<https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711> in horseshoe bats and found
to be poised for entry into the human population. … preemergent
coronaviruses (CoVs) pose a global threat that requires immediate
intervention. Rapid intervention necessitates the capacity to generate,
grow, and genetically manipulate infectious CoVs in order to rapidly
evaluate pathogenic mechanisms, host and tissue permissibility, and
candidate antiviral therapeutic efficacy.” (italics added)

Now all of this—preemergent coronaviruses … poised for entry … global
threat … requires immediate intervention—all sounds very ominous.  But what
people need to understand is that the good professor is talking about
coronaviruses that have not actually infected a single, living, breathing
human being.  Rather, he is talking about coronaviruses that might,
possibly, at some point in the future, make the leap from bats to humans.
Or they might not. Ever.

This means that the phrase “preemergent coronavirus” is at best misleading,
at worst a fiction.  It is a fiction because neither Prof. Baric, nor Dr.
Shi Zhengli, nor anyone else, can possibly know whether any one of these
naturally occurring viruses will ever infect a single human being.

In any event, Prof. Baric is very pleased to inform us
<https://www.pnas.org/content/100/22/12995>, citing
<https://www.pnas.org/content/100/22/12995> his own research, that “much of
the [coronavirus] research over the last 15 years has been possible because
of the capacity to generate infectious clones using highly efficient
reverse genetics platforms, coupled with robust small animal models of
human disease.”

In other words, he and his team used the technique they created to easily
construct unnatural coronaviruses and see if they will infect and kill mice
<https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.0030005>.
Dr. Shi Zhengli collaborated with Baric in carrying out some of this
research, as highlighted in a 2015 article
<https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985> in Nature Medicine in which they
discussed bat coronaviruses that were potentially capable of infecting
human beings.

Now, a sane person might think that the idea of creating dangerous new
pathogens in the lab for which humanity had no acquired immunity, no
vaccines, and no drug therapies might not be a good idea.  The U.S.
National Institutes of Health, under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci,
however, initially funded Prof. Baric’s research.

But then Dr. Fauci had second thoughts.  In late 2014 he sent a letter to
the University of North Carolina, notifying the university that Prof.
Baric’s research project may violate a new moratorium on risky virology
studies involving influenza, MERS and SARS viruses.

The letter and the document
<https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/Documents/gain-of-function.pdf> from the
“Public Health Emergency” office of HHS that it references, orders a pause
on “Gain of Function” research into SARS-like coronaviruses.  What is “Gain
of Function” research, precisely?  The document defines it as “research
that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease … [by]
“confer[ing] attributes to … SARS [coronaviruses] such that the resulting
virus has enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility (via the
respiratory route) in mammals. … [that] may entail biosafety and
biosecurity risks.”

The original scientific rationale for “enhancing” the ability of certain
coronaviruses to infect and kill human beings was to get one step ahead of
the net pandemic.  “We will create superbugs in the lab,” the scientists
said to themselves, “and we will learn how to defeat them by developing
drug therapies and vaccines.  Then when the next superbug emerges from
nature, we will be ready.”

But what happens if you create a new superbug in the lab and, before you
have devised a defense against it, it escapes from the lab.  What then?

The consequences of unleashing such an “enhanced” coronavirus on the
world—a pathogen for which human beings had no natural defenses, and for
which human science had no treatments or vaccines—would be incalculable.

The U.S. pause on such research was not lifted
<https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research>
until December 29, 2017, over three years later, when NIH put in place what
it called “robust oversight” that considers the “scientific merits and
potential benefits,” as well as the “potential to create ... or use an
enhanced potential pandemic pathogen.”

In other words, the brakes were put on the dangerous “gain-of-function”
research being done in the U.S. for fear that it would “create” a pathogen
that could, if it leaked from the lab, cause a pandemic.  We decided that
the risks associated with such research were generally not worth the
benefits.

Not so in China, however.  There, in Dr. Shi’s laboratory, the creation of
dangerous “pathogens of pandemic potential” apparently went forward without
pause or effective oversight.  Communist China is not known for its concern
for human life.

Since we are now dealing with exactly the kind of deadly and infectious
SARS-like coronaviruses that scientists have been creating in the lab for
at least the past ten years, it is reasonable to ask if the China
Coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus.  Or is it one of batwoman’s
concoctions?

Virtually everyone now agrees that the China Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,
leaked from Dr. Shi’s lab.  But I would suggest that the virus itself is
the product of Gain of Function research in which its potency was
artificially “enhanced” to make it more infectious and more lethal using
recombinant techniques first developed in the U.S., perhaps at Prof.
Baric’s lab.  The leak was an accident.  The “enhancement” was deliberate.

On March 30th of this year, an unusual, unsigned “Editor’s Note” was added
to Shi and Baric’s original article
<https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985#change-history> in Nature
Medicine.  The oddly worded note read: “We are aware that this article is
being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus
causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true;
scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the
coronavirus.”

Actually, the “most likely source” of the coronavirus is not just one
animal but two, whose distinct but related species of coronaviruses were
isolated from their hosts and then pieced together in the lab using
recombinant technology to create a new and much more infectious variety.

* * *

In Part II I will review the evidence that the novel coronavirus is the
result of what Chinese researchers themselves have called an “unusual
insertion” in a Horseshoe Bat coronavirus that may have come from a
Pangolin coronavirus.



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