Did the pandemic originate from the Chinese lab in Wuhan?

For example, we already know who “patient zero” is, the first known case of someone infected with the virus: a scientist named Ben Hu who works at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We know this thanks to the work of two leading investigative journalists—Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi—who used the US Freedom of Information Act for their work. Journalists also learned that two other collaborators of the institute, Yu Ping and Yan Zhu, were also infected by the same coronavirus.

Patient Zero Hu was the leading assistant to Shi Zhengli, popularly known as the “bat woman” in the virology world for her experiments with bats living in many caves in that country. The three scientists were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with Covid-19 even before the outbreak broke out in the Wuhan wholesale seafood and wildlife market, where many of the initial patients were working.

Several so-called “reference” newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and London’s The Times, also reported this new data, raising questions about whether it is really a zoonosis, the product of animal transmission. to man.

Shortly after the outbreak of the epidemic, some American media outlets, including the New York Post, assumed that it could be an accident in the Chinese laboratory, something that then US president Donald Trump also did.

True to his notorious demagoguery, Trump spoke of “a Chinese virus,” a phrase that many immediately described as “racist.”

The most surprising thing about the case is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, affiliated with that country’s Army Academy of Military Medical Sciences, received funding from the United States to research a procedure known in English as “gain of function”. It is about genetic manipulation of a virus to make it more aggressive, i.e. increase its virulence, a dangerous experiment that requires extreme safety conditions to prevent accidents.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the EcoHealth Alliance collaborated in these scientific activities, which were suspended by Washington after a while.

The first is a government agency responsible for the development of new technologies for military use, and the second is an American NGO working to protect people and animals from infectious diseases.

In light of new information obtained by Shellenberger and Taibbi and supported by various media, the US Senate has ordered the Joe Biden Government to release any information it has about the possible source of the pandemic, something he has come to resist. .

The media and scientists from the US and the rest of the world, who initially pointed to the possibility that the pandemic outbreak may have originated from the Chinese laboratory rather than the market, were immediately described as “conspiracy theorists” and accused of providing “false information”. accept the official version as it is zoonotic.

Lawyer and White House Democratic nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wrote a book denouncing the government’s alleged conspiracy to hide what happened from the public. (1) directly accused the former director of the US National Institute. Department of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci. According to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s nephew and son of attorney general Robert Kennedy, Fauci has personally profited from Moderna, one of the vaccines developed against Covid-19, but he denies this. He also accused him of “turning the agency he ran into a drug incubator”. Americans “consume more drugs than any other country, pay more for them than anyone else, and with far worse consequences.” Shortly after these words, Kennedy saw his Instagram account shut down, according to the weekly Newsseek, which Facebook, to which the social network belongs, vindicated for allegedly sharing “false accusations about coronavirus and vaccines.”

(1) “Wuhan Cover-up” (Great Coverage: How US health officials collaborated with the Chinese military to hide the origin of Covid-19.