Sunday Times;
Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemic began.
Investigators who scrutinised top-secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid-19 outbreak.
The US investigators say one of the reasons there is no published information on the work is because it was done in collaboration with researchers from the Chinese military, which was funding it and which, they say, was pursuing bioweapons.
The Sunday Times has reviewed hundreds of documents, including previously confidential reports, internal memos, scientific papers and email correspondence that has been obtained through sources or by freedom of information campaigners in the three years since the pandemic started. We also interviewed the US State Department investigators — including experts on China, emerging pandemic threats, and biowarfare — who conducted the first significant US inquiry into the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak. […]
The institute was engaged in increasingly risky experiments on coronaviruses it gathered from bat caves in southern China. Initially, it made its findings public and argued the associated risks were justified because the work might help science develop vaccines.
This changed in 2016 after researchers discovered a new type of coronavirus in a mineshaft in Mojiang in Yunnan province where people had died from symptoms similar to Sars.
Rather than warning the world, the Chinese authorities did not report the fatalities. The viruses found there are now recognised as the only members of Covid-19’s immediate family known to have been in existence pre-pandemic.
All or most of which you already knew if you were following this blog series, beginning with Yuri Deigin’s essay in 2020. Three years ago.
Now the mainstream media trots out these “investigative reports” as though they played no part at all in smearing and suppressing those who brought forth open source evidence of a lab leak, to protect the Chinese and Western governments who lied about the dangerous work and the origin of the virus. and then invoked totalitarian policies upon their citizens in response to it.
Glen Greenwald notices;
At the pandemic’s start, there were 2 competing theories for COVID’s origin:
1) The Chinese have such filthy, primitive food markets where the virus jumped to humans;
2) A leak from US-funded research at the Wuhan lab.
Somehow: theory (2), not (1), was branded racist.