By Dr John Sydenham

Suppose a country had developed a dangerous virus and allowed it to escape.  Would we just put this down to experience?  Further suppose this country had used its control over multinational corporations and academia to silence any coverage of how it had infected the world.  Would we just shrug and say "that's life"?

Yet this is what has happened. 

The information given in the article below has now been supported by:

US Senate Committee on Health Education

The FBI:

US Department of Energy

US House of Representatives report

This is how it happened. In 2018 Dr Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance applied to the US Defence Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) for funds to use reverse engineering to synthesise COVID-like viruses as part of an attempt to stop bats from carrying coronaviruses that could infect humans.  The project was called "Defuse" although "Pre-empt" is sometimes used.  DARPA was highly professional when it identified the terrible risks associated with the project and rejected it.  DARPA was absolutely clear about the dangers:

"1. The proposal is considered to potentially involve Gain of Function/DURC research because they propose to synthesize spike glycoproteins which bind to human cell receptors and insert them into SARSr-CoV backbones to assess whether they can cause SARS-like disease."

DARPA rejected this gain of function research because it could have military uses by potential enemies (dual use) and might produce a virus would be able to escape control by vaccines.

Despite the refusal by DARPA to fund the project the US National Institute of Health under Dr Faucci sanctioned at least $600,000 of NIH/NIAID money to be used by EcoHealth Alliance to finance research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  We can only assume that this research would have had much in common with "Defuse" because it involved the same people in China as "Defuse".  China picked up much of the cost and the research was undertaken in the dual military/civilian Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

The Defuse work was underway in Wuhan, a year before the outbreak. As Dr Peter Daszak said in 2018, "I didn't do this work but my colleagues in China did the work" (of creating lethal coronaviruses):

Video courtesy of  C span.  This video is shocking because Dr Daszak discusses the synthesis of deadly coronaviruses in Wuhan in such an everyday tone. His colleagues "did" the work so the work has happened and was probably ongoing in 2018.  To clarify what they were doing at Wuhan here is an excerpt from the project description:

"..we will intensively sample bats at our field sites where we have identified high spillover risk SARSr-CoVs [coronaviruses]. We will sequence their spike proteins, reverse engineer them to conduct binding assays, and insert them into bat SARSr-CoV (WIV1, SHC014) backbones .. to infect humanised mice and assess capacity to cause SARS-like disease."

Dangerous coronaviruses were created at Wuhan.  This is a fact, not a conspiracy theory.  As a result, in 2019 the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had cultures of lethal viruses that could cause diseases like COVID.  As will be seen below, a virus escaped from the laboratory in Wuhan and caused a pandemic.

Lab escapes are common in China.  Chinese virological laboratories have a poor safety record and have allowed the deadly SARS virus to escape four times.  The two virological laboratories in Wuhan seem to have been just as leaky as other virological laboratories in China.  In fact biosafety was so bad that in 2018 a group of visiting foreign scientists warned that the WIV would be the centre of the next pandemic (Washington Post).

A site survey that was performed immediately after the the first outbreak of COVID in Wuhan concluded that the laboratories had very poor biosafety (See The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus). 

It was obvious from the start that COVID was a laboratory escape.  The virus could have come from either an animal or a laboratory.  There are thousands of animal markets in China.  These animal markets happen in every town in China and East Asia. Although there are virological laboratories in China, there is only one Biosafety Level 4 centre of coronavirus research in mainland China: the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  If the virus originated from an animal market it could have arisen from any of the thousands of animal markets in China.  However, it started at Wuhan.  There is almost no chance of this happening by coincidence.  The outbreak must have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The odds that the virus came from animals in a market at Wuhan, the city where they made coronaviruses,  are much less than one in a thousand.  On the other hand, given the history of escapes from Chinese labs, the odds that the virus escaped from the WIV  are about 50:50 in any year.  Biosafety in China was so poor that within 3 or 4 years the virus would have escaped.

The statistical reasoning given above was confirmed by studies of the local animal market in Wuhan.  The first survey after the outbreak found that bats had never been sold in the nearby Hua Nan fish market and dismissed the possibility of an animal origin for COVID (See The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus).  The Chinese Centre for Disease Control took samples from every part of the market and also confirmed that COVID did not come from the Hua Nan fish market (China Global Times 26th May 2020).  The bat viruses that are closest to SARS-CoV-2  come from Yunnan, not Wuhan:

It looks very likely that COVID escaped from one or other of the Wuhan labs in the same way as SARS had escaped from laboratory cultures in China in the past.  It was indeed a laboratory escape from stored viral cultures, either from viruses collected from bats or from synthetic viruses. 

We have seen above that there is cast iron evidence that the Wuhan lab was making deadly coronaviruses.  We know that virological labs in China have a very poor safety record.  We have a warning from senior scientists in 2018 that the WIV was so poorly run that it was likely to have a catastrophic viral escape.  We have a survey immediately after the outbreak that shows a shocking lack of biosafety.  We even have a rigorous survey of the local animal market by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control (China Global Times 26th May 2020) that states clearly that the market was not the source of COVID.  There can be no doubt.  COVID escaped from a laboratory.  However, the finding that COVID was a laboratory escape has been widely condemned by the mass media as a "conspiracy theory".  Why?

Recently released emails in the USA show that a powerful group of scientists, led by Dr Faucci and influenced by China, has deliberately covered up the origin of COVID.  This was done to avoid what they describe as "unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular".  Millions have died!  This group of people have confused their career and financial interests with the well-being of the people of the world.

As early as 2nd of February 2020 the group took the decision that the laboratory origin of COVID would be suppressed and were supported by academics throughout the world to preserve the reputation of China and stop any collateral damage to people such as themselves (see below).

This approach is made clear in one of the emails:

"... An accusation that nCoV-2019 might have been engineered and released into the environment by humans (accidental or intentional) would  need  to  be  supported  by  strong  data,  beyond  a  reasonable  doubt. It is good that this possibility was discussed in detail with a team  of  experts. However,  further  debate  about  such  accusations  would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular"

This email was sent by Dr Ron Fouchier, the Dutch (and EU) representative to the group, in email communications on the 2nd February 2020  (See  Recently released emails ). Although it is shocking to contemplate, it looks like these powerful academics were working in the interests of China.  The group of people who were involved in, or aware of, the cover up of the origin of COVID were: Drs. Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, Patrick Vallance, Christian Drosten, Marion Koopmans, Edward Holmes, Kristian Andersen, Paul Schreier, Mike Ferguson, Francis Collins, Ron Fouchier, Andrew Rambaut and Josie Golding. See Note (1) at the end for the Chinese connections of these people. 

The suppression of coverage of a lab escape was extreme.  It went so far that the State Departments' Global Engagement Center defined as "Russian Proxies" any social media accounts that mentioned the lab origin and bioweapons.  This meant that social media companies were obliged to suppress these accounts.  Furthermore, the State Department was then able to swell its count of "Russian" social media accounts that could be blamed for interfering in US politics. (See The Twitter Files for source).  Fauci has subsequently made a deposition in court in which he claimed total amnesia when he was confronted with numerous documents with his name on them.  Most of these documents were designed to suppress consideration of a laboratory origin.

A member of the group, Kristian Andersen, was commissioned to publish a paper called "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 (2020)"  to "prove" that the virus did not come from a laboratory and was not man made.  The authors sent a draft to Drs. Fauci and Collins.  The paper was sent to Dr. Fauci for editing and approval prior to final publication in Nature Medicine.

The paper by Andersen et al (2020) argues that the virus could not be made in a laboratory because it is not the "ideal solution" for infection and because a sufficiently similar base virus, the main part of the virus used as a template, has not yet been found.  This is a very thin argument on which to condemn any ideas of a laboratory origin.  The rebuttal is straightforward.  Anyone creating the virus would stop at "good enough" rather than ideal, especially given that a special (furin) site provides a boost to infectivity.  More importantly the "Defuse" project was not seeking the "ideal solution", it was making deadly viruses ad hoc just to see the extent of their  deadliness.  This simple rebuttal dispenses with the first argument.  Two contenders for the base or template virus have indeed been found.  This invalidates the second argument, a virus called RaTG13 is very close in structure to SARS-CoV-2 and could have acted as the base virus.

There are two possibilities for a lab escape: SARS-CoV2 could have been a rare natural virus in the Wuhan collection of virus cultures or it could have been a man-made virus. 

Was the virus man made or was it a wild virus that had been cultured at Wuhan?  We already have Daszak openly describing the synthesis of dangerous coronaviruses in Wuhan (see clip above) but was this particular virus man made? Given that the paper that is used everywhere to "disprove" the possibility that the virus is man-made does not do so, who are the scientists who say that it is man made? Initially several people noticed that the virus contained HIV proteins and mused on how these had got there.  The most persuasive authority who believes COVID19 was a man made disease is Professor Luc Montagnier, the winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering HIV, who says: “With my colleague, bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez, we carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus,”.."in order to insert an HIV sequence into this genome, molecular tools are needed, and that can only be done in a laboratory.".  The most complete analysis of the possibility that the virus is man-made was done by Li-Meng Yan et al .  Li-Meng Yan risked her life to escape from Hong Kong to bring the story to the West but Twitter and broadcasters have banned any mention of her work because the "fact checkers" all condemn it as being inconsistent with the single paper by Anderson et al (2020).  These are indeed strange times when unqualified fact checkers can take the conclusions of a single scientific paper and cause all subsequent scientific work that disagrees with it to be suppressed.

Of course, we now know that Ecohealth Alliance both collected and synthesised coronaviruses at Wuhan and that the WIV had a military division.  This changes the analysis from "was COVID man made?" to "was it a bioweapon?". 

The HIV inserts in the COVID virus (SARS-CoV-2) do exist and most are found elsewhere in nature.  This was confirmed in the paper: HIV-1 did not contribute to the 2019-nCoV genome by a group of Chinese researchers, published on 14th February, a mere 12 days after the article linking SARS-CoV-2 to HIV was published.  In particular they found that the COVID virus does contain inserts similar to those in the "gp120" glycoprotein which is found in HIV.  The inserts are part of the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 (The S1 Protein).  Gp120 is a deadly component of HIV and leads to a wide spectrum of chronic illness from compromising the immune system to dementia.  The S1 protein of the COVID virus is structurally analogous to HIV-1 gp120 and it is probably the S1 protein that causes some of the symptoms of "long covid" by working in a similar fashion to gp120.  S1 is not identical to gp120 but seems to have been modified with HIV inserts that give it similar functionality.  Certainly the S1 protein may have developed from animal sources but a synthetic origin is more likely because  Ecohealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were creating coronaviruses (see video above).  WIV was a dual military/civilian establishment and adding features of HIV to create a bioweapon from coronaviruses would be a natural step for the military.  WIV is now a fully military establishment. 

The payload of COVID was always long COVID caused by the HIV inserts that augment the known long term damage of SARS viruses.

The number of people with long COVID is cumulative - many sufferers do not recover so the numbers grow month on month.  Estimates of the effect of long COVID on the workforce are variable but most of the decrease in people available for work in the UK is due to a rise in long term illness (Reuters).  The incidence of long COVID has now stabilised at 2m people in the UK (2023).

COVID is a near perfect bioweapon even if it were not developed as a bioweapon.  Every time we catch COVID we have a 5 to 10% risk of long covid.  And we can keep on catching COVID.  A very large number of people  will be disabled for periods of 3 months or more.  China knows all about the properties of COVID so continued a zero COVID policy for as long as possible.

The Role of China

China has been suppressing any mention that COVID19 is a lab escape and possibly man made. Most broadcasters in the West have now been persuaded, perhaps as a result of pressure from China, that there was no possibility of a lab escape of a wild or man made virus in Wuhan. The pressure from China to stop any mention of a lab escape has been intense.

Expect all further publications on the origin of COVID to ignore the fact that Wuhan had a laboratory that was probably full of test animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 and was developing variants of coronaviruses.  The laboratory, which was known to have very poor biosafety, will simply be airbrushed out of history.

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