China’s Deadly Legacy Exposed: Major New Series Sort Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories From The Facts

When tens of thousands around the world are dead or dying and many thousands more are doomed, it is a strange thing to boast about.

But when the Hermès flagship store in the Chinese city of Guangzhou reopened after a two-month closure against the coronavirus last weekend, the staggering $ 2.7 million was required, the highest profits in one day. a single boutique in China.

VIPs from Guangdong, the wealthiest province in China, flocked to their wives to participate in what has been called “revenge purchases”: revenge against the deadly Covid-19 disease that kept them from spending generously for so long.

A few days later, 600 miles away, Wuhan’s largest “wet” market, similar to the city’s Huanan Seafood Market, which also sold live wild animals for human consumption and is credited with the origin of the pandemic, also returned to open.

The message was the same and broadcast on state television for global consumption. After a sharp contraction in its economy, China is open to business. World leading company.

Meanwhile, the West, mostly still locked up, is heading for economic ruin. We are in a desperately weakened state, like a victim of Covid-19 on a fan.

But have the Chinese authorities really controlled their outbreak?

Should we believe its official death toll, which is relatively modest even after Wuhan revised its numbers up 50 percent yesterday?

And did the pandemic really start at that Huanan seafood market, rather than by accident or even by design at the city’s Virology Institute, as some have implicated, including Donald Trump this week?

Responding to the suggestion that weak security protocols at the Institute meant that he was an infected lab worker who had gone to the seafood market that started the pandemic, the US President. USA He said: “More and more we hear the story.”

What is clear is that the Chinese Communist Party has practiced, continues to practice, one of the most grotesque deceptions of a totalitarian government.

In trying to “control the narrative,” the authorities first created a fatal paralysis, then an information vacuum that has absorbed all sorts of speculation.

In an attempt to reconstruct, as accurately as possible, the extraordinary story of the pandemic’s emergence, the Post has spoken this week to leading virologists, Chinese scholars, economists and activists.

Today, in the first of a three-part series on the coronavirus crisis, we can also reveal, through the world-famous Pasteur Institute in Paris, the terrifying new research, not yet officially published, suggesting that the new coronavirus may not pass only to domestic cats but to raise cattle too; thus creating new depots for the pathogen in the UK.

We can tell the story of previous fatal escapes of pathogens from Chinese laboratories, and cover-ups. We will examine the inexplicable actions of the Chinese state in the early days of the outbreak and the competing claims of conspiracy theories that emerged as a result. And we will see where China and the world go from here.

Should we be surprised by what has happened?

No, says Ma Jian, the author and human rights activist known as “the Chinese Solzhenitsyn,” after the famous Soviet-era dissident.

Jian, who was imprisoned in China and now lives in exile in London, spoke to the Mail last night about the West’s long and lucrative cultivation of China. He said: ‘It was a disastrous experiment. Democracies cannot commit to totalitarian regimes blindly in this way, without suffering catastrophic consequences. The result is that in the UK alone there have been over 14,000 deaths. That is a truth that cannot be avoided. “

In 1977, a strange strain of influenza began infecting people in northern China. The mostly non-fatal symptoms doubled those of the type of flu last seen two decades earlier and believed to be extinct.

The tension quickly spread across the world. But it only affected people under the age of 20. How could this be?

Genetic testing by virologists indicated that this was, in fact, the same “extinct” flu of the late 1950s. At its best, the strain had become so widespread that anyone living had likely been exposed to her and develop immunity.

Where had he been for two decades? And why the return?

The virus had another peculiarity. It would only survive in a “medium” temperature range, as if it had been bred to do this.

In fact, it had been scientifically selected to flourish in laboratory temperatures. Genetic testing showed that it hadn’t mutated in more than 20 years the way it certainly would have if it had replicated for generations in the wild.

All the evidence suggests that the virus had been frozen and stored in a laboratory for years. Then it had thawed, and somehow escaped to take advantage of a new generation that had no natural immunity, according to a report from the University of California, San Diego, published in the journal PLoS One in 2010.

Fingers immediately pointed to Chinese virology laboratories as the source. The researchers suggested that the virus may have escaped from a laboratory where researchers were working on a new vaccine in response to warnings about an expected pandemic of a form of swine flu.

These facts are not well known, because virology experts around the world rarely spoke about it for years. In fact, the leak had occurred in the depths of the Cold War. Western scientists did not want to risk humiliating Communist China, fearing it would stop cooperating with global efforts to detect other dangerous virus outbreaks.

But this dark story has chilling echoes today for experts who fear the current pandemic: SARS-CoV-2 is the scientific name for the new coronavirus that causes Covid-19 in humans, it did not emerge from the Huanan market in Wuhan, but escaped. from one of the city’s two labs experimenting with bat coronaviruses.

SARS catastrophe

One such laboratory, run by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is very close to the Huanan market.

Certainly, China has formed with virus escapes from laboratories. Worse yet, it has already experienced catastrophic accidents with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) viruses that first emerged in China in 2002. In April 2004, China reported a suspected case of SARS in a 20-year-old nurse in Beijing who I was caring for a female laboratory researcher. That researcher took a train home to be attended by her mother, a doctor, who died of SARS pneumonia within a fortnight.

The laboratory researcher had worked at the Chinese National Virology Institute in Beijing. So had a young man who fell ill that month. Neither of them had worked with the live SARS virus. Seven other people were infected before a massive quarantine stopped the outbreak.

Researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) later reported “serious concerns” regarding the safety of the laboratory. Five senior officials from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention were fired. But the WHO wanted more, and called for future Chinese work on SARS-related viruses to be carried out using high-level measures to contain the virus called Biosafety Level 3 (BSL 3).

However, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory in Wuhan is also reported to be conducting research on animal coronaviruses, with only a Level 2 biosecurity certificate.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology has the highest level of biosafety certification, 4 but has been accused of multiple work protocols and being a source of the new virus.

Last December alone, Chinese health authorities promised in the national China Daily to increase the biosecurity of their laboratories, this time following an incident where brucellosis from the cattle-borne disease had infected several laboratory technicians in the province of Gansu.

Fortunately, the infection could not be transmitted from human to human.

However, since the Covid-19 outbreak, that official openness has been replaced by censorship.

Mysterious illness and cover-ups

In late December, before the outbreak was released, doctors at Wuhan Central Hospital who posted a message alerting colleagues to the mystery of the new disease were accused by security forces of “making false comments.” and forced to sign statements agreeing not to discuss the disease.

Earlier this month, Chinese authorities began cracking down on the publication of academic research on the origins of the new coronavirus.

Two major Chinese universities published web notices that require academic papers related to Covid-19 to be examined first by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Research into the origins of the virus is particularly sensitive and subject to controls by government officials, according to notices published by Fudan University and the University of Geosciences of China (Wuhan).

Jane Duckett, a professor at the Scottish Research Center for China at the University of Glasgow, told Mail: “It is a typical response from Chinese authorities to try to control the narrative of any story they may think threatens them.” Professor Duckett, who focuses on Chinese politics and health, adds: ‘With the coronavirus, this may be, for example, because they know that their initial response to the outbreak was not good enough and would cause dissatisfaction among the Chinese people.

‘We have seen the same thing before with the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province, where some 80,000 people died.

“The authorities did not want people to protest the way that corruption planning had allowed the construction of buildings that collapsed during the earthquake.”

Similarly, authorities covered media coverage of a high-speed train accident in 2011 that killed at least 38 people and injured 192. Images of bulldozers pushing earth onto wagons appeared, in an apparent attempt to hide them.

Earthquake and train crash scandals take big lies to cover up. Now we must consider an almost unthinkable question: is the Chinese government also lying about how the world’s largest pandemic started? No wonder, then, that conspiracy theories have come to light, leading us to a leading scientist known as “Bat Woman.”

The rise and rise of “Bat Woman”

It seemed that 2017 was an annus mirabilis for Dr. Shi Zengli and her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

After 13 years of research, they found the genetic source of the SARS coronavirus that killed 750 people worldwide between 2002 and 2004.

Among the samples taken in 2013 from the caves in Yunnan province, one was labeled RaTG13. It came from a variety of horseshoe bats.

Bats have extraordinary resistance to disease and can act as living reservoirs of viruses that cannot kill them, but can be lethal to other mammals, including humans.

Scientists suspected that civet cats, sold for human consumption in Chinese wet markets, were the source of the SARS virus. But the civets proved to be only an intermediary for the fatal transfer of bats to humans.

Similarly, the 2012 MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus outbreak that killed 850 people, transferred from bats to camels to humans.

In 1994, Hendra coronavirus infection also jumped horse species into humans. The 1998 Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia, from pigs to humans, also originated in bat pathogens.

The brilliant Mrs. Zengli had other research interests and was experimenting with synthetic viruses that could be passed from animals to humans.

Recent research has suggested that the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (which causes Covid-19) may pass directly from bats to humans, raising the question: had he gone too far by deliberately or deliberately playing God. another way?

Enter the CIA and MI6. This week, after the leak of 2018 U.S. diplomatic cables expressing concern over the allegedly reckless form of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, intelligence services got involved in solving the mystery of the Covid-19 rise.

His intervention is a potential game changer to understand why we are locked up; why so many generations of our grandparents die; Why our economy is sinking.

To date, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party has been unwilling to provide the explanatory narrative. And so conspiracy theories and educated guesses have proliferated.

So who was Patient Zero?

In late January, after the late Wuhan blockade, Twitter banned the libertarian website Zero Hedge for ‘doxing’ – posting private information with malicious intent.

The site had tweeted in an article titled “Is this the man behind the global coronavirus pandemic?”, An image of a scientist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A series of similar allegations followed on Chinese social media that the cause of the outbreak was the Wuhan Virology Institute and its malpractice.

On February 7, Ms. Zengli said the claims were the work of “conspiracy theorists who do not believe in science.” At the time, rumors abroad were that one of his recruits, at the end of 2019 there were at least two online advertisements for research work related to the bat virus, had become “Patient Zero”: the first person to die of Covid-19.

Speculation about an individual named Huang Yanling was enough for the Institute to issue a denial on February 16.

“There has recently been false information about Huang Yanling, a graduate of our institute, claiming that she was a zero patient on the new coronavirus,” he said. “Huang was a high school graduate student until 2015.”

Therefore, there. But where is she now?

A plot by anti-Beijing activists?

Last month, an internet documentary collected and interpreted many of the indictments. It was conducted by a media group linked to groups opposed to the Chinese leadership and called Tracing the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus.

He certainly made diligent use of the available material.

On January 24, one of the first Covid-19 case studies appeared in the highly respected British medical journal The Lancet. The co-authors were doctors from hospitals in Wuhan and other parts of China. The document evidenced samples from 41 Covid-19 victims in Wuhan who had contracted the virus before January 2.

The film took advantage of the claim that study patient Zero, the first man to experience symptoms, which he did as early as December 1, had no known direct interaction with the Huanan seafood market. Neither did another 13 of the 41.

It was also claimed that no bats were sold in the market. Huanan’s bond was “highly unlikely, if not impossible,” the film suggested. The Chinese had been imposing a false approach by concentrating on the market. Authorities closed and cleaned the market, destroying possible evidence. It was a clear “cover-up”.

But from what? The results of a second scientific paper were also highlighted by the film. This report was published in Nature, another world-renowned magazine, in early February.

He drew attention to the genetic similarity found between the new Wuhan coronavirus, which had not yet been identified, and two coronaviruses previously found in bats in Zhoushan. The only Westerner among the report’s 19 co-authors was British professor Eddie Holmes of the University of Sydney.

“These data suggest that bats are a possible host for the (Wuhan virus) viral reservoir,” the Nature report said. “However, since a variety of animal species were for sale on the market when the disease was first reported, more studies are needed to determine the natural reservoir and any intermediate hosts.”

The documentary claimed that the two bat samples had been found by the “People’s Liberation Army” (in fact, a scientific institute linked to the army).

The plot thickened.

According to a former scientist from the US Department of Defense. USA In the film, the Post discovered that he was also the Executive Director of an organization called the Global Alliance against Communist Propaganda, all indications were that the new coronavirus was the result of reverse engineering of the SARS virus.

Another expert argued that “it could not be a natural mutation.”

They argued that the new coronavirus was not naturally occurring at all. It had been artificially “manipulated” in a laboratory so that it could enter and destroy human cells.

And the person supposedly at the center of this sinister manipulation was the famous “bat woman” of the Institute of Virology, Shi Zengli.

British-born professor Simon Wain-Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in Paris was cited in the film as “deeply concerned” about his work. And why shouldn’t it be, the lay viewer might ask? There was a sequence in the genetic makeup of the new virus that, according to the film, mimicked HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Was the Wuhan virus being developed at the Virology Institute to create a “biological weapon” or a virus for which the Chinese had the only highly lucrative cure?

The film offered a second article in Nature, presented in February by Zengli and his team, as additional evidence of embezzlement.

This new report revealed that a fecal sample – RaTG13 – taken by Zengli’s team in the bat cave in 2013 demonstrated “a 96.2% overall genomic sequence identity” for the new coronavirus. He was his closest relative and formed “a distinct lineage from other SARS-like viruses.”

Dr. Zengli appeared to be waving a smoking gun.

She emphatically denies that the cause of the virus was her laboratory work. She has admitted in Scientific American magazine that after reports of an outbreak she had been concerned about the accidental release of her material.

He had then verified his laboratory samples with those taken from the Covid-19 victims and made sure they were not to blame.

What about other scientists mentioned in the movie?

Earlier this week, Professor Wain-Hobson told Mail that the movie ‘suffers from a host of problems, starting with things called facts. As far as we can see virologists, this virus is natural, “he said.‘ That means that with the data we have they are available in the public domain. And that’s it. ‘

On the possibility of a laboratory leak, Professor Wain-Hobson said: “It is very possible that the Chinese have not told the World Health Organization (WHO) and the West everything.” And yes, they don’t like the United States and Trump. They want to be number one on a small planet.

‘But a designed virus? There is nothing about this virus that indicates it is out of a laboratory. I say this with the information available and my appreciation of the evolution of the virus. “

In a Twitter post, Professor Holmes agreed: “I think there are a number of very clear reasons to believe that this is in no way a laboratory construction or a laboratory leak.”

Will the CIA and MI6 crack the Covid-19?

That position is backed by senior American scientists.

But then came a report this week in The Washington Post story based on those leaked diplomatic cables from 2018. The leak conveniently, you may think, was President Trump’s announcement that he was withdrawing WHO financial support with the it felt too cozy. Beijing.

After the story was learned, Professor Wain-Hobson told the Mail: ‘Without knowing what was happening in the laboratory, we cannot say more. As mentioned above, it doesn’t look designed and others feel this way too, which is comforting. But this is because we are using the same data. “

Professor Holmes agreed with this opinion in a social media statement released on Thursday. “There is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” he said.

Corona Coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 are commonly found in wildlife species and frequently jump into new hosts. This is also the most likely explanation for the origin of SARS-CoV-2. “

For its part, China has even tried to blame the United States. In October 2019, a team of American athletes traveled to Wuhan for the World Military Games.

‘It could be the US Army. USA Who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make your data public! The United States owes us an explanation! “A Chinese foreign minister said last month

¿Quién puede decir definitivamente si los murciélagos infectados fueron vendidos en el mercado de mariscos de Huanan? ¿O otros animales, como los pangolines, que podrían haber servido como portadores del virus?

Las voces creíbles en la comunidad científica occidental sostienen que la evidencia sugiere que la pandemia es un hecho natural. Pero gracias a la inacción y el secreto de las autoridades chinas, los servicios de inteligencia occidentales ahora tienen la tarea de determinar la verdad.