We have all played the children's game of "hidey" where an object is hidden and friends have to find it. As friends hunt it down they go from cold to warm to hot to boiling, and a few shades of temperature in between. On the hunt for the origin of the novel corona virus, SARS-CoV-2, I would suggest that we are at the HOT stage, if not the BOILING stage.
We have all done jigsaws too. The first move usually made is to find the pieces with a straight edge which will form the perimeter of four sides. I believe we have those four edges of the origin puzzle of the new virus [which I like to call the "chimera"]. The edges are - China, United States, Canada, France.
Involved are the Wuhan Lab in China, Ft. Detrick Lab in the U.S., Winnipeg Lab in Canada - but why France? The French just happened to build the Wuhan Lab and were intricately involved with the project. Their involvement involved a quid pro quo, as international favors always do, but exactly what the French asked for in return is unknown. Was it in the nature of trade favors? Was it a case of - "here's a virus we want you to play with"? We don't know the answer but it certainly appears that the French Security Service advised against the project. The below article has details of the French involvement. Our previous series of posts on the Origins [7], detail the involvement of the other players.
Today's two articles posted below, along with our previous posts on "Origins" have begun to fill in the jigsaw from the edges. So far suspicions have become suppositions which have become possibilities and, in turn, these are becoming probabilities. Soon, the probabilities will become certainties, but many questions will never be answered because we are dealing with an oligarchy of elites, bureaucrats and governments which incorporate secret security agencies. Each player will have its own interests.
In addition to our analogous games of jigsaw and hidey, let's play some chess...........
WE ARE PAWNS - 7 BILLION OF US - RIPE FOR THE PICKING ON A WORLD-WIDE CHESS BOARD BY THE KINGS, QUEENS, BISHOPS, KNIGHTS AND ROOKS. Among these major players are.... The altruists who want the best for us. The technocrats who see an opportunity to use their technology on us. The megalomaniacs who see an opportunity to play a role as one of the world's re-designers. The scientists who put possibilities before humanity The power hungry who see an opportunity for a massive gain of wealth. The bureaucrats who will be given more power to command more pawns to obey. The company men and women who can position their corporation to gain a monopoly. The ideologues who can see their great worldview come to pass. Pawns never win. But they play a major role, can take down Big Pieces, and occasionally engineer a checkmate. We have to hope that the 'Altruist' leaders have a conscience and play this right. Most of the rest of the players are sociopaths with no empathy or conscience. There is a new Frankenstein to be invented for science, a chance to reduce the "unsustainable" world population, an opportunity to go down in history as a world savior through vaccine proliferation, a chance to get filthy rich, a position of Command over others, a chance to go down in history. Genuine pundits are seeing the machinations at play in this pandemic chess game. It's not just the tin foil mad hatters. There are questions, important questions that need an answer because it now appears that growing evidence shows that this virus is a chimera and not zoonotic or natural ..........
Who gave the order to engineer the virus and who funded it? Why? Was it released accidentally or deliberately? If deliberately released, who released it? Was it the Wuhan Lab or the Western athletes at the International Military Games in Hubei in October, 2019, or another party? Why? If accidentally released, by whom and when and where? If deliberately released, was the release date known and which individuals or organisations knew?
The good Professor Petrovsky from Adelaide has produced the best evidence of chimeric engineering which is what we here have claimed from the beginning. Petrovsky's concern is totally scientific since his motivation is to be ready for any future outbreak. Understandable. Our interest is to get answers to those questions above because we need to know what designs the main players have for us. That is not an unreasonable statement because we have already been manipulated. Our freedoms have been quashed, businesses have gone bankrupt, production has dwindled, the police state has reared its head, governments have over-ridden rights, laws and constitutions, personal lives have been ruined, technology that is highly suspect has been introduced. These disasters for humanity - NOT the chimera - have been accompanied by pure chicanery, lies, bribery and manipulation. Simply revisit the words of officials that deaths from comorbitities will count as Covid deaths, that extra funding is given to attributing deaths to Covid-19, the war against therapeutic treatments, the kerfuffle about masks and ventillators, the maltreatment of the aged, the manipulation of statistics, the empty hospitals, the denial of medical treatment to non-covid cases, and so on. The virus is real, the propaganda is pure AGENDA - but whose?
We know what has been claimed against the likes of Bill Gates, Tony Fauci, Dr. Tedros, W.H.O, the CCP, the many NGO's and organisations milking the system and taxpayer. We have made claims ourselves of malfeasance. We have posted the blogs here.
Many conservatives have made reference to 'hoax', to 'scamdemic', to 'plandemic'. Judging by the stats, even though the stats have been rigged to some extent, it is obvious that government over-reach is a gross understatement and that the putative labels are warranted. The virus is real but the mitigation is a scam for control now..... control by those I listed above minus those 'altruistic' leaders who have made human mistakes, and made those mistakes because they definitely don't want to be responsible for mass deaths, acquire a reviled reputation, nor be voted out at the next election. In retrospect we may forgive them, but WE WANT ANSWERS NOW.
I now invite readers to read the two articles linked below that evidences what has been said above and also, if you haven't read them, our post series on Origins Of The Virus.
Coronavirus is 'uniquely adapted to infect humans': Top vaccine scientist says it could only have come from an animal through a 'freak of nature' - and the possibility it leaked from Wuhan lab MUST be investigated
Wuhan virus lab was signed off by EU Brexit chief Michel Barnier in 2004 - despite French intelligence warnings that China's poor bio-security reputation could lead to a catastrophic leak
By Glen Owen for the Mail on Sunday
The construction of the Chinese laboratory at the centre of mounting suspicion over the source of the Covid-19 pandemic was signed off by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier – despite warnings by French intelligence services.
Mr Barnier – currently embroiled in acrimonious negotiations with the UK over a post-Brexit trade deal – was the French foreign minister when he gave the go-ahead for work to start on the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2004, under a joint deal with the Chinese.
The move came despite strong opposition from French diplomatic and security advisers, who argued that the Chinese reputation for poor bio-security could lead to a catastrophic leak.
They also warned that Paris could lose control of the project, and even suggested that Beijing could harness the technology to make biowarfare weapons.
Eleven years later, as the laboratory prepared to open, the French architects of the project complained that they had, as feared, been ousted by the Chinese communist government.
Bill Gates Documentary Reveals Ties to Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Eugenics Movement
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
An independent media publisher named “Grace” who goes by reallygraceful on YouTube has produced what is the best documentary on the history of Bill Gates that I have seen so far.
I have never met Grace, and Health Impact News does not necessarily agree with all of her commentary (we don’t necessarily disagree either!), but these 3 short videos, which have been very-well produced, come with plenty of references to document the things she is revealing, and we will copy the references here as well, before YouTube removes these videos.
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Moderna Bill Gates https://www.modernatx.com/ecosystem/strategic-collaborators/foundations-advancing-mrna-science-and-research
Johnson & Johnson lands $1B government deal to boost coronavirus vaccine capacity https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/johnson-johnson-lands-1b-government-deal-to-boost-coronavirus-vaccine-capacity/
2019 Military World Games Opens in central Chinese City of Wuhan https://youtu.be/u3UOKwIoXo0 via @YouTube
MIT and Microsoft Research made a ‘smart’ tattoo that remotely controls your phone https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/8/13/12460542/mit-microsoft-research-gold-leaf-smart-temporary-tattoo?
Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population, report says https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2009/05/26/billionaires-try-to-shrink-worlds-population-report-says/
Bill’s comment about divinity and human soul: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1120657-2,00.html
Partnering for a path to digital identity https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/01/22/partnering-for-a-path-to-digital-identity/
Bill Gates, hypocrite? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/06/bill-gates-preaches-fighting-poverty-hypocrite-microsoft-tax
Gates responsible for first computer virus https://www.historylink.org/File/10421
Bill Gates and Epstein, a closer relationship than admitted https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/12/20911488/bill-gates-foundation-jeffrey-epstein-meetings
References
Judge Says Microsoft Wields Monopoly Power Over Rivals https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/11/06/judge-says-microsoft-wields-monopoly-power-over-rivals/8c06ca6e-2344-4f8d-b391-68e7d94243ca/
Correlation between Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis Rates with Pulse Polio Frequency in India https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121585/pdf/ijerph-15-01755.pdf
Centre shuts health mission gate on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/centre-shuts-gate-on-bill-melinda-gates-foundation/articleshow/57028697.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Calls in India for legal action against US charity https://www.nature.com/news/calls-in-india-for-legal-action-against-us-charity-1.13700
Controversial vaccine studies: Why is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under fire from critics in India?https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/articleshow/41280050.cms?from=mdr
HCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320641479_HCG_Found_in_WHO_Tetanus_Vaccine_in_Kenya_Raises_Concern_in_the_Developing_World
(Great article linking to sources, very shareable–>)Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/
Mutant Strains Of Polio Vaccine Now Cause More Paralysis Than Wild Polio https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/534403083/mutant-strains-of-polio-vaccine-now-cause-more-paralysis-than-wild-polio
More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus https://apnews.com/7d8b0e32efd0480fbd12acf27729f6a5
Microsoft Govt Partners https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/Solutions/government
Microsoft Deals With Government: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/government
Accountability of International NGOs: Human Rights Violations in Healthcare Provision in Developing Countries and the Effectiveness of Current Measures https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&context=annlsurvey
Bill and Melinda Gates pledge biggest-ever charitable donation – $10 billion – in call for ‘Decade of Vaccines’ https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/bill-and-melinda-gates-pledge-biggest-ever-charitable-donation-10-billion-in-call-for-decade-of-vaccines
First Results of Phase 3 Trial of RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccine in African Children https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1102287
The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural Experiment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5360569/
Why is the Gates Foundation Investing in GM Giant Monsanto? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto Opening Ceremony of 2019 Military World Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCdAY-AOG-o
References
GMO Impossible Burger Tests Positive for Glyphosate https://livingmaxwell.com/gmo-impossible-burger-glyphosate
Critics Challenge the Health Benefits of Alternative Meat https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-18/faux-meat-has-a-real-threat-with-opponents-attacking-healthiness
Bill Gates Beef With Climate Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpwJtdcYkAA&feature=emb_title
When Mitt Romney Came to Town https://archive.org/details/WhenMittRomneyCameToTown-2011
Bain Capital Investments 1984-1999 https://archive.org/details/270240-db-prospectus/page/n18/mode/2up
Bayer: Need some heroin for your cough ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9uuzRXZakI
Mitt Romney on Bain’s plan to buy and harvest companies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EsxNYXW5i8
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-183291/
How Mitt Romney Helped Monsanto Take Over the World https://www.motherjones.com/food/2012/09/romney-monsanto-bain/
Starbucks is adding plant-based meat and oat milk lattes to its menu in China https://www.bain.com/about/media-center/bain-in-the-news/2020/starbucks-adding-plant-based-meat-oat-milk-to-menu-in-china/
The Starbucks Effect-Bain https://www.bain.com/insights/the-starbucks-effect/
Lives have been ruined – contaminated blood victims https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48104413 How Bill Gates is Tied to the Success of Starbucks https://www.lifedaily.com/story/how-bill-gates-is-tied-to-the-success-starbucks/
When a competitor tried to buy Starbucks, Howard Schultz was rescued by Bill Gates Sr. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/bill-gates-sr-helped-howard-schultz-buy-starbucks.html
Howard Schultz Insane Story about Bill Gates and his dad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDHGgiTErAQ
Bain Company Profile https://www.vault.com/company-profiles/management-strategy/bain-company
Breaking Down Bain Capital https://www.npr.org/2012/01/14/145235049/breaking-down-bain-capital
Bain: A Consulting Firm Too Hot to Handle? http://archive.is/qK0hu
Mitt Romney, Netanyahu are old friends https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/us/politics/mitt-romney-and-benjamin-netanyahu-are-old-friends.html
A Closer Look at Cheney and Halliburtton https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/us/a-closer-look-at-cheney-and-halliburton.html
Agricultural Industry Secrets https://usrtk.org/a-few-other-things-the-agrichemical-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-them-crimes-scandals-and-other-wrongdoing/#_ftn38 Mengele Chemikal was part of Monsanto Who are the driving forces behind Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods? https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/3015024/who-are-driving-forces-behind-beyond-meat-and
Starbucks Drink Ingredients List https://foodbabe.com/starbucks-finally-publishes-drink-ingredient-list/
Romney, debt, and Bain’s way https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20120130/NEWS/301309403
..It does appear that in this post, Melinda Gates is wearing an inverted crucifix which is something I have seen on other high profile people. The concluding section of this post casts doubt on her gender, claiming that she may have a body double or that she may be a transgender. Personally, I am not on board with this and have not been with accusations made about others as to their disguised sex [e.g. Michelle Obama], not until there is reasonable evidence. That said, it may be worth referring to our previous post on the Gates' association with the "Lucifer Trust". See - https://austroz.blogspot.com.knightslite.com/2020/05/gates-of-hell.html
Melinda Gates, 55, is the wife of Microsoft co-founder and its former chairman, CEO, and president Bill Gates, 64. A former general manager herself at Microsoft, Melinda and Bill in 2000 co-founded the powerful Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable organization as of 2015. Melinda has consistently been ranked as one of the world’s most powerful women by Forbes.
The Gates are Democrats. Both were suggested as possible vice-presidential picks in the 2016 presidential election, according to an email from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, which was obtained and published by WikiLeaks. (Time)
Melinda Gates is also a Roman Catholic. In 2014, Bill toldRolling Stone magazine that he and Melinda raised their three children as Catholics, the family goes to a Catholic church, and that religious morality inspires a lot of his charity work.
Melinda Gates’ Catholicism goes against the Gates Foundation’s funding, until 2013, of abortion by donating $71 million to Planned Parenthood and affiliated organizations. In 2014, she said that the foundation “has decided not to fund abortion”, focusing instead on family planning and contraception in order to avoid conflation of abortion and family planning. (Wikipedia)
Then there is the matter of Melinda’s jewelry.
Longtime FOTM reader/commenter Lola sent me this pic of Melinda Gates wearing a necklace with a pendant that’s an upside-down cross.
The pic is a screenshot taken from a video of Melinda’s appearance on an NBC “Today” show on May 8, 2020:
The upside-down or inverted cross is a symbol that stems from the martyrdom of St. Peter the Apsotle. Catholic tradition is that when the Romans sentenced Peter to death by crucifixion, he requested that his cross be upside down, as he felt unworthy of being crucified in the same manner as his Lord and savior Jesus Christ. That is why there are images of the Pope wearing the inverted or Petrine Cross because the Pope is the successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome.
However, in our times, the upside-down cross has been co-opted by satanists to mock Christ’s crucifixion, just as the Black Massis an inverted mockery of the Catholic Mass.
So the question is: Given the upside-down cross having become a satanic symbol, why would Melinda Gates, a self-professed Catholic, wear that as necklace? Why not a regular, rightside-up cross instead?
There’s also something else that’s disturbing about Melinda’s appearance.
Twitterer @Inevitable_ET posted comparison pics of Bill and Melinda, past and present, which show Melinda looking very different from what she was before. She now has a bigger and fatter nose, which can’t be from weight gain. She also looks like a man in drag.
.. The link to the Australian researcher's article is a hyper link in the article below.
EXCLUSIVE: Virus researchers uncover new evidence implying COVID-19 was created in a lab
Preliminary study results suggest virus was produced in lab cultures using human cells.
Sat May 16, 2020 - 10:48 am EST
A clinical support technician extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, on February 19, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland.Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images
May 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A team of Australian scientists has produced new evidence that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is optimized for penetration into human cells rather than animal cells, undermining the theory that the virus randomly evolved in an animal subject before passing into human beings, and suggesting instead that it was developed in a laboratory.
The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, provides new but not yet conclusive evidence favoring the theory that the novel coronavirus originated not in a food market as has been claimed, but rather in a laboratory, presumably one operated by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, the city in which the first outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in December of 2019.
The lead researcher on the team says that the results represent either “a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention” in the creation of the virus.
The authors of the study, led by vaccine researcher Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University in Australia, used a version of the novel coronavirus collected in the earliest days of the outbreak and applied computer models to test its capacity to bind to certain cell receptor enzymes, called “ACE2,” that allow the virus to infect human and animal cells to varying degrees of efficacy.
They tested the propensity of the COVID-19 virus’s spike protein, which it uses to enter cells, to bind to the human type of ACE2 as well as to many different animal versions of ACE2, and found that the novel coronavirus most powerfully binds with human ACE2, and with variously lesser degrees of effectiveness with animal versions of the receptor.
According to the study’s authors, this implies that the virus that causes COVID-19 did not come from an animal intermediary, but became specialized for human cell penetration by living previously in human cells, quite possibly in a laboratory.
The authors write that “this finding is particularly surprising as, typically, a virus would be expected to have highest affinity for the receptor in its original host species, e.g. bat, with a lower initial binding affinity for the receptor of any new host, e.g. humans. However, in this case, the affinity of SARS-CoV-2 is higher for humans than for the putative original host species, bats, or for any potential intermediary host species.”
As a consequence, they add, a “possibility which still cannot be excluded is that SARSCoV-2 was created by a recombination event that occurred inadvertently or consciously in a laboratory handling coronaviruses, with the new virus then accidentally released into the local human population.”
In a separate public statement about the research made by Prof. Petrovsky on April 17, the researcher notes that the results of his study are either "a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention,” and adds that it is “entirely plausible that the virus was created in the biosecurity facility in Wuhan by selection on cells expressing human ACE2, a laboratory that was known to be cultivating exotic bat coronaviruses at the time.”
“If so the cultured virus could have escaped the facility either through accidental infection of a staff member who then visited the fish market several blocks away and there infected others, or by inappropriate disposal of waste from the facility that either infected humans outside the facility directly or via a susceptible vector such as a stray cat that then frequented the market and resulted in transmission there to humans,” he added.
The researchers recognize that other possibilities exist, but regard them as improbable. They found that the novel coronavirus has a strong, but lesser binding effect on the ACE2 receptor of Pangolins, which are mammals eaten in China as a delicacy which has often been proposed as the intermediary of the novel coronavirus between bats and humans. However, they note that the Pangolin doesn’t offer a reasonable candidate for an intermediate species for human transmission, because “given the higher affinity of [the novel coronavirus] SARS-CoV-2 for human ACE2 than for bat ACE2, SARS-CoV-2 would have to have circulated in pangolins for a long period of time for this evolution and selection to occur and to date there is no evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 like virus circulating in pangolins.”
A preliminary form of the study, which is currently entitled, “In silico comparison of spike protein-ACE2 binding affinities across species; significance for the possible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” has been published on a repository site maintained by Cornell University, which warns that studies published prior to peer review should not be considered “established information” unless multiple experts in a given field are first consulted.
According to his university webpage, in addition to his work as a university professor, Professor Petrovsky is currently Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre of Flinders University, and Vice President and Secretary-General of the International Immunomics Society. He is also the founder of Vaxine Pty Ltd., which is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and is currently working on a COVID-19 vaccine.
In addition to Professor Petrovsky, the research team that produced the study includes Prof. Sakshi Piplani, also of Flinders University, Puneet Kumar Singh, who works with Petrovsky and Piplani at Vaxine Pty Ltd., and Prof. David A. Winkler, who teaches at the University of Nottingham in the U.K and Monash University in Australia.
Study contradicts scientists who claim “zero evidence” for lab origin of virus
The results of the study tend to contradict virologists who have claimed that the novel coronavirus shows no signs of having been produced in a laboratory, some of whom have gone so far as to dismiss such theories as “conspiracy theories.” The “conspiracy theory” claim has been uncritically echoed in much, but not all, of the international media. The staff of the Wuhan Institute of Virology have repeatedly denied the virus came from their lab.
Their position has been supported by a widely-referenced letter from several scientists published in Nature Medicine on March 17, which argues against the likelihood of a laboratory generating the virus in a human cell lab culture.
The argument made by the researchers in the letter is mostly based on the claim that no genetically-close progenitor to the novel coronavirus that could be a candidate for such a process has been described in any scientific study. They also assert that “repeated passage” of coronaviruses in cell cultures have not been mentioned in scientific literature.
However, the letter’s authors do not address the possibility that the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers simply did not report all of their research to the public, a possibility that seems to have been reinforced in recent months by secrecy and cover-ups regarding COVID-19 research in China, and the repeatedrefusal of the Chinese government to participate in an international probe of the origins of the novel coronavirus.
Unless an animal version of virus is found, evidence points to “human intervention”
Professor Petrovsky told LifeSite in an email interview that his study indicates that “there are some highly unusual features, including optimal human adaptation, that in the absence of identification of a close to identical virus in an animal population from which COVID19 could have arisen, would point in the direction of human intervention at some point in the evolution of COVID19.”
He noted that, so far, researchers in China and elsewhere have not produced evidence of the presence in animals of a virus closely similar to the one that causes COVID-19 in humans, which would give credence to their theory of natural development in an intermediary between bats, which presumably originated the virus, and humans.
“If an animal vector and virus could be found then of course this would resolve the matter completely,” Petrovksy told LifeSite. “One would have thought that the Chinese would be intensively sampling all conceivable animals trying to find such a virus to exonerate their labs. If no such intense search is going on (which I don’t know one way or the other) then the inference could be that they are not looking because they already know what they might find.”
Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University who has been critical of laboratory studies that might produce new pathogens dangerous to humans, told LifeSite that Petrovsky’s results “are plausible,” but cautioned that the results of the pre-print of the study “are from computational modelling, not from experiments, and therefore must be considered as provisional at best.”
Ebright noted that an earlier study on ACE2 receptor binding found that a bat coronavirus similar to the COVID-19 virus had strong binding power with the ACE2 of tree shrews and ferrets, making them possible animal intermediary candidates. However, the study did not compare the binding power of the virus’ animal species’ ACE2 receptors with the binding power with humans, as does Petrovsky’s study. Moreover, it did not use a gene sequence from an early version of the novel coronavirus itself, as does Petrovsky’s study, but rather used the gene sequence of a similar bat coronavirus reported by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, called RaTG13.
Ebright told LifeSite that he believes that multiple physical experiments that will ultimately determine if the novel coronavirus is optimized for binding with human cells are “probably underway in multiple locations,” although he did not cite any specific studies.
What is needed, according to Prof. Petrovsky, is a thorough international investigation into the true cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, something the Chinese government has repeatedly refused.
“Whilst the facts cannot be known at this time, the nature of this event and its proximity to a high-risk biosecurity facility at the epicentre of the outbreak demands a full and independent international enquiry to ascertain whether a virus of this kind of COVID-19 was being cultured in the facility and might have been accidentally released,” wrote Petrovsky on April 17.
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