Analysis: the origin of the novel coronavirus seems clear now
There were four plausible origins of the COVID-19 virus. With the latest news, I think that we can safely reduce that to one or two.
- The virus jumped from a bat onto a human and proved or became transmittable between humans.
- One or more individuals purposefully released the virus from the specialized Wuhan lab to infect people, a form of non-State terrorism.
- On government orders, the virus was purposefully released from the specialized Wuhan lab to infect people, a form of biological warfare.
- The virus accidentally was released from the specialized Wuhan lab infecting people.
It seems clear to me that the news implies that dictatorial China not only refuses liberal research to find out where the virus originated but is also actively hindering such efforts.
This has enormous potential to exclude and implicate actors.
(1) If the origin was a simple animal-to-human infection, there would be no reason to hide it. Even more so, China could show its scientific powers if it could pinpoint where en when this jump happened, and even try to find Patient zero.
(2) If China, and thereby the whole world, was the victim of terrorism, would not the dictatorship of China immediately publish such a victimization? It would win widespread sympathy and solidarity. In viciously totalitarian Orwellian China, it is unthinkable that such terrorism would not be discovered. And the culprits publicly humiliated and executed. China not publishing this terrorism means it didn’t happen.
(3) If Communist China would have thought to unleash a vicious virus on the world, several things should have happened first. The Chinese army and leaders would first have been vaccinated. The virus would have been tested on its political prisoners and in its ethnic concentration camps. (This may sound cynical but is completely logical if one wants to mass murder.) It would have dumped the virus in the West and not have it circulate through its own citizens close to the lab it was grown in. It would have stockpiled vaccines to sell them for exorbitant amounts and pose as humanity’s savior. It would also not have given an early warning to the US President: “This is not the normal flu.” (You could say: But they knew he was a lazy political imbecile. Yet, he could have passed on the information to capable people.)
(4) If Communist ‘Utopian’ China would blunder and such a virus had escaped, it would block the news about it. It would threaten physicians not to publish anything. Exactly as happened. It would block any later attempt at finding out what happened. All exactly as it happened.
Now China purposefully hinders research about the virus’ origin, the only remaining reasonable explanation is that it accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab.
As in any scientific finding, the answer only evokes more questions. What was this virus doing in the lab? Where they busy finding a vaccine? Were they trying to preempt hostile countries turning this virus into a bioweapon? Were they trying to preempt a spontaneous epidemic? Were they busy shaping it into a bioweapon?
The Times of Israel could not publish this even after 7 hours but in that time published dozens of other posts. I know when mine is not welcome. Their loss.
A tree is known by its fruit. Only this tree has quite a variety of produce, so please don't judge the trunk after one helping.
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