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https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/03/25/about-bats-and-covid-why-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-shouldnt-be-dismissed-out-of-hand-and-other-reflections-one-year-into-the-crisis/
An aspect of this matter that has not been covered/mentioned, even by Ron Unz in his review:
Twenty years ago, witnessing the rise of China with double digit GDP growth, and the rapid Neoliberal transfer of manufacturing to China, I thought to myself that the US could only recover competitiveness and the US jobs that were then being moved to China, in (***only***) one of two ways: (1) Nuke China "back to the stone age" (radical in the extreme, as well as "impractical" because of China's nuclear deterrent, and because the barbaric severity would have correspondingly severe global political implications). Clearly too radical; or (2) to simply wait it out until rising Chinese wages met falling US wages, at which point US workers would once again be competitive.
Looking back at this view, I see another possibility, a more "creative" option to damage China and halt or slow their rise: the bioweapons option. Unlike a direct military attack, a bioweapons attack could be kept "covert". By implying a natural origin, the attacker could avoid a retaliatory response. (Even if the Chinese Governing elite saw it as a bioweapons attack, accepting a "natural origin" narrative, would allow them to save face and forgo an obligatory retaliatory response and the catastrophic damage to US-China economic activity that would certainly result.)
Now, let us "guess" that the previous avian and swine flu outbreaks may have been lower level "test runs" of a bioweapons strategy. Or alternatively, a natural event that might suggest a bioweapons strategy.
With this preface, in this light, let's look to the unmentioned hypothesis for the Covid-19 event that I mentioned at the start.
Simply stated. The cooperative effort -- funding and personnel -- between the US and China to research GoF research at the Wuhan lab could not possibly have been conducted without the knowledge and involvement of the US National Security apparatus. China was a chief US adversary, and the CIA would have been all over this activity. And the plan then becomes incredibly simple: at a time of their choosing, a time of greatest effectiveness -- around Chinese New Year -- the CIA asset at the Wuhan lab, releases the pathogen ***DELIBERATELY***. (No Ft. Detrick involvement needed.)
Up till now the "Lab Leak" hypothesis has always assumed/implied an accidental release. A deliberate release is far more reasonable and certainly far more consistent with Occam's Razor.
And there are those other factors: the Military Intelligence report by ABC, at once denied, and then confirmed; all the Plan 201 and other "timely" pandemic preparedness activity immediately preceding the pandemic: the instantaneous and comprehensive lockdown by the Chinese (which suggests that they may have been prepared, anticipating as much a deliberate military "bioweapons" attack as a natural outbreak). And the refusal of the US to allow release of the US CDC data about the origin.
Some thoughts.
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