I don't believe they are that dumb. If they were purposely going to release it you would do it somewhere else and not your own backyard. If it had popped up in South American or Africa it would have been more plausible especially for deniability. This thing is clearly Chinese and in the very city the lab that was studying it is in. A leak is much more likely, especially considering how Chinese like to cut corners doing things.
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence Full Paper at link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 Note the Date. This research was done in North Carolina.
Note the Authors, and that among them, Xing-Yi Ge is from
Xing-Yi Ge
Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
and (I missed this the first time I posted this information) Zhengli-Li Shi
Zhengli-Li Shi
Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
From the Abstract:
Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.
Note that SARS-CoV-2 is
exactly the sort of thing they were
creating in North Carolina when their funding was pulled.
A virus that attacks the same pneumocytes using the same (ACE2) receptor as the Chimera virus they created in the lab. This paper came out in
Nature the following year.
I would postulate that there is a strong possibility that a more deadly version was in the works, considering that they were creating novel pathogens with
enhanced capability and that the release would not have been in China, either, but it would have been convenient for the Clintons to be saviours of the world, with of course, ChiCom help, along with Gates, the UN, and a cast of dozens of power players, mostly still behind the scenes.
The vaccine alone would have put dozens of countries in thrall to the international bankers, and patent holders, effectively economic serfdom.--or die.
Intentionally or accidentally, this got out of the lab in time to displace the Impeachment fiasco from the Global news cycle. This was a premature release, perhaps out of desperation, using globetrotting Chinese and others to spread it, while attempting to cover up the very existence of the outbreak, a dispersal mechanism which was highly effective, yet deniable, which led to the "wet market' fable. There was a desperate need for a shift in focus, attention, and even power, not just in the news cycle, but desperately seeking leverage, once again, to disrupt this administration. Neither the Democrats nor the ChiComs have any love for Trump, the only question is one of which (actually, of many players) is most desperate to harm him, especially in the media eye.
Was there collusion? It's be hard to summarily dismiss, especially considering it was deals brokered by Bill and Hillary which really made the Chinese a force in space at all. (Recall Loral and the missing circuit boards from a failed launch that were guidance circuits provided by (iirc) Hughes Aerospace, all on the Clintons' watch).
It was no secret that a compelling case against Trump had not been made, long before the results were official.
Something, (from the Democrats and the Chinese POV) needed to be done.
I don't believe in coincidences, and too much has fit too well for that, but just possibly, it was a mere accidental release, of a lab-crated virus from a BSL-4 facility, funded in part by NIAID money, with Fauci's okay...