Why I Think The Wuhan Virus Was Likely Man-Made But Escaped By Accident
A suspicious gene sequence, the location of the COVID-19 epicenter, lab funding, and missing scientists all point to one thing: The Wuhan virus was produced in and escaped from a Chinese lab.
By David Willhite
October 13, 2020Chinese scientist Li-Meng Yan recently published a paper claiming SARS-COV-2 was engineered in a Wuhan lab and released intentionally. Several other papers have emerged on the origin of the novel coronavirus, with some claiming the origin was natural. Online rebuttals to Yan’s work have also come out, including one recently featured in The Federalist, which took a skeptical tone to Yan’s claims.
If we want to engineer a virus, we manipulate the biological sequence. A sequence means the order in which the basic biological “letters†occur, and this order determines the function or purpose of the sequence, just as the meaning of words is based on the order of letters. ...
[discussion of RNA, DNA, etc., ...]
...It certainly appears in this case that the coronavirus E gene is solid evidence of unnatural origin. It was likely lifted from one of the strains, either ZC45 or ZXC21, and recombinantly placed, or “engineered,†into the novel coronavirus. But let’s just accept this as highly suspicious, not proof.
We now must combine this with knowledge of the location of the outbreak epicenter. There are two labs, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, eight miles and 300 yards from the officially claimed epicenter of the seafood market, respectively. It strains credulity that we have a rare natural recombination event that just so happened to occur very near a lab that was performing recombinant experiments on coronaviruses.
The virus was almost certainly created for research purposes. ...
Four points indicate that the novel coronavirus was produced in and escaped from the lab in Wuhan:
* A highly suspicious gene sequence
* The proximity of the epicenter
* Funding to create recombinant viruses
* Missing scientists ...
Dr. Willhite is a molecular biologist. His doctoral training at the University of Houston focused on infectious disease.
Read entire article at The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/13/why-i-think-the-wuhan-virus-was-likely-man-made-but-escaped-by-accident/)