@The_Reader_David Please see post 24, this thread. If you go to the link, provided Nature hasn't scrubbed the article, you will see a group of researchers published results of their work in viral 'enhancement'.
The bottom line that everyone seems to ignore is that this work was done under the auspices, at least in part funded by NIAID. The paper cited there is from 2015, research done in 2014. That research was shut down in the US, and moved to The Wuhan Institute of Virology under the Obama Administration, and funded, in part by NIAID. The description of the virus, the effects of the virus (attacking type 1 pneumocytes), even the grafted in bat coronavirus lineage all fit SARS CoV-2. Two of the researchers from the original team were from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, so the knowledge, if not the samples and notes and all other information were readily available to them.
Keep in mind Fauci has been in his position for three decades at NIAID, and predicted the Trump Administration would face a surprise Pandemic, back in 2017
https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170111/fauci-no-doubt-trump-will-face-surprise-infectious-disease-outbreak ...there is “no doubt†Donald J. Trump will be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak during his presidency
Now, this wasn't said as if this might happen some time in the distant or even inconclusive future, but was tied to the specific time frame of the Trump Administration, which would end in 2018 if not reelected. That's a pretty tight window as far as predicting pandemics goes--
unless you know something the average shmuck doesn't.. Reading the rest of the article at healio.com, it is apparent that at least some in the Administration's Health agencies harbored harsh sentiment toward the President.
I have no doubt that the virus was man made. Whether the outbreak was an accidental release, whether the timing was intentional, I would not put it past the CCP to use the opportunity to infect the globe to get at a president they had had a hard time buying off (unlike Clinton or Biden), who actually stiff armed them on trade deals instead of sucking up and making more money. "America First" does not play well with the CCP.
At any rate, whether opportunistic or generally planned, the CCP has little problem sacrificing a few thousand expatriates to carry the disease around the globe, and hid the nature of the outbreak from the world, as best they could, in order to do so, and failed to implement policies to limit the spread outside China, in fact, while limiting the spread of the SARS CoV-2 virus within their country. Early cases in the general population there may have appeared as far back as September of 2019.
(As an aside, keep in mind that for all the hostility the Biden camp has toward fraccing, many failures at the surface, though they be few, were the result of failures of equipment made in China, something the US Oil and Gas industry quickly learned to avoid. American made tubular goods, valves, and wellheads have a FAR better track record for safety and durability. Trump's policies favoring American goods have had an environmental effect as well as an economic one, and the strategic benefit of having a stronger American steel industry cannot be understated, considering when it was determined that HMMVs needed to be uparmored for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, the steel was in short supply domestically because of only one manufacturer.)
I must ask, what purpose in creating a chimera virus for enhanced capability if not for biological warfare? This virus did not exist in nature. The likelihood of the bat corona virus recombining in nature with a SARS virus in a mouse is so ridiculously small as to be approaching zero. Because of the international conventions surrounding the development of biological warfare agents, any such research would be cloaked under the penumbra of medical research, but the effects are obvious. Had the MSM let out that the virus was indeed the "CCP or CHINA Virus", made in a lab there, the effect on the election would have been obvious. Had America known Fauci was aware, at a minimum of the research going on there in Wuhan, Americans would have demanded his resignation.
When I connect these dots, I keep getting the same picture: the agent of the pandemic was manufactured. FOr political, trade, and other reasons, it was advantageous for the Chinese, the Democrat Party (whose domestic policies maximized the number of fatalities and continue to cripple the domestic economy on an individual as well as a collective basis), and has been presented in the MSM as a negative for the Administration, despite tremendous efforts and accomplishments in everything from finding treatments to a vaccine, presented as "having done nothing", which could not be farther from the truth. (See timelines documented at the links in
@PeteS in CA 's posts in his signature lines).
If this was not an intentional release for the purposes of creating chaos in the coming elections (enabling, for instance, "mail in voting", with unprecedented opportunity for fraud), for the purpose of electing a Democrat who would do 'business as usual' with the Communist Chinese, then it has been most a most fortuitous accident for those parties, and to the detriment of America, Americans, and our economy.
Should Biden prevail in this election, you ain't seen nothing yet.