As usual, the Democrats do not want you to know the truth. The Dems clearly want to continue to lie, create propaganda, and an alternate reality. This illustrates Dems SOPs. Also, what are the Dems hiding? It is more than obvious that the information is being kept from the public because it will destroy propaganda that orange man bad and every thing is his fault.
The Australian Saturday, August 7, 2021 Beijing lab mishap ‘infected scientist’ with Covid-19 Ohio State University director of viruses and emerging pathogens Shan-Lu Liu. A Beijing laboratory director was infected with Covid-19 in a lab accident in early 2020, explosive emails have revealed, showing an inadvertent leak of the highly contagious coronavirus is far from a conspiracy theory. A senior scientist at a prestigious laboratory, the National Institute for Viral Disease Control, allegedly contracted Covid-19 in his laboratory in early 2020 while researching the virus, prominent virologists say. The virologists discussed the infection in an email chain obtained by the US Right to Know group. China’s failure to disclose this laboratory accident has raised questions about whether health authorities would have disclosed a lab accident in Wuhan months earlier. Ohio State University director of viruses and emerging pathogens Shan-Lu Liu wrote in an email dated February 14, 2020: “We were from the same lab where my former director has now been infected by SARS-CoV-2! Very sad but he’s doing OK!” Scientist Lishan Su, then at the University of North Carolina, replied: “Your former colleague was infected with sars2 in the lab?” Shan-Lu Liu responded: “Yes, he was infected in the lab!” University of Massachusetts Medical School professor Shan Lu, also on the email chain, wrote 15 minutes later: “I actually am very concerned for the possibility of SARS-2 infection by lab people. It is much more contagious than SARS-1. “Now every lab is interested in get a vial of virus to do drug discovery. This can potentially (sic) a big issue.” The virologists were preparing a commentary to refute the hypothesis that Covid-19 emerged in a laboratory. The piece had been commissioned by Shan Lu, who is editor-in-chief of the medical journal Emerging Microbes and Infections. US Right to Know executive director Gary Ruskin said the emails were a strong and reliable indication of a lab-acquired infection of SARS-CoV-2 from a prestigious Beijing virology institute. “Lab accidents happen. They are not a conspiracy theory. It’s time for the China CDC to disclose everything they know about this accident,” he told the Weekend Australian. “This new lab accident, and the failure to disclose it, is further evidence of the potential dangers of Chinese biolabs, and the failure to publicly disclose the accident does not bring confidence they would have disclosed a lab accident in Wuhan if it happened.” The Right to Know group obtained the emails from Ohio State University under the Ohio Public Records Act. In the same email chain where Shan-Lu Liu revealed his former colleague had been infected in the lab, the scientists discussed whether to include in the article the risks of working on contagious coronaviruses. Lishan suggested including such a sentence about the “public health concerns” of working with a contagious virus in an email sent at 11am on February 14, 2020. Shan-Lu Liu replied saying: “I get your point – maybe below one reads better? “We should emphasis that although SARS-CoV-2 shows no evidence of laboratory origin, viruses with such great public health threats must be handled properly in the laboratory and properly regulated by scientific community and governments.” The Chinese Communist Party, World Health Organisation investigators and prominent scientists have repeatedly claimed that a lab leak origin for Covid-19 is a conspiracy theory.
Chinese state media has seized on a Swiss scientist critical of a covid origins probe. The one problem: He might not exist. By Adam Taylor Today at 3:13 p.m. EDT https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/10/wilson-edwards-china-swiss/ Under the name Wilson Edwards, a Facebook user on July 24 penned a post critical of the U.S. position on the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus. Claiming to be a Swiss biologist, Edwards argued that the probe had been politicized. The Biden administration had “spared no efforts in rebuilding U.S. influence in the organization,” he wrote. He was wading into hot water: China has rejected new efforts to learn more about how the coronavirus spread to humans, for which the United States and WHO have pushed. Few Western scientists have taken up Beijing’s cause. It was the United States, not China, that was seeking to influence the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, Wilson argued, citing sources at the WHO who he claimed had told him: “The U.S. is so obsessed with attacking China on the origin-tracing issue that it is reluctant to open its eyes to the data and findings.” The post drew wide attention from Chinese state media, which used it to vindicate China’s stance on the investigation. CGTN, China’s state broadcaster, wrote that the post indicated “intimidation” on the part of a WHO advisory group tracing the origins of the coronavirus. But on Tuesday, Swiss diplomats raised an inconvenient detail: Wilson Edwards does not actually appear to exist. Suggesting that the account was likely a source of “fake news,” the Swiss Embassy in Beijing asked Chinese media companies to take down their stories. CGTN and other outlets appear to have quietly complied. The dispute over the supposed Swiss biologist and his prominence in Chinese state media came amid continuing disputes about the origin of the coronavirus and a renewed push for the WHO to investigate further. More than a year and a half since the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, before going on to kill millions around the world, the exact path it took remains unclear. Though similar epidemics have started when a virus found in animals made the leap to humans, in what is known as zoonotic spread, scientists have not yet found an animal that appears to have directly infected humans. Internationally, some have argued that the virus could have inadvertently infected humans during research on bat coronaviruses in a Wuhan lab. A joint WHO-China investigation into the origins published a report this year that concluded that zoonotic spread was most likely and dismissed the idea of a lab leak as unlikely and not worthy of further investigation. The report faced immediate criticism from WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. In May, President Biden gave the U.S. intelligence community 90 days for a renewed search for evidence about the origins of the coronavirus. Tedros also called for the WHO to continue its own probe, though Chinese officials suggested last month that it would be “impossible” for Beijing to accept a continuing China-focused probe. The social media posts by the user going by Wilson Edwards played into this discourse. But even before the embassy stepped in, they came with some red flags. The account appeared to have been created recently and had only three friends. There was no identifying photograph or other information, other than a location set to Bern, Switzerland. The account did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Chinese state media outlets have been accused of using fake identities before. A French journalist named Laurène Beaumond contributed to CGTN’s reporting on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, helping to portray a brighter image of events there in the face of allegations of mass repression of Uyghur people. In March, Le Monde reported that there was no such French journalist to be found. The Chinese Foreign Ministry later argued that she existed, despite not being registered officially, but would not say whether she had used her real name. Chinese state-backed media outlets have suggested without verified evidence that the United States could be where the coronavirus originated. An article in the English-language edition of the Global Times published Monday quoted an unnamed “insider” who said the United States was now considered “a major suspect responsible for leaking Covid-19.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-...origins/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=127527403 China rejects WHO's calls for new probe into COVID-19's origins Beijing — China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of COVID-19, saying it supported "scientific" over "political" efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is again mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic that's killed more than four million people since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. A delayed and heavily politicized WHO team of international experts went to Wuhan in January 2021 to produce a first phase report, which was written in conjunction with their Chinese counterparts. It failed to conclude how the virus began. On Thursday the WHO urged China to share raw data from the earliest COVID-19 cases to revive its probe into the origins of the disease. China hit back, repeating its position that the initial investigation was enough and that calls for further data were motivated by politics instead of scientific inquiry. "We oppose political tracing ... and abandoning the joint report" issued after the WHO expert team's Wuhan visit in January, vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. "We support scientific tracing." That report said the virus jumping from bats to humans via an intermediate animal was the most probable scenario, while a leak from Wuhan's virology labs was "extremely unlikely". Ma rejected suggestions of new lines of investigation. "The conclusions and recommendations of WHO and China joint report were recogniZed by the international community and the scientific community," he said. "Future global traceability work should and can only be further carried out on the basis of this report, rather than starting a new one." The rejection came on the same day China said more than half its 1.4 billion people had been fully vaccinated. The Reuters news agency reports the National Health Commission put the number of vaccinated at more than 777 million. China is the world's most populous nation.
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China kinda shit at the propaganda game. Way too transparent: 2019 closure and resumption of operations Following the cease and desist order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in which the USAMRIID laboratory at the base was shut down in August of 2019 for at least two "breaches of containment", the announcement to resume operations on a "limited scale" was made on November 25, 2019. The two breaches reported to the CDC by USAMRIID staff demonstrated failures of biosafety level 3 and 4 protocols in the Army laboratory to "implement and maintain containment procedures sufficient to contain select agents or toxins".[34] After approximately eight months of closure and restrictions, the USAMRIID BSL-4 lab had been authorized to resume full operational status by April 2020, to the applause of Maryland lawmakers including Senator Ben Cardin, who stated "it is a relief to have USAMRIID fully operational with the current COVID-19 outbreak"'.[35][36]