{"id":164831,"date":"2021-01-28T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hey-who-do-a-real-wuhan-probe-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:43:10","slug":"hey-who-do-a-real-wuhan-probe-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hey-who-do-a-real-wuhan-probe-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hey, WHO! Do a real Wuhan probe: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e0ba04aa00\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e0ba04aa00\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hey-who-do-a-real-wuhan-probe-devine\/#Prioritize_kids_not_teachers_unions\" >Prioritize kids, not teachers unions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hey, WHO! Do a real Wuhan probe: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Finally, the World Health Organization has sent investigators to Wuhan, China, ground zero for COVID-19, to begin the belated search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today they will emerge from 14 days of quarantine. They should go straight to the Wuhan Institute of \u00adVirology, where high-risk research, funded by US taxpayers, was being conducted into animal-to-human transmission of bat coronaviruses, a few miles from where the first COVID-19 cases were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Reputable virologists around the world point to the Wuhan lab as the most likely source of the pandemic, probably due to an accidental leak, because of its research into a bat virus named RaTG13, the closest known relative of the new coronavirus that has killed 2 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>And yet WHO\u2019s team of crack investigators say they may not ever go to the lab. They may not even meet the scientist who was conducting that risky research, China\u2019s so-called bat woman, Shi Zhengli.<\/p>\n<p>There is no more vociferous opponents of the \u201clab leak\u201d hypothesis than Peter Daszak, the British-born head of New York based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, and the only US representative of the WHO team.<\/p>\n<p>Daszak, as other scientists have pointed out, has a conflict of interest, because he worked closely with Zhengli in her bat research, co-authored scientific papers with her and funneled to the Wuhan Institute part of the $100 million in US government funding he received.<\/p>\n<p>Daszak did not reply to e-mailed questions yesterday but he told the Going Viral podcast last week, from quarantine in his Wuhan hotel room, that while the WHO team would be inspecting the Wuhan seafood market, it had no plans to visit the nearby Wuhan Institute, although \u201cif evidence says we should go to the lab, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has to be kidding.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is overwhelming that the pandemic emanated from Wuhan, and the most likely origin is the Wuhan Institute where Daszak\u2019s research partners had been doing risky \u201cgain of function\u201d research on bat corona\u00adviruses to genetically manipulate them to infect human cells.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Peter Daszak, the President of EcoHealth Alliance must be questioned for working on shady bat research with Chinese \u201cbat woman\u201d Shi Zhengli.\" class=\"wp-image-17170766 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Peter-Daszak.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Peter-Daszak.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Peter-Daszak.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Peter-Daszak.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Peter-Daszak.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Peter Daszak, the President of EcoHealth Alliance must be questioned for working on shady bat research with Chinese \u201cbat woman\u201d Shi Zhengli.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">@peterdaszak<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If the WHO team does not investigate the Wuhan Institute, it is party to a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>We know the institute obtained samples of bat coronaviruses sourced in 2013 from the Mojiang Mine some 600 miles away, where three miners who had prolonged contact with bat feces became ill and died from a COVID-like illness. We also know the institute obtained blood and tissue samples from the ailing miners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We know Daszak was co-author with Shi of a November 2017 paper in the PLOS Pathogens journal about SARS-related viruses collected from that mineshaft.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is listed as a funding source for the paper that identified the virus BtCoV\/4991 in the mineshaft under a subcontracted grant from Daszak\u2019s EcoHealth to the Wuhan \u00adInstitute.<\/p>\n<p>Without a forensic examination of the institute\u2019s records, we don\u2019t know for certain what was done with these virus samples between 2013 and October 2019 when the first cases of COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>But we do know from its published papers that the Wuhan Institute was doing gain-of-function research on other bat coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<p>Shi declared last year: \u201cI swear with my life, [the virus] has nothing to do with the lab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But suspicions linger. If the virus had leaped spontaneously from animals to humans in the Wuhan seafood market, as Daszak and others suggest, it would im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely have started to mutate to better adapt to its human hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it has been remarkably stable, which suggests either it had been circulating silently in China before the outbreak, which is unlikely given strict Chinese surveillance of viruses after the SARS epidemic, or it was trained to adapt to human hosts at the Wuhan Institute, and leaked.<\/p>\n<p>Most virologists are loath to support the lab-leak theory for fear gain-of-function research will be banned and their funding dry up.<\/p>\n<p>But Nikolai Petrovsky, professor of medicine at Flinders University in South Australia, who is developing a promising recombinant protein vaccine for COVID-19, is one of the few willing to speak out for the public good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came as a surprise when our research and that of other scientists suggested that, from the very first strains of COVID-19 isolated in December 2019, the virus was already perfectly adapted to infect and transmit between human hosts. How this pre-adaptation to humans came about still needs to be satisfactorily explained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petrovsky says it is \u201csimply not credible\u201d that the Wuhan Institute would have failed to study the new virus until it had used up all the sample.<\/p>\n<p>However, Daszak is adamant that the institute was not interested in the new bat coronavirus and just \u201cput it in the freezer\u201d for six years until 2020 when the similarity to COVID-19 was realized. That is what he told Wired magazine last February.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Shi admitted in July to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Magazine that she was sequencing that virus in 2018. Daszak also claimed the Wuhan Institute researchers \u201cdon\u2019t keep the bats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Wuhan Institute lodged a patent in 2018 for bat-rearing cages and in November 2019 filed its only patent, for treating wounds sustained while working with viruses in a biosafety lab.<\/p>\n<p>So there are inconsistencies between what Daszak and Shi are telling the world about activities at the institute and what the evidence suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Daszak was also quick to shape the media narrative on the origins of the pandemic. E-mails released under Freedom of Information laws reveal that he drafted an influential letter from 26 scientists published in The Lancet in February 2020 dismissing the lab-leak hypothesis as a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d and insisting the virus emerged naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Yet at the same time, a Wuhan-based professor, Botao Xiao, and a Wuhan hospital employee, Lei Xiao, published a preprint paper saying \u201csomebody was entangled with the evolution of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. Safety level may need to be reinforced in high-risk biohazardous laboratories. Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories far away .\u2009.\u2009. densely populated places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tighter regulations around virus experimentation are the least we should expect, but with vested interests pouring scorn on the lab-leak theory and WHO investigators perversely incurious, don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Prioritize_kids_not_teachers_unions\"><\/span>Prioritize kids, not teachers unions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As an avowed \u201cunion man,\u201d Joe Biden is in a unique position to reason with recalcitrant teacher unions to get schools open.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, as evidence mounts of the tragic cost of school closures, including a surge in student suicides, the president is siding with the unions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite scientific consensus that children are not COVID \u201csuperspreaders,\u201d and are less likely than adults to become infected, teachers want to keep drawing a paycheck for staying at home.<\/p>\n<p>Unions have pushed teachers to the front of the vaccination queue and in New Jersey are demanding that students be immunized before schools fully open even though vaccines have not been approved for children.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago the union refusing to reopen schools is crying \u201csexism, racism and misogyny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact is teachers are not at high risk of COVID infection. In November Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza reported 0.2 percent positive tests among 120,000 teachers and students, far lower than the city average.<\/p>\n<p>Offered the opportunity to stop the child abuse, Biden this week blathered about making classrooms \u201csafe and secure\u201d with new ventilation systems, more testing, more taxpayer money and endless delays until every outrageous union demand is met. Meanwhile, millions of children wither on the vine, especially low-income black and Hispanic kids trapped in public schools. So much for \u201cequity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden is big on following \u201cthe science,\u201d so he should tell teachers to ignore union scaremongering and get back to work or resign.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Do a real Wuhan probe: Devine&#8221; Finally, the World Health Organization has sent investigators to Wuhan, China, ground zero for COVID-19, to begin the belated search for the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0 Today they will emerge from 14 days of quarantine. 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