Coronavirus - man made?

Hi,

I've just watched a badly made documentary by The Epoch Times - maybe badly made because it was rushed.  If you can get past the ego of the reporter and all the egocentric shots of him - which I found really annoying - then what they are saying is scary.  In a nutshell a lab in Wuhan - where the outbreak started - were manipulating the coronavirus and made it so it would be much more infectious and much more deadly - in order to study it - and it looks like it got out, and then a massive cover up ensued.

I believe that this is true..  The Chinese Communist Party have a lot to answer for.  They have massive influence in the world and there are lots of evidence of them covering it up and having a lot of influence with the World Health Organisation.  The Chinese government didn't let the world know when this outbreak first happened - and did not close it's borders allowing it to spread across the world.  They want to be a world power and if I was cynical, I'd say it was intentional.  I am not cynical however, and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I do believe that the Chinese  created the virus in a lab and did not contain it. 

This is what I can take from what I have read/watched...

When looking at the origin of the virus - the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) said the virus started spontaneously in a seafood market in Wuham, China.  It includes pork and game.  It was December 31st 2019 - that it was stated that there were cases of unknown pneumonia and the seafood market.  They said that there was no obvious evidence of human to human transmission. 

In January - a paper was published questioning if the virus really did start at this market - 14 of 41 patients had no connection at all to the market.  No bats were found at this market either - and it was thought that the virus originates from bats.  Judy Mikovits, a molecular biologist and former director of the Lab of antiviral mechanisms in New York - said the idea of the spread so fast through the seafood market is highly unlikely and un-probable.  She claimed that this was a cover-up - that saying that the source was this market was simply to hide where it actually came from. 

The CCP tried to cover up the existence of the virus until it was impossible to cover it up.

On January 10th 2020 China released the full genome sequence of the corona-virus and the worlds top virologists began to analyse it.  It was stated that the virus closely resembled two viruses sampled from bats.  This bat virus has been discovered in 2018 - its was a Sars like coronavirus (please remember - this is just me trying to understand and simplify what I am reading - and I don't have a clue about these things!)  The current virus had a high similarity (87%) to this sars-like virus found in bats.  There was a 100% amino acid similarity - which would suggest that it had been reverse engineered.  Obviously - here I don't have a clue - I should just say that scientist found something in the virus that could not have happened naturally.   Judy Mikovits said this almost certainly had to be laboratory driven.  The parts of the virus (under microscope) called the spike proteins (or S proteins) is what enables the virus to invade human cells - this was found on the Sars virus.  It is what allows it to enter the human body - it wasn't found on coronavirus originally so it must have been manipulated in a lab - giving the coronavirus this S protein from the sar virus so that it could now enter the human body.  So it could not have come from the sea food market. 

Labs in China which were studying and releasing info about the coronavirus were ordered to close, including the one that released the genome sequence - they had released this information because they were ignored when they suggested prevention measures.  The Chinese government ordered that all samples were destroyed and all related papers and data were prohibited from release.  So the CCP were censoring information about the coronavirus.  They were responsible for the continuation of the virus by not doing anything at first and stopping the release of information about it.

A Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, was key in the study of the coronavirus, she spent many years studying bats and coronavirus', she was based in Wuhan where the virus was first detected.  Coincidence?  She published a paper in 2015 concerning her own research into synthetic viruses.  She had been studying the sars virus and coronavirus in a very sophisticated lab.  From 2010 she has been studying the capacity of the coronavirus to cross from bats to humans, specifically looking at the S protein.  She "unearthed the passageway from coronavirus to the human body".  In 2013 she claimed a breakthrough - she successfully isolated three coronaviruses from bats, one of which has S proteins that integrated with human receptors. In 2015 she released another paper in which she discussed a synthetic sars virus with the s protein replaced by the one she had identified that could integrate with the human receptors.  This new virus which she had made could cross from one species to another. Mice developed severe lung damage with no cure.  She had successfully spliced the SARS virus and opened the door to cross-species transmission. 

In my language - she took a SARS virus and added something very dangerous to it - making it able to transmit to humans - whereas it couldn't do that before. 

She planned to infect primates to see what effect it would have on humans.  Other scientists expressed deep concerns about this - saying if this new virus escaped - nobody knew what might happen.  Apparently research suggests that what we now have, is the result of cutting and pasting the two viruses.  It is thought that it could not possibly have occurred naturally. 

Shi Zhengli's research continued - she published a paper on bat coronavirus and cross species infection - but this research has since been deleted (covered up?) In 2014 the US stopped funding into Shi Zhengli's (and similar) research concerning genetic engineering the coronavirus. 

Why would you want to create a coronavirus that could infect humans? It could be for a weapon? It could be so you can create a vaccine - that only you could create in order to make a lot of money?

China tried to state that the US sent the virus to China! This was when president Trump started to call it the Chinese virus. 

China have said that the virus must have come from bats.  The outbreak however started in Wuham where Shi Zhengli and her lab was based!  You would think that they would look to that lab for any potential breach - allowing the virus to escape - but what happened was that they shifted focus to the sea food market - that did not even have any bats.  If it did occur naturally why was there such a cover up? why was the scientist who brought it all to the attention of the world get arrested? others went missing....samples were destroyed etc.

Shi Zhengli's lab stayed very quiet at this time - and they were the experts!  All staff at the lab had been told in an email not to disclose anything concerning the coronavirus.  In February 2020 a whistle blower said that Shi Zhengli and her haphazard lab could have led to the outbreak.  Another whistle blower made similar claims - that the lab was suspected of manufacturing and leaking the virus.  Then, China's top biochemical weapons expert in china took over the lab.  Another whistle blower then said that director general of the institute (the lab) was suspected of releasing the virus. 

The french were apparently supposed to be working with china to open this lab but had concerns because China's military were suspected to be involved.  When the lab opened in 2017 the french said they had security concerns that they were working on biochemical weapon experiments. 

So - this is my understanding - and my belief - that this was all created in a lab.  I have just had bad news about my dad so I am going to stop here.