Probably more relevant to this thread than the GBN thread, nevertheless I have seen a very interesting interview on there with a Prof. Alex Dalgleish.
There are of course many theories on how Coronavirus came about, from naturally jumping across species from bats to humans, to purposely-concocted-and-released from a Wuhan Lab onto an unsuspecting world, a world which by and large would be far less able to deal with it than China (the likely result from that, the world goes backwards a few years while China gets to leap ahead). And perhaps somewhere in-between, a genuine accidental leak of a new virus?
Professor Dalgleish is Professor of Oncology at St George's in Tooting, well respected around the world by all accounts. He also has great expertise in vaccine development and virology, going back to him specialising in studying HIV when knowledge about AIDS was in its infancy. He and some Norweigan academic have been looking at this.
Anyway, here's the nub:
He says the virus that causes Covid is highly unlikely to have occurred naturally. That's because genetically it appears to be a hybrid of two viruses, with the part that specifically attaches to human receptor cells seemingly very specifically engineered to allow entry and infection into humans. Something that would have taken many years naturally, and the chances of this happening so quickly are remote.
Moreover this virus which has wrought havoc around the world apparently cannot infect bats. If it came from bats in the first place, after adapting to infect humans, that would take decades to happen. It wouldn't suddenyl stop infecting bats after having just come from them.
He also knows much about the SARS and MERS epidemics and the virology associated with that, he is also aware that (I think it was) SARS effectively escaped from a Chinese Lab, probably on the hair of a Lab worker. I think that's what he said. He also pointed out that the Lab in Wuhan apparently came out very badly from an inspection in 2018, where protocols and procedures were found to be dangerously lax.
Also, research in recent years in the Wuhan Lab has centred around developing vaccines to combat potential new, emerging viruses, and previous academic papers have shown them to have made genetically-engineered viruses in pursuit of that research. The NIH (powerful US national health body) amongst others have been funding this research, under the direction of a certain Mr. Anthony Fauci. There have been heated debates in the Senate about this, Fauci has been questioned and become angry about any blame being apportioned to him. I don't know whether he was actually involved in driving the research, or whether he just channelled fuding to it?
Some of this stuff is known already, but putting all these factors together in a coherent and convincing way, he seems pretty well convinced that a genetically-engineered virus which was assisting in vaccine research, somehow managed to escape the Lab. The rest as we know, is recent and very serious history, and is liable to be making life difficult to say the least, all around the world for probably the next decade or so. The sheer death toll as well as the huge economic damage, and as future mutations play out, perhaps even more unwanted excitement to come?
Dalgleish says he has brought this up before, but basically just been shouted down by much more powerful players.
Sorry, no links, I just literally heard it on telly, but I think of great interest?
And hopefully the truth will out as they say.
