Are ongoing investigations into the origin of SARS-COV2 still important?

This is a puzzling question when looked at objectively. Over 30 months into the pandemic that has killed over 6.5 million people, destroyed personal livelihoods for many in the business sector and consigned millions to disability through long Covid.

Additionally, the financial cost of lockdowns across the world still has to be paid.

Yet there are no protests to insist on answers to a most obvious question.

When the news of “gain of function” research on coronaviruses started to come through in October 2021, I did this recording to highlight what it could mean.

There have been a number of papers recently supporting the argument that the pandemic originated from the Huanan Market in Wuhan, China.

While there is insufficient evidence to define upstream events, and exact circumstances remain obscure, our analyses indicate that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred via the live wildlife trade in China, and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Worobey, Michael, et al. "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic." Science (2022): abp8715.

Click on the link above to read the paper.

Strong evidence that the Huanan Market was an epicentre is clear. However, was this the first identification of the virus in China?

The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins - Vanity Fair.

Here are some of the outstanding questions:

• If SARS-COV2 was transmitted initially from an animal vector, why is there no clear evidence for the host as yet?

• Circulating virus has been identified in specific parts of the world prior to the Huanan market epicenter event.

• The furin cleavage site on the spike protein has not been found in any other coronavirus.

• There is a patented sequence within the RNA of the SARS-COV2 virus.

Have you read the USA Senate Minority report on COVID-19 origins?

Counter to that argument is the USA Senate Minority report looking into the origins of COVID-19. Please read to have a broader view of the situation.

Origins Of Covid 19 Report

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This document highlights a few important points.

The 7th International Military Sports Council Military World Games opened in Wuhan on October 18, 2019. A number of international athletes became sick during this time. Here is a quote from an athlete:

This was a city of 15 million people that was in lockdown. It was strange, but we were told this was to make it easy for the Games’ participants to get around. [I got] very sick 12 days after we arrived, with fever, chills, vomiting, insomnia.… On our flight to come home, 60 Canadian athletes on the flight were put in isolation [at the back of the plane] for the 12-hour flight. We were sick with symptoms ranging from coughs to diarrhea and in between.

There was also evidence for experimentation with coronaviruses in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV):

WIV researchers confirmed to the WHO investigative team that they were conducting experimentations testing chimeric coronaviruses in 2018 and 2019. According to an interview with Shi published by Science, all coronavirus experimentation, including infecting hACE2 mice and civets, was done at the BSL-2 and BSL-3 levels – “the coronavirus research in our laboratory is conducted in BSL-2 or BSL-3 laboratories.”

Why would the West miss a perfect opportunity to criticize China?

Tweet by Zhao actually suggests the pandemic did start in September, as is suggested in this addendum, but that it began in the United States.

Should the world turn a blind eye to this?

That question still stands today.

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Work from India which helped to reopen the discussion about Gain of Function research.

How an Indian scientist couple worked to trace origin, course of COVID-19.

Who is @TheSeeker268, and how is he related to opening the discussion about the lab-leak theory.

@TheSeeker268, world's foremost virus origins hunter, on how he began combing internet, Click here >