Scientists were allegedly researching coronaviruses in bats late last
year
Phil Siver
Several new pieces of publicly available
evidence that have come to light in recent days seem to indicate that a
virology lab in Wuhan, China, may have been the location where the novel
coronavirus originated.
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| Photo: China Daily, via Reuters |
In a lengthy article published
Friday, National Review senior correspondent Jim Geraghty detailed the
investigatory work of Matthew Tye, a documentary filmmaker and YouTuber who
used to live in China. In his most recent video upload, Tye professes to have identified the source of the virus.
Geraghty is sure to note that it "is
understandable that many would be wary of the notion that the origin of the
coronavirus could be discovered" by a YouTuber, but contends "a great
deal of the information that he presents, obtained from public records posted
on the Internet, checks out."
Two examples of this are all-too-coincidental
job openings posted late last year by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Suspicious job postings
On Nov. 18, the lab posted a job opening that requested scientists to come
"research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats."
According to a Google translation of the job posting, it offers this description of the nature of the work:
Taking bats as the research object, I will
answer the molecular mechanism that can coexist with Ebola and SARS- associated
coronavirus for a long time without disease, and its relationship with flight
and longevity. Virology, immunology, cell biology, and multiple omics are used
to compare the differences between humans and other mammals.
Then, just over a month later on Dec. 24, the
lab posted another job opening, this time
noting "long-term research on the pathogenic biology of bats carrying
important viruses has confirmed the origin of bats of major new human and
livestock infectious diseases such as SARS and SADS, and a large number of new
bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified."
Tye, who claims to speak fluent Chinese, said
that the second job posting could be essentially translated: "We've
discovered a new and terrible virus, and would like to recruit people to come
deal with it."
At the time of the second job posting, China
had reportedly been dealing with an on slaught of"mystery pneumonia" cases, but it wasn't until a week later that the
Chinese government notified the World Health Organization
about a novel coronavirus infecting its population.
Then, a scientific research paper
Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran an interesting
segment on his primetime show Tuesday night highlighting a research paper
published on Feb. 6 by the South China University of of Technology.
The research paper — "The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus" — noted that virus most likely came from an animal known as the
intermediate horseshoe bat.
"Here's the striking thing," Carlson
said, "there are no known colonies [of the bat] within 900 kilometers of
Wuhan."
Moreover, Carlson noted that there is no
evidence to support the oft-repeated claims that this particular bat was sold
at the wet markets in Wuhan. The Wall Street Journal reported in February that neither the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention nor the World Health Organization could confirm whether bats were
present in the market.
Watch the full segment here:
What does it mean?
The evidence appears to demonstrate that
Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were researching
coronaviruses in bats (allegedly not typically found within 900 kilometers of
the city) at the same time that doctors began treating the first known COVID-19
patients.
It is difficult not to draw certain conclusions
from that, but to be clear, it is impossible to conclude with 100% certainty
that the virus originated in a virology lab in Wuhan.
And even if it were, it is important to note
that neither Geraghty nor Carlson, nor the cited Chinese research paper for
that matter, are suggesting that the virus was made intentionally in a Chinese
lab as part of a biological weapon program.
The matter at hand is more so about the
misinformation coming from the communist government in China following the
outbreak.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to
correct a previous version that said the Wuhan Institute of Virology is located
just 300 meters from the Huanan Seafood Market. This is not true. It is a
different lab called the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention that
is 300 meters form the market.
Phil Shiver, the Blaze,
3-4-2020
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