ProPublica: The Wuhan Institute of Virology was a 'biocomplex in crisis' in November 2019

[excalibur]

The ChiComm Virus. And they knew.

Yesterday, Republicans on the Senate HELP Committee released a report concluding that the most likely origin of COVID-19 was as the result of a lab leak. Today, ProPublica has a new report based on five months of work looking into what the committee was investigating. The focus is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab at the center of the suspicion about Covid’s origin. What the ProPublica story confirms is that in November 2019 the WIV was a “biocomplex in crisis.

The insights in the story are the result of 15 months of investigation by the team behind the Senate HELP Committee report. One of the people on the team was Toy Reid, a man who worked for the RAND Corporation and for the State Department. Reid speaks several languages including Japanese and Chinese and is said to have mastered the subtle art of “party speak” the way that Chinese apparatchiks write their reports to avoid directly mentioning anything that might cause someone to lose face.

As part of his investigation, Reid took an approach that was artful in its simplicity. Working out of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington and a family home in Florida, he used a virtual private network, or VPN, to access dispatches archived on the website of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). These dispatches remain on the internet, but their meaning can’t be unlocked by just anyone. Using his hard-earned expertise, Reid believes he unearthed secrets that were hiding in plain sight…

Like many scientific institutes in China, the WIV is state-run and funded. The research carried out there must advance the goals of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As one way to ensure compliance, the CCP operates 16 party branches inside of the WIV, where members including scientists meet regularly and demonstrate their loyalty.

Week after week, scientists from those branches chronicled their party-building exploits in reports uploaded to the WIV’s website. These dispatches, intended for watchful higher-ups, generally consist of upbeat recitations of recruitment efforts and meeting summaries that emphasize the fulfillment of Beijing’s political goals. “The headlines and initial paragraphs seem completely innocuous,” Reid says. “If you didn’t take a close look, you’d probably think there’s nothing in here.”

But scrolling through these seemingly innocuous reports, Reid noticed a change of tone in the fall of 2019:

…in the fall of 2019, the dispatches took a darker turn. They referenced inhumane working conditions and “hidden safety dangers.” On Nov. 12 of that year, a dispatch by party branch members at the BSL-4 laboratory appeared to reference a biosecurity breach.

once you have opened the stored test tubes, it is just as if having opened Pandora’s Box. These viruses come without a shadow and leave without a trace. Although [we have] various preventive and protective measures, it is nevertheless necessary for lab personnel to operate very cautiously to avoid operational errors that give rise to dangers. Every time this has happened, the members of the Zhengdian Lab [BSL4] Party Branch have always run to the frontline, and they have taken real action to mobilize and motivate other research personnel.

Reid studied the words intently. Was this a reference to past accidents? An admission of an ongoing crisis? A general recognition of hazardous practices? Or all of the above? Reading between the lines, Reid concluded, “They are almost saying they know Beijing is about to come down and scream at them.”

And that, in fact, is exactly what happened next, according to a meeting summary uploaded nine days later.

The messenger who arrived at the WIV was Dr. Ji Changzheng, the “technology safety and security director for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.” He came with a message from Xi Jiinping.

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[JackOfNoTrades]

The ChiComm Virus. And they knew.

Yesterday, Republicans on the Senate HELP Committee released a report concluding that the most likely origin of COVID-19 was as the result of a lab leak. Today, ProPublica has a new report based on five months of work looking into what the committee was investigating. The focus is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab at the center of the suspicion about Covid’s origin. What the ProPublica story confirms is that in November 2019 the WIV was a “biocomplex in crisis.​

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The insights in the story are the result of 15 months of investigation by the team behind the Senate HELP Committee report. One of the people on the team was Toy Reid, a man who worked for the RAND Corporation and for the State Department. Reid speaks several languages including Japanese and Chinese and is said to have mastered the subtle art of “party speak” the way that Chinese apparatchiks write their reports to avoid directly mentioning anything that might cause someone to lose face.​

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The messenger who arrived at the WIV was Dr. Ji Changzheng, the “technology safety and security director for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.” He came with a message from Xi Jiinping.​

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Wet Market=>Human buys=>Human consumes=>Human gets sick=>Human goes to work=>Human spreads said "new virus"=>Next Human travels out of country=>Rinse...repeat.

Bottom line. No evidence it was a lab leak.

Where is your link from ProPublica?

EDIT -- Sorry. Didn't see the highlighted links in your text. Still conspiracy and conjecture. But nevermind on the link.

 

[pknopp]

US suspends risky disease research - Nature

Government to cease funding gain-of-function studies that make viruses more dangerous, pending a safety assessment.

www.nature.com

Feds lift gain-of-function research pause, offer guidance

Researchers are relieved to resume experiments, but some public health questions remain.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

 

[jehanne1431]

Bottom line. No evidence it was a lab leak.

Then why did the Chinese keep it secret for months, let it get out to foreign nations, and then come forward? ----- That is, if it were merely a wet market episode with no evil intentions behind it?

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Then why did the Chinese keep it secret for months, let it get out to foreign nations, and then come forward? ----- That is, if it were merely a wet market episode with no evil intentions behind it?

Whelp...restricted Communist controlled nation...not really all that surprising.

 

[jehanne1431]

Whelp...restricted Communist controlled nation...not really all that surprising.

so then either intentionally letting a virus leak out of a lab or knowing early on of this virus emanated from a bat, but still letting it leak out into the world is still a conscious decision by the communists to wreak havoc on innocents that could have been avoided. . IOW, they wanted it to spread, so what's the difference?

 

[yidnar]

Wet Market=>Human buys=>Human consumes=>Human gets sick=>Human goes to work=>Human spreads said "new virus"=>Next Human travels out of country=>Rinse...repeat.

Bottom line. No evidence it was a lab leak.

Where is your link from ProPublica?

EDIT -- Sorry. Didn't see the highlighted links in your text. Still conspiracy and conjecture. But nevermind on the link.

listen to the treasonous leftist scumbag defend his Chicom allies .. dont worry commie republicans will be holding hearings about the origins of covid once they take the majority in a few days .. in jan when the new congress gets down to business the lies and cover ups will be exposed ! and since you know the virus didnt come from a lab enlighten us with the animal that has been identified that was the source of the jump between said species to human .

 

[The Irish Ram]

They are lying. It came from North Carolina. Boston is cooking one up for us as we speak...

 

[scruffy]

Whelp...restricted Communist controlled nation...not really all that surprising.

The same stupid shit you leftards are trying to bring here.

But it won't work. You're being repelled

 

[jknowgood]

Wet Market=>Human buys=>Human consumes=>Human gets sick=>Human goes to work=>Human spreads said "new virus"=>Next Human travels out of country=>Rinse...repeat.

Bottom line. No evidence it was a lab leak.

Where is your link from ProPublica?

EDIT -- Sorry. Didn't see the highlighted links in your text. Still conspiracy and conjecture. But nevermind on the link.

They are saying they have a new strain with 80% kill rate. Hopefully you loons will learn the hard way. We shut the country down over less a 1% kill rate. Wake up!

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

They are saying they have a new strain with 80% kill rate. Hopefully you loons will learn the hard way. We shut the country down over less a 1% kill rate. Wake up!

Shut what down? I have been moving around since July, 2020...what's your excuse??

 

[jknowgood]

Shut what down? I have been moving around since July, 2020...what's your excuse??

Lol, you're the idiot Biden hopes for. Congratulations!

 

[scruffy]

Wet Market=>Human buys=>Human consumes=>Human gets sick=>Human goes to work=>Human spreads said "new virus"=>Next Human travels out of country=>Rinse...repeat.

Bottom line. No evidence it was a lab leak.

No evidence whatsoever that it came from any non human source.

All speculation.

ZERO actual evidence

Still conspiracy and conjecture.

Nope. Suspicious enough for a microscopic examination.

 

[pknopp]

listen to the treasonous leftist scumbag defend his Chicom allies .. dont worry commie republicans will be holding hearings about the origins of covid once they take the majority in a few days .. in jan when the new congress gets down to business the lies and cover ups will be exposed ! and since you know the virus didnt come from a lab enlighten us with the animal that has been identified that was the source of the jump between said species to human .

There will be no hearings. If they had hearings the Democrats are going to ask the Republican why they started the funding back up. (See my first post for verification)

 

[scruffy]

There will be no hearings. If they had hearings the Democrats are going to ask the Republican why they started the funding back up. (See my first post for verification)

You don't understand.

CHINA cost us 13 trillion dollars.

Because of gross negligence and a totally irresponsible coverup by their Stalinist government

Hell yes there will be an investigation.

And if Fauci's smart he'll be long gone by the time it starts

 

[pknopp]

You don't understand.

CHINA cost us 13 trillion dollars.

Because of gross negligence and a totally irresponsible coverup by their Stalinist government

Hell yes there will be an investigation.

And if Fauci's smart he'll be long gone by the time it starts

We will see. It's all irrelevant anyway. Nothing is ever done after we hold these hearings and Fauci is retiring anyway.

 

[CowboyTed]

The ChiComm Virus. And they knew.

Yesterday, Republicans on the Senate HELP Committee released a report concluding that the most likely origin of COVID-19 was as the result of a lab leak. Today, ProPublica has a new report based on five months of work looking into what the committee was investigating. The focus is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab at the center of the suspicion about Covid’s origin. What the ProPublica story confirms is that in November 2019 the WIV was a “biocomplex in crisis.​

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The insights in the story are the result of 15 months of investigation by the team behind the Senate HELP Committee report. One of the people on the team was Toy Reid, a man who worked for the RAND Corporation and for the State Department. Reid speaks several languages including Japanese and Chinese and is said to have mastered the subtle art of “party speak” the way that Chinese apparatchiks write their reports to avoid directly mentioning anything that might cause someone to lose face.​

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But scrolling through these seemingly innocuous reports, Reid noticed a change of tone in the fall of 2019:​

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The messenger who arrived at the WIV was Dr. Ji Changzheng, the “technology safety and security director for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.” He came with a message from Xi Jiinping.​

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Read the report and they use NO Scientific evidence.... No DNA analysis...

They started with pointing it on the lab and saying prove us wrong... Then they ignore any actual evidence like DNA, sorry this is a joke..

 

[CowboyTed]

listen to the treasonous leftist scumbag defend his Chicom allies .. dont worry commie republicans will be holding hearings about the origins of covid once they take the majority in a few days .. in jan when the new congress gets down to business the lies and cover ups will be exposed ! and since you know the virus didnt come from a lab enlighten us with the animal that has been identified that was the source of the jump between said species to human .

One day the light might go on for you...

You are trying to say that China leaked a virus on there own people with no vaccine. Does this make sense?

Are you saying China leaked it on purpose?

 

[scruffy]

We will see. It's all irrelevant anyway. Nothing is ever done after we hold these hearings and Fauci is retiring anyway.

I hear the drums of war.

 

[CowboyTed]

And then we have Science:

Science | AAAS

www.science.org

Scientists in furious row over 'lab-made Covid' claims

Study purporting to have found evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was the result of human intervention has been branded 'confected nonsense'

www.telegraph.co.uk