Left leaning or right leaning, it is a fact that the WHO tried to investigate, and they were stonewalled. They were blocked by the Chinese government. By the police. That is what the WHO reported. There is a photo of a policeman blocking the WHO investigators, here:
On the contrary, WHO investigators were not blocked from the WIV, it was the trailing journalists who were blocked. Also, certain WHO people, in particular CCP sycophant Peter Ben Embarek, were quite pleased with the three hour visit and said so. He seemed quite content to take the WIV staff accounts at face value and thus come to the official conclusion that the lab leak hypothesis was "extremely unlikely" and not worthy to be pursued.
AGAIN you are confusing the issue!! Please stop mixing up the 3 hypotheses. They have nothing to do with one another.
Why? Are they independent? Here's a scenario : a natural corona virus, one similar to RATG13, has its spike protein sequence deleted, and in its place is inserted the spike sequence from a coronavirus virus that was lethal to pangolins. In between the S1 and S2 sequence is inserted a short sequence to allow for furin cleavage, and then some HIV sequences added here and there. All this was done at the WIV, where quite possibly civilian research and covert military research coexisted. (According to US state department intelligence the WIV was receiving Chinese military funding.) Perhaps what accidentally leaked out was a weaponized, but premature and unoptimized coronavirus, who knows? That rather mixes things up doesn't it. But let's just simplify and call it a 'lab leak' to cover more possibilities.
Here's an extract from a March 2021 article :
https://nypost.com/2021/03/12/…eapons-research-accident/
... the State Department’s former lead investigator who oversaw the Task Force into the COVID-19 virus origin tells Fox News that he not only believes the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that it may have been the result of research that the Chinese military, or People’s Liberation Army, was doing on a bioweapon.
“The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not the National Institute of Health,” David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute told Fox News in an exclusive interview. “It was operating a secret, classified program. In my view, and I’m just one person, my view is it was a biological weapons program.”
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Asher says the Chinese government’s behavior reminds him of other criminal investigations he has overseen.
“Motive, cover-up, conspiracy, all the hallmarks of guilt are associated with this. And the fact that the initial cluster of victims surrounded the very institute that was doing the highly dangerous, if not dubious research is significant,” said Asher, who engaged the Chinese government as the State Department’s lead representative during the 2003 SARS outbreak.
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Last fall the US obtained intelligence that indicates there was an outbreak among several Wuhan lab scientists with flu-like symptoms that left them hospitalized in November of 2019 – before China reported its first case. Asher and the other Hudson Institute panel experts said that in 2007, China announced it would begin work on genetic bioweapons using controversial “gain of function” research to make the viruses more lethal.
The Chinese stopped talking publicly about their research at the Wuhan lab in 2016. That, Asher believes, is when the People’s Liberation Army stepped in and went from biodefense research to bio-offense. The same year China’s top state television commentator
“We have entered into an area of Chinese biowarfare, and including using things like viruses. I mean, they made a public statement to their people that this is a new priority under the Xi national security policy,” Asher points out.
The Chinese, according to Asher, stopped talking publicly about the research into coronavirus “disease vectors which could be used for weapons” in 2017, at the same time its military began funding the research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“I doubt that that’s a coincidence,” Asher said.
