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Lab Leak Theory Downplayed in Public Despite Private Concerns from Scientists

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In the very first days of this coronavirus pandemic, China was in the driver’s seat, and that proved to be an unfortunate happenstance for the rest of the world.

The first outbreak, which occurred just miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was largely reported to have occurred after the virus jumped from bats to humans at a local wet market.  But then, as the virus spread overwhelmingly effectively overseas, it became apparent that China had severely downplayed the severity of the issue, leaving the rest of the world to simply be caught off guard.

And then came a great deal of obstinance from Beijing as far as getting a good look at the aforementioned virology institute.  This led to a creeping suspicion about the origins of the pandemic, and the same scientists who were downplaying that theory on television were secretly fearful behind the scenes.

“I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus … to nCoV where you insert exactly four amino acids 12 nucleotide that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function,” Dr. Robert Garry from Tulane’s School of Medicine said, according to notes from a February 2020 meeting released by House Republicans.

“I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature,” Garry added in his group comments at the time. “Don’t mention a lab origin, as that will just add fuel to the conspiracists.”

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But, in response:

“NO one said that – I certainly never believed that. At that time of the teleconference we’d been looking all the options – all were on the table including a lab origin. The simple boring fact is we got new data and our opinions changed – that is the lab origin looked progressively less likely,” Garry told Fox News in an exclusive statement. “The insinuation that we were somehow bought off with a large NIH grant is absurd – that grant was written and peer-reviewed before anyone had heard of SARS-CoV-2.”

And then…

Dr. Kristian Anderson, a prominent virologist at the Scripps lab, told Fauci Jan. 31 2020, that “the genome is inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory,” an observation that points to synthetic manufacturing.

After Fauci was already made aware of Anderson’s observations, a conference call with dozens of expert virologists around the world was organized.

Contacted by Fox News, Anderson denied any influence on his perception of the virus, saying that

“No, I do not believe that origin theories were obscured, censored, or suppressed, although the question has become heavily politicized by lab leak proponents,” Anderson told Fox. “Our scientific investigations – published in peer-reviewed scientific journals – have only been driven by scientific enquiry. Any suggestions to the contrary are false.”

China’s apparent coverup of some of the facts surrounding COVID-19’s origins is suspicious at best, and it may behoove the scientific community not to obscure their opinions so thoroughly.

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As a lifelong advocate for the dream promised us in the Constitution, Andrew West has spent his years authoring lush prose editorial dirges regarding America's fall from grace and her path back to prosperity. When West isn't railing against the offensive whims of the mainstream media or the ideological cruelty that is so rampant in the US, he spends his time seeking adventurous new food and fermented beverages, with the occasional round of golf peppered in.




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