Emails pried loose from top scientists reveal plot to slap down any talk that covid was modified in Chinese lab

From the UK Telegraph…

New emails pried loose by FOIA requests show leading scientists in both the U.S. and U.K believed Covid came from a lab in Wuhan – but lied about it and sought to discredit people who said so, *for fear of offending China*!

The Telegraph phrased that fear as "fear that *debate* [about the theory] could 'hurt international harmony’."  That warning came from Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health--Fauxi's nominal boss. [!]

That kind of opaque, stilted phrasing is characteristic of communist propaganda, like "could damage solidarity" or "could provoke anti-revolutionary sentiment."

Institutions which held the emails have repeatedly resisted efforts to release their contents--for reasons that should now be obvious.

Another smoking bit of propaganda revealed by the emails was again from Collins, who bleated that supporting the lab theory might "harm science"!  And the topper: it might "harm science in China"!  
Why would any rational non-Chinese give a damn about the Chinese people being upset with "science"?

But aside from theories about the virus "escaping from a lab," a more important debate was taking place:  non-government scientists were completely convinced *by analyzing the genetic code of the virus that it had been modified by humans to make it more lethal to humans.  By contrast, China lackeys insisted that any differences between naturally-occuring bat coronaviruses and Covid were totally natural mutations.

So they were determined to tell the world that C19 did NOT escape from a Chinese lab.  And that the lab did NOT modify the virus in any way.  So case closed.

The emails show a deliberate effort by U.S. and U.K. scientists to slap down any investigation into where the virus originated, and whether it was deliberately modified in a Chinese lab.

Scientists were particularly struck by a part of Covid-19 called a "furin cleavage site," which is an section of genetic code that's present in Covid-19 but NOT in any natural bat coronavirus.  The site helps the virus bind to human cells, making it far more likely to infect and kill humans.

One U.S. expert summarized the problem by writing “I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.”  Meaning by natural mutation.

The new details came to light after Republican members of the U.S.  House Oversight Committee obtained access to the unredacted documents, after complaining that the same docs they requested and obtained under previous Freedom of Information requests had been so heavily redacted that none of the current statements could be found. The emails show that by February 2, 2020--just 3 days after the first case arrived in the U.S.--Collins and other top government scientists were already trying to shut down the debate into a) whether the virus had escaped from a Chinese laboratory, and b) whether several genes had been inserted into a natural bat virus to make it more lethal to humans.

An email from Dr Ron Fouchier said “Further debate about such accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.”

"Would distract top researchers," eh?  Not unless the "top researchers" were on the Chinese payroll, or nervous snowflakes.  The claim is Chinese propaganda.

Francis Collins set out the strategy, stating: “a swift convening of experts in a confidence-inspiring framework is needed, or the *voices of conspiracy* will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.”

Starting to see how you've been conned, misled--all to take the heat off China?

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