Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf]
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#3In case anyone else is wondering: I instinctively checked the redacted areas, and there is indeed nothing there but a black rectangle.
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#4tl;dr probably from a sick animal, maybe from a lab, no smoking gun either way. Probably not engineered or lab-adapted.
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#5A strange document. Clearly written for public release but containing reactions of apparently sensitive clarification markings.
Moreover it contains absolutely nothing of well publicized US involvement in relevant coronavirus research with WIV.
I'm definitely curious of what DOE facilities have scientists and researchers who would have useful opinions on coronavirus. This article just reminded me more of that question.
Very strange paper.
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#6tl;dr probably from a sick animal, maybe from a lab, no smoking gun either way. Probably not engineered or lab-adapted.
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#7Doesn't explain why the WIV database of in-house coronavirus sequences was removed from the web by what, late August 2019? Also molecular clock approaches of known genomic sequences of different Sars-CoV2 isolates point to an emergence somewhere in the Sept-Oct range IIRC, and that's probably an underestimate. The fact that the military took over the labs and their ventilation system was redone around this timeframe also points to the Chinese government knowing they had a problem around three months before it became public knowledge.
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#8tl;dr probably from a sick animal, maybe from a lab, no smoking gun either way. Probably not engineered or lab-adapted.
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The virus having been accidentally released from the lab doesn't require that the virus was modified in or by the lab between the time of leak and the time of collection.
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#9I think the problem is that America's Director of National Intelligence just isn't saying what people had hoped to hear.
"We continue to have no indication that the Wuhan Institute of Virology's pre-pandemic research holdings included SARS-CoV-2 or a close progenitor, nor any direct evidence that a specific research-related incident occurred involving WIV personnel before the pandemic that could have caused the COVID pandemic."
"All Intelligence Community agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon."
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#10A strange document. Clearly written for public release but containing reactions of apparently sensitive clarification markings. Moreover it contains absolutely nothing of well publicized US involvement in relevant coronavirus research with WIV. I'm definitely curious of what DOE facilities have scientists and researchers who would have useful opinions on coronavirus. This article just reminded me more of that questio…
DOE lab Sandia at least was closely involved with analysis of the anthrax powder in the letters mailed to Senators Daschle and Leahy on 10/09/2001. Note that this research didn't support the Bruce Ivins hypothesis as he didn't have the technical capacity required:
> "Not only did the Sandia researchers spot silicon, they also found tin, oxygen, and iron all within the spore. The researchers, led by Sandia chemist Joseph Michael, have presented their findings at various scientific meetings since 2008, reporting the presence of all the elements found. But because silicon had always been in the investigative limelight, tin never got much attention. Until now. The new paper puts the spotlight on tin, which the authors claim has been brushed under the carpet by FBI investigators. The FBI has "avoided public mention of the extraordinary presence of Tin," the paper says."
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-challenge-fbis-a...
While it's perhaps not widely known, the DOE National Labs have the best technical capabilities for investigating anything related to nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons whether of nation-state, terrorist-group, or lone-nut origin.