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It's been fun following this since the beginning. So many people saying we'll never know. It's kind of amazing how much of the theory has been fleshed out. We know who did it, where they did it, how they did it, why they did it and basically when they did it. We know not only the technique they used but the exact products they ordered to do the work. All this from public information and FOIA.

Say what you will about USA FOIA. They definitely redact more than they should and are not nearly transparent enough, but it's way better than anywhere else. Good luck getting similar info from Canada. There's a reason no incriminating public records information has been pried out of the UK or Australia.

Ecohealth delenda est

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Jan 26Liked by Alex Washburne

Beautifully done, Alex. I've sent this article to an attorney I work with who has pending cases against Daszak, EcoHealth, Baric and Lipkin.

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Jan 26Liked by Alex Washburne

WOW.

I'll have to return later to write to you. Your entire post is very compelling.

Oh, do I empathize tracking your dogs so far afield, and thank God, finding them.

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Jan 27Liked by Alex Washburne

Thank you very much. That was first class writing as well as important scientific work.

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"Tracking" just means being motivated by curiosity to solve puzzles. It's what scientists do. I'm still amazed at the lack of curiosity about covid origins there was among science administrators and even among many practicing scientists themselves.

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Feb 9Liked by Alex Washburne

Thank you for this. I have been following this story since early 2020. I am an engineer by training and professionally and specialize in 'solving hard problems' -- I'm always attracted to tough challenges and figuring out complex puzzles. From the early days it was apparent to me that the strength of the denials (starting with the infamous 'Proximal Origin' paper) did not line up with the strength of the (publicly available) evidence here. This raised a red flag in my mind with 2 logical possibilities present: either there was more evidence for a zoological spillover than was shared or folks wanted to deliberately kill a valid hypothesis (lab leak). Over time the evidence for the second grew, while the evidence for the first was consistently flimsy and often flawed. To this day I am disappointed that mainstream sources like the NY Times still refuse to give credibility to the lab leak theory that has come to have far more evidence behind it. I've never been one to disparage the mainstream media, despite knowing that they (as everyone) has their biases and that political stories will receive skewed coverage, but to see them deliberately ignore the mounting evidence here in what should be straightforward science reporting beggars belief... Thank you again for a really well written piece that deserves a lot more visibility!

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Baric

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You're missing the Ralph Bsric, University of North Carolina link! He taught the Wuhan scientists how to weaponise the virus with the clesvage site substitution

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@ John Smithson. Check out RFK's book, 'The Wuhan cover Up' spells it all out in great referenced detail

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The whole sequel began in 2002, in China and UNC Chaple hill's Ralph Baric's on the smallest of known Horseshoe bat Sars virus.

Using a mouse Back bone they creates a test virus at UNC to effectively infect Mice. That is what this was all about,

Being a Panglin has the most identical mammalian structure to human Ace2 receptors they at WiV

Used the Rgb13 ace2 spike protein.

It all written in a paper published in 2016, that man made virus was shipped back to WiV and from there GOF research continues and ECO health alliance was found guilty of not monitoring the research under the Smith Act.

The virus got out and in 4days scores of Chinese were Infected in the huge apartment facilities.

Pretty simple stuff.

This article is untrue ans is meant as propaganda

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