Still silence and silence on the origin of the China Virus: Li-Meng Yan’s complaint and the hypotheses of the virologist Palù
“I know I have to hurry, before they kill me,” the Chinese virologist told Telecinco. And almost a year after the first cases declared, the hypotheses all remain open, including that of a virus born in the laboratory …
In the global drama that the experts aseptically call the "second wave of Covid-19 ", the question of how the Wuhan coronavirus really originated continues to interest neither public opinion, nor governments, nor political leaders. Yet this is an essential question, not only to ascertain the chain of political responsibilities that has made the world sick, but also because it could represent useful information in the search for a solution. If scientists are trying to pull the strings of a tangle that time alone will not unravel, it should not be forgotten that the ground on which technicians are measured is made up by the authoritarian nature of the Chinese regime and the complicity of the World Health Organization.
It is precisely these two factors that virologist Li-Meng Yan has denounced on several occasions since she was forced to leave Hong Kong for the United States last April, following threats received from government circles. We have told its story in two previous articles (which you can reread here and here ). On Thursday evening Li-Meng Yan released his first European interview to the Spanish television station Telecinco , in which he reiterated his version of the facts, in a nutshell that the virus was artificially produced in the laboratory as a biological weapon. These statements are enough to understand to what extent the researcher is a controversial character, the subject of criticism, denigration and censorship ( Twitter deleted her account after the publication of the offending paper , she recently opened another one). But, if from a strictly scientific point of view his deductions are generally rejected ("he does not provide concrete data to support ", " he copied from other sources ", are the most common objections), Li-Meng Yan must still be given credit of having put the insider's emphasis on a series of obscure points that continue to corrupt the politically correct version of the pandemic, that is, the one that the Chinese government has provided and the international community has supinely accepted. In short, the character's interest lies more in the questions she poses than in the answers she provides and for this very reason the attempts to shut her mouth arouse suspicion.
Almost a year after the first cases declared, the hypotheses on the origin of the virus all remain open. Despite initial efforts to bring general attention back to the Wuhan market and its exotic species, the possibility that the infection was born among the fish stalls by the intercession of a bat flown there from some distant cave in the Chinese province is now considered a mere inference even within the scientific community itself. Not only the ways of spreading appear completely unlikely, but the times do not coincide and the famous intermediate host, the animal in which the virus would have been incubated before passing to man, has never been found.
In an interview with Telecinco Li-Meng Yan reveals that, as the focus shifted to the fish market, doctors in Hong Kong and mainland China had long been aware of cases of transmission of the disease within family groups and the presence of infected patients in hospitals in Wuhan itself. While the pangolin responsible for the definitive mutation was officially searched, the virus was already spreading undisturbed among people. Since when exactly? To answer this question, Giorgio Palù, emeritus professor at the University of Padua and former president of the European Society of Virology, comes to our aid in a recent interview with Affari Italiani :
“100,000 sequenced genomes make us understand since the virus passed from human to human. We know exactly. It is irrefutable: the coronavirus has been around since at least September 2019. And the Chinese have been silent for 4 months ".
September 2019, four months of silence. Li-Meng Yan's complaint takes shape. The virologist does not believe in the leap of species, it is unlikely that in nature a virus can recombine and reconvert itself so much that it adapts to humans in such an exact way, finding a receptor that seems to be made on purpose to make it take root. Here too Palù provides some useful interpretative keys:
“The current virus has found its natural reservoir in the human species. Did he make the leap of species? It looks a lot like the bat virus, but we also know that that bat virus, to a good approximation, was artificial. And this coronavirus now no longer infects any bats. If it made the leap it must have jumped into an intermediate host that we never found (…) We know that this virus is 80 percent similar to that of SARS , 96 percent to the virus that was in the bat, which however no natural bats have ever hosted, at least from the sequences we know (…) And in any case, it takes very little to alter a virus. It is enough to cultivate it many times in human cells and even a bat virus can become human ”.
It is the same thesis of Li-Meng Yan, a synthetic sequence that starts from the bat coronavirus and reaches humans through a series of manipulations carried out in the laboratory: the spine of the new coronavirus would be ZC45 and ZXC21, on which centers worked specialized soldiers in Chongqing and Nanjing. Science fiction? Political fiction? Probably. But in the absence of a coherent explanation, doubt is legitimate, especially when both the Wuhan Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (WHCDC) and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) operate in Wuhan, whose activities on coronaviruses we have already discussed in a previous episode dedicated to the possible accidental escape of the virus.
For Li-Meng Yan, however, it is not an accident but a deliberate will on the part of the Chinese regime to spread the disease to destabilize the international balance in its favor. A new and unrestricted biological weapon, as he defines it on television, which has three essential characteristics to fulfill its function: direct contagion between humans, high resistance to medium-environmental conditions, the possibility of transmission through asymptomatic patients. The fact that no one in China is infected anymore, he adds, suggests that the antidote was also created with the poison. Palù intervenes on this too:
“We should ask why the WHO said the Chinese were good. Why did they send commissions? When asked to have the initial virus the virus is gone. Why have the bat virus sequences grown in Wuhan disappeared? We should also ask ourselves why the virus has disappeared in China ”.
Li-Meng Yan knows she is moving on quicksand that can swallow her at any moment. During the interview, she has a white wall behind her, her address is unknown and behind her she left a husband, parents and a house in Qingdao which was searched several times by the police. Beyond any consideration of the reliability of her claims, one wonders what prompted a Hong Kong researcher with a guaranteed job and career to endanger her life and that of her family by challenging a regime capable of annihilating her. She explains it herself, in the dramatic final lines of the conversation:
“I felt it was my duty to inform the world by telling the truth. I know I have to hurry before they kill me ”.
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