Something? Not something? It wouldn’t be the first time a virus was released unintentionally from the Wuhan facility. The whole “someone ate a bat or pangolin or something and created a whole new virus” was always a little sketchy, especially when it targeted the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions, but not the very young. And spread around the world very quickly. And one that has quickly created multiple variants in short order. The WHO and the China lovers keep searching for clues to avoid blaming China. Of course, in fairness, it could just be some bad circumstances. But
As top U.S. officials prepare to meet their Chinese counterparts for their first face-to-face meeting during the Biden administration, the State Department’s former lead investigator who oversaw the Task Force into the COVID-19 virus origin tells Fox News that he not only believes the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that it may have been the result of research that the Chinese military, or People’s Liberation Army, was doing on a bioweapon.
“The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not the National Institute of Health,” David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute told Fox News in an exclusive interview. “It was operating a secret, classified program. In my view, and I’m just one person, my view is it was a biological weapons program.”
Asher has long been a “follow the money” guy who has worked on some of the most classified intelligence investigations for the State Department and Treasury under both Democratic and Republican administrations. He led the team that uncovered the international nuclear procurement network run by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, AQ Khan, and uncovered key parts of North Korea’s secret uranium enrichment. He believes the Chinese Communist Party has been involved in a massive cover-up during the past 14 months.
“And if you believe, as I do, that this might have been a weapons vector gone awry, not deliberately released, but in development and then somehow leaked, this has turned out to be the greatest weapon in history,” Asher said during a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute: The Origins of the COVID-10: Policy Implications and Lessons for the Future. “You’ve taken out 15 to 20 percent of global GDP. You’ve killed millions of people. The Chinese population has been barely affected. Their economies roared back to being number one in the entire G20.”
There is that one thing, that, supposedly, Chinese were barely effected. Which could be mule fritters, China could be hiding the numbers. Or, did they have vaccines ready after a leak? Was it designed to not effect Chinese? COVID barely touched Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan, nations with people’s closest genetically to Chinese. Again, it could just be happenstance.
At first, China said the COVID19 virus originated in the Wuhan Seafood Market – but the problem with China’s theory: the first case had no connection to the market. Last fall the US obtained intelligence that indicates there was an outbreak among several Wuhan lab scientists with flu-like symptoms that left them hospitalized in November of 2019 – before China reported its first case. Asher and the other Hudson Institute panel experts said that in 2007, China announced it would begin work on genetic bioweapons using controversial “gain of function” research to make the viruses more lethal.
Realistically, we may never know. But, remember, sometimes the most simple explanation is the correct one.
