An early January 2021 issue of New York Magazine has a book-length article (paywall, but they seem to allow this one) by Rob Nicholson, “The Lab-Leak Hypothesis”. The tagline, “For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if?....” (ir came from a lab?)
The article is in seven parts, looks at the “death by natural causes” idea, and sets up a scenario how a sample was stored from the Mojiang Caves accident in 2012. The theory is similar to Chris Martenson on Peak Prosperity on May 4, 2020 (then the codon was called PRRA), The article describes gain-of-function experiments with many pathogens with the US involved in many of them. And with the safety concerns about the BS4-level Wuhan lab,’
The article pays a lot of attention to furin cleavage,
but this can occur naturally when there are other infections in a person (it
even happens with influenza).
Still, it sounds like a pretty convincing “screenplay
treatment” for what really could have happened.
There is a recent update in Nature on the Mojiang bat cave incident in 2012.
None of this relieves Americans (and people in other
western countries like especially the UK right now) of their new “moral”
responsibility not to let the strong infect the weak.
Remember that New York and The New Yorker (often pubs
Ronan Farrow) are different periodicals, but sometimes their styles overlap. I wonder what Farrow would come up with on
this topic.
Yunnan mountain scene, Wikipedia embed, click for attribution
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