“Holmes, a University of Sydney professor and researcher who studies how viruses evolve, was the first person to publish a genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2. He spent the next few weeks emailing, exchanging Slack messages and huddling in late-night teleconferences with other scientists, discussing their discoveries and anxieties.
They soon spotted two unusual features in the virus’s genetic code; taken together they suggested the virus had been engineered – allowed to infect cells in a lab until it developed lethal mutations, turning mouse into monster.
“I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature,” one of the scientists wrote in early 2020.
And they knew the Wuhan Institute of Virology was working on coronaviruses using low-level biosecurity practices.
Surely, no one would be mad enough to do what they were suggesting, wrote one researcher. Another replied: “Wild west…”
Six weeks later, the researchers published a paper in Nature Medicine setting out an entirely different scenario: they were now convinced the virus had leapt from a wild animal into a human.
“We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible,” they wrote.
The authors titled their paper “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2”. It became famous at first: a scientific rebuke to conspiracy theorists and Donald Trump. Then it became infamous.
All this heat and light comes down to a single question: why, within a few frantic weeks, did Eddie Holmes change his mind?”
Easy.
Eddie Holmes changed his mind because if the public knew that Western scientists and governments had funded gain of function research that led to the outbreak of Covid all hell would break loose.
It had to be covered up.
Quote from: theage.com.au
