Covid’s Patient Zero Was… One of the Chinese Lab Workers Playing With Covid, Say… Chinese Government Officials

by Ace

So. Fauci and The Regime lied all along.

The Covid pandemic’s patient zero may have been identified — and he was not the unlucky consumer of a dodgy soup at a Wuhan wet market.

Instead, according to new reports this week three separate Chinese government officials have all named scientist Ben Hu, who was in charge of gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as the first human to be infected with the new disease.The well sourced report confirmed earlier reporting that the Covid pandemic had its origins in a Chinese virology lab at Wuhan, a story that was first broken by The Daily Telegraph’s Sharri Markson.

I saw various people doubting this, figuring — reasonably — that if the Chinese government is claiming this is Patient Zero, they must be hiding the real patient zero.

Who would be what? Maybe a member of the Chinese military overseeing the development of the weapon?

I don’t know about that, but Chinese officials are now at least admitting: Yes, it came from the lab that everyone not named “Anthony Fauci” knew it came from.

Via David Strom, more from Michael Shellenberger.

According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by Public and Racket, the first people infected by the virus, “patients zero,” included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses, which increases the infectiousness of viruses….Public officials in the U.S. and other countries have repeatedly suggested that uncovering the pandemic’s origin may not be possible. “We may never know,” said Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who oversaw pandemic response for two administrations.

Now, answers increasingly look within reach. Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.

As such, not only do we know there were WIV scientists who had developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019, but also that they were working with the closest relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and inserting gain-of-function features unique to it.

That’s impossible — Anthony Fauci told me it had been proven this virus evolved naturally, and that there was no sign of gain-of-function manipulation!

When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%”

Ben Hu was the protegee and successor to Shi Zhengli — the notorious “Bat Lady” of Wuhan.

“Ben Hu is essentially the next Shi Zhengli,” said Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and coauthor with Matt Ridley of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid19. Shi is known as “the bat woman of China,” and led the gain-of-function research at the WIV. “He was her star pupil. He had been making chimeric SARS-like viruses and testing these in humanized mice. If I had to guess who would be doing this risky virus research and most at risk of getting accidentally infected, it would be him.”..Hu and Yu researched the novel lineage of SARS-like viruses from which SARS-CoV-2 hails, and in 2019 coauthored a paper with Shi Zhengli that described SARS-like lineages they had studied over the years.

Jamie Metzl, a former member of the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing who raised questions starting in early 2020 about a possible research-related pandemic origin, said, “It’s a game changer if it can be proven that Hu got sick with COVID-19 before anyone else. That would be the ‘smoking gun.’ Hu was the lead hands-on researcher in Shi’s lab.”

And the Chinese are confirming this.

…On Dec. 29, 2017, two years before the pandemic began, Chinese state-run television aired a video that includes a scene of Ben Hu watching a lab worker handle specimens. Neither are wearing protective gear.

Here’s why Fauci is lying: DARPA rejected the grant to his buddy Peter Daszak to study the “furin cleavage sites” on the SARS virus at Wuhan. And after Obama ordered an end to funding gain-of-function, Fauci rewrote the rules and gave another grant, from the NIH, to Daszak to re-start gain-of-function research.

In March 2018, the WIV, the EcoHealth Alliance, and the University of North Carolina applied for a $14 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency DARPA to engineer “furin cleavage sites” into SARS-like coronaviruses to study how this affected their ability to grow and cause disease.Scientists say the key piece of the COVID-19 virus, which made it so transmissible compared to its closest relatives, was its unique furin cleavage site.

Hu co-authored multiple papers on coronavirus research, including a 2017 paper on chimeric bat coronaviruses with Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, which was funded in part by the NIH and the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT Program. Data privately shared with the NIH revealed that these chimeric SARS-like viruses grew far more quickly and caused more severe disease in humanized mice in the lab.

…Public sent emails and made phone calls to the NIH, WIV, EcoHealth Alliance, Daszak, Hu, and Shi over the last several days and did not hear back.

Biden supposedly ordered the National Directorate of Intelligence to reveal all US intelligence on the origins of covid, including the names of the first to be infected with it.

We’ll see if that happens. I have a strong, strong feeling that “order” will be “modified.”

Sources and methods must be protected, you know! Lives could be at stake! That’s why we have to hide crucial information that would expose The Regime’s lies from you! It’s to save lives, not to cover up our own catastrophic, murderous failures and the lies we’ve told since then to cover them up!

Speaking of the lies told to cover up The Regime’s killing of millions: Fauci ordered up a letter to be published by a scientific journal which presumed to debunk the lab leak theory. I mean “the lab leak fact,” of course.

This letter said that it was impossible that Covid-19 was man-made. It also branded any theory that the novel respiratory bat coronavirus first detected in Wuhan was engineered in the novel respiratory bat coronavirus in Wuhan a “conspiracy theory,” instead of what it reall was: So obvious that you’d have to be an “Expert” to dare denying it.

Well, it turns out that one of the men recruited by Fauci to write that lie now says that the letter was “went too far,” and was never intended to refute the lab-leak theory at all.

He now claims he only intended to refute the claim that the virus had been created as a bioweapon.

Weird, the letter never said that, and Fauci never mentioned this limitation on the claims made in the letter. They denied all possible laboratory origins.

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