15+ million dead. And that twisted old douchebager is still doing talk shows. Yeah, I trust the science, all right.
Meanwhile, there's this today:
"My prepared remarks will take about seven minutes. A more detailed set of remarks has been
provided to be entered into the record.
My approach to the origin of the COVID pandemic that killed 15+ million people worldwide,
caused over 20 trillion dollars in economic damage, and changed the world forever is based on
six approaches to the data and the events.
Before I start, I want to note something Dr. Garry said privately: “Someone should tell Nature
(meaning the British journal) that the fish market probably did not start the outbreak.”
While it would be easy for me to just agree with Dr. Garry and call it a day, I am a scientist and
so will provide my independent analysis.
I will describe the six approaches at a high level and then go into each one in detail...
First, the virus was spreading in Wuhan in the early fall of 2019, two to four months before the
first case in the Hunan Seafood Market. This is supported by fourteen observations or evidence.
This should be sufficient to dismiss the Hunan Market as the source of the outbreak.
Second, I look at the data from the market, including human infections, animal samples, and
environmental specimens. This involves looking at eight observations or evidence. None of these
data are consistent with an infected animal passing SARS2 to a human at the market.
Third, documented events at or related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, beginning in
March 2019, are consistent with the expected activities of a virology lab in which a laboratory-
acquired infection has occurred. I will go through that timeline.
Fourth, the evidence that is found in a natural zoonosis with respect to the animal host, the virus,
and the human population in the vicinity of the outbreak is missing for the COVID pandemic.
Each of these three components of a zoonosis will be examined separately and each will be
found wanting.
Fifth, the genome of SARS-CoV-2 has seven features that would be expected to be found in a
virus constructed in a laboratory and which are not found in viruses from nature. The statistical
probability of finding each feature in nature can be determined and the combined probability that
SARS2 came from nature is less than one in 1.2 billion.
These same features were described in a grant application submitted to DARPA in 2018 by
scientists from the WIV, together with US collaborators.
Sixth and final, the earliest genomes of SARS2 were unstable and could not have come from an
animal host without the stabilizing mutation, the so-called D614G change, that appeared in
human viruses beginning January 1st , 2020. The consequence of this is that I can conclude that
the first human infection occurred soon after the insertion of the furin cleavage site in the
laboratory and before extensive animal testing. Otherwise, the first human cases would have had
this stabilizing mutation.
It also means that the unstable version of SARS2 could not have been circulating in animals,
otherwise it would have acquired the stabilizing mutation. If any virologist can find an animal
host that can transmit the unstable ancestral SARS2 five or more times without obtaining the
stabilizing mutation, they have found a hypothetical candidate for a spillover host. All testing to
date of potential hosts has failed this test."
Quay Testimony
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