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FYI: for readers who are unaware, the first covid-19 sequence released from China was unauthorized - he released it through a partner lab in Australia. The rese

FYI: for readers who are unaware, the first covid-19 sequence released from China was unauthorized - he released it through a partner lab in Australia. The research scientist immediately had his lab in China raided and he was fired. So the CCP was not only active in continuing international flights while domestic flights were halted, but the CCP was actively suppressing patient counts and the sequence itself.

eloisius 5y ago
Not to doubt your claims, but do you have any sources for them? I’ve never heard this.
- 0x38B 5y ago
  From a Time.com article (1): > Afterward, Zhang returned to Shanghai and prepared to travel to Beijing for more meetings. On the morning of Jan. 11, he was on the runway at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport when he received a phone call from a colleague, Professor Edward Holmes at the University of Sydney. A few minutes later, Zhang was strapped in for takeoff and still on the phone—then Holmes asked permission to release the genome publicly. “I asked Eddie to give me one minute to think,’” Zhang recalls. “Then I said ok.” For the next two hours, Zhang was cocooned from the world at 35,000 feet, but Holmes’ post on the website Virological.org sent shockwaves through the global scientific community. 1: https://time.com/5882918/zhang-yongzhen-interview-china-coronavirus-genome/ https://time.com/5882918/zhang-yongzhen-interview-china-coro...
  - pphysch 5y ago
    This article directly contradicts the conspiracy theory that redis_mlc implied: > Yet Zhang denies reports in Western media that his laboratory suffered any prolonged closure, and instead says it was working furiously during the early days of the outbreak. “From late January to April, we screened more than 30,000 viral samples,” says Fan Wu, a researcher who assisted Zhang with the first SARS-CoV-2 sequencing. Furthermore, > And, in fact, Zhang insists he first uploaded the genome to the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) on Jan. 5—an assertion corroborated by the submission date listed on the U.S government institution’s Genbank. “When we posted the genome on Jan. 5, the United States certainly knew about this virus,” he says. So was Washington also in on this cover-up conspiracy...?
- hulahoof 5y ago
  Never heard this either, though it is plausible - I believe Australia was the first to sequence outside of China, and had extremely low cases reported at the time. This article mentions the Chinese lab released images of the sequence which is what assisted the Australian lab in reproduction[1], maybe those images is what they are referring to? [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/wuhan-coronavirus-created-in-australian-lab-outside-of-china/11906390 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/wuhan-coronavirus-cre...

eloisius 5y ago

Not to doubt your claims, but do you have any sources for them? I’ve never heard this.

0x38B 5y ago
From a Time.com article (1): > Afterward, Zhang returned to Shanghai and prepared to travel to Beijing for more meetings. On the morning of Jan. 11, he was on the runway at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport when he received a phone call from a colleague, Professor Edward Holmes at the University of Sydney. A few minutes later, Zhang was strapped in for takeoff and still on the phone—then Holmes asked permission to release the genome publicly. “I asked Eddie to give me one minute to think,’” Zhang recalls. “Then I said ok.” For the next two hours, Zhang was cocooned from the world at 35,000 feet, but Holmes’ post on the website Virological.org sent shockwaves through the global scientific community. 1: https://time.com/5882918/zhang-yongzhen-interview-china-coronavirus-genome/ https://time.com/5882918/zhang-yongzhen-interview-china-coro...
- pphysch 5y ago
  This article directly contradicts the conspiracy theory that redis_mlc implied: > Yet Zhang denies reports in Western media that his laboratory suffered any prolonged closure, and instead says it was working furiously during the early days of the outbreak. “From late January to April, we screened more than 30,000 viral samples,” says Fan Wu, a researcher who assisted Zhang with the first SARS-CoV-2 sequencing. Furthermore, > And, in fact, Zhang insists he first uploaded the genome to the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) on Jan. 5—an assertion corroborated by the submission date listed on the U.S government institution’s Genbank. “When we posted the genome on Jan. 5, the United States certainly knew about this virus,” he says. So was Washington also in on this cover-up conspiracy...?
hulahoof 5y ago
Never heard this either, though it is plausible - I believe Australia was the first to sequence outside of China, and had extremely low cases reported at the time. This article mentions the Chinese lab released images of the sequence which is what assisted the Australian lab in reproduction[1], maybe those images is what they are referring to? [1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/wuhan-coronavirus-created-in-australian-lab-outside-of-china/11906390 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-29/wuhan-coronavirus-cre...