Is Coronavirus a bioweapon?

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The Washington Post’s article opposing such a conclusion admits the following: The lab in Wuhan “was researching coronaviruses transmitted by bats.” And “[a]n annual State Department report released last year said China had engaged ‘in biological activities with potential dual-use applications.'” And that at least one expert worried about potential outbreaks from that lab. And that other experts had discussed the possibility of Coronavirus being a bioweapon but found no proof.

Francis Boyle’s video arguing the case that Coronavirus is a bioweapon points to three articles from scientific journals. The first describes the virus in terms that Boyle, but not the authors, considers a dead giveaway. How is a non-expert to judge?

The second article, one of whose authors is from the Institute in Wuhan and one of whose funders is China, describes work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which Boyle views as aggressive work to make a virus more deadly, the authors clearly maintain was defensive, but indisputably was “dual-use” as most such research seems unavoidably to be. Boyle thinks Wuhan acquired this research by funding and participating in it through the good services of UNC which got its deadly cells from Fort Detrick.

The third article has the same connections to Wuhan and China that the second one does, but comes from Australia instead of North Carolina.

Boyle thinks that bioweapons researchers in Australia and North Carolina did work that contributed to the current disaster, regardless of what they may have intended or wanted or wished for. I think there’s ample evidence that bioweapons researchers around the world are engaged in a deadly and counterproductive game that develops weapons in the name of trying to defeat them.

Does the evidence show that this virus must have come from a lab and not from bats via other animals with no human role other than habitat destruction and a keystone-cops response to the outbreak? I don’t know. I think the evidence is overwhelming in that regard when it comes to Lyme Disease. I think so, too, when it comes to Anthrax. I’ve not seen such powerful evidence with regard to AIDS and would have to see it before jumping to that conclusion.

But what exactly is the distinction between a lab acquiring a disease from bats, studying it, and accidentally letting it loose, versus a lab acquiring a disease from another lab, modifying it to make it worse in the name of preventing it, and accidentally letting it loose? When does it become a bioweapon?

Developing biological weapons in order to develop vaccines to counter them is done in exactly the same way, whether it’s for defense or offense. In an offensive attack, the vaccines are needed to protect the attacking troops. And the development of these weapons is very difficult and expensive. The most likely source of biological weapons in a terrorist attack is a government lab that developed the stuff for “defense.” A possible source for any disease that looks like a bioweapon is the same.

Of course it might not be. I have not the slightest expertise on the matter. But we know that governments are working on bioweapons, and we know that they don’t want it discussed, and we know that corporate and state media alike avoid things that governments don’t want discussed. Still, people are finding the decency in some cases to do better in trying to survive coronavirus than what their governments are telling them to do. Perhaps people can also do better than their governments want them to in researching the origins.

It just might turn out that the United States and China are both right to blame each other, and that the internationalism of academics — such a force for good in other contexts — creates plenty of blame to go around.

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18 thoughts on “Is Coronavirus a bioweapon?”

  1. Draeger

    they removed a lengthy interview with DR Boyle from YouTube last week…nobody bothered to download and post it elsewhere…

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      1. Dr. T.C.Halle

        Perhaps…but I’d suggest we not “REJECT out of hand” these “alternative versions” of the truth. And, PARTICULARLY in view of a VERY dark history of the “intelligence services.” What’s more, the “Official Narrative” is frequently a bald-faced lie. Consider (to cite but three examples), the Pearl Harbor attack, “9-11” and Kennedy assassination baloney (and “Politically Correct”) official narratives. MOREOVER, please beware of the numbskulls who will immediately pooh-pooh virtually anything which departs from the official line…..with name-calling (e.g., with the use of term “conspiracy theory”)!!

        David: I’ve been happy to catch the occasional story of yours on Lila Garret’s show. Hope we’ll be getting more of the same in the future!!

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  5. Vivek Jain

    by Philip Giraldi, Former CIA Operations officer in Europe and Middle East, veteran, and PhD in European History

    Whither Coronavirus? When Will It End and What Will Happen Along the Way
    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/03/26/whither-coronavirus-when-will-it-end-and-what-will-happen-along-the-way/

    and

    Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself?
    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/03/05/who-made-coronavirus-was-it-us-israel-or-china-itself/

    See interview with Pepe Escobar:
    The coronavirus pandemic and US hybrid war on China
    https://youtu.be/wYf5h0wOV1Q

    COVID-19: China Locked in Hybrid War with US
    https://consortiumnews.com/2020/03/18/china-locked-in-hybrid-war-with-us/

    Experts know the new coronavirus is not a bioweapon. They disagree on whether it could have leaked from a research lab
    https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/experts-know-the-new-coronavirus-is-not-a-bioweapon-they-disagree-on-whether-it-could-have-leaked-from-a-research-lab/

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