I suggest you all read The Ethical Skeptic. He has checked some Chinese data (CO2 output) and found out that CO2 emissions were lower than usual during certain periods, starting 2018. But here's the thing: the reduction in emissions highly matches with Hope-Simpson patterns regarding influenza-like-illnesses. So the suspicion is that China was dealing with...something...He has also noted that countries within the Chinese sphere of influence has now been hit less hard than the rest.
Also, add the fact that there were already around 13 (I don't remember the exact number) SARS-CoV-2 sequences circulating in China in December 2019 (consider coronaviruses are pretty stable - they don't mutate as fast as influenza viruses).
Also, China reported a huge increase in "influenza deaths" during 2018 and 2019:
And finally, I've read a lot of anecdotal experiences where people stated they think they got hit by covid...before it was detected. Or that they got hit hard with the "flu" around late 2018 and/or 2019.
Looks like the virus was already circulating way before 2020.
This was a pretty funny Tweet directed at those who have attributed the low rate of reported infection and death across East Asia and the Eastern Pac Rim to the purportedly masterful pandemic response in those countries:
Add my anecdotal experience to the others. After a trip by air to and from Seattle in September of 2019, I came down with a respiratory ailment that knocked me out for a month and lingered for an additional two weeks. I'd had flu a few times before, but this was something else. I would be interested in getting tested for antibodies and T-cell immune response to SARS-Cov-2.
Ethical Skeptic must be read skeptically. I've been following his blog for a while, as it has interesting data, despite "him" being a spook. But then, after a while, I had to ask myself, why is this writer so openly preening, self-congratulatory and prone to statements of apparent self-worshiping narcissism and all the fey, too-cute-by-half "I know something that you don't"? And the Philosophy 101 stuff. Talk about Foggy Bottom. It's an authorial attitude that reeks of a skull-and-bones-type graduates of Yale, the finishing school of choice for well-connected and socially adept psychopaths everywhere, not to cast aspersions on the fine graduates of divinity and medicine, etc., who are not psychopaths. In its own way, the TES "narrative" reminds me of the "Kony20212" psyop and the "QAnon" psyop, run by Flynn, Bannon and Unit 8200. You know, "breadcrumbs" and all that. In terms of narrative forcing, it seems like it is designed to make it acceptable to Ivy-types to get behind the "China leak" psyop, rather than calling out a US bioweapon of high transmisibility and low lethality. In the same way, QAnon was designed to keep T fans quiet, lobotomized (maybe they were already?) and well-titillated even while T handed over everything Bibi wanted--how'd that Soleimani murder work out for the hegemon? Real foreign policy success, that one--while T back tracked on virtually every promise he made to his gullible supporters.
I think there is little doubt that "we were played." Something I'm wondering as I see all of this focus upon the funding and lies surrounding Fauci and the lab-leak theory; what of the other aspects such as lock-downs, masks, social distancing, and misuse of testing devices? Is all of this simply a move to knock out the foundation underlying so much of what occurred in bad policy for the past 14 months, or is it a way to distract the public away from the bad policies and those responsible by focusing solely upon Fauci and Wuhan?
My guess is that Fauci will be the Establishment's sacrifice in order to preserve their gains in authoritarian public policy and all of the damage they caused.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic has been presenting evidence for a long time that the virus started circulating in China in 2018. He graphs data that shows declines in Chinese production and carbon emissions and growth of mutations that back up his point. He has also compared the comparatively low recent Sars-Cov-2 infection rates in countries with strong Chinese interactions (Asian countries, Australia, NZ and the central African countries) with high flu rates 2018/2019. Kevin McCairn is an excellent source for understanding how the Sars-Cov-2 has been modified.
The paper "more famous for ladies with their kit off on page three than its hard hitting investigative journalism" is called The Sun, not The Daily Mail
Potentially related: in Amendment 6 of the confidentiality agreement between the NIH and Moderna, signed January 22, 2020, language with respect to what the agreement covered changed to include specifically for the first time picocorona viruses. As well, for the first time, language was added to include "the design and manufacture of a messenger RNA platform and messenger RNA constructs related to the diseases referenced in this Section". this last clause had not been present in any of the previous amendments and the timing of the addition along with the specific addition of picocorona viruses struck me as unusual. Particularly seeing as MERS, influenza and Ebola were already named in previous amendments.
Also curious is the timing of the Material Transfer Agreement to transfer material jointly owned by NAIAD and Moderna to the University of North Carolina, signed December 16, 2019, to perform mRNA challenge studies where the entire research program section of the agreement is redacted.
I'm not sure if the virus was circulating for two years or six months before it broke free, but I'm convinced the CCP seeded the world deliberately. They were still claiming no H2H transmission in mid January 2020. They stopped travel from Wuhan within China while millions of Chinese citizens traveled to the US and Europe. By the time Trump shut off the spigot, the virus was already here.
IMO, there is no doubt this was deliberate. Whether the CCP wanted to spread the pain or weaken the rest of the world, I cannot say.
Regardless of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, though, the facts remain. This virus isn't that dangerous, and they knew that early on. The PCR test is bogus and designed to generate false "case" and death data. Two off-patent drugs on the WHO's list of essential medicines (with long and well-understood safety records) that are effective against this virus were suppressed. Doctors were threatened with loss of license and prison for prescribing them. Pharmacies were prohibited from filling prescriptions. One HCQ plant had a mysterious fire. Two precursor plants also had accidents. Useless masks were mandated. And now we're being told we all must take the experimental genetic therapy...even infants...to be safe from a virus with an IFR of 0.15%.
None of this makes sense.
If Fauci and his bois were trying to hide their involvement in the creation of this virus...if they were trying to protect grant money and reputations and the ability to make frankenviruses going forward...why would they exaggerate the threat? They wouldn't.
I am not a scientist, so I can't comment on that aspect, but as someone who has not enjoyed the last year and a half of craziness, I find one bit of karma comforting if Fauci and his partners in crime are ever made accountable: The way Fauci et al. "counted" COVID deaths to inflate the number and scare the bejeezus out of people, and the fact that we can now hang those deaths right around his neck. It will be entertaining to say the least to see them suddenly remember the difference between "with" and "of."
Accountability is what I'm concerned may not happen. There is so much focus upon the lab-leak theory that I see very little attention being paid to the 800-lb gorilla in the corner, namely the socio-economic and psychological devastation wrought upon us by a cabal of politicians, bureaucrats, and corrupt scientists. They will keep the spotlight on Fauci and GoF research in China while the rest twist the narrative to claim they have been our saviors all along. Sacrifice one so there is no accountability for the rest.
Hoping the administration's select committee to investigate will not turn out to be a whitewash but, expect the temptation to synthesize a Muelleresq cover will prove irresistible.
Aw, Gato, that's the Sun with the Page 3 lovelies! The DM is a *slightly* more upscale tabloid. Think celebrity gossip and Royal Family articles aimed at middle ages women.
Development of the Chinese vaccine began 4 January 2020. Alina Chan (@Ayjchan) pointed this out on teh twitterz, and you can verify for yourself at the link below (with the help of a translator site unless you are fluent in Chinese). Now that I think about it, I probably should save this article. Anyway. The relevant section reads
"Before we got the vaccine clinical trial approval on April 12, we fought day and night for 98 days." Recalling this time, Zhang Yuntao, vice president of Sinopharm Group China Biotechnology Co., Ltd., called it a "combat state."
So, 98 days before 12 Apr is 4 Jan. Sinopharm was on an emergency footing from 4 Jan to deliver a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
ars cov 1 instigated a lot of vaccine r&d, the scarcity of cases made it both unprofitable and hard to do tests. maybe helped get eaarly vaccines
i have small exposure to darpa in non medical r&d, darpa had pandemic prevention platform (ppp) overarching rapid development of antibodies and vaccines. moderna on contract since 2013 with darpa on mrna therapy or vaxx.
what benjamin said on ethical skeptic theorize over last few years carbon output dipped beyond random.... maybe china had two waves before they let the wuhan hit out to the world.
"To understand how US imperialism works to create pretexts for war and attempt to deflect away from its own criminal activity, it is instructive to remember the case of “yellow rain” in the 1980s.
The “yellow rain” campaign began in 1981, when then Secretary of State Alexander Haig gave a speech to the Berlin Press Association on September 13, where he alleged that the Soviet Union was supplying mycotoxins to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for use against pro-US insurgencies and of employing the same toxins in Afghanistan. Haig claimed, “We have now found physical evidence from Southeast Asia which has been analyzed and found to contain abnormally high levels of three potent mycotoxins—poisonous substances not indigenous to the region and which are highly toxic to man and animals.”
I favor the hypothesis that the virus was intentionally released by globalist elites as part of undeclared warfare on 99.99% of humanity. It is a low-lethality component of a multistage bioweapon. Its purpose is to provide pretext for totalitarian surveillance and control and to engender fear. I suspect the vaccines are the plausibly deniable high-morbidity bioweapons, designed to decrease fertility and life expectancy. A slowly acting bioweapon is less likely to awaken the masses before it is too late. I suspect mass depopulation, sterilization, and permanent world dictatorship are the agendas here. Dr. Kory and FLCCC argue that ivermectin is a useful prophylactic and mitigation, even in the vaccinated. He seems highly credible to me.
if they were that smart and capable, we'd all be living in pods already.
i suspect it mostly went the other way. covid happened and generally spread fear and chaos. this led to social and economic damage.
taken as a whole, it was a massive suppression of the global human immune system to authoritarianism. scared people beg for it.
so all these other goons were like opportunistic infections. they all jumped us a once when we were vulnerable. many of their incentives just happened to align.
I'm increasingly convinced Covid-19 was used as the vehicle to deliver to market an industry with a potential trillion dollar future: mRNA tech. This would explain the contradictions of a global shutdown panic amongst a set who knew Covid-19 wasn't Capt Trips by the time the Diamond Princess data was counted. It also accounts for the apparently deep international lockstep coordination across industries and governments that didn't just organically appear fully formed in March 2020. Finally, it provides a universal motive for covering up the lab hypo long enough to get the 'vaccines' (i.e. mRNA gene therapies) to market.
Opportunistic infections, good analogy. But here, the human pathogens do plan ahead and write down scenarios and narratives. See, e.g., https://archive.org/details/pdfy-tNG7MjZUicS-wiJb/mode/2up, or Event 201 from 2019. Not everything is or could be grand-planned or finely-tuned and orchestrated, but scenarios and simulations seem like they serve several purposes at once: programming of media, socialization of ideas among elites, misdirection.
This sounds like Tom Clancy's plot device in "Rainbow Six", but slowed down to reduce risk of blowback on the 0.01% behind "The Project". It's tempting to consider, given the creeps involved in all of GoF research, Gates and the Gates family friends the Rockefellers' overt love of eugenics, and cryptic messages and monuments (the Georgia Guidestones; some say William Shockley funded). I have no doubt many heirs to the Club of Rome want to cull the herd. But I agree with Gato that the wannabe-lizard-overlords haven't demonstrated the smarts and capabilities of Hugo Drax from "Moonraker" (the movie, not Fleming's novel) — at least not yet!
I suppose we have to accept accidental lab leak is now highly probable. But to continue fighting a rearguard action, I submit the following logic against the hypothesis:
1) The proximity of a state-of-the-art virology facility close to the outbreak is a due to the warp speed genomic sequencing of the virus (within 13 days). If the pandemic had been triggered anywhere else in the world, it would probably have been unnoticed as it would have merged into the viruses occurring seasonally.
2) This was a panicdemic rather than a plandemic as evidenced by Ai Fen, Li Wenliang, Zhong Nanshan, Bruce Aylward.... misdiagnosing Covid-19 as SARS.
3) The warp speed development of a vaccine is a testament to the sophistication of The Wuhan Virology Institute rather than evidence of prior knowledge.
4)It's not a convincing argument that the furin cleavage site could not have come from nature because it's not there in identified coronaviruses up till now. The sample size of 7 coronas identified so far is simply too small to be significant.
I did say that this was a rearguard defence of nature, but that's what Popper said we should do. Falsify, falsify, falsify.
I suggest you all read The Ethical Skeptic. He has checked some Chinese data (CO2 output) and found out that CO2 emissions were lower than usual during certain periods, starting 2018. But here's the thing: the reduction in emissions highly matches with Hope-Simpson patterns regarding influenza-like-illnesses. So the suspicion is that China was dealing with...something...He has also noted that countries within the Chinese sphere of influence has now been hit less hard than the rest.
Also, add the fact that there were already around 13 (I don't remember the exact number) SARS-CoV-2 sequences circulating in China in December 2019 (consider coronaviruses are pretty stable - they don't mutate as fast as influenza viruses).
Also, China reported a huge increase in "influenza deaths" during 2018 and 2019:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1108821/influenza-death-rate-in-china/
And finally, I've read a lot of anecdotal experiences where people stated they think they got hit by covid...before it was detected. Or that they got hit hard with the "flu" around late 2018 and/or 2019.
Looks like the virus was already circulating way before 2020.
ES and i are longtime correspondents and remain so.
there was also a conspicuously low infection level on the whole pac rim. it was orders of magnitude lower than RoW despite widely varied policies.
there is no plausible explanation for it apart from pre-existing resistance. this would be consistent with earlier initiation than many have claimed.
it could also be from higher biome exposure to SARS-like viruses.
This was a pretty funny Tweet directed at those who have attributed the low rate of reported infection and death across East Asia and the Eastern Pac Rim to the purportedly masterful pandemic response in those countries:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ballouxfrancois/status/1337126156185837572?lang=en
Add my anecdotal experience to the others. After a trip by air to and from Seattle in September of 2019, I came down with a respiratory ailment that knocked me out for a month and lingered for an additional two weeks. I'd had flu a few times before, but this was something else. I would be interested in getting tested for antibodies and T-cell immune response to SARS-Cov-2.
Ethical Skeptic must be read skeptically. I've been following his blog for a while, as it has interesting data, despite "him" being a spook. But then, after a while, I had to ask myself, why is this writer so openly preening, self-congratulatory and prone to statements of apparent self-worshiping narcissism and all the fey, too-cute-by-half "I know something that you don't"? And the Philosophy 101 stuff. Talk about Foggy Bottom. It's an authorial attitude that reeks of a skull-and-bones-type graduates of Yale, the finishing school of choice for well-connected and socially adept psychopaths everywhere, not to cast aspersions on the fine graduates of divinity and medicine, etc., who are not psychopaths. In its own way, the TES "narrative" reminds me of the "Kony20212" psyop and the "QAnon" psyop, run by Flynn, Bannon and Unit 8200. You know, "breadcrumbs" and all that. In terms of narrative forcing, it seems like it is designed to make it acceptable to Ivy-types to get behind the "China leak" psyop, rather than calling out a US bioweapon of high transmisibility and low lethality. In the same way, QAnon was designed to keep T fans quiet, lobotomized (maybe they were already?) and well-titillated even while T handed over everything Bibi wanted--how'd that Soleimani murder work out for the hegemon? Real foreign policy success, that one--while T back tracked on virtually every promise he made to his gullible supporters.
I think there is little doubt that "we were played." Something I'm wondering as I see all of this focus upon the funding and lies surrounding Fauci and the lab-leak theory; what of the other aspects such as lock-downs, masks, social distancing, and misuse of testing devices? Is all of this simply a move to knock out the foundation underlying so much of what occurred in bad policy for the past 14 months, or is it a way to distract the public away from the bad policies and those responsible by focusing solely upon Fauci and Wuhan?
My guess is that Fauci will be the Establishment's sacrifice in order to preserve their gains in authoritarian public policy and all of the damage they caused.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic has been presenting evidence for a long time that the virus started circulating in China in 2018. He graphs data that shows declines in Chinese production and carbon emissions and growth of mutations that back up his point. He has also compared the comparatively low recent Sars-Cov-2 infection rates in countries with strong Chinese interactions (Asian countries, Australia, NZ and the central African countries) with high flu rates 2018/2019. Kevin McCairn is an excellent source for understanding how the Sars-Cov-2 has been modified.
The paper "more famous for ladies with their kit off on page three than its hard hitting investigative journalism" is called The Sun, not The Daily Mail
Well spotted..I'm a leg man myself.
Potentially related: in Amendment 6 of the confidentiality agreement between the NIH and Moderna, signed January 22, 2020, language with respect to what the agreement covered changed to include specifically for the first time picocorona viruses. As well, for the first time, language was added to include "the design and manufacture of a messenger RNA platform and messenger RNA constructs related to the diseases referenced in this Section". this last clause had not been present in any of the previous amendments and the timing of the addition along with the specific addition of picocorona viruses struck me as unusual. Particularly seeing as MERS, influenza and Ebola were already named in previous amendments.
Also curious is the timing of the Material Transfer Agreement to transfer material jointly owned by NAIAD and Moderna to the University of North Carolina, signed December 16, 2019, to perform mRNA challenge studies where the entire research program section of the agreement is redacted.
I'm not sure if the virus was circulating for two years or six months before it broke free, but I'm convinced the CCP seeded the world deliberately. They were still claiming no H2H transmission in mid January 2020. They stopped travel from Wuhan within China while millions of Chinese citizens traveled to the US and Europe. By the time Trump shut off the spigot, the virus was already here.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
IMO, there is no doubt this was deliberate. Whether the CCP wanted to spread the pain or weaken the rest of the world, I cannot say.
Regardless of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, though, the facts remain. This virus isn't that dangerous, and they knew that early on. The PCR test is bogus and designed to generate false "case" and death data. Two off-patent drugs on the WHO's list of essential medicines (with long and well-understood safety records) that are effective against this virus were suppressed. Doctors were threatened with loss of license and prison for prescribing them. Pharmacies were prohibited from filling prescriptions. One HCQ plant had a mysterious fire. Two precursor plants also had accidents. Useless masks were mandated. And now we're being told we all must take the experimental genetic therapy...even infants...to be safe from a virus with an IFR of 0.15%.
None of this makes sense.
If Fauci and his bois were trying to hide their involvement in the creation of this virus...if they were trying to protect grant money and reputations and the ability to make frankenviruses going forward...why would they exaggerate the threat? They wouldn't.
We don't yet know the full story.
I am not a scientist, so I can't comment on that aspect, but as someone who has not enjoyed the last year and a half of craziness, I find one bit of karma comforting if Fauci and his partners in crime are ever made accountable: The way Fauci et al. "counted" COVID deaths to inflate the number and scare the bejeezus out of people, and the fact that we can now hang those deaths right around his neck. It will be entertaining to say the least to see them suddenly remember the difference between "with" and "of."
Accountability is what I'm concerned may not happen. There is so much focus upon the lab-leak theory that I see very little attention being paid to the 800-lb gorilla in the corner, namely the socio-economic and psychological devastation wrought upon us by a cabal of politicians, bureaucrats, and corrupt scientists. They will keep the spotlight on Fauci and GoF research in China while the rest twist the narrative to claim they have been our saviors all along. Sacrifice one so there is no accountability for the rest.
Hoping the administration's select committee to investigate will not turn out to be a whitewash but, expect the temptation to synthesize a Muelleresq cover will prove irresistible.
Aw, Gato, that's the Sun with the Page 3 lovelies! The DM is a *slightly* more upscale tabloid. Think celebrity gossip and Royal Family articles aimed at middle ages women.
Other than that, great article!
Development of the Chinese vaccine began 4 January 2020. Alina Chan (@Ayjchan) pointed this out on teh twitterz, and you can verify for yourself at the link below (with the help of a translator site unless you are fluent in Chinese). Now that I think about it, I probably should save this article. Anyway. The relevant section reads
"Before we got the vaccine clinical trial approval on April 12, we fought day and night for 98 days." Recalling this time, Zhang Yuntao, vice president of Sinopharm Group China Biotechnology Co., Ltd., called it a "combat state."
So, 98 days before 12 Apr is 4 Jan. Sinopharm was on an emergency footing from 4 Jan to deliver a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
Cite URL: http://www.takungpao.com/news/232108/2020/0417/438408.html
p.s., I think this is strong evidence against a deliberate leak. Not conclusive, but pretty strong, assuming this is accurate and not CCP PR.
ars cov 1 instigated a lot of vaccine r&d, the scarcity of cases made it both unprofitable and hard to do tests. maybe helped get eaarly vaccines
i have small exposure to darpa in non medical r&d, darpa had pandemic prevention platform (ppp) overarching rapid development of antibodies and vaccines. moderna on contract since 2013 with darpa on mrna therapy or vaxx.
what benjamin said on ethical skeptic theorize over last few years carbon output dipped beyond random.... maybe china had two waves before they let the wuhan hit out to the world.
that theory makes a lab leak seem minor....
prc nationals all over the world in jan feb 2020!
"To understand how US imperialism works to create pretexts for war and attempt to deflect away from its own criminal activity, it is instructive to remember the case of “yellow rain” in the 1980s.
The “yellow rain” campaign began in 1981, when then Secretary of State Alexander Haig gave a speech to the Berlin Press Association on September 13, where he alleged that the Soviet Union was supplying mycotoxins to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for use against pro-US insurgencies and of employing the same toxins in Afghanistan. Haig claimed, “We have now found physical evidence from Southeast Asia which has been analyzed and found to contain abnormally high levels of three potent mycotoxins—poisonous substances not indigenous to the region and which are highly toxic to man and animals.”
We may never get a "smoking gun" but maybe Yusen Zhou got to be the first vaxx victim by jumping the gun.
I favor the hypothesis that the virus was intentionally released by globalist elites as part of undeclared warfare on 99.99% of humanity. It is a low-lethality component of a multistage bioweapon. Its purpose is to provide pretext for totalitarian surveillance and control and to engender fear. I suspect the vaccines are the plausibly deniable high-morbidity bioweapons, designed to decrease fertility and life expectancy. A slowly acting bioweapon is less likely to awaken the masses before it is too late. I suspect mass depopulation, sterilization, and permanent world dictatorship are the agendas here. Dr. Kory and FLCCC argue that ivermectin is a useful prophylactic and mitigation, even in the vaccinated. He seems highly credible to me.
if they were that smart and capable, we'd all be living in pods already.
i suspect it mostly went the other way. covid happened and generally spread fear and chaos. this led to social and economic damage.
taken as a whole, it was a massive suppression of the global human immune system to authoritarianism. scared people beg for it.
so all these other goons were like opportunistic infections. they all jumped us a once when we were vulnerable. many of their incentives just happened to align.
I'm increasingly convinced Covid-19 was used as the vehicle to deliver to market an industry with a potential trillion dollar future: mRNA tech. This would explain the contradictions of a global shutdown panic amongst a set who knew Covid-19 wasn't Capt Trips by the time the Diamond Princess data was counted. It also accounts for the apparently deep international lockstep coordination across industries and governments that didn't just organically appear fully formed in March 2020. Finally, it provides a universal motive for covering up the lab hypo long enough to get the 'vaccines' (i.e. mRNA gene therapies) to market.
Opportunistic infections, good analogy. But here, the human pathogens do plan ahead and write down scenarios and narratives. See, e.g., https://archive.org/details/pdfy-tNG7MjZUicS-wiJb/mode/2up, or Event 201 from 2019. Not everything is or could be grand-planned or finely-tuned and orchestrated, but scenarios and simulations seem like they serve several purposes at once: programming of media, socialization of ideas among elites, misdirection.
This sounds like Tom Clancy's plot device in "Rainbow Six", but slowed down to reduce risk of blowback on the 0.01% behind "The Project". It's tempting to consider, given the creeps involved in all of GoF research, Gates and the Gates family friends the Rockefellers' overt love of eugenics, and cryptic messages and monuments (the Georgia Guidestones; some say William Shockley funded). I have no doubt many heirs to the Club of Rome want to cull the herd. But I agree with Gato that the wannabe-lizard-overlords haven't demonstrated the smarts and capabilities of Hugo Drax from "Moonraker" (the movie, not Fleming's novel) — at least not yet!
See if the video will play… https://twitter.com/b333si/status/1428096329679577089?s=21
I suppose we have to accept accidental lab leak is now highly probable. But to continue fighting a rearguard action, I submit the following logic against the hypothesis:
1) The proximity of a state-of-the-art virology facility close to the outbreak is a due to the warp speed genomic sequencing of the virus (within 13 days). If the pandemic had been triggered anywhere else in the world, it would probably have been unnoticed as it would have merged into the viruses occurring seasonally.
2) This was a panicdemic rather than a plandemic as evidenced by Ai Fen, Li Wenliang, Zhong Nanshan, Bruce Aylward.... misdiagnosing Covid-19 as SARS.
3) The warp speed development of a vaccine is a testament to the sophistication of The Wuhan Virology Institute rather than evidence of prior knowledge.
4)It's not a convincing argument that the furin cleavage site could not have come from nature because it's not there in identified coronaviruses up till now. The sample size of 7 coronas identified so far is simply too small to be significant.
I did say that this was a rearguard defence of nature, but that's what Popper said we should do. Falsify, falsify, falsify.