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Jan 19Liked by Paul D. Thacker

Th trouble with online is it can disappear. Hopefully people have hard copies. So much that goes on is back scratching. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Wading through so many documents, emails etc. trying to connect the dots must be like finding your way through a complicated labyrinth.

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So Ren blows it by submitting sequence data that doesn't match up with the proposed Wet Market origin theory? If those sequences are from very early swabs not only from Wuhan but Guangdong they are going to have to explain why those sequences don't resemble the later, submitted, genome that purports RatG13 lineage.

There are just a few people able to interpret this early on, someone has to be coordinating any data sets that don't align with the Wet Market scenario before the CCP has a chance to take out the 241 sequence reads that happens post March 30. Bloom can only recover 13 of the 241 reads from the clouds that he's able to retrieve and those reads don't correlate with the Wet Market strain.

So my take is NIH is covering it's tracks early on but they have to wait until the CCP can get a handle on destroying or eliminating early sequence reads and tissue swab samples, at which point NIH just stonewalls it because the data is gone anyway.

There really isn't a plausible explanation of the disappearance of the early sequence reads unless you're locked into the Wet Market scenario.

Maybe I've got it wrong but I don't think it's that far wrong.......

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Two weeks to better understand the spread and develop better therapies... Sanctimonious poppycock. They still don’t understand the spread - in fact the spread of any viral infection - and we did have better therapies, but they were banned lest they undermine the vaccine EUA thereby killing hundreds of thousands if not millions.

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