• Yanqui_UXO [any]
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    3 years ago

    I looked into this a bit. Zerohedge is a murky place, although they have some good articles about the economy. (Here's their article in question). Their main (and only) point of reference is The Intercept's article "New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab" so the gist is that Wuhan lab's work on bats was sponsored by a US company, according to FOIA-obtained documents (quoting the Intercept here):

    Newly released documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than nine hundred pages of documents detailing the work of the EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic.

    The documents were released in connection with ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health. The Intercept is making the full documents available to the public.

    “This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19.

    BIG EDIT:

    This doesn't mean that this is good info. On the one hand, the US does have/sponsor all kinds of shady bio-labs around the world [ x , x , x ] and who knows wtf is happening there. On the other, Chinese media have started pushing for an investigation of the Fort Diedrich (MD) re this whole coronavirus thing as a push-back against the "China-virus" narrative, so FOIA or no it can be more misinfo to counter that and re-center Wuhan. It's all media wars at this point as far as I am concerned, with very tentative connection to reality.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember Zerohedge did some decent debunking of Russiagate during the early Trump presidency. The blog has right-wing brainworms and its ideology is all over the place, but I don't completely write it off because it seems to occasionally do some decent anti-establishment reporting.

      I'm actually glad that people are looking into Fauci and the EcoHealth Alliance stuff because I'm Ft. Detrick-pilled and I think it's the right thread to pull on. Wuhan was likely gathering viruses from Chinese bats to be studied by Ralph Baric in North Carolina. [1]

      The Chinese were actually pointing the finger at Ft. Detrick long before the Wuhan lab-leak theory was being hyped in Western media.

      • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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        3 years ago

        Upbear to everything you wrote. If I remember correctly, Zerohedge published an article not so long ago accusing Fauci of lying because he kept saying on the TV that the pandemic would be over by the X date, then by the X1 date, then X2 etc etc (they aren't wrong, he did keep naming all those dates), so I assume that that's how he ended up in that title, even though this has little to do with him personally, he's just a govt functionary pacifying the masses.

        • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Those dates were assuming people actually listened to the public health advice, would be my guess.