With the coronavirus pandemic waning in many parts of the globe, health and medical experts around the world are beginning to take a clearer, less-frenzied look at exactly how this happened with hopes of never dealing with another such crisis again.
Much of the concern now lies with China, who severely downplayed the severity of the coronavirus disaster when relaying information to teams of doctors around the world, perhaps with the intent of allowing the rest of the world to be caught off-guard.
And then there’s the theory that the disease itself was not a simple case of visual transfer between bats and humans, but part of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was only a few miles up the road from where Beijing suggested that first outbreak began.
China has repeatedly refuted this possibility, but evidence continues to mount.
Evidence that includes newly unearthed Chinese government video continues to mount indicating the Wuhan Institute of Virology studied live bats in its lab, despite longtime lab collaborator Peter Daszak calling this a “conspiracy theory.”
Footage obtained and released by the Australian and Sky News was purportedly shot from inside the Wuhan lab and shows live bats kept in cages. The video was reportedly produced and released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017 to tout the opening and launch of the Wuhan lab’s then-new biosafety level four laboratory.
The apparently Chinese state-produced video shows multiple bats in a cage, a researcher wearing a mask and gloves holding a bat and feeding it a worm, video of researchers in personal protective equipment out searching for and collecting bats, and a bat hanging off of a researcher’s hat as the person wears glasses and a surgical face mask.
The video was reportedly dug up by an online group that calls itself “DRASTIC” or the Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19.
Should China be found to be covering up any evidence of a laboratory leak of COVID-19, there is little doubt that the global community would be seeking a great deal of recompense…and quickly.
