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We have already looked closely at Dennis Carroll, Peter Daszak, George Gao, W. Ian Lipkin & seen their public statements supporting "natural origin" & hysterical attacks on "lab leak" theories.
This thread focuses on:
Michael Kurilla
Jonna Mazet
Edward Rubin (Metabiota)
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If we look at the leadership team of GVP, you will see some familiar faces:
https://t.co/WdT8sNnfmy Most familiar is probably Peter Daszak, the wealthy Treasurer, also with the key role of Secretary.
Note: USAID PREDICT Project - EcoHealthAlliance
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The "Chair" is Dr. Dennis Carroll
We will have a look at his media statements on the coronavirus pandemic by inputting his name in Twitter search box (very easy!)
Note: Previously was Director of USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats Program
5/X Dennis Carroll's video media statements (1):
CNN
(note Qinghai Thangka positioned in background which Daszak also shows off in his videos obtained during EcoHealth virus hunt with WIV)
https://t.co/UCxGrPeudp Amanpour
https://t.co/LqdwfXSEoY PBS
https://t.co/xoH1W5v8dm
7/X Dennis Carroll's media statements (3)
https://t.co/tffm8IdXZp https://t.co/LurnygAVHM https://t.co/LSv1tX0Kic https://t.co/IJqQc0y3L7 https://t.co/BhPTlWBV8k links reveal Dennis Carroll's thought patterns either via audio, video or in the press.
Draw your own conclusions!
8/X Jonna Mazet
Next we will look at what Jonna Mazet has been saying publicly since January. Jonna is a VIP in the US, a Professor, Director of USAID's One Health & Predict Projects, a VIP in the US Covid-19 response team and here we see she is also an important GVP team member
9/X Jonna Mazet's media statements (1)
CGTN (Chinese TV)
"U.S. researcher who worked with Wuhan lab says virus leak 'highly unlikely'"
https://t.co/ty2oe9UntV https://t.co/hjWGNGR6S7 via
@uacjess https://t.co/Zp2h3tHUdY via
@WhoWuhan https://t.co/J5fk6WryAy
11/X Jonna Mazet's 4 claims:
1. Lab’s samples don’t match new coronavirus
Mazet worked with Shi via USAID PREDICT:
“I’ve spoken to her recently, she is absolutely positive that she had never identified this virus prior to the outbreak happening”
https://t.co/bn0UXwG3Ew TRUST?
12/X Remember Zheng-Li Shi's altered then deleted WIV bat virus database?
"Mazet added that Shi set up a secure, shared database into which PREDICT members could upload their work for public release"
I asked her about this today, not expecting a reply ;)
https://t.co/2u6ZN8ewEl
13/X Mazet's Claims
2. The lab implements rigorous safety protocols
Mazet said Shi’s work in the lab and in the field was above reproach:
“In the field, they wear extreme PPE, including multiple layers of gloves, eye protection, full body suits, and masks,” she said.
She lied
14/X Mazet's Claim2
She says something strange:
She noted, however, that she has not personally visited the WIV & "couldn’t speak to all the research done there"
(Very similar phrase used by Edward Holmes)
She was reported to have trained WIV lab workers.
Where? Galveston, USA?
15/X Mazet on Samples (1)
"Samples collected from bats get immediately split between vials that contain chemicals that deactivate the virus, & other containers that leave the virus alive.
All samples are then dunked into liquid nitrogen on the spot, which freezes them,
16/X samples (2)
Then vials disinfected & transported to lab.
Scientists wearing PPE unload them into a freezer set to minus 80 C.
When samples are studied later, researchers only use deactivated, non-infectious ones.
Vials with viable virus are locked down in a special area.
17/X Mazet's Claim 3
"coronavirus is latest in long line of zoonotic disease outbreaks (spillovers) & is more likely latest disease to jump from an animal host to humans "experts" say"
Oh, right, experts from GVP!
You can read her supporting examples here:
https://t.co/bn0UXwG3Ew
18/ X Claim 3
She states:
Cross-species hop also led to outbreaks of Ebola & SARS, which originated in bats.
3/4 of EID from other species.
Coronavirus is 7th zoonotic virus to have spilled over into people in the last century.
2009 H1N1 swine flu killed 300,000 people via pigs
19/X Claim 3
Bird flu via direct contact with infected poultry.
Pandemic influenza strains:
1957 Asian flu & 1968 HK pandemic likely started in birds
In last 45 years, at least 4 epidemics have been traced back to bats.
THESE FACTS IN NO WAY INVALIDATE A LAB LEAK HYPOTHESIS
20/X Claim 4
"Everyday people" more likely to get infected than researchers who wear protection (dog whistle safe sex)
Caves where samples get collected from bats are dangerous places for people, since humans can be exposed to live viruses.
WIV Team entered caves without PPE!!
21/ X Claim 4
Mazet continues to lie:
"Shi’s researchers navigate those caves in full PPE; but tourists, hunters, poachers, and other people who rely on animals in some capacity for food or trade wander into such places less protected"
Blame the bloody tourists, right?
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"Eroding confidence between US & Chinese researchers"
Yuan Zhiming, director of the WIV’s biosafety laboratory, told Reuters that “malicious” claims about the lab had been “pulled out of thin air” and contradicted all available evidence
What evidence? What the PLA took away?
23/X Nitty Gritty
"persistent circulation of lab-leak theory could impact future scientific cooperation & information sharing between US & China"
“What’s happening sociologically right now is biggest risk, who will want to work on this if they’re the ones put under a microscope?”
24/X Nitty Gritty
“real danger of what’s going on now is that experts like Shi & myself may not be able to keep collaborating to identify viruses because of government pressures.”
Mazet worries a blame game could even put lives at risk in the short term.
WHAT ABOUT OUR LIVES?
25/ X Bedtime for me, will continue tomorrow with:
Michael Kurilla the biowarfare expert
other GVP leaders:
Greedy Edward Rubin (Metabiota)
& Jennifer Gardy, Deputy Director, Surveillance, Data, and Epidemiology for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Malaria team
Oyewali Tomori
