#DRASTIC wrote about this and about other oddities in the official story:
https://t.co/1iJOJz9LYj
@gumby4christ
This is the $1mln question still without an answer: why were these workers cleaning bat guano from that abandoned mine?
Surprisingly we simply don't know.
China would have all interest in clarifying that point if for instance they were prospecting or selling guano. It did not.
The miners were tasked with removing bat feces. AFAIK it hasn't been established why they were doing this. Given that EcoHealth was collecting bat fecal samples in the same province around the same time, is it possible these miners were actually collecting guano for EcoHealth?
— The Great Gumbino (@gumby4christ) February 15, 2021
#DRASTIC wrote about this and about other oddities in the official story:
https://t.co/1iJOJz9LYj
@gumby4christ
Then it gets interesting: about a year after the miners death, Olival & Epstein from EcoHealth Alliance co-authored a paper about the coronavirus risk infection from bat guano collection.
No mention of the mine
https://t.co/Se4y9LcWwk
It never mentioned that the Thai monks have been doing this every Sunday for many many years without infection.
https://t.co/xECx8W0MRh
Anyway, the idea was to ask for more money, as you correctly guessed.
https://t.co/g1TBZNQIJl
Again, please do not mention that the Thai monks have been doing this every Sunday for ages, you would spoil the fun.
https://t.co/g1TBZNQIJl
Supaporn conveniently jumped back into the fray a few days ago with a Nature article pointing to batcovs in bats and pangolins in SE Asia:
https://t.co/n3x97oKEm8
As for the bats coronavirus mentioned they are actually fairly distant from SARS-CoV-2, much more than Yunnan ones, and do not bind to hACE2 - so nothing particularly new.
https://t.co/Bn5ygIcJoy
https://t.co/uZu90vt7QL
On the recent paper describing new SARS2-like viruses in Thailand, the big takeaways for me:
— Alina Chan (@Ayjchan) February 11, 2021
The closest relatives to SARS2 are still from inside China whether you count it by genome, RdRp, or Spike RBD.
The ones from Thailand don't use human ACE2.https://t.co/qMR9ZCQRrP
Many of the odd silences and odd coincidences all link back to it.
I wish EcoHealth could tell us a bit more about it and their 2013 bat guano epiphany.
A job for @USRightToKnow.
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