On February 6, Xiao Botao, a Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, posted a paper, detailing what he knew about COVID19, to his website. Botao knew researchers at the lab that were infected. He reported they were splashed with bat blood and urine, and then quarantined for 14 days, that the virus was not a natural infection, and named Huang Yan Ling as patient zero. Ling is missing and believed to be dead. Funeral staff were reportedly infected during her cremation, as was her boyfriend, leading to the spread of the virus.
Botao pointed out that there are no known colonies of this species of bat within 560 miles of Wuhan. He and his co-researcher interviewed 59 people with connections to the Wuhan market, and each and every one confirmed that there were no Horseshoe Bats being sold there.
When Beijing News of the Mainland asked the institute about Ling, the institute first denied her existence, then when confronted with evidence she not only existed, but worked at the lab, the institute acknowledged she worked there, but claimed she left in 2015. Her bio is no longer on the lab’s website, despite her name still being listed (as of February 6) with the bios of other graduates and former researchers.
The Chinese government issued a statement February 20, saying she is alive and has been working in ‘other provinces’ since 2015 without offering any proof of life. The normal Chinese government reaction to false death rumors is to make the subject have a public appearance.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology website had a job opening from November 18 asking for scientists to research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats. A December 24 follow up job posting basically says “we have discovered a new and terrible virus, and would like to recruit people to come and deal with it.”
From a paper I delivered in May 2020:
On February 6, Xiao Botao, a Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, posted a paper, detailing what he knew about COVID19, to his website. Botao knew researchers at the lab that were infected. He reported they were splashed with bat blood and urine, and then quarantined for 14 days, that the virus was not a natural infection, and named Huang Yan Ling as patient zero. Ling is missing and believed to be dead. Funeral staff were reportedly infected during her cremation, as was her boyfriend, leading to the spread of the virus.
Botao pointed out that there are no known colonies of this species of bat within 560 miles of Wuhan. He and his co-researcher interviewed 59 people with connections to the Wuhan market, and each and every one confirmed that there were no Horseshoe Bats being sold there.
When Beijing News of the Mainland asked the institute about Ling, the institute first denied her existence, then when confronted with evidence she not only existed, but worked at the lab, the institute acknowledged she worked there, but claimed she left in 2015. Her bio is no longer on the lab’s website, despite her name still being listed (as of February 6) with the bios of other graduates and former researchers. The Chinese government issued a statement February 20, saying she is alive and has been working in ‘other provinces’ since 2015 without offering any proof of life. The normal Chinese government reaction to false death rumors is to make the subject have a public appearance.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology website had a job opening from November 18 asking for scientists to research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats. A December 24 follow up job posting basically says “we have discovered a new and terrible virus, and would like to recruit people to come and deal with it.”