#covidorigin — Public Fediverse posts
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First Tuesday of the month -- my (self-imposed) blog post day!
Today, I am revisiting the weird story of the "other eight" (aka "clade 7896", lineage 4): eight bat coronavirus sequences from the Mojiang mine, at the center of a narrative invented by lab leakers. ▫️1/6🧵
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In a new blog post, I revisit a claim made by Steven Quay, rumored to be the next NIAID director:
that "Genome sequence archives" for SARS-CoV-2 sequences from patients at an Army hospital "were created on December 10, 2019".
This was not the case ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin
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Last week, David Relman published an Opinion in The Guardian about the origin of COVID-19, NIH and Anthony Fauci. I had some comments about it... so I wrote a blog post. ⬇️
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Prior to Fauci's hearing, Rand Paul released emails from 2021 that revived a conspiracy theory alleging that the genetic sequence of RaTG13 (once SARS-CoV-2's closest relative) had been altered.
I wrote up what used to be a Twitter thread and updated it with new information: ⬇️ #covidorigin
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Also, Quay found it OK to publish COVID work in a clearly predatory journal (Fortune Journals), with people like Daoyu Zhang (aka Flavinkins aka AlmanaLepiz), a person flagged by Bellingcat in 2020 as central in anti-WHO disinformation▫️9/
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As Alex says, Quay is at the origin of very weird COVID-19 origin scenarios -- often based on very basic errors (more to it later).
@[email protected] will love to tell you about "ORF8 is diabolical". ▫️8/
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Back to COVID claims, there is much, much more to say.
He lied in the opening anecdote of his recent book, claiming to have been in the metro in Wuhan in 2014 from the airport, while there was no metro there yet. ▫️7/
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Because the Venn diagram of lab leakers and antivaxxers is close to a circle, Quay is antivaxx. It helps to work under RFK Jr., I guess.
Here he is, rewritting tweets by accounts that described every sudden death as being caused by a vaccine. ▫️3/
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Add to it some gratuitous cringiness, when he and other leakers harassed an editor because they did not like a paper (ours...), to the point that the editor had to close their social media accounts.
"I'll even buy you a wig for your post-debate alopecia." ▫️5/
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Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts".
He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵
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Quay is a well-rounded person spending too much time on the Internet, so he is also a climate sceptic. ▫️4/
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Quay is a lab leaker, and everything is a lab leak. SARS-CoV-2 of course, but also... West Nile virus, when Fauci was infected in 2024. ▫️2/
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Quay's 2026 X posts are still there; check what he found appropriate posting:
an AI-generated "infographic" of the DRC Ebola outbreak, with a round coronavirus-like virus, and imaginary country shapes (again, on a par with this administration)
source: archive.ph/uXeQh ▫️6/
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Today is the first Tuesday of the month, my (self-imposed) blog posting day --
I wrote about accusations of coverup and conspiracies, thrown without any evidence, in the context of the recent release of private documents by Rand Paul #covidorigin
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Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin
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People say "lab leak" (singular) but there is in fact a multiple of Covid origin scenarios involving research.
Rand Paul wants to use the topic to attack Fauci, but questions asked by his staff draw from a diversity of origin scenarios, including China-only versions.
He has nothing. #covidorigin
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Today is the first Tuesday of the month, i.e. my (self-imposed) blog post day!
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I wrote about the documents that were recently released by Tulsi Gabbard about Fauci's role on the US Intelligence Community investigation of the origin of COVID-19 ▫️1/ #covidorigin
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Another recent release, via a different route (FOIA):
the Jan 2025 CIA assessment of the origin of Covid-19.
They lean lab leak because ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜.
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A new set of Covid-19 origin documents has recently been made public by the FBI.
We learn that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ and ⬛⬛⬛. Also, ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜.
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In a new blog post, I review the first chapter of a new book on #covidorigin, Steven Quay's "The Code as Witness".
The book opens with an impossible anecdote, and I also show that its claim of an early cluster at an Army hospital in Wuhan is unsupported.
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Another quick thread on Tulsi Gabbard's documents, released on Thursday:
There is finally a version of the May 2020 LLNL Z Division report. There are still redactions, but enough can be read to know it was baseless. ▫️1/5
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Tulsi Gabbard and team falsely claim that Fauci lied to Congress about his involvement with the US Intelligence Community.
They cherry-picked a truncated quote.
The actual transcript shows that Fauci did say he was briefed... ▫️1/3
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There was a different #covidorigin -related release later yesterday, by a departing Tulsi Gabbard. Will do a thread or post but, in short: If this is the best they had, they really have nothing. And they tried to smear Fauci with lies debunked by their own documents. www.odni.gov/index.php/ne...
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Thanks to the Trump's administration's commitment to Radical Transparency, we now have more details on the US Intelligence Community's assessments of COVID-19's potential origins:
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"you have directed your investigative efforts at Dr. Fauci in a manner that appears to be pursing an outcome you have prejudged." Gary Peters writes to Rand Paul about his way of leading HSGAC #covidorigin
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Dans ce post ⬇️, je m'alarme du fait que le service Sciences du Monde prenne au sérieux un affabulateur qui promeut les théories du complot les plus crasses sur la Covid-19. Revenons aux fondamentaux : ▫️1/4 #covidorigin
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Today is the first Tuesday of the month, meaning it is blog post day! I wrote about last month's hearing of a "CIA Whistleblower" on the "COVID coverup". The guy was a "plandemic"-type conspiracy theorist, which was not obvious to folks with the same tendencies... #CovidOrigin
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So, Rand Paul just held a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, with a CIA "whistleblower" on the "COVID Cover-up". The guy is an antivaxx nutter into "HIV inserts" who had NO information. #covidorigin
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