Chinese document discussing weaponising coronaviruses provides 'chilling' information
This 'paper' was cited in "The 3rd Yan Report" in March. You can find it
here and her other reports are also readily available online - though it should be pointed out that these are not 'published' articles, and have been heavily criticized by various people, though the third 'report' is apparently a takedown of those 'reviewers'.
A key bone of contention is the involvement of Shi Zhengli, the prominent virologist whose paper (published in Nature) on the similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and previously discovered coronaviruses (notably RaTG13) now forms the bedrock of the argument that SARS-CoV-2 did not arise in a lab. Yan's claim is that this and other key papers are fraudulent and are all part of a much wider conspiracy involving everyone from SARS researchers, other prominent scientists, major scientific journals, the mainstream media and, of course, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This stretches credulity somewhat, though the fact that Shi is based at the very lab that is at the centre of the lab leak hypothesis in Wuhan does ring some alarm bells.
In Yan's 2nd report, she claims that the pandemic is a deliberate 'attack on humanity' and that even the people of China itself were targets. It kind of begs the question what the CCP (who she directly accuses of orchestrating the entire exercise) were hoping to achieve, but anyway.
Curiously, however, one of the authors of the 'Chinese document' that discusses the possible weaponization of coronaviruses also authored several papers after the first SARS outbreak claiming that SARS is of 'unnatural origin':
https://insights.ovid.com/pubmed?pmid=24985597... which is kind of bizarre. This paper also cites the fact that there was at least one cluster of cases originating from a "lab leak", and that is also well documented in the
mainstream scientific literature.
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I personally don't buy the argument that the Chinese government are 'perpetrating an attack on humanity', but I am also not convinced that the pandemic is not the result of human intervention of some description. The fact that China and the Wuhan Institute of Virology specifically have long and open track records of research into SARS and SARS-like coronaviruses is indisputable, as is the fact that low-key outbreaks of SARS-CoV have occurred in China before. No doubt the consequences for the staff involved in those outbreaks were dire, and hence protocols would almost certainly have been in place in order to deal with any such future incidences. As such, I would be amazed if the Chinese government did not have a detailed plan as to how to respond in the event of a new outbreak, up to and including means to obfuscate and deflect responsibility if the outcome was considerably worse than before, like what has happened.
The evidence for this pandemic being the result of a planned and coordinated bioweapons "attack on humanity" is very weak, but there are troubling aspects about how China has responded to the international community's requests for an open investigation of China's SARS research programmes that do lend credence to the idea that there is something of a cover-up going on, but the sheer scale and devastation already caused by the outbreak has gone well beyond the stage where the Chinese authorities can just punish a few scientists and facility managers and hope to get away with it.
