Iran and China are only separated by Pakistan. Iran’s first cases were reported Feb 19th in the now deleted article in the NY Times: https://archive.is/CuAQZ Whereas Wikipedia has Russia as having it’s first 2 cases Jan 31st: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Russia
 

As the coronavirus gradually began to spread beyond China’s own borders, another development occurred that greatly multiplied my suspicions. Most of these early cases had occurred exactly where one might expect, among the East Asian countries bordering China. But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak. Even more surprisingly, its political elites had been especially hard-hit, with a full 10% of the entire Iranian parliament soon infected and at least a dozen of its officials and politicians dying of the disease, including some who were quite senior. Indeed, Neocon activists on Twitter began gleefully noting that their hatred Iranian enemies were now dropping like flies.

Let us consider the implications of these facts. Across the entire world the only political elites that have yet suffered any significant human losses have been those of Iran, and they died at a very early stage, before significant outbreaks had even occurred almost anywhere else in the world outside China. Thus, we have America assassinating Iran’s top military commander on Jan. 2nd and then just a few weeks later large portions of the Iranian ruling elites became infected by a mysterious and deadly new virus, with many of them soon dying as a consequence. Could any rational individual possibly regard this as a mere coincidence?
 

Replies: @mcohen, @chrimony

agree. remember the ban on gain of function reach was rescinded in december 2017 by hhs while the agency had no secretary in charge. fauci used this leaderless period to bring back his pet project off the radar and through the back door. fauci tweeted in 2017 that the trump administration would face a pandemic in the coming years. fort detrick was shut down in 2019 for 8 months for "serious safety violations". the wuhan games gave them the perfect opportunity to deflect the blame to china. fauci knew exactly what the wuhan lab was working on because he paid them 3 million dollars to continue the gain of function research that had been prohibited here due to its dangerous nature.

Replies: @Notsofast, @Chrisnonymous

2015 gain of function paper [i.e. during the ban], Shi and Baric [UNC, trained Shi on some of this stuff, close with Daszak] co-authors:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

They made a chimeric coronavirus by combining the SARS backbone with the spike protein from a recently-discovered bat coronavirus, and tested it to see if they could get it to infect human respiratory epithelial cells and mice -- they "succeeded."

Funding from EcoHealth [apparently USAID money, not NIH]:

In the version of this article initially published online, the authors omitted to acknowledge a funding source, USAID-EPT-PREDICT funding from EcoHealth Alliance, to Z.-L.S.

And where did they get the cell line that they used for culturing the chimeric virus?

...chimeric SARS-like CoVs were cultured on Vero E6 cells (obtained from United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

Huh. And EcoHealth gets NIH money and USAID money -- but they also get a lot of money from DoD.

Anyway, it's interesting that the major narratives all along have all been China or US [whether natural origin/ wet market, lab leak, or bioweapon], when if you look at all closely at this gain-of-function research, you see a whole lot of China and US.

Fort Detrick is THE elephant in the room. They have a long track-record too. For those who haven't yet read "6-legged soldiers", "Lab 257" or "Bitten" by Kris Newby, they are all highly recommended reads which would complement this remarkably intelligent article well.

Congratulations on becoming a genetically modified organism.
 

Replies: @northeast, @Anonymous

Pray tell, what exactly would a 'genetically un-modified organism' be?

Replies: @Bill Jones

Thank you I believe I came across something in my Internet stumbles that sufficiently sated my curiosity on said subject.

History? You mean like Michael Mann's facile and fraudulent 'hockey-stick'? When history is deemed either 'official' or 'conspiracy-theorist' one knows that the entire subject (along with, it must be added, most of 'science') has been shoe-horned into a very narrow box marked 'officially approved'. Why, then, might the rational and objective person have the slightest confidence in the various strands of 'history' that remain, once all that is regarded by officialdom as 'inconvenient' has been sent into the 'memory hole'?

Everyone should study some climate history.

People would learn that CO2 lags the rise in temperature by about 800 years and therefore isn't the cause of the warming.

They would also learn that interglacial periods, like the one we currently enjoy, last about 10,000 years on average and we are already about 1000 years past that average.

Magnetic pole excursions are accelerating and some are predicting a pole reversal.

NASA has stated we are now in solar cycle 25 that will be very weak and cycle 26 could be the start of an expected Grand Solar Minimum using known cycles in the climate record.

Would you care to add anything that people should know about?

Replies: @Tommy Thompson, @Snert

You can't make this stuff up.

The real number is 19:

You have to skip to 50:53 in this video to get to the setup, skip to 53:55 to get to the punchline. There is some blather about 1555 in between, but Rev. Farrakhan seems confused in his history of Jamestown, kind of like the NYT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUvUjvqSO6o