Is it not suspicious that the coronavirus first showed up near an advanced bioresearch facility in Red China? At least it appears that’s the case because the Chinese have been extremely tight-lipped on every aspect of the disease situation there.
China expert Steven Mosher is President of the Population Research Institute, and his investigation convinced him that there was some funny stuff going on in the People’s Republic.
He wrote about his findings in a February 22 New York Post article titled, Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab.
Tucker Carlson invited Mosher to his show on Monday for a discussion:
TUCKER CARLSON: So for weeks there have been suggestions on the margins that the Chinese coronavirus outbreak may have begun when the disease escaped from a lab in China, and for just as long, this idea has been rejected as a conspiracy theory. And maybe it is, but maybe it isn’t.
Steven Mosher is President of the Population Research Institute and author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to the World Order.” He just wrote a fascinating piece in the New York Post and explained that there is in fact evidence for the lab origin theory of the coronavirus.
Steven Mosher joins us tonight. Steven, thanks so much for coming on. So this is one of those topics nobody wants to touch.
But because we don’t actually know where it came from, in point of fact, I think it’s worth exploring all potential explanations. Tell us why you think it’s possible this virus escaped from a lab?
STEVEN MOSHER: Well, I think it escaped from the lab, because we have the Chinese government basically telling us that it did. Let me be specific: on the 14th, President for life, Xi Jinping held a meeting at which he talked about the need to increase biosecurity lab safety at biological research laboratories.
If that wasn’t clear enough, the following day, the very next day, the Ministry of Science and Technology produced a long document entitled “Restrictions on Strengthening Bio Security Management in Microbiology Labs that Handle Advanced Viruses like the Novel Coronavirus” — like the novel coronavirus.
They are strengthening the handling of dangerous pathogens and viruses in the middle of an epidemic, which suggests what? That they mishandled the virus that they were experimenting on in their lab in Wuhan.
Wuhan is the only Level 4 laboratory in all of China. So that’s where you would put a dangerous pathogen, whether you were a genetically engineering it to be a weapon or not, that’s where you would be experimenting on it.
So it makes sense that the epicenter of the epidemic, that the lab there would be the source of that virus.
And the other thing, how would it get out of the lab? Most people would think well, a technician got infected through poor lab procedure and then walked out on the street and infected his family and friends and so forth.
But there’s another way it could have gotten out of the lab because we know that in China, some researchers, not all, but some researchers have actually taken their lab animals after they’re done experimenting with them, after they’ve been infected with various viruses so forth.
If the lab animals aren’t dead, they take the bats and the rats and the snakes and everything to the local fresh meat market and sell them on the fresh meat market to make extra money.
So the virus may have passed to human beings by that means, through the avenue the vector of someone’s stomach, Tucker.
CARLSON: That’s one of the most repulsive things I’ve ever heard in my life. But I’m glad that you raised that possibility because of course, it is a real possibility.
And of course, both our government and the Chinese government are anxious to pretend, you know, that didn’t happen they know for sure. But of course, once again, we don’t know for sure. So Steve Mosher, I appreciate your coming on tonight for that. Thank you.
