Wuhan virology lab’s cookbook for how to make a supervirus in Nature magazine. Arthur Waldron: @PennSAS, #China ; @GordonGChang
Image: Medical lab scientist at a bench with micropipettes. Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, in re: Beijing's handling of the coronavirus epidemic. “China is trying to trace the origins.” For decades, the US has ben trying to be friends with China, has poured cash, training, education, information, almost every level of amity, in to China; and now China, desperate to exculpate itself of the disgrace of filthy markets and a broken healthcare system, blames the US for the Covid-19 virus. Check the Wuhan virology lab, which for four years has been doing exactly this research, as published repeatedly in Nature, et al. A cookbook for how to make a supervirus. Eventually, someone who was there will tell us. We hear that the woman in charge swears the lab didn't do it; a staffer says he’ll go public and say she’s lying. American leadership says: in a crisis like this, the leader goes to the front lines. No Chinese top guy has gone anywhere near Wuhan. They’re hiding in their homes. Meanwhile, their researchers and scholars are top-notch, as good as any such group in the world. They need doctors and medical eqpt, of which they're short. Leaders apparently don't know the difference between a virus and a bacterium. Beijing leadership, feeling extremely sensitive, turns and blames the Americans