EP-044 Spies Scientists Greed and COVID-19
Jay Fratt – The Conservative Hippie
There are too many hyperbolic opinions and hysterical conclusion jumping in the public sphere right now. This show is about a lot of things surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, but instead of my opinions, I just presented a series of interesting facts in this podcast. I hope you enjoy it.
Did you know that a team of Chinese scientists were escorted from the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg Ontario in July 2019? The why is shrouded in secrecy, but let’s learn more about these people, and the lab.
Xiangguo Qiu, her husband, and her “students” were force-ably removed from their workplace for what is only being described as a possible “policy breach” by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Xiangguo Qiu, and her husband worked at the only certified Level 4 microbiology lab in Canada. What is a certified Level 4 microbiology lab? Well it’s a place where scientists experiment and work on the most deadly pathogens on the planet, but more about these types of labs later. You see Qiu didn’t just work at the Winnipeg lab, she also traveled to China frequently to train scientists at the country’s only Level 4 lab, which opened in 2017. You will never guess where this Chinese Level 4 microbiology lab is located …. Oh you guessed it, Wuhan China. Qiu traveled to the Wuhan National Biosafetly Laboratory twice a year, for two weeks at a time to assist with the facility. All while being employed by the Canadian government.
Qiu was never searched before leaving Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory on her numerous consultative trips to the Wuhan Level 4 lab. You see Qiu was the head of the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies Section in the Special Pathogens Program at the Canadian lab. That’s officially named scary shit right there. Only a few months before the Royal Mounted Police removed the scientists, some how exceptionally virulent viruses made their way to the Wuhan laboratory.
Let’s take a little closer look at these laboratories that research and tinker with the most deadly infectious diseases. This recent scandal at the Canadian lab isn’t their first. In 2009 the FBI arrested Konan Michael Yao when he crossed over the US border with 22 vials of biological material. No big deal, just genes from the deadly Ebola virus. You see Yao was starting a new job at the National Institutes of Health at the Biodefense Research Laboratory in Maryland, and he didn’t want to start his projects from scratch. But here is the kicker, the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg didn’t even know the property was missing. The Royal Mounted Police had to contact the facility to let them know. It’s ok though, the lab had a signed form that the scientist wouldn’t steal anything. You bet. Take off ya hoser eh.
Let’s introduce you to the Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator of Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory. Her Name is Zhengli Shi. She has won all kinds of prizes and awards for her various virological papers. She’s given talks all over the world. Titles of her speeches and some quotes include:
“Risk assessment oif bat coronavirus spillover and prevention strategy” 2018
“Genetic evolution and interspecies infection of bat SARS-like coronavirus” 2017
“SARS coronavirus may have originated from frequent recombination events between SARS-related coronaviruses in a single horseshoe bat habitat” 2017
Ok, enough with the Wuhan level 4 lab for now. Did you know that the United States has at least 4 level 4 biological laboratories located in the US? Remember Dr. Qiu, the Chinese virologist that was escorted out of the Canadian lab with her husband and team of Chinese “students?” Dr. Qiu also consulted with the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. Thi
