10 Facts About the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Everyone Needs to Know
By Jennifer Van Laar | 7:00 AM on March 25, 2023

Dr. Richard Ebright, a prominent molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers University, has been a consistent voice of reason since the coronavirus pandemic began (and even longer, judging by this 2004 article about him). In March 2020 he co-authored a letter in The Lancet urging "an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2," arguing that there was "no scientifically validated evidence that directly supports a natural origin." More recently, Ebright was part of a panel testifying before Congress in August 2022 about gain of function research and (lack of) oversight led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

Since that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) closed its investigation into COVID origins due to non-cooperation with China, and both the US Department of Energy and FBI Director Christopher Wray have said that the pandemic most likely originated with a lab leak.

Friday night, Ebright posted a Twitter thread of "nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know," and indeed, this information (which will not be news to RedState readers) needs to be spread far and wide. As Ebright noted at the end of the thread, he ended up listing ten facts instead of nine.

For ease of reading I've transcribed the thread, and added in relevant links and emphasized various points.

The nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know are as follows:

1) SARS-CoV-2 is related to bat SARS-like coronaviruses from southern China and northern Laos.

2) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans in or near Wuhan in August-November 2019.

3) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans either through a natural accident (just as in the first entry of the original SARS coronavirus into humans, which occurred through natural spillover in rural Guangdong province in 2002) or through a research accident (just as in the second third, fourth, and fifth entries of the original SARS coronavirus into humans, which occurred through a lab accident in Singapore in 2003, a lab accident in Taipei in 2003, and two separate lab accidents in Beijing in 2004)

4) Wuhan is located 1,000 km from the nearest wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses.

5) Wuhan has labs that, at the start of the pandemic, conducted the world's largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses, possessed the world's largest collection of bat SARS-like coronaviruses, and possessed the world's only sample of a SARS-CoV-2-like coronavirus.

6) In 2016-2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology constructed a series of novel chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses that combined the spike gene of one bat SARS-like coronavirus with the rest of the genetic information of another bat SARS-like coronavirus and identified viruses that were able to infect and replicate efficiently in human airway cells and that had 10,000x enhanced viral growth and 4x enhanced lethality in mice engineered to display human receptors on cells. In other words, in the years before the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had taken most of the steps needed to convert a natural bat SARS-like coronavirus to a novel human pandemic pathogen having the properties of SARS-CoV-2.

RedState's Scott Hounsell was the first to report on the creation of those viruses, in May 2021, linking to the actual studies themselves and to the grant documents funding said research months before The Intercept reported on them.

7) In 2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators proposed to construct an expanded series of novel chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses, this time using newly identified spike genes having affinities for human receptors that ranged from very low to very high; and proposed to insert furin cleavage sites - a feature that is present in SARS-CoV-2 but not in any of the hundreds of other known SARS-like coronaviruses and that is crucial for the high transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 - into SARS-like coronaviruses.

In other words, just a year before the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators proposed to take the remaining steps needed to convert a natural bat SARS-like coronavirus to a novel human pandemic pathogen having the properties of SARS-CoV-2.

8) In 2016-2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology constructed and characterized SARS-like coronaviruses at biosafety level 2, a level inadequate for work with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens and inadequate to contain a virus having the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2.

9) From the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators have withheld information, misrepresented facts, and obstructed investigation...even though, if not connected to origin, they most easily could have cleared their names through cooperation.

10) A preponderance of evidence, including both the scientific evidence (facts 1-3) and the documentary evidence (facts 4-9), indicates that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a laboratory accident.

All statements in all posts are demonstrable facts.

Not surprisingly, Ebright was immediately challenged despite his expertise in the field. One caution was incredibly ironic, given the lack of such cautions aimed at people like Anthony Fauci, Angela Rasmussen, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, and others over the last three-plus years.



"Don't leave out options that might challenge your own logic." Wise words, undoubtedly, but words ignored by people who know better, to the harm of every person on the planet.

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Edited: 03/25/2023 at 04:45 AM by Fish Killer

The 2019 Military World Games (Chinese: 2019????????; pinyin: nián shìjiè j?nrén yùndònghuì), officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games, (Chinese: ??????????; pinyin: dì q? jiè shìjiè j?nrén yùndònghuì) and commonly known as Wuhan 2019, was held from October 18 - 27, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China.[2][3]

The 7th Military World Games was the first international military multisport event to be held in China. The event was also the nation's largest military sports event ever with 9,308 athletes from 109 countries competing in 329 events and 27 sporting disciplines.[4][5] The multisport event included 25 official and 2 demonstrative sports. Six sport disciplines such as badminton, tennis, table tennis, women's boxing, and men's gymnastics made their debuts in the event.[6]

The Military World Games was also the second biggest international sport event to be held in 2019. The Games were organized by the Military Sports Commission of China, Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China, and the military commands (Army in accordance with CISM regulations and the rules of the International Sports Federations[7] ). For the first time in the history of the Military World Games, an Olympic village was set up for the athletes prior to the commencement of the Games.[8] The village was officially opened for the athletes following the flag-raising ceremony.[9]

Host nation China sent a delegation consisting of 553 participants for the games, which marked the record number of participants to represent a nation at a single Military World Games.[10] Around 230,000 volunteers were recruited for the event.[11]

Bidding
Following the conclusion of the 2015 Military World Games, China won the bid to host the Games for the first time.[12]

Venues
The event was held in 35 venues.[12] The Wuhan Sports Center hosted a soccer competition for both men and women held from October 16 - 27.[13]

Houhu block
Wuhan Five Rings Sports Center
Venue Sport Capacity
Stadium Athletics (Track and field) 30,000
Gymnasium Table tennis 7,559
Natatorium Lifesaving 1,090
Others
Venue Sport Capacity
Aeronautical Pentathlon Flying Contest Venue Aeronautical Pentathlon (Flying Contest) n/a
Mulan Lake Campus of PLA Naval University of Engineering Naval Pentathlon (Lifesaving, Utility Swimming, Obstacle Race, Seamanship Race and Amphibious Cross-Country Race) 1,300
Air Force Early Warning Academy Venues Aeronautical Pentathlon (Air Pistol Shooting, Swimming, Fencing, Basketball and Obstacle Race) 1,000
Wuhan National Fitness Center Soccer 8,400
Hankou Culture and Sports Center Soccer 8,756
Wuhan Gymnasium Taekwondo 2,430
Zhuankou block
Wuhan Sports Center
Venue Sport Capacity
Stadium Opening and closing ceremonies 58,000
Gymnasium Women's Volleyball 12,000
Natatorium Swimming, Diving 3,500
Others
Venue Sport Capacity
Jianghan University Gymnasium Men's Volleyball 2,300
Hannan Municipal Airport Parachuting n/a
Tianwaitian Golf Course Men's golf n/a
Wuhan Business University Natatorium Modern Pentathlon (Swimming) 514
Wuhan Business University Gymnasium Modern Pentathlon (fencing) 2,185
Wuhan Business University Equestrian Venue Equestrian, Modern pentathlon (Riding and Laser-Run) 2,120
Hanyang District Beach Volleyball Center Women's Beach Volleyball 1,160
Caidian National Defense Park Archery 2,110
Shooting (25/ 50 m Pistol/ Rifle, Trap/ Skeet) 3,600
Main Media Center Broadcast, Press n/a
Guanggu block
Venue Sport Capacity
Wuhan Sports University Gymnasium Boxing 3,800
Hongshan Gymnasium Men's Basketball 8,000
Optics Valley International Tennis Center Tennis (demonstration) 13,722
East Lake Greenway Marathon and Road Cycling Venues Athletics (marathon) and Cycling (road) n/a
Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering Gymnasium Wrestling 1,353
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Optics Valley Gymnasium Women's Basketball 6,316
Yishan Golf Course Women's Golf n/a
Wuhan University of Technology Gymnasium Judo 5,212
Ordnance NCO Academy, Army Engineering University of PLA Venues Cross-Country and Military Pentathlon (Obstacle swimming) 2,280
East Lake Sailing and Open Water Swimming Venues Sailing and Open Water Swimming n/a
East Lake Hi-Tech Development Zone Shooting (300 m Rifle), Military Pentathlon (Shooting, Throwing, Obstacle Run) n/a
Hubei Olympic Center Gymnasium Men's Gymnastics (demonstration) 5,294
Wuhan University Student Sports Center Badminton 8,031
Qingshan District Beach Volleyball Center Men's Beach Volleyball 1,116
Huangjiahu block
Venue Sport Capacity
Jiangxia District Liangzihu Lake Triathlon Venue Triathlon n/a
Jiangxia District Orienteering Venues:
Bafenshan
Dahuashan
Qinglongshan
Tianzishan Orienteering, Aeronautical Pentathlon (Orienteering) n/a
Wuhan City Polytechnic Gymnasium Fencing 2,433
Athletes Village Athletes Village n/a
Opening ceremony

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony

Opening ceremony of the 2019 Military World Games
The opening ceremony was held on 18 October 2019 and the event was officially opened by the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping.[14][15] An extravaganza titled "Torch of Peace" was performed during the opening ceremony highlighting the main motto of the event.[16]

Prior to the opening ceremony, a light show was set to be staged in the Yangtze River in Wuhan. It featured a screen made up of millions of small LED lights installed on bridges and buildings along the bank of the Yangtze River.[17] The torch relay for the event was held on 16 October 2019 with the participation of 100 torchbearers. Liao Hui, 2008 Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting, began the torch rally while hammer thrower Zhang Wenxiu concluded the torch relay.[18] Flag raising ceremony was also held on 16 October 2019.[19]

Mascot
The emblem and mascot along with the website were unveiled on 24 November 2017 by Ministry of National Defense of China. The mascot, named Bingbing, was designed based on the Chinese sturgeon.[7]

Marketing
An online store and 21 franchised retail stores were newly opened in order to promote the sales of licensed items.[20]

Sports
The competition involved 28 sports.[21]

Pentathlon
Aeronautical pentathlon (details) (5)
Military pentathlon (details) (6)
Modern pentathlon (details) (5)
Naval pentathlon (details) (6)
Army Sports
Orienteering (details) (8)
Parachuting (details) (18)
Sailing (details) (2)
Aquatics
Diving (details) (12)
Open water swimming (details) (5)
Swimming (details) (42)
Lifesaving (details) (18)
Main Sports
Athletics (details) (Athletics and Para Athletics) (45)+(29)
Cycling (details) (Road Cycling) (6)
Shooting (details) (25)
Martial Arts
Boxing (details) (15)
Fencing (details) (12)
Judo (details) (16)
Taekwondo (details) (16)
Wrestling (details) (18)
Team Sports
Basketball (details) (2)
Football (details) (2)
Volleyball (details) (Indoor and Beach Volleyball) (4)
Other Sports
Archery (details) (Archery and Para Archery) (5)+(3)
Badminton (details) (6)
Equestrian (details) (2)
Golf (details) (4)
Table tennis (details) (6)
Triathlon (details) (Triathlon and Senior triathlon) (5)+(3)
Demonstration sports

Tennis (details) (5)
Gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics (details) (8)
Records
On 20 October 2019, China's Lu Pinpin broke the world record in the women's 500 m obstacle swimming course classified under the military pentathlon with a record timing of 2 minutes and 10.9 seconds.[22][23]

Overall, 82 records were broken during the nine day multisport event.[24]

Controversies
Cheating
China's orienteering teams originally captured a gold and a silver medal in women as well as a silver in men. They were all disqualified by the International Orienteering Federation after it was found out that they had been cheating through access to secretly marked paths, and received external assistance thus gaining major unfair advantage over other competitors.[25] A common protest was also held by the competitors from Russia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland, and Austria accusing the Chinese team for gaining major unfair advantage in the competition.[26]

Participating nations
It was reported that 109 nations took part in the event, including athletes from Russia. In September 2019, the International Association of Athletics Federation approved athletes from Russia with the Authorized National Athlete (ANA) status to take part at the event.[33] However, the All Russia Athletics Federation remained silent on the participation of its athletes. The State of Palestine participated in the event, but Israel did not.[34]

List of participating nations
9,308 athletes from 110 countries participated in the games:[35][36][37]

List of Participating Nations
Below is a list of the 110 participating nations (the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets)

Albania (5)
Algeria (56)
Angola (2)
Argentina (2)
Armenia (15)
Austria (37)
Azerbaijan (20)
Bahrain (69)
Barbados (2)
Belarus (95)
Belgium (51)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (11)
Botswana (15)
Brazil (329)
Bulgaria (21)
Burkina Faso (3)
Cameroon (55)
Canada (104)
Cape Verde (4)
Chad (11)
Chile (32)
China (553)
Colombia (31)
Republic of the Congo (19)
Croatia (11)
Cyprus (8)
Czech Republic (27)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (26)
Denmark (61)
Djibouti (3)
Dominican Republic (31)
Ecuador (57)
Egypt (83)
Eritrea (3)
Estonia (27)
Eswatini (27)
Finland (53)
France (273)
Gabon (9)
Gambia (3)
Germany (167)
Greece (43)
Guatemala (13)
Guinea (4)
Guyana (4)
Hungary (56)
India (54)
Indonesia (27)
Iran (90)
Ireland (32)
Italy (139)
Jordan (5)
Kazakhstan (62)
Kenya (14)
Kuwait (35)
Latvia (32)
Lebanon (7)
Lithuania (56)
Luxembourg (18)
Mongolia (75)
Malta (3)
Monaco (2)
Montenegro (2)
Morocco (24)
Myanmar (44)
Namibia (3)
Netherlands (89)
North Korea (156)
North Macedonia (4)
Nepal (40)
Niger (3)
Nigeria (12)
Norway (28)
Oman (63)
Pakistan (19)
Palestine (9)
Peru (15)
Poland (193)
Portugal (9)
Qatar (99)
Romania (77)
Russia (243)
Rwanda (41)
Saudi Arabia (41)
Senegal (3)
Serbia (41)
Slovakia (14)
Slovenia (32)
South Korea (172)
Spain (111)
Sri Lanka (73)
Sweden (72)
Switzerland (67)
Syria (15)
Tanzania (22)
Thailand (55)
Togo (3)
Turkmenistan (4)
Tunisia (22)
Turkey (20)
Uganda (5)
Ukraine (87)
United Arab Emirates (29)
United States (59)
Uruguay (36)
Uzbekistan (17)
Venezuela (84)
Vietnam (32)
Zambia (13)
Zimbabwe (28)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

you really need to get Laid...


trump is going Down...

soon...

Changing the subject won't work.

Idiot.


10 Facts About the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Everyone Needs to Know
By Jennifer Van Laar | 7:00 AM on March 25, 2023

Dr. Richard Ebright, a prominent molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers University, has been a consistent voice of reason since the coronavirus pandemic began (and even longer, judging by this 2004 article about him). In March 2020 he co-authored a letter in The Lancet urging "an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2," arguing that there was "no scientifically validated evidence that directly supports a natural origin." More recently, Ebright was part of a panel testifying before Congress in August 2022 about gain of function research and (lack of) oversight led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

Since that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) closed its investigation into COVID origins due to non-cooperation with China, and both the US Department of Energy and FBI Director Christopher Wray have said that the pandemic most likely originated with a lab leak.

Friday night, Ebright posted a Twitter thread of "nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know," and indeed, this information (which will not be news to RedState readers) needs to be spread far and wide. As Ebright noted at the end of the thread, he ended up listing ten facts instead of nine.

For ease of reading I've transcribed the thread, and added in relevant links and emphasized various points.

The nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know are as follows:

1) SARS-CoV-2 is related to bat SARS-like coronaviruses from southern China and northern Laos.

2) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans in or near Wuhan in August-November 2019.

3) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans either through a natural accident (just as in the first entry of the original SARS coronavirus into humans, which occurred through natural spillover in rural Guangdong province in 2002) or through a research accident (just as in the second third, fourth, and fifth entries of the original SARS coronavirus into humans, which occurred through a lab accident in Singapore in 2003, a lab accident in Taipei in 2003, and two separate lab accidents in Beijing in 2004)

4) Wuhan is located 1,000 km from the nearest wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses.

5) Wuhan has labs that, at the start of the pandemic, conducted the world's largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses, possessed the world's largest collection of bat SARS-like coronaviruses, and possessed the world's only sample of a SARS-CoV-2-like coronavirus.

6) In 2016-2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology constructed a series of novel chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses that combined the spike gene of one bat SARS-like coronavirus with the rest of the genetic information of another bat SARS-like coronavirus and identified viruses that were able to infect and replicate efficiently in human airway cells and that had 10,000x enhanced viral growth and 4x enhanced lethality in mice engineered to display human receptors on cells. In other words, in the years before the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had taken most of the steps needed to convert a natural bat SARS-like coronavirus to a novel human pandemic pathogen having the properties of SARS-CoV-2.

RedState's Scott Hounsell was the first to report on the creation of those viruses, in May 2021, linking to the actual studies themselves and to the grant documents funding said research months before The Intercept reported on them.

7) In 2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators proposed to construct an expanded series of novel chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses, this time using newly identified spike genes having affinities for human receptors that ranged from very low to very high; and proposed to insert furin cleavage sites - a feature that is present in SARS-CoV-2 but not in any of the hundreds of other known SARS-like coronaviruses and that is crucial for the high transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 - into SARS-like coronaviruses.

In other words, just a year before the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators proposed to take the remaining steps needed to convert a natural bat SARS-like coronavirus to a novel human pandemic pathogen having the properties of SARS-CoV-2.

8) In 2016-2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology constructed and characterized SARS-like coronaviruses at biosafety level 2, a level inadequate for work with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens and inadequate to contain a virus having the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2.

9) From the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators have withheld information, misrepresented facts, and obstructed investigation...even though, if not connected to origin, they most easily could have cleared their names through cooperation.

10) A preponderance of evidence, including both the scientific evidence (facts 1-3) and the documentary evidence (facts 4-9), indicates that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a laboratory accident.

All statements in all posts are demonstrable facts.

Not surprisingly, Ebright was immediately challenged despite his expertise in the field. One caution was incredibly ironic, given the lack of such cautions aimed at people like Anthony Fauci, Angela Rasmussen, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, and others over the last three-plus years.



"Don't leave out options that might challenge your own logic." Wise words, undoubtedly, but words ignored by people who know better, to the harm of every person on the planet.


-------------------------
The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

you always change the subject. i assumed that because you are such a good "christian," it's the right thing to do.

how soon do you think our former president will be arrested?

he said he would be arrested.

maybe he just got the date wrong.

atleast the wall is finished...

The 2019 Military World Games (Chinese: 2019 pinyin: nián shìjiè nrén yùndònghuì), officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games, (Chinese: pinyin: dì q? jiè shìjiè j?nrén yùndònghuì) and commonly known as Wuhan 2019, was held from October 18 - 27, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China.[2][3]

The 7th Military World Games was the first international military multisport event to be held in China. The event was also the nation's largest military sports event ever with 9,308 athletes from 109 countries competing in 329 events and 27 sporting disciplines.[4][5] The multisport event included 25 official and 2 demonstrative sports. Six sport disciplines such as badminton, tennis, table tennis, women's boxing, and men's gymnastics made their debuts in the event.[6]

The Military World Games was also the second biggest international sport event to be held in 2019. The Games were organized by the Military Sports Commission of China, Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China, and the military commands (Army in accordance with CISM regulations and the rules of the International Sports Federations[7] ). For the first time in the history of the Military World Games, an Olympic village was set up for the athletes prior to the commencement of the Games.[8] The village was officially opened for the athletes following the flag-raising ceremony.[9]

Host nation China sent a delegation consisting of 553 participants for the games, which marked the record number of participants to represent a nation at a single Military World Games.[10] Around 230,000 volunteers were recruited for the event.[11]

Bidding
Following the conclusion of the 2015 Military World Games, China won the bid to host the Games for the first time.[12]

Venues
The event was held in 35 venues.[12] The Wuhan Sports Center hosted a soccer competition for both men and women held from October 16 - 27.[13]

Houhu block
Wuhan Five Rings Sports Center
Venue Sport Capacity
Stadium Athletics (Track and field) 30,000
Gymnasium Table tennis 7,559
Natatorium Lifesaving 1,090
Others
Venue Sport Capacity
Aeronautical Pentathlon Flying Contest Venue Aeronautical Pentathlon (Flying Contest) n/a
Mulan Lake Campus of PLA Naval University of Engineering Naval Pentathlon (Lifesaving, Utility Swimming, Obstacle Race, Seamanship Race and Amphibious Cross-Country Race) 1,300
Air Force Early Warning Academy Venues Aeronautical Pentathlon (Air Pistol Shooting, Swimming, Fencing, Basketball and Obstacle Race) 1,000
Wuhan National Fitness Center Soccer 8,400
Hankou Culture and Sports Center Soccer 8,756
Wuhan Gymnasium Taekwondo 2,430
Zhuankou block
Wuhan Sports Center
Venue Sport Capacity
Stadium Opening and closing ceremonies 58,000
Gymnasium Women's Volleyball 12,000
Natatorium Swimming, Diving 3,500
Others
Venue Sport Capacity
Jianghan University Gymnasium Men's Volleyball 2,300
Hannan Municipal Airport Parachuting n/a
Tianwaitian Golf Course Men's golf n/a
Wuhan Business University Natatorium Modern Pentathlon (Swimming) 514
Wuhan Business University Gymnasium Modern Pentathlon (fencing) 2,185
Wuhan Business University Equestrian Venue Equestrian, Modern pentathlon (Riding and Laser-Run) 2,120
Hanyang District Beach Volleyball Center Women's Beach Volleyball 1,160
Caidian National Defense Park Archery 2,110
Shooting (25/ 50 m Pistol/ Rifle, Trap/ Skeet) 3,600
Main Media Center Broadcast, Press n/a
Guanggu block
Venue Sport Capacity
Wuhan Sports University Gymnasium Boxing 3,800
Hongshan Gymnasium Men's Basketball 8,000
Optics Valley International Tennis Center Tennis (demonstration) 13,722
East Lake Greenway Marathon and Road Cycling Venues Athletics (marathon) and Cycling (road) n/a
Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering Gymnasium Wrestling 1,353
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Optics Valley Gymnasium Women's Basketball 6,316
Yishan Golf Course Women's Golf n/a
Wuhan University of Technology Gymnasium Judo 5,212
Ordnance NCO Academy, Army Engineering University of PLA Venues Cross-Country and Military Pentathlon (Obstacle swimming) 2,280
East Lake Sailing and Open Water Swimming Venues Sailing and Open Water Swimming n/a
East Lake Hi-Tech Development Zone Shooting (300 m Rifle), Military Pentathlon (Shooting, Throwing, Obstacle Run) n/a
Hubei Olympic Center Gymnasium Men's Gymnastics (demonstration) 5,294
Wuhan University Student Sports Center Badminton 8,031
Qingshan District Beach Volleyball Center Men's Beach Volleyball 1,116
Huangjiahu block
Venue Sport Capacity
Jiangxia District Liangzihu Lake Triathlon Venue Triathlon n/a
Jiangxia District Orienteering Venues:
Bafenshan
Dahuashan
Qinglongshan
Tianzishan Orienteering, Aeronautical Pentathlon (Orienteering) n/a
Wuhan City Polytechnic Gymnasium Fencing 2,433
Athletes Village Athletes Village n/a
Opening ceremony

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony

Opening ceremony of the 2019 Military World Games
The opening ceremony was held on 18 October 2019 and the event was officially opened by the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping.[14][15] An extravaganza titled "Torch of Peace" was performed during the opening ceremony highlighting the main motto of the event.[16]

Prior to the opening ceremony, a light show was set to be staged in the Yangtze River in Wuhan. It featured a screen made up of millions of small LED lights installed on bridges and buildings along the bank of the Yangtze River.[17] The torch relay for the event was held on 16 October 2019 with the participation of 100 torchbearers. Liao Hui, 2008 Olympic gold medalist in weightlifting, began the torch rally while hammer thrower Zhang Wenxiu concluded the torch relay.[18] Flag raising ceremony was also held on 16 October 2019.[19]

Mascot
The emblem and mascot along with the website were unveiled on 24 November 2017 by Ministry of National Defense of China. The mascot, named Bingbing, was designed based on the Chinese sturgeon.[7]

Marketing
An online store and 21 franchised retail stores were newly opened in order to promote the sales of licensed items.[20]

Sports
The competition involved 28 sports.[21]

Pentathlon
Aeronautical pentathlon (details) (5)
Military pentathlon (details) (6)
Modern pentathlon (details) (5)
Naval pentathlon (details) (6)
Army Sports
Orienteering (details) (8)
Parachuting (details) (18)
Sailing (details) (2)
Aquatics
Diving (details) (12)
Open water swimming (details) (5)
Swimming (details) (42)
Lifesaving (details) (18)
Main Sports
Athletics (details) (Athletics and Para Athletics) (45)+(29)
Cycling (details) (Road Cycling) (6)
Shooting (details) (25)
Martial Arts
Boxing (details) (15)
Fencing (details) (12)
Judo (details) (16)
Taekwondo (details) (16)
Wrestling (details) (18)
Team Sports
Basketball (details) (2)
Football (details) (2)
Volleyball (details) (Indoor and Beach Volleyball) (4)
Other Sports
Archery (details) (Archery and Para Archery) (5)+(3)
Badminton (details) (6)
Equestrian (details) (2)
Golf (details) (4)
Table tennis (details) (6)
Triathlon (details) (Triathlon and Senior triathlon) (5)+(3)
Demonstration sports

Tennis (details) (5)
Gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics (details) (8)
Records
On 20 October 2019, China's Lu Pinpin broke the world record in the women's 500 m obstacle swimming course classified under the military pentathlon with a record timing of 2 minutes and 10.9 seconds.[22][23]

Overall, 82 records were broken during the nine day multisport event.[24]

Controversies
Cheating
China's orienteering teams originally captured a gold and a silver medal in women as well as a silver in men. They were all disqualified by the International Orienteering Federation after it was found out that they had been cheating through access to secretly marked paths, and received external assistance thus gaining major unfair advantage over other competitors.[25] A common protest was also held by the competitors from Russia, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Poland, and Austria accusing the Chinese team for gaining major unfair advantage in the competition.[26]

Participating nations
It was reported that 109 nations took part in the event, including athletes from Russia. In September 2019, the International Association of Athletics Federation approved athletes from Russia with the Authorized National Athlete (ANA) status to take part at the event.[33] However, the All Russia Athletics Federation remained silent on the participation of its athletes. The State of Palestine participated in the event, but Israel did not.[34]

List of participating nations
9,308 athletes from 110 countries participated in the games:[35][36][37]

List of Participating Nations
Below is a list of the 110 participating nations (the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets)

Albania (5)
Algeria (56)
Angola (2)
Argentina (2)
Armenia (15)
Austria (37)
Azerbaijan (20)
Bahrain (69)
Barbados (2)
Belarus (95)
Belgium (51)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (11)
Botswana (15)
Brazil (329)
Bulgaria (21)
Burkina Faso (3)
Cameroon (55)
Canada (104)
Cape Verde (4)
Chad (11)
Chile (32)
China (553)
Colombia (31)
Republic of the Congo (19)
Croatia (11)
Cyprus (8)
Czech Republic (27)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (26)
Denmark (61)
Djibouti (3)
Dominican Republic (31)
Ecuador (57)
Egypt (83)
Eritrea (3)
Estonia (27)
Eswatini (27)
Finland (53)
France (273)
Gabon (9)
Gambia (3)
Germany (167)
Greece (43)
Guatemala (13)
Guinea (4)
Guyana (4)
Hungary (56)
India (54)
Indonesia (27)
Iran (90)
Ireland (32)
Italy (139)
Jordan (5)
Kazakhstan (62)
Kenya (14)
Kuwait (35)
Latvia (32)
Lebanon (7)
Lithuania (56)
Luxembourg (18)
Mongolia (75)
Malta (3)
Monaco (2)
Montenegro (2)
Morocco (24)
Myanmar (44)
Namibia (3)
Netherlands (89)
North Korea (156)
North Macedonia (4)
Nepal (40)
Niger (3)
Nigeria (12)
Norway (28)
Oman (63)
Pakistan (19)
Palestine (9)
Peru (15)
Poland (193)
Portugal (9)
Qatar (99)
Romania (77)
Russia (243)
Rwanda (41)
Saudi Arabia (41)
Senegal (3)
Serbia (41)
Slovakia (14)
Slovenia (32)
South Korea (172)
Spain (111)
Sri Lanka (73)
Sweden (72)
Switzerland (67)
Syria (15)
Tanzania (22)
Thailand (55)
Togo (3)
Turkmenistan (4)
Tunisia (22)
Turkey (20)
Uganda (5)
Ukraine (87)
United Arab Emirates (29)
United States (59)
Uruguay (36)
Uzbekistan (17)
Venezuela (84)
Vietnam (32)
Zambia (13)
Zimbabwe (28)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

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10 Facts About the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Everyone Needs to Know
By Jennifer Van Laar | 7:00 AM on March 25, 2023

Dr. Richard Ebright, a prominent molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers University, has been a consistent voice of reason since the coronavirus pandemic began (and even longer, judging by this 2004 article about him). In March 2020 he co-authored a letter in The Lancet urging "an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2," arguing that there was "no scientifically validated evidence that directly supports a natural origin." More recently, Ebright was part of a panel testifying before Congress in August 2022 about gain of function research and (lack of) oversight led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

Since that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) closed its investigation into COVID origins due to non-cooperation with China, and both the US Department of Energy and FBI Director Christopher Wray have said that the pandemic most likely originated with a lab leak.

Friday night, Ebright posted a Twitter thread of "nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know," and indeed, this information (which will not be news to RedState readers) needs to be spread far and wide. As Ebright noted at the end of the thread, he ended up listing ten facts instead of nine.

For ease of reading I've transcribed the thread, and added in relevant links and emphasized various points.

The nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know are as follows:

1) SARS-CoV-2 is related to bat SARS-like coronaviruses from southern China and northern Laos.

2) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans in or near Wuhan in August-November 2019.

3) SARS-CoV-2 entered humans either through a natural accident (just as in the first entry of the original SARS coronavirus into humans, which occurred through natural spillover in rural Guangdong province in 2002) or through a research accident (just as in the second third, fourth, and fifth entries of the original SARS coronavirus into humans, which occurred through a lab accident in Singapore in 2003, a lab accident in Taipei in 2003, and two separate lab accidents in Beijing in 2004)

4) Wuhan is located 1,000 km from the nearest wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses.

5) Wuhan has labs that, at the start of the pandemic, conducted the world's largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses, possessed the world's largest collection of bat SARS-like coronaviruses, and possessed the world's only sample of a SARS-CoV-2-like coronavirus.

6) In 2016-2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology constructed a series of novel chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses that combined the spike gene of one bat SARS-like coronavirus with the rest of the genetic information of another bat SARS-like coronavirus and identified viruses that were able to infect and replicate efficiently in human airway cells and that had 10,000x enhanced viral growth and 4x enhanced lethality in mice engineered to display human receptors on cells. In other words, in the years before the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology had taken most of the steps needed to convert a natural bat SARS-like coronavirus to a novel human pandemic pathogen having the properties of SARS-CoV-2.

RedState's Scott Hounsell was the first to report on the creation of those viruses, in May 2021, linking to the actual studies themselves and to the grant documents funding said research months before The Intercept reported on them.

7) In 2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators proposed to construct an expanded series of novel chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses, this time using newly identified spike genes having affinities for human receptors that ranged from very low to very high; and proposed to insert furin cleavage sites - a feature that is present in SARS-CoV-2 but not in any of the hundreds of other known SARS-like coronaviruses and that is crucial for the high transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 - into SARS-like coronaviruses.

In other words, just a year before the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators proposed to take the remaining steps needed to convert a natural bat SARS-like coronavirus to a novel human pandemic pathogen having the properties of SARS-CoV-2.

8) In 2016-2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology constructed and characterized SARS-like coronaviruses at biosafety level 2, a level inadequate for work with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens and inadequate to contain a virus having the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2.

9) From the start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its collaborators have withheld information, misrepresented facts, and obstructed investigation...even though, if not connected to origin, they most easily could have cleared their names through cooperation.

10) A preponderance of evidence, including both the scientific evidence (facts 1-3) and the documentary evidence (facts 4-9), indicates that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a laboratory accident.

All statements in all posts are demonstrable facts.

Not surprisingly, Ebright was immediately challenged despite his expertise in the field. One caution was incredibly ironic, given the lack of such cautions aimed at people like Anthony Fauci, Angela Rasmussen, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, and others over the last three-plus years.



"Don't leave out options that might challenge your own logic." Wise words, undoubtedly, but words ignored by people who know better, to the harm of every person on the planet.

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