Dana Mathewson

In case you've noticed, Coronavirus hasn't gone away. In fact, more and more cases have been reported, more fuss is being made about planes being used to transport suspected cases to quarantine, etc., etc.

Some time ago our Senior Editor Timothy Birdnow suggested that perhaps this virus was, in fact, created by the Chi-Coms deliberately. Nobody else picked up on the idea at the time, but now respected Senator Tom Cotton has chimed in on the idea, and Sen. Cotton is not a conspiracy freak! Instead, he's a careful man, and I don't mind telling you I wish he were my senator.

'We need to be open to all possibilities'

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. stood by his earlier suggestion that the deadly coronavirus may have originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, China, telling "The Story" Tuesday that we "need to be open to all possibilities" in exploring the origins of the outbreak that has sickened more than 75,000 people around the world.

When host Martha MacCallum pressed the Senator on his startling and unverified claim, Cotton cited a study published by Chinese scientists in The Lancet, which he called a "respected international science journal."

"I'm suggesting we need to be open to all possibilities and we need to demand that China open up and be transparent so a team of international experts can figure out exactly where this virus originated," Cotton said.

He also brought up the "questions" surrounding the biosafety level 4 "super laboratory" in Wuhan, the city where the virus is believed to have originated.

"We know it didn't originate in the Wuhan food market based on the study of Chinese scientists...I'm not saying where it started, I don't know. We don't know because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won't open up to international experts," Cotton said. "That's what we need to do so they can get to the bottom of where the virus originated and hopefully can effect a diagnostic test and vaccine for it."

Cotton also pushed back against critics, specifically Rutgers University chemical biology professor Richard Ebright, who said he found no indication in the genome sequence of the virus to indicate it was engineered.

"Let's take the professor," Cotton said. "He was ...in fact today cited in the Asia Times saying that it was quite possible that it was a laboratory incident."

"That's not saying this is a bio weapon," Cotton clarified, "but we do know they were investigating and researching coronavirus in that laboratory. It could've been an accidental breach, it could've been a worker that was infected."

 

There's a lot of information in this article, and I heartily recommend you read it all. It's here: https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-tom-cotton-coronavirus-origins

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 19, 2020 08:29 AM (tnMhN)

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