This person is lying to you. Directly fucking lying to you. The coronaviruses at the WIV were handled at BSL-2 and BSL-3, not BSL-4.
The NSC investigators found ready evidence that China’s labs were not as safe as advertised. Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research—some involving live SARS-like viruses—had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories.
This is not exactly a secret. Yet this person — who certainly knows better — is seeding these deliberate untruths to obfuscate the possibility of a lab leak. SARS-Cov-2 didn’t escape from a BSL-4 environment because it wasn’t being worked on in a BSL-4 environment.
Again, I stress that this mook must know that.
We have experts who know nothing, and even when they do have some clue they deliberately deceive any mark who is naïve enough to fall for their mendacity.
So I just sent this email to him:
“Thomas,
I saw your Twitter thread today about the lab leak hypothesis. In it, you asserted that any lab leak theory would have to account for a BSL-4 escape. However, the coronavirus research at the WIV was being conducted at BSL-3 and (sometimes) BSL-2 as acknowledged by Shi Zengli herself.
Surely you must have been aware of that to have such strong opinions on the matter? I don’t understand why anyone should have to account for a BSL-4 escape when the work was being conducted at BSL-3 and BSL-2. Perhaps you can explain.
Regards,
Mike”
I expect to get no response but I am getting so tired of these people. They lie, their sycophants who can barely read attack, and nothing useful ever gets done.