Even the Chinese have given up the wet market claim, points out Wade. But now after a year-and-a-half, no such connection has been seen, says Wade.
Also how did the Yunnan bats manage to infect only the animals sold in Wuhan wet market, overlooking the entire 1,500 km terrain in between? Within four months of SARS 2002, the link between bats and the wet market animals infected by it was found out by scientists. Wade asks a simple question: “How could the bats which live 1,500 kms away in Yunnan transmit the virus to humans in Wuhan?” Particularly when they can’t fly for more than 50 kms.
In a devastating, yet balanced, article what Wade has written shatters to smithereens all fake narratives to blame the Chinese bats for causing the virus. He is a science writer, editor, and author who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science, and, for many years, the New York Times. The devastated world longing to know the truth about the cause of the virus for over a year should thank Nicholas Wade, for uncovering the truth with amazing and indisputable logic. With the stunning and suppressed facts about the virus obfuscated by geopolitics involving China and the US slowly emerging, the truth seems to be overcoming US-China politics. The deceptive narrative of the pandemic, which implies it was natural evolution itself misdirected the search for the cause and the source of the virus away from truth. In the case of the Wuhan virus, there is dispute about whether it was natural evolution or man-made. The noble WHO rule is for a naturally evolved virus. The WHO has a noble policy of not naming the geographic origin of a natural virus as that may blame the race of the humans living there. Why does a virus, the cause of which is not known still, have a name that blames animals? Here is the answer. Yet, even now animals bear the cross for the deadly pandemic! A year later, in March this year the WHO fact-finding commission itself admitted that “the role of animal markets is still not clear”. Shockingly within months, unable to prove it, the Chinese themselves disowned the wet market link to the Wuhan virus. And, as Covid-19 that is CO for ‘corona’, VI for ‘virus’ and D for ‘disease’ and 19 for the year it appeared, once and for all to fix the blame on poor animals. Next, as “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2” - SARS-CoV-2 to relate it firmly again to animals. Later, adding the word ‘coronavirus’ that implied its animal nexus, WHO improved its name as “novel coronavirus” - 2019-nCoV. WHO quickly intervened, renamed it thrice in two months, January and February, each time linking it to SARS 2002 and the wet market with no proof, calling the new virus as SARS-2 - a new avatar of SARS-1. Initially the new virus was variously called Wuhan pneumonia and Wuhan virus. And yet the Chinese and WHO linked the new virus to the old SARS. But for the new virus, there is no such proof available even after a year-and-half.
In the case of SARS 2002, the animal link was established by decoding the virus genome from bats to humans.
This instantly recalled the SARS epidemic of 2002 caused by bats infecting civets sold in the wet market and from them to humans. What is in a name? That is where the huge public mischief originated.Ĭhinese authorities first linked the Wuhan virus to the wet market - a place selling living wild animals for meat - in Wuhan where like vegetables in India, live animals are sold. Even now the world has not woken up to the fact that the name Covid-19 is itself deceptive. And yet the WHO gave a benign name and narrative to it, implying it was a natural evolution, which made any search for its cause irrelevant. A WHO commission, tasked to find out its cause and source last year, ended its mission saying it could find neither. It is a must to find a cure for it and to prevent its recurrence. Finding the cause of a virus is not just curiosity. Whether the evil virus was caused by natural evolution or human effort in Wuhan was the dispute from day one of its outbreak. Turning into a pandemic, its destructive mission continues even after almost a year-and-a-half with no end to the misery in sight. Though officially called Covid-19 after its name was changed many times within three months of its detection, its name is more deceptive than indicative. Even now, what the world knows about the mysterious virus 18 months after it broke out in Wuhan city in China, is that it is mysterious.
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