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I don't see why they can't have a library of potential bioweapon candidates from samples taken all over the world. There seem to be a lot of DTRA labs globally. I seem to remember clusters in SE Asia.

It is very clever to make bioweapons while funding similar research in a competitor state to use as a patsy. You would never farm out your actual best candidate virus research to a competitors lab however. I think Daszak's Wuhan lab work was the parallel construction and that is what the CIA recruited him for. I believe Huff says that the recruitment involved the CIA being very interested in the work that was being done with the Wuhan lab. Of note is that Shi Zhengli was an author of a research paper showing HIV-like characteristics of SARS-COV-2 published earlier this year. Why spill the beans about the special characteristics of your own nasty little bioweapon?

Talking up the threat of zoonotic spillover while making weapons from animal samples is also clever narrative preparation. The icing on the cake is that they blame human encroachment on nature and get to push a green message at the same time. Deindustrialize and depopulate or we'll keep releasing bioweapons that we blame on nature!

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