"I’m not living the best days of my life right now,” Florence Débarre says. “But being truthful is essential.” The day after she published her findings, the relevant data had been made inaccessible, apparently at the request of the Chinese researchers who include the top virologist George Gao, a former director general of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. “We were shocked,” says Débarre. “But not surprised.”
The next step will be to investigate the illegal supply chains that brought the animals to the Wuhan market during winter 2019 and see whether they might lead closer to the virus’s original reservoir.
Chinese authorities may trigger a Streisand effect by restricting access to scientific data.
There’s no ground for blaming this virus outbreak on a specific country, not China more than any other. But restricting access to data may bring more intense scrutiny onto this, and add more fuel to conspiracy theories.
There’s ground for making them responsible for not avoiding at all costs spreading that, for lying/deception/manipulation, for prosecuting health professionals early reporting on the sarscov-19… and still hiding the truth, making it inaccessible; they are afraid, guilty of something very big. At that point, we should have no such worldwide pandemics. This caused and causes many pain, suffering, that could have been avoided. I will not forget, I can’t say I can forgive (all governments included)
btw https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a