fair her latest piece, inside the fight to uncover covid-19 s origins. you looked into the minors who fell ill in 2012 as well as researchers at the wuhan institute of virilology who got sick the fall of 2019 reportedly. what did you find? it is really quite remarkable, anderson. thank you for having me on. the minors in 2012 were tasked with shoveling out a thick layer of bat feces from this mine shaft. they became incredibly ill, you know, with symptoms that as we learned about them looked like covid-19 in 2012. the oldest one among them died first. the disease was fierce, as a masters thesis documented it. it was identified as somehow being linked to a bat virus. and the sample from the mine
there that it is inconclusive and we don t know. well, let me ask a more direct question. did you see any evidence in your investigation of him downplaying the lab leak hypothesis? no, i did not. i did not. there are a number of milestones along the way. but from my notes, the three that stuck out, 2012 in a province, six minors taken ill who are collecting bat feces and three of them die. that was taken off september of 2019 before the world knows. is there a benign explanation of that? and then number three is the november 2019 three researchers who you were just making reference to who require some form of hospital treatment. respond, please, to those three items. yeah. so let s start with the database. so this is one of the most comprehensive databases of viral
institute of virology who got sick in the fall of 2019, reportedly. what what did you find? well, it s really, quite remarkable, anderson. and thank you for having me on. the minors, in 2012, were tasked with shoveling out a thick layer of bat feces from this mine shaft. they became incredibly ill, you know, with symptoms that, as we learned about them, looked like covid-19, in 2012. the oldest one among them died, first. the disease was fierce, as a master s thesis documented it. it was identified as, somehow, being linked to a bat virus. and the sample from the mine that was taken was, initially, labeled by wuhan institute of virology researchers as something called 4991.
i would bet it s most likely this was an accidental leak from a lab. so turns out that metzel was not speculating. they found the official scientific consensus was doctored at the source. in one instance, they discovered that the bat lady in wuhan had collected samples of a bad coronavirus that were virtually identical to covid-19. where did she get these samples? she found them in a cave in the hunan province in china. several miners were killed there after inhaling the bat feces. she recognized it was significant because it moved to humans without going through an animal host first. the chinese seemed to be looking for the most dangerous virus that they could find. in that cave they found out. after the coronavirus pandemic
broadcast, who advertises on his broadcast, should be boycotted. ryan, not everyone on the right is amused by, with mr. jones. two weeks ago red state s erick erickson tweeted, i hope drudge stops linking to infowars and today national review sums it up this way, it s all fairly consistent, too bat feces crazy, but essentially consistent. how big a theory do these people pose to the gop as it continually tries to re-brand itself? they re a huge problem. all you have to do is go back and look at the birther conspiracy to see what the problem is. they made the republican party a laughing stalk. erick erickson doing it, that s the kind of thing they need to do to get control of the message again. back in early 2000, a lot of progressive sites including