Politic?: Incriminating or Coincidental?

"We have come to the conclusion that based on the data analyzed it suggest the virus was highly likely to be spreading virulently in Wuhan, China, as early as the summer of 2019 and definitely by the autumn."
"We assess with high confidence that the pandemic began much earlier than China informed the WHO about COVID-19."
Internet 2.0, cybersecurity consultancy

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan Getty Images

Another peg in the holes steadily being filled on various enquiries over the full story of the SARS-CoV-2 virus's origins. An intelligence analysis of the rate of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests being acquired in China pre-dating the time when the world was being informed of an emerging and fast-spreading new coronavirus points a crooked finger of damage-control detection squarely at the Chinese Communist Party having disguised a mysterious virus outbreak, failing to adequately alert the world to the danger that lurked as the virus continued to spread, refusing to be contained.

In Wuhan as early as the summer of 2019 the unidentified novel cornavirus was already spreading, earlier than given notice of by China, according to PCR testing equipment intelligence analysis of spending. "Notable significant and abnormal" purchases of PCR laboratory equipment was tracked to the second half of 2019, information that has been the subject of a newly-published report where analysts had studied PCR procurement contacts in Hubei province's capital of Wuhan.

Security personnel in masks stand in front of an institutional building, in mist.

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, which some people allege was the source of a SARS-CoV-2 leak. Credit: Thomas Peter/Reuters/Alamy

Spending, found the analysis, had just about doubled from that of the previous year. The data and the findings by Internet 2.0, a cybersecurity consultancy specializing in studying data out of China, was shared with U.S. government officials as growing speculation circulates of the coronavirus originating in a laboratory in Wuhan and somehow escaping its environs. An episode that has since created a global calamity of unprecedented proportions.

According to the study report, purchases of PCR equipment representing standard protective devices used in laboratories amplifying small amounts of DNA critical in tracking COVID-19, increased from $6.9 million in 2018 -- $5.7 million in 2017 -- to $13.4 million in 2019 in Hubei Province. The number of PCR contracts also increased from 89 in 2018 to 135 the following year, when the outbreak took place.

The spending increase accounted for contracts at four main institutions: the Chinese Centre for Disease Control in Hubei province, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, and a military hospital based in Wuhan. These institutes' roles in disease control and prevention makes these circumstances all the more notable. The "significant increase in spending" was noticed to have taken place, according to the report, from the summer of 2019.

The prevailing and growing theory that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology appears to be substantiated by contracts the investigators discovered, including one of $60,000 in early November. Two purchases totalling $350,000 of pathogen detection equipment made by the Wuhan CDC in September, used for the Military World Games held a month later in the city also came under study given that athletes who attended fell ill with symptoms aligned with COVID, after returning from the Games.

American military athletes among them. Which gave China the opportunity to spread their version of events, that the U.S. military brought COVID with them while they were in China, and are ultimately responsible for the global pandemic that has wracked the world with medical emergencies, millions of untimely deaths, vast social disruption and economic meltdowns. China appears to be coping extraordinarily well. It's had a head-start in control, and it, after all, produces most of the world's PPE equipment...