YouTube Takes Action Against Chinese Blogger’s Post On Coronavirus Origins
By Kenneth Rapoza
They warned you.
YouTube took demonetization actions against popular Chinese-American blogger Jennifer Zeng late last night, zapping a chance for her to collect a paycheck from her latest video outlining the origin stories surrounding the new SARS coronavirus first discovered in Wuhan.
“I’ve been warned before by YouTube and have always appealed,” she says from her home in the Greater New York area. “I’ve been warned by them on maybe 95% of my coronavirus videos. I just got this note last night and I wrote to them about it this morning,” she says.
Her site seems to have been fully demonetized going forward. She started posting about the virus more regularly in the last two months.
In the video, which has not been censored and is still available, Zeng reviews a story published on a Falun Gong website called Minghui. The authors used pen names, without usual surnames, suggesting they are writing from inside China. The paper is one of the enemies of the Chinese Communist Party, which likens the Falun Gong to an insurgency.
The video goes through a list of seven of the origination theories circulating among official circles and not Western conspiracies about it being a bioweapon manufactured by China.
However, it does note that weaponization was one of the origin stories the Chinese government used early on to deflect blame towards Washington. That origin story was put out by a Chinese military website and spread via social media, making headlines here at home. The article was taken down later. It does not seem to be part of the official China narrative anymore.
The writers of the Minghui report said they do not believe the bat coronavirus was manipulated in the Wuhan lab. This is worth noting because when leading scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, say there is no evidence the virus was man-made, they mean there is no evidence of it being genetically modified. But that does not mean the virus in its natural state did not escape.
Fauci says there is no evidence of it escaping. There is also no evidence that it did not, as China is not sharing.
That the virus was not man-made but escaped a lab is shared not only by the Five Eyes intelligence collaborative of the U.S., U.K., Canada, New Zealand and Australia, but also by some Democrats.
“I don’t think it was spliced and diced in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” says Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at The Atlantic Council and a former senior official for both Bill Clinton and Joe Biden when he was a Senator. “But I do believe it escaped a lab, accidentally.”
Metzl’s view of the lab escape makes it more difficult to sum this up as merely anti-China, or pro-Trump sentiment. Metzl is not anti-China.
But what is most interesting from Zeng’s video is the notion that the animals used in experiments in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a high level virology lab (P4 level) located around 8 miles from from wet market China first said was the source of the outbreak, were not properly handled post-experiment.
This may be, as Zeng says, a missing part of the puzzle and seems reasonable enough for anyone concerned with safety issues at China’s most important virology research center.
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