Wuhan

We...

During the Wuhan, we went for a...

We had a donor that gave us a plane, and we did 19 meetings in seven states in five days.

Ooh.

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When we last caught up with then 30-year-old Jesse Appell, a Mandarin-fluent, rising, and rare American comic in China, he was stuck at home in Newton, Massachusetts because COVID had exploded in Wuhan.

It was February 2020.

It would be a month before the US was also shut down.

So, desperate to help his Chinese friends, Jesse held a fundraiser at his old high school, Newton North, showing videos of Wuhan doctors weeping with dying COVID patients.

That brought his audience to tears.

And then on the count of three, he recorded their message to Wuhan.

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It was actually October 6.

And some reports even say that's when the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab in China.

But that's conspiracy stuff we don't want to get into.

But we know that since that time, it's just like it was the end of the hundred years.

And we better get the word out that when and if this goes down, they're the prime suspects, just like we said, they're behind COVID.

They created the virus at Chapel Hill, moved it in 2015 to Wuhan.

And now people say, oh, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize.

We said it six years ago, weeks into it with the top experts.

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You know, it's interesting you mention the pandemic because there we saw, you know, one particular thing repeatedly classed as so-called disinformation, which was this apparently outlandish conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 virus may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China that had been working on bat virus research.

And this was supposedly, you know, a wild, dangerous conspiracy theory, absolute fake news.

Now it's seen as the likeliest explanation by most responsible health authorities around the world, by many scientists, and indeed by intelligence services.

the Senate.

It's certainly trying to give government control information narratives for their own purposes.

I mean, I don't know about kind of how viruses work, whether it was the Wuhan lab or wet market, but quite clearly that is a valid theory that should be given space.

And now has a lot of...

And I'm saying like, wait a minute, there's 20,000 people coming here from China every day.

And we got like crematoria clouds over Wuhan.

And anyway, I took that man's measure.

Then I found him wanting I would fight him on everything.

Fauci's pushing the universal vaccination, but privately.

He was expressing doubts.

The other thing in the diary that's so remarkable is, like I said in April of 2020, that virus was from the Wuhan lab, and it was made with gain-of-function research, okay? He engineered a cover-up, which is exposed in the diary, to make people think it was from nature, because...

his agency paid for the gain of function research, which likely helped make the virus.

Grafica admitted they started pulling data for this report on December 16th, 2019.

That's just four days after the very first symptoms were reported in Wuhan.

Four days.

A contractor with deep CIA and DOD ties started monitoring domestic speech about the virus's origins and the government's response almost the second it was discovered.

And we better get the word out that when and if this goes down, they're the prime suspects, just like we said, they're behind COVID.

They created the virus at Chapel Hill, moved it in 2015 to Wuhan.

And now people say, oh, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize.

We said it six years ago, weeks into it with the top experts.

They could be doing stuff without any guardrails.

They could be like a lab in Wuhan, you know? Shut them down.

Best to shut them down.

The CEOs of Anthropic and ChatGPT are all echoing the same warning.