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flodebarre.eurosky.social
Sharri Markson, an Australian journalist who has promoted Covid origins conspiracy theories, was targeted by an Iranian intelligence operation. Someone impersonated one of her contacts on X, a former TrumpI senior official, "using the 'delegate feature'" #covidorigin

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screenshot of linked article (because no vignette shown) Exclusive How I was targeted by Iran in a sophisticated intelligence operation When I received a message from a former Trump official, I never could have imagined I was being targeted by a suspected Iranian intelligence agent, writes News24 host Sharri Markson. Sharri Markson Sharri Markson News24 Host 7 min read October 27, 2026 - 12:30PM
October 28, 2026 at 9:01 AM
misterblok.bsky.social
Die pest in Rusland waar nu 200 mensen op worden getest: dat komt dus uit de lokale supermarkt waar gordeldieren en kippen en mensen elkaar ontmoeten. De bacterie komt oorspronkelijk uit een vleermuis, vertelt Poetin ons.
#CovidOrigin #Corona
October 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
First Tuesday of the month -- my (self-imposed) blog post day!

Today, I am revisiting the weird story of the "other eight" (aka "clade 7896", lineage 4): eight bat coronavirus sequences from the Mojiang mine, at the center of a narrative invented by lab leakers. ▫️1/6🧵

#covidorigin 🧪
The saga of the “other eight”
DRASTIC and Chan & Ridley fabricated a narrative about eight virus sequences from the Mojiang mine. With the benefit of hindsight, lets reevaluate their claims.  Latinne et al.'s study In late May 202...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
September 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
In a new blog post, I revisit a claim made by Steven Quay, rumored to be the next NIAID director:
that "Genome sequence archives" for SARS-CoV-2 sequences from patients at an Army hospital "were created on December 10, 2019".

This was not the case ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin
pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1938
Did the European Nucleotide Archive receive SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Wuhan as early as 10 December 2019?
(TL;DR: No.) Some lab leakers claimed that SARS-CoV-2 sequences had been submitted to the ENA online repository on 10 Dec 2019, several days before the first known submitted sequence, and also even be...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
August 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Last week, David Relman published an Opinion in The Guardian about the origin of COVID-19, NIH and Anthony Fauci. I had some comments about it... so I wrote a blog post. ⬇️
#covidorigin 🧪
On Relman’s Opinion in The Guardian
In a recent Opinion piece in The Guardian, David Relman discusses the origin of COVID-19 in the context of the Fauci hearing before Rand Paul's committee. The text overlooks scientific evidence, engag...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
August 18, 2026 at 6:22 PM
thorchrs.bsky.social
👇🇺🇳🇨🇳"As Covid lab leak suspicion lingers, WHO urges China to share virus origin data" #WHO #CovidOrigin
#GlobalPandemic #ChineseData
As Covid lab leak suspicion lingers, WHO urges China to share virus origin data
The source of the coronavirus, which is estimated to have killed 7 million people, has been a controversial mystery for years.
www.politico.eu
December 31, 2024 at 3:59 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Prior to Fauci's hearing, Rand Paul released emails from 2021 that revived a conspiracy theory alleging that the genetic sequence of RaTG13 (once SARS-CoV-2's closest relative) had been altered.

I wrote up what used to be a Twitter thread and updated it with new information: ⬇️ #covidorigin
Yu’s table 3.2
In 2021, leakers tried, and failed, to reproduce a table of identities between SARS-like coronaviruses that was presented in a 2019 MSc thesis from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They concluded that...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
August 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
(Sorry I forgot the #covidorigin hashtag)
August 9, 2026 at 7:46 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Also, Quay found it OK to publish COVID work in a clearly predatory journal (Fortune Journals), with people like Daoyu Zhang (aka Flavinkins aka AlmanaLepiz), a person flagged by Bellingcat in 2020 as central in anti-WHO disinformation▫️9/
#covidorigin #quayniaid

www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/08...
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
As Alex says, Quay is at the origin of very weird COVID-19 origin scenarios -- often based on very basic errors (more to it later).

@zachhensel.bsky.social will love to tell you about "ORF8 is diabolical". ▫️8/
#covidorigin #quayniaid
acritschristoph.bsky.social Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · Aug 5
So, something that the media will sanewash as this story develops is Quay isn't just a lab origin proponent. He has for 5 years sold an endless stream of very specifically wrong and silly ideas on the topic. He's not right, but even if he was, that wouldn't excuse his fabrications along the way!
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Back to COVID claims, there is much, much more to say.

He lied in the opening anecdote of his recent book, claiming to have been in the metro in Wuhan in 2014 from the airport, while there was no metro there yet. ▫️7/
#covidorigin #quayniaid
Fact-checking Steven Quay’s “The Code as Witness”
Since 2020, Steven Quay, aka DrQuayTM, has been publishing documents claiming to have found damning evidence for a lab leak origin of COVID-19. He was even invited to testify before the Committee on H...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Quay's 2026 X posts are still there; check what he found appropriate posting:

an AI-generated "infographic" of the DRC Ebola outbreak, with a round coronavirus-like virus, and imaginary country shapes (again, on a par with this administration)

source: archive.ph/uXeQh ▫️6/
#covidorigin #quayniaid
@quay_dr Ebola status as of May 19, 2025. ••• A LLM-generated image from a detailed prompt I provided. I hope you find it [infographic]
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Add to it some gratuitous cringiness, when he and other leakers harassed an editor because they did not like a paper (ours...), to the point that the editor had to close their social media accounts.

"I'll even buy you a wig for your post-debate alopecia." ▫️5/
#covidorigin #quayniaid
Dr Steven Quay @quay_dr •3m Ha XXX , that was my hail pulling OpEd. Can you state with clarity an inaccurate statement within it? .. I thought not Let's have a XXX Sponsored Debate on the Origin of Covid. Name the place and time and I'll be there. I'll even buy you a wig for your post-debate alopecia. QT Bryce Nickels v @Bryce_Nickels • Sep 21 "There was a WSJ editorial that made me want to pull my hair out" In Oct 2021, ~2 years before the Proximal Origin Slack chats became public, XXX , Deputy Editor of XXX commented on a WSJ Op-Ed discussing the "lab leak theory" during a Zoom panel with other
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Quay is a well-rounded person spending too much time on the Internet, so he is also a climate sceptic. ▫️4/
#covidorigin #quayniaid
@quay_dr • 7m The science of carbon dioxide 'hardening' plants, allowing them to flourish into hostile desert environments, is the untold story of the collateral benefits of fossil RT of Robin Monotti : CO2 IS GREENING EARTH @quay_dr ... Using official NOAA data, the Antarctic sea ice has grown 21% in extent. This is inconsistent with the expectations of a climate change warming trend. 0 Tony Heller @TonyClimate • 7h Antarctic sea ice extent is 21% higher than it was on this date eight years
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Because the Venn diagram of lab leakers and antivaxxers is close to a circle, Quay is antivaxx. It helps to work under RFK Jr., I guess.

Here he is, rewritting tweets by accounts that described every sudden death as being caused by a vaccine. ▫️3/
#covidorigin #quayniaid
screenshot of tweet by Quay_dr, retweeting a "Sudden And Unexpected" account image of twitter search showing quay_dr retweeting announcements of deaths with the comment "And another..."
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Quay is a lab leaker, and everything is a lab leak. SARS-CoV-2 of course, but also... West Nile virus, when Fauci was infected in 2024. ▫️2/
#covidorigin #quayniaid

archived: archive.ph/zyaW6
Tweet screenshot @quay_dr Dr. Fauci is recovering from a bad case of West Nile Virus. "I got it in my backyard," he said. ... He has to be the unluckiest guy in DC. West Nile incidence in entire US = 1 in 1.4 MM Incidence in DC = 1 in 700,000 people (2 cases) Funny, there's a ton of it inside NIAID labs... [images] 4:27 PM • Aug 28, 2024 • 684 Views
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts".

He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵

#covidorigin #quayniaid
Tweet screenshot @quay_dr My new analysis indicates these same inserts are responsible for long COVID. Designed into the virus. zenodo.org/records/145597... Quote-tweeting: Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (201 v) @CartlandDavic • 11h "It was the job of a professional [and] it's NOT Natural" Nobel Prize winner for HIV research, Luc Montagnier (RIP), said someone "inserted small sequences of HIV" into the original covid Pandemic virus. He died after he presented the findings aired here on a French [photo of Montagnier on CNews]
August 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Today is the first Tuesday of the month, my (self-imposed) blog posting day --

I wrote about accusations of coverup and conspiracies, thrown without any evidence, in the context of the recent release of private documents by Rand Paul #covidorigin
Conspiracies and coverups
There is no evidence for a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, so commenters default to meta-discourse and accuse scientists of coverups, for which there is no evidence either. So far, available data and scient...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
August 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin
zachhensel.bsky.social Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social · Jul 31
It's a public webinar that Zhengli Shi delivered on March 9, 2020, before a global pandemic had been declared.

In this clip from the talk, Shi delineates 4 sarbecovirus lineages. The 8 samples in "Lineage 4" are the ones in the figure most closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
July 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
People say "lab leak" (singular) but there is in fact a multiple of Covid origin scenarios involving research.

Rand Paul wants to use the topic to attack Fauci, but questions asked by his staff draw from a diversity of origin scenarios, including China-only versions.
He has nothing. #covidorigin
www.paul.senate.gov
July 27, 2026 at 4:05 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Today is the first Tuesday of the month, i.e. my (self-imposed) blog post day!

pandemonium.hypotheses.org/2014

I wrote about the documents that were recently released by Tulsi Gabbard about Fauci's role on the US Intelligence Community investigation of the origin of COVID-19 ▫️1/ #covidorigin
July 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Another recent release, via a different route (FOIA):
the Jan 2025 CIA assessment of the origin of Covid-19.

They lean lab leak because ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜.

usrtk.org/wp-content/u...

#RadicalTransparency #covidorigin
screenshot of the "contact sheet" view of the document, showing white pages
July 2, 2026 at 6:51 AM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
A new set of Covid-19 origin documents has recently been made public by the FBI.

We learn that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ and ⬛⬛⬛. Also, ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜.

vault.fbi.gov/origins-of-c...

#RadicalTransparency #covidorigin
screenshot of the "contact sheet" mode of the document, showing a lot of redactions
July 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
In a new blog post, I review the first chapter of a new book on #covidorigin, Steven Quay's "The Code as Witness".

The book opens with an impossible anecdote, and I also show that its claim of an early cluster at an Army hospital in Wuhan is unsupported.
Fact-checking Steven Quay’s “The Code as Witness”
Since 2020, Steven Quay, aka DrQuayTM, has been publishing documents claiming to have found damning evidence for a lab leak origin of COVID-19. He was even invited to testify before the Committee on H...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
June 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
flodebarre.eurosky.social
Another quick thread on Tulsi Gabbard's documents, released on Thursday:

There is finally a version of the May 2020 LLNL Z Division report. There are still redactions, but enough can be read to know it was baseless. ▫️1/5

www.dni.gov/files//docum... #covidorigin
screenshot of the pages of the report
June 19, 2026 at 9:02 PM