Takayama Masayuki discusses the novel coronavirus by linking SARS, HIV, chimera virus research, the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 laboratory, and Shi Zhengli’s research history.
He argues that when something occurs that does not normally happen in nature, suspicion of human involvement inevitably arises.

March 14, 2020
At the University of North Carolina in the United States, she had been studying precisely chimera viruses made by inserting other genes into coronaviruses.
After returning to China, she continued that research at “P4.”

I am republishing the chapter I sent out on March 6, 2020, under the title, “‘Who’ implicitly referred to Shi Zhengli, a ‘P4’ researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The following is from the serial column by Takayama Masayuki, which adorns the closing pages of the Weekly Shincho issue released today.
People all over the world will once again recognize that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.

What I Want to Say in Wuhan

The novel coronavirus really seems to be a fully remodeled new model.
The old model was the SARS virus that spread two decades ago, infecting humans from bats via civet cats.
Human-to-human transmission occurred either through droplets or through oral infection from patients’ feces.
In Hong Kong, where many people died, it was found to be the latter, “oral infection from feces.”
As an example, a spreader who lived on an upper floor of a high-rise apartment building in Hong Kong was cited.
He did not scatter feces into the sky from there.
He flushed it properly down the toilet.
However, part of the feces from that sewer pipe was released outside the apartment building through a ventilation duct.
As a result, droplets were blown onto people cooling themselves on balconies of apartments downwind.
When the locations of the patients were plotted on a map, they formed a beautiful fan shape.
The virus of Wuhan pneumonia resembles that of SARS.
Therefore, at first, it was thought that infection had come from bats or pangolins sold at the Wuhan seafood market.
However, the symptoms differed from SARS, and its infectious power was also strong.
That is why it was recognized as a new type.
The characteristic of the new type is that the method by which the virus’s spikes attach to human cells is exactly like that of HIV, and the DNA sequence there was also exactly similar.
That is why AIDS drugs suddenly began to be used.
There are even more mysterious points.
For example, in Guangzhou, there was a report that “14 percent of recovered patients relapsed.”
A Chinese resident in Osaka also relapsed after complete recovery and discharge from hospital.
Once humans recover from an illness, they do not contract the same illness again.
That is because, whether it is a pathogenic bacterium or a virus, antibodies against it are formed in the body.
That is common knowledge in the medical world.
For that reason, immune and antibody therapies, such as using plasma from recovered people, had been established.
It seems that this does not work with the Wuhan virus.
When something happens that does not occur in nature, the suspicion arises: “Could it be a kind of biological weapon made by human hands?”
If it is artificial, even an impossible reinfection could be possible if the Volkswagen method is used.
Volkswagen devised a mechanism to show “normal” during exhaust gas testing.
Using that as a hint, the inference is that some trick was made so that the virus would hide during testing.
Then, first of all, the University of Delhi pointed out the possibility that “someone had mixed coronavirus and HIV.”
“Someone” implicitly referred to Shi Zhengli, a “P4” researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
At the University of North Carolina in the United States, she had been studying precisely chimera viruses made by inserting other genes into coronaviruses.
After returning to China, she continued that research at “P4.”
Incidentally, “P4” is located 16 kilometers from the Wuhan seafood market.
Not only India, but also a professor at a university in Guangzhou, one of their own, takes the “leakage” theory, saying that it came from another “Wuhan disease center.”
She was angry.
Her team announced in the British journal Nature that the novel coronavirus in question “matched 96 percent with one from bats in Yunnan.”
Having concluded that this time, too, it was “infection from bats to humans,” she added the following.
“This coronavirus is a punishment given by great nature to humanity’s foolish and uncivilized lifestyle of eating wild animals with delight, and it has absolutely nothing to do with my ‘P4.’”
“I advise those who believe the irresponsible analyses of bad media and Indian scientists.
Shut your stinking mouths.”
She appears to be quite angry, but I would like to offer a small rebuttal to her words.
It is by no means “humanity” that has had the “foolish and uncivilized lifestyle” of eating civet cats, bats, and pangolins.
Only the Chinese have committed that barbarity.
In the past, by eating rats, they produced plague bacteria and nearly destroyed Europe.
In the previous century, they spread the Hong Kong flu, and in this century they have already produced SARS, causing tens of thousands of deaths together.
This time, they are on the verge of killing not only human beings but also the world economy.
China is not a great people, nor is there any revival of it.
It should know its own foolishness, close the country, and keep quiet.