Long-term Legal Insurrection readers may recall my “COVID timeline,” which was a summary of what was known about the origins of the pandemic published by the Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the summer of 2021.
It contained several intriguing links to Wuhan, China. One particular item stood out: The city hosted the World Military Games that fall, and several healthy, young participants came down with illness.
October 2019: World Military Games Held in WuhanThe 7th International Military Sports Council Military World Games (MWGs) opened in Wuhan on October 18, 2019. The MWGs in Wuhan drew 9,308 athletes, representing 109 countries, to compete in 329 events across 27 sports. Many of the participating athletes fell ill with various flu-like complaints. Here is a glimpse of the sick athletes and their location in the hospitals…now seeing ill patients.
Now, a military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration apparently concealed from the public underscores the truth of the committee’s 2021 assessment.
The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games.The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games “publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format” by the summer of 2022.Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn’t see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website.
According to the report, seven of our military participants experienced COVID-like symptoms either while they were in the city or after their return.
The U.S. delegation included 263 total participants (173 athletes and 90 coaches and staff) of whom 219 were military personnel. The Department of Defense (DoD) has concluded through correspondence with the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and United States of America Medical Director in charge of the safety and health of the participants in the 2019 World Military Games, that 7 Service members who attended the games exhibited COVID-19- like signs and/or symptoms during the timeframe of October 18, 2019 through January 21, 2020.The COVID-19-like symptoms could have been caused by other respiratory infections. All 7 Service members’ symptoms resolved within 6 days.
Almost 10,000 competitors from more than 100 countries attended the nine-day World Military Games in Wuhan. In 2020, the UK Daily Mail tracked down several participants from other nations who claimed that they had become ill with COVID-19 during their stay.
Jacqueline Bock, part of the German volleyball team, told The Mail on Sunday how she and her colleagues contracted Covid-19 at the event in the city.‘After a few days, some athletes from my team got ill,’ she said. I got sick in the last two days.’…French pentathlete Elodie Clouvel, 31, claimed she and her 27-year-old partner Valentin Belaud contracted the virus at the Games. Italian fencer Matteo Tagliariol also said everyone in his Wuhan apartment fell ill with ‘symptoms that looked like those of Covid-19’, which later spread to the 37-year-old’s son and girlfriend.
Interestingly, when the Foreign Affairs Committee report was released, Chinese officials asserted that the US military brought the bug with them.
On August 11, Chinese state-run CCTV ran a report suggesting that American athletes participating in the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China may have introduced COVID-19 to the country….No evidence has ever been provided to support allegations that sick U.S. personnel at the games brought COVID-19 to Wuhan, seeding the global pandemic.
The continuing stream of newly released information about the pandemic confirms initial assessments about the laboratory origin of COVID-19, most likely from research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I predict even more hidden and obscured evidence will be forthcoming as well.
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