Brilliant noted China’s “suspicious behavior” in refusing to allow in international experts and even blocking Chinese scientists from probing the disease.
Scenes from “Contagion,” Steven Soderbergh’s hit pandemic horror movie in 2011
According to the AFP dispatch, the United States and Australia have called for an international investigation, but China has refused, and is yet to respond to a WHO request that it be invited to help in investigating the origins of the virus. Brilliant, who served as a consultant on the very realistic 2011 pandemic horror film “Contagion,” by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, told AFP that China’s “suspicious behavior” in blocking international experts and even its scientists from probing the origins of the virus was fuelling such theories.“There is a reasonable hypothesis that the virus was percolating in China in November or even earlier, going from human to human,” he said.
Brilliant dismissed theories that the virus might have been manmade. He explained that studies of the genome show it is 95-percent identical to the original SARS virus, which caused a global scare in 2003. But today, he noted, rampant nationalism has replaced international cooperation. Many countries appear to have given up on testing and contact tracing as too hard, and imposed lockdowns instead.“That’s irresponsible… It’s not that hard,” he said. “We can put a man on the Moon.
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