In the ABC TV Series Lost there was the Dharma Initiative research project

The Rise and Fall of the Dharma Initiative

“Not long after the experiments began, there was an incident.”
[Dr. Marvin Candle of the Dharma Initiative]
2/The link b/t The Numbers and the Dharma Iniative
https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Numbers
“The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 frequently recurred in Lost. Each corresponded with one of the final candidates to replace Jacob as protector of the Island. The numbers also formed the coefficients
3/“in an equation that predicted mankind's extinction...
[Watch 0:56: What are The Numbers?]

Though the Numbers, as Damon Lindelof put it, "were around LONG before the early '60s," mathematician Enzo Valenzetti used them in the 1960s in a mathematical equation. This "Valenzetti
4/“Equation" aimed to predict the end of humanity, and the numbers formed its coefficients. The DHARMA Initiative, a scientific venture, conducted research to change one of these coefficients, extending the species' lifespan. (The Lost Experience)”
5/A bad fate happened to the members of the Dharma Initiative in trying to extend the life of humanity, as did Dr. Shi Zhengli’s team involved in a research project studying bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, who were doing the same.
6/laowhy86, who's been living in China for 10 years w/ his Chinese wife Vivi and has a laser-accurate understanding of the CCP,
[subscribe to his channel at:
https://www.youtube.com/user/laowhy86 ]
in his video simply relates Chinese Internet activity interest in China's "Patient 0" - whom the
7/Chinese Netizens believe is Huang Yan Ling. She's in the photo, her name's circled in red. laowhy86 relates how the Wuhan Virology Institute needed researchers to study bat virology. Huang Yan Ling was a female graduate student in the P4 virus lab of the Institute of Virology.
8/This is what Chinese Netizens put forth:
9/Shi Zhengli, a lead researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology claims Huang Yan Ling is alive, but Chinese Netizens don't believe it. Neither does laowhy86.
https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1248286647826804738?s=20
Consider that Shi Zhengli was a “lead in a research project of bat coronaviruses [that] started
10/"as a joint research of University of North Carolina and Wuhan Institute of Virology…In 2014, the US funding for the project was stopped…The project was then taken over by the Chinese government and moved to Wuhan, China.”

Not to diminish the gravity of the pandemic that
11/has brought the world to a halt, yet sometimes art, or literature, or film or music can help us stare into the maw of a monster that threatens to destroy us w/ a sense of collective familiarity: "I've seen this before...".

Shi Zhengli and the lab workers at the Wuhan
12/lab didn't have a sequence of numbers to type into a computer to prevent an outbreak of a new coronavirus.

Pushing the button
https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Pushing_the_button
"Occupants of the Swan station followed a protocol in which they typed a sequence into a computer every 108 minutes. Typing
13/"these numbers and pressing "execute" (a.k.a. pushing the button) on the keyboard discharged an electromagnetic buildup, continually averting worldwide catastrophe.

Origins and purpose
Main article: The Incident (event)
The Swan was originally designed for experiments, but
14/"during construction, the DHARMA Initiative punctured the research site's electromagnetic pocket. A nuclear device also entered the pocket, further complicating matters. Following this incident, an electrical charge continuously accumulated at the Swan site. The Initiative
15/"designed the Swan protocol to discharge the amassed energy. An excessively large buildup could lead to a global catastrophe. The protocol had to run within a 4-minute period every 108 minutes -- a countdown timer tracked this time, and an alarm sounded during the 4-minute
16/"window. In case the protocol failed, the Initiative installed a fail-safe that would destroy and seal the leak with unknown consequences for whoever activated it."

"The sequence of numbers formed the serial number of a hatch for a station the Initiative built. When they
17/"finished the station, they used the numbers as required input for the station computer protocol. ("Dead Is Dead") ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")"

The CCP undoubtedly wanted to keep the incident under wraps. Of only it were contamination from the live food market.
18/However the CCP could not contain the lid on it as Chinese Netizens, Americans and politicians and world leaders the world over wanted answers, and here we are today. It begs the question: if a similar scenario had unfolded on US soil would the US gov't have acted similarly
19/to keep a lid on US researches contaminated by a new virus? Wouldn't it immediately become "Classified"? Yet the US Project was shut down by DHS in 2014 for being too risky:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/huge-exclusive-chinese-doctor-shi-zhengli-ran-coronavirus-research-wuhan-us-project-shut-dhs-2014-risky-prior-leak-killed-researcher/
What film scenario would illustrate the point I'm trying to make?
20/Say the US were developing a bioweapon in a Jason Bourne film plot. It'd be a black ops run by:
Operation Treadstone
https://bourne.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Treadstone
"Operation Treadstone was a top-secret black ops program of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Jason Bourne series of novels
21/"and movies. It recruited only U.S. Service members to turn them into nearly superhuman assassins and was formed in direct response to the Congressional Act which banned the U.S. from partaking in any assassinations, as sometimes assassination is considered necessary to keep
22/"the United States safe."

So somewhere in a Treadstone lab there's an "incident" and the lab workers are infected w/ the bioweapon. What would Treadstone do? It'd shut down the entire op ASAP. Yet the virus begins to spread - from country to country...
23/Would the US govt announce the origin of the outbreak? Not likely considering it was researching a bioweapon. Unless the storyline is that to save humanity Washington unmasks Treadstone's bioweapons plan and provides the genetic sequencing to aid in the cure.
#PaulGreengrass
24/If you can grasp the gravity of such a decision in a Jason Bourne film, you can see the predicament Xi Jinping and the CCP found themselves in. If they shut it down like Treadstone would have, how different are we? It might take Jason Bourne to bring our countries together.
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