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What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
UnHerd ^ | June 23, 2022 | BY MATT RIDLEY AND ALINA CHAN

Posted on 06/25/2022 5:17:35 AM PDT by FarCenter

Covid cases are rising again. In the UK, they have broken through the 200,000 infections-a-day threshold for the first time since April. In America, the sixth wave is well under way. In countries that kept the disease at bay for years, such as Taiwan and New Zealand, numbers are shooting up, driven by milder but highly infectious versions of the Omicron variant. The virus has not gone away, even if its death toll is much lower. But what has disappeared is any real or urgent interest from the media and the scientific establishment in finding out how it started.

Imagine if the accidental launch of a nuclear missile had killed 21 million people. It’s hard to believe the world would shrug and say: let’s not bother finding out how it happened. The Covid pandemic has killed around that number and disrupted the lives of billions. Nothing like it has happened in more than a century; it is the greatest cause of global suffering since the Forties. Yet we still do not know how it started, and much of the world seems to be increasingly incurious to find out.

We co-authored a book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, on this topic in 2021 and it proved to be an odd experience. Eschewing speculation and sticking to what we could prove, we delved deep into the evidence and wove together the threads that linked bat viruses from southern China or Southeast Asia with an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019. We concluded that it was impossible to be sure yet, but two theories were plausible: spillover from an animal to a person at a market, or an accident in a laboratory or during a research field trip.

In this we are in line with the US government, the G7, the World Health Organisation and the general public, all of whom are on record as saying that they think a leak from a Wuhan virology lab is a strong possibility that deserves to be investigated. The latest WHO report two weeks ago confirms this, saying that it is important “to evaluate the possibility of the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into the human population through a laboratory incident”. That is huge news. It means that an accident caused by human error may have happened on the same scale as a nuclear missile destroying New York.


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To: cuz1961

The Chinese zero-Covid policy seems consistent with a belief that it was a bioweapon since the policy puts in place the testing, contact tracing, quarantining, and other social organization measures that would be needed to counter a future biological weapon attack using an agent for which the Chinese have no vaccines or drugs.

That is, they are responding to it as though it is a hostile “first strike”.


21 posted on 06/25/2022 6:09:14 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: Big Red Badger

“2 years and Still Questions”
______________________________

Who is asking? I’m not sensing much curiousity amongst most people. Crazy.


22 posted on 06/25/2022 6:12:32 AM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: Big Red Badger

Someone named “Chan” is never going to see the answers.


23 posted on 06/25/2022 6:21:35 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: FarCenter
The comments at the source are more interesting than the article itself.

Ironically, fingers in the ears/"LALALALA" is rather apropos for the intentional leak theory which is undeniable when one honestly compares deaths in China vs. the rest the world, especially the US.

Like, "DUH!" /s


24 posted on 06/25/2022 6:59:57 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: xenia

You’re Correct,
Seems most have no sense of
Curiosity!?!
The Logic and Reasoning is
Dead without curiosity.
.
Idiocracy is in full Bloom.
People just accept the
Narrative as fed to them
By Main Stream ‘NEWS’.
.
SHEEPLE!


25 posted on 06/25/2022 8:24:14 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Boggles the Mind


26 posted on 06/25/2022 8:35:11 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: FarCenter

Covid -> Inflation -> Ukraine -> Roe v Wade -> Monkeypox/WWIII?


27 posted on 06/25/2022 8:47:48 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Shady

Me two at 84yo it’s been over two weeks cough hanging on.


28 posted on 06/25/2022 8:57:51 AM PDT by Rappini
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To: Rappini

Feel Better Fast! I’m on the anti-viral and it’s kicking in, really feel crappy.


29 posted on 06/25/2022 9:00:57 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: FarCenter

proven true and memory holed once russia supplied evident to the UN security council


30 posted on 06/25/2022 9:24:37 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Erik Latranyi

What, do you think there is a memo in some file cabinet in Wuhan?


31 posted on 06/25/2022 10:24:32 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Shady

My Doc put me on Plaxovid 6pills a day for five days, still doing some hacking but no temperature and Oxigen levels good.


32 posted on 06/25/2022 12:37:02 PM PDT by Rappini
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To: Rappini

Both the Bride and I are on it as well, I do feel it working today, still really hard to cough, but I do feel better..


33 posted on 06/25/2022 2:33:46 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: FlyingEagle

Courtesy of Quackony Fauxi and his Wuhan Whooping Gleep Genocide Gang.


34 posted on 06/25/2022 2:37:24 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: Jim Noble

Ukraine, for one....................


35 posted on 06/27/2022 6:32:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Bethesda and Rockville, for two and three...


36 posted on 06/27/2022 7:59:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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To: Jim Noble

And Langley.....................


37 posted on 06/27/2022 8:00:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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