They know for certain that it was an accident and not deliberate?
I believe the following is still true ...
11. To date no animal has been found in the wild that has SARS-CoV-2 apart from those that provably got it from humans after the pandemic spread around the world.
Many Corona viruses exist in wild animal populations but SARS-CoV-2 never did.
COVID19 bump for later....
Ok... Great.
But what happened before 2016?
Did the wuhan lab start the research... or did it start somewhere else?
Where?
Thanks.
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But this is just a cover-up and a psy-ops to CYA after the illegal bioweapons development/deployment that we now call the Covid-19 epidemic.
The laws banning this are myriad.
The UN Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, of which the US (ratified 1974), China, and 183-plus-other nations are signatories or allied with;
18 U.S. Code sections 175 and 176 have penality upon penalty for development, storage, deployment, etc., of bioweapons including viruses; and
US Public Law 101-298 (enacted 1990) which outlaws bioweapons similarly.
But this is not only illegal bioweapons development, but, it is treasonous activity with China:
18 USC Chapter 15 Sections 2381 and 2382 are the laws regarding treason (maximum penalty death) and failing to report treasonous activity (maximum penalty seven years).
Like almost everything wrong with the world today, it's failure to enforce the law, not lack of law.
Why not indict some people for developing/deploying this bioweapon and using the three components of treason test, indict them for treason, too?
Sorry I'm not a lawyer and don't know how to cite the above correctly but, obviously, a bunch of laws have been broken, treasonous activity has occurred, and millions of people are dead because of it.
Could somebody maybe be fined or spend a weekend in jail for it?
" Dr. Richard Ebright ..In March 2020 he co-authored a letter in The Lancet urging “an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2,”
arguing that there was “no scientifically validated evidence that directly supports a natural origin.”
More recently, Ebright was part of a panel testifying before Congress in August 2022 about gain of function research
and (lack of) oversight in a hearing led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)."
" Since that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) closed its investigation into COVID origins due to non-cooperation with China,
and both the US Department of Energy and FBI Director Christopher Wray have said that the pandemic most likely originated with a lab leak."
The article continues ..
H/T to SeekAndFind for the most succinct explanation of the SARS / covid pandemic and analysis.
Posted comments are also quite enlightening !