Posted on 04/17/2023 9:13:24 PM PDT by grundle
The pandemic was probably the result of a "research-related incident" at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a lengthy US Senate report concluded.
It said the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market no longer deserved the "presumption of accuracy".
The 300-page report, released to Axios, was the full version of a 35-page summary published in October by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
It said: "The Covid-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.
"New information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment.
"However, the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy."
The report suggested that advocates of the natural transmission theory "must provide clear and convincing evidence" for their argument.
It concluded: "The preponderance of information affirms the plausibility of a research-related incident that was likely unintentional resulting from failures of biosafety containment during vaccine-related research."
Scientists, and US intelligence, have been divided over whether the pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV], which had been collecting and manipulating bat viruses, or from a natural spillover at a Wuhan market selling live animals.
The report said there were "anomalies" between Covid-19 and other diseases that have spilled over naturally from animals to humans.
And it said, three years on, no critical evidence had been found proving there was a natural spillover.
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Release was intentional and the purpose was to create chaos in an election year and cripple the US economy.
I have argued th8s since 2020.
Rats.
The lab dispssed of materials containg the virus carelessly. Rats in the sewer contracted the virus and spread it to the wetmarket. From there it hit the general population.
I have no proof of this but having lived in China that is how I think it happened.
Its just so strange that so many knew that there was going to be an unintentional release of a virus years before it happened.
So Trump was right again.
in the first weeks of covid, whatever it is, there was talk here on FR that a secret text or msg from some one inside China stated exactly what happened....a lab accident.....
Some early speculation included lab workers picking up extra cash by selling ‘retired’ test animals to the wet market instead incinerating them.
Things we’ve known for 3 years for $2000, Alex.
Why do you believe what the TV told you?
I believe it was Wuhan Institute of Virology female researcher Huang Yanling, that was patient zero. President Trump mentioned that she became infected and infected her boyfriend. She was one of the scores of doctors, scientists, activists and journalists who disappeared during the Chinese Communist Party’s cover-up. Huang Yanling has never come forward to answer questions and there is no information about her location. However, there was a social media post by someone claiming to be Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Chen Quanjiao, who reported the head of the institute, Wang Yanyi, as the culprit of the outbreak. What confirms my theory is that The post questioned Wang’s professional abilities, claiming that she had “not an ounce of medical knowledge”, and also said that Wang had a side job selling wild animals, and “often sold experimental animals from the institute to stalls at the Huanan Seafood Market”. The Huanan market is considered the source of Covid-19. The two, Huang Yanling and Wang Yanyi, may have worked together to get those experimental animals. Huang Yanling may have known about easily accessed dumpsters in which to get those animals.
China’s dereliction was not containing the virus once it started in the wet market. Adding to the damage, China made sure it made it way to Europe and the United States by not closing its borders and stopping all air flights out. The Chinese New Years was the perfect method to guarantee its spread as celebrants poured in from around the world to Wohan. Garment workers from Italy really made a impact when they returned in time for Italy’s fashion week.
That was some leak. Don’t they have decent toilets in Wuhan?
So Fauci, the medical community and the news media LIED for three years and now they are trying to gently work their way around to the truth without admitting how much of the story was falsely orchestrated and how much this bio-weapon was intentional for money and power.
Seems that we had this figured out three years ago,
“Quite revealing that any left wing MSM entity would even posit the mere possibility of a lab release of any kind.”
Part of the propaganda needed to get the country ready for the Neocon (and Leftist, same thing) “War with China”. It’s NOT a coincidence that all the moves and talking with regard to China is leading towards war, so why not blame them for the virus - no downside, since there’s not way for them to prove otherwise.
It was totally accidental just in time to crash the unstoppable Trump economy right before the election
I feel that if the leak was intentional then the Chinese would not have done it right next to their own bioweapons lab where it could eventually be traced back to them. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by carelessness and incompetence.
Note to self ….. file under “tell a lie often enough”
What a the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?
6 months or in this case 3 years for them to admit it
“Accidental”. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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Auto correct.
They meant “Occidental”
Paid for by Fauci and the NIH/NIAID is my bet.
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