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What Caused COVID-19? What We Do (and Don't) Know 5 Years Later
USNEWS ^ | March 11. 2025 | Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder

Posted on 03/11/2025 4:01:18 PM PDT by Pontiac

Five years ago today the World Health Organization called COVID-19 a pandemic for the first time. Much about the coronavirus was a mystery then – how exactly it spread, if we could treat it and whether we could prevent it. While the answers to those questions unraveled over the following years, a big one remains unanswered: What is the origin of COVID-19?

Theories about the origin of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1.2 million Americans have sparked strong debate – much of it seemingly partisan – in the U.S. and beyond. Leading theories include an animal host that transmitted COVID-19 to a human or an emergence from a laboratory leak.

Researchers strongly lean towards the theory that a person caught the virus from a wild animal at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China. The leading suspect so far has been a raccoon dog.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: coverup; covid
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Even US News, a supposedly Conservative News Magazine, is still carrying the establishment’s water that COVID is ‘natural’ and not a lab leak.
1 posted on 03/11/2025 4:01:18 PM PDT by Pontiac
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The water carrying comes in supporting the debate between the two:

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good


2 posted on 03/11/2025 4:06:17 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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"What We Do Know 5 Years Later"

Varies governments operate bio weapon labs, sorry, GAIN OF FUNCTION LABS around the world and we are their guinea pigs.

3 posted on 03/11/2025 4:11:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Commissar Anthony Fauci had his Red Chinese kameraden cook it up in a Chinese lab.

4 posted on 03/11/2025 4:15:42 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: 9YearLurker

I don’t read USNews much but I would imagine that they are like all the other media outlets and more or less owned by Pfizer’s advertising arm.

He who pays the pipe calls the tune.

And Pfizer says don’t buck the established narrative.


5 posted on 03/11/2025 4:23:10 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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florida governor ron desantis proved the kung flu was a scam...

it was all about stealing the 2020 presidential election...


6 posted on 03/11/2025 4:26:46 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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We citizens have been the government’s guinea pigs long before gain of function virus labs.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-brains-firewall-joe-rogan-s-podcast-guest-issues-reality-check-human-mind-making-bold-claims-rfk-assassination


7 posted on 03/11/2025 4:31:04 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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My opinion has always been that poorly paid workers at the Wuhan lab augmented their income by selling lab specimens (after the lab was through with them) to the local market. Some were infected. How they became infected is another story. I’m guessing that it was a naturally occurring virus, but not certain.


8 posted on 03/11/2025 4:31:47 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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And Operation Mockingbird is alive and chirping.


9 posted on 03/11/2025 4:32:55 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I think (and hope I’m right) that the lesson learned is that Gain of Function does not work so well. An organism rapidly loses what you tried to give it, once it is released into the wild.

It would be best to do your Gain of Function in the country you wanted to attack - but then you might get arrested.


10 posted on 03/11/2025 4:33:17 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: heavy metal

I think there were a lot of different motives.

Money being a big one.

Stealing the election may have been an after thought.

Population reduction was probably the starting point.


11 posted on 03/11/2025 4:33:18 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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It seems like a stupid idea to pay workers at such a facility poorly but Communist a notorious for treating skilled workers like interchangeable. parts.


12 posted on 03/11/2025 4:36:51 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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stopping trump from having a second term was priority...

look back at jotato’s first days in office and the opening of our southern border during a supposed “global pandemic”...


13 posted on 03/11/2025 4:55:21 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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look back at jotato’s first days in office and the opening of our southern border during a supposed “global pandemic”...

Yes, and right in the thick of it, social distancing was not required if you were protesting George Floyd’s fentanyl death.

And you didn’t need a mask while sitting down at a restaurant. Only while standing up.

14 posted on 03/11/2025 4:59:33 PM PDT by Allegra (🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈)
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Stopping Trump may have been a priority in 2019 but the pandemic response was in planning before Trump was elected.

And I don’t think that the Wuhan virus release was planned.

I think that it may have caused an acceleration of pre-existing plans.


15 posted on 03/11/2025 5:02:37 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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kinda strange antifa and black lives matter faded off into the sunset after jotato was elected...


16 posted on 03/11/2025 5:03:09 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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it was a scare tactic to implement drop off ballot boxes...


17 posted on 03/11/2025 5:09:51 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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I suspect the spike protein was developed by Fauci's crew at NIH. He used EcoHealth Alliance to transfer the necessary recipe to the Chinese.

The timing was all about justifying mail-in ballots to take out Trump. Population reduction was their idea of a bonus. My brother was a researcher at NIH in viral immunology. I'll never forget when he said to me, "I had hope for HIV," beyond that I don't recall his exact words, but they expressed the desirability of a pandemic reducing global population. I have little doubt that such a mindset is rampant at NIH. I suspect they learn it at medical school.

18 posted on 03/11/2025 5:31:50 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: heavy metal

That and mail-in ballots.

But I think that was just an opportunity realized.

Remember all of medical malpractice that was forced from on high that was guaranteed to kill people with upper respiratory distress.

All of the forced vaccinations with a experimental gene therapy.

Pushing treatment with remdesivir which causes liver damage in about 50% of cases.

The way the government forced hospitals to count Deaths With COVID as Deaths from COVID. For scare tactics.

There is a lot more but this should prompt your memory of how our government tried to kill a bunch of us off and a lot more will probably die off in the in coming years.

It was originally planned to be a mass death operation.


19 posted on 03/11/2025 5:32:46 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Chomsky used to be okay until he started parroting establishment talking points too.


20 posted on 03/11/2025 5:32:46 PM PDT by AceHanlon
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