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Tom Cotton was right: The Wuhan virus probably came from a bioweapons lab
American Thinker ^ | 04/16/2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/16/2020 6:39:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In February, during on appearance on Fox News, Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Az.) suggested that the Wuhan virus originated in a Chinese biological warfare laboratory. The leftist media instantly claimed that he was irresponsibly promoting a bizarre, discredited conspiracy theory (as always, holding themselves up as the arbiter of what’s valid and what is “discredited”). It turns out, though, that Cotton was correct.

On January 31, President Trump had declared coronavirus a public health emergency and banned travel between the U.S. and China. The Democrat propaganda branch known as the American mainstream media instantly bashed Trump for doing so. Joe Biden summed up the criticism by saying “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia.” Then, on February 3, WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that there was no need for travel bans targeting China.

The narrative was set – China was not officially responsible for the virus, it was doing all things right and proper to stop the virus’s spread, and Trump was a power-mad xenophobe to punish China. On February 13, when there were only 13 Wuhan virus cases in America and no deaths, Cotton had a different idea: He suggested the possibility that the virus was not a random product of China’s filthy “wet markets.” Instead, he said, it could well have come from a biological weapons laboratory located near Wuhan:

The entire mainstream media rose up in outrage. The Washington Post approvingly quoted Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, who said, “There's absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered. The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded.”

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KEYWORDS: bioweapons; china; coronavirus; fakenews; tomcotton
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The current theory, though, is that China lost control of the virus, rather than that it released it on purpose:

There is increasing confidence that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.

This may be the "costliest government coverup of all time," one of the sources said.

The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.

The “increasing confidence” comes from classified and open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has requested to see the evidence directly.

1 posted on 04/16/2020 6:39:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
The Wuhan virus probably came from a bio-weapons lab

The demonrat party and their lapdog media approve of this virus.

2 posted on 04/16/2020 6:42:29 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: SeekAndFind
Even if the original release was accidental, every move the ChiNazis made after that was to maximize its effects as a bio weapon.


3 posted on 04/16/2020 6:46:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

The demonrat party and their lapdog media approve of this virus.

the Democrats are simply puppets of the Chicoms.


4 posted on 04/16/2020 6:48:29 AM PDT by excalibur21
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder for how many weeks and months we will have to sit through breathless media reports of “Hey! You’re not going to believe this, but — COVID-19 may have been engineered in a biowarfare lab!!!”

I already consider it to be old news.


5 posted on 04/16/2020 6:49:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think the epoch times has absolutely nailed this. This is 54 minutes.

Mom you need to watch this as it is very very informative and probably dead-on accurate. It would explain the new extra serious tone from President Trump with his gray hair and skin without orange makeup now

Watch “1st documentary movie on the origin of CCP virus, Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/Gdd7dtDaYmM


6 posted on 04/16/2020 6:50:05 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: SeekAndFind

China needs to be held to account in a manner that will not soon be forgotten.


7 posted on 04/16/2020 6:53:42 AM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Even if it wasn’t engineered, if it was a naturally occurring but rare bat virus - it was likely in that L4 facility in Wuhan and got out, whether on purpose (less likely) or by incompetence/ineptitude (more likely).


8 posted on 04/16/2020 6:54:24 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did anyone catch that theory that the virus was released by accident.If it were released by accident why has the disease been kept in Wuhan and no other area of China?

At the same time people who were unknown carriers of the virus were allowed to leave China and fly all over the world to spread it to Western nations.

This is very unlike a communist dictatorship.Usually they have total control of the comings and goings of people in their country .So something stinks about this viral release.

We have been subjected to a bio-warfare attack that may have killed over 30000. American citizens.

I hope that our intelligence agencies are not that dumb to think this was caused by a accident.


9 posted on 04/16/2020 6:54:57 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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after the virus was released and began to spread in Wusan, the Chinese moved quickly to seal Wusan off from the rest of China. Thus far major Chinese urban and population centers incredibly have not had major outbreaks. However they did, for whatever unthinkable reason, allow travelers from Wusan to infect the world. However you look at it, and the actual facts may be worse than imaginable, the Chinese communists have performed a grievous crime against humanity and must be held accountable. Doubt Trump will not release what the US government really knows in order to avoid a cataclysmic war.


10 posted on 04/16/2020 6:55:40 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

“...The demonrat party and their lapdog media approve of this virus...”
Because they likely colluded with the CCP on the release. IF so, we need ALL their names to go public.


11 posted on 04/16/2020 6:56:42 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: impimp; abb; All
The Wuhan virus came from a bio-weapons lab

Making it a bio-weapon, which means it isn't #TheFlu

12 posted on 04/16/2020 6:58:45 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Minor point but Sen. Cotton is from Arkansas, not Arizona. We proudly claim him here.

Many of us here on FR have felt this a Chicom weapon from the gitgo. They took out two of our air craft carriers without firing a shot...

13 posted on 04/16/2020 7:02:57 AM PDT by donozark (Sam Walton: It was paper when we started, and it's paper afterward.)
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To: lgjhn23

Nancy Pelosi waited until 1/15/2020 before she released the articles of impeachment to the Senate. That was the same day that a infected person with covid-19 from Wahun came to the US to the state of Washington.


14 posted on 04/16/2020 7:10:18 AM PDT by hotdogjones (Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
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To: CincyRichieRich

“It would explain the new extra serious tone from President Trump with his gray hair and skin without orange makeup now”

The orange thing is makeup?

I thought it was natural.


15 posted on 04/16/2020 7:11:53 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: donozark
Many of us here on FR have felt this a Chicom weapon from the gitgo. They took out two of our air craft carriers without firing a shot...

And the US taxpayers paid them to do it.

This isn't the flu.

16 posted on 04/16/2020 7:13:06 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: CincyRichieRich; All

Saw it. Thanks. Great link.

Waiting for “The Final Plague” Nathan Wolfe 01/30/09

https://www.edge.org/conversation/nathan_wolfe-waiting-for-the-final-plague


17 posted on 04/16/2020 7:14:36 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: SeekAndFind
Tom Cotton was right: The Wuhan virus probably came from a bioweapons lab American Thinker ^ | 04/16/2020 | Andrea Widburg Posted on 4/16/2020, 6:39:42 AM by SeekAndFind In February, during on appearance on Fox News, Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Az.) suggested that the Wuhan virus originated in a Chinese biological warfare laboratory. The leftist media instantly claimed that he was irresponsibly promoting a bizarre, discredited conspiracy theory (as always, holding themselves up as the arbiter of what’s valid and what is “discredited”). It turns out, though, that Cotton was correct.

State Department leaked cables renew theories on origin of coronavirus

Fox News ^ | April 14 2020 | Barnini Chakraborty

Posted on 4/14/2020, 10:38:45 AM by knighthawk

A Chinese laboratory at the center of new theories about how the coronavirus pandemic started was the subject of multiple urgent warnings inside the U.S. State Department two years ago, according to a new report.

U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Those cables have renewed speculation inside the U.S. government about whether Wuhan-based labs were the source of the novel coronavirus, although no firm connection has been established. The theory, however, has gained traction in recent days.

The Communist Chinese have played their attack on the West brilliantly. They have brought the greatest, strongest country in the history of the world to its knees in less than a month ... and without firing a shot (or a missile). And there remains widespread disagreement on how long America will stay paralyzed. It's clear they know us better than we know ourselves. 26 posted on 4/4/2020, 10:28:38 AM by glennaro

Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson did a segment on the origin of the coronavirus. Carlson, who has been pretty aggressive in his coverage of the virus, pointed out a Chinese research paper (since pulled by the author) which claimed the virus could not have arisen at the Wuhan wet market because the horseshoe bats where the virus arose were not for sale at the market. In fact, the bats are not naturally found anywhere within 900 miles of the market.

However, bats were being studied for viruses they carried in two labs including one just a few hundred meters from the market.

The abbreviation for Bat Soup is BS~!

Novel coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent had China responded to the outbreak just three weeks earlier than it did, a March 13 study by the University of Southampton has found.

President Xi Jinping’s: "The Yellow Peril ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Novel Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus, Chinobyl#2, The Yellow Peril, CCP virus Made in China!"


18 posted on 04/16/2020 7:14:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Evolution works! Can not stand the heat! Get off the planet! Gorebull Warming weeding out the weak!)
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“...Nancy Pelosi waited until 1/15/2020 before she released the articles of impeachment to the Senate. That was the same day that a infected person with covid-19 from Wahun came to the US to the state of Washington....”
NONE of the prominent RATS have contracted it. They’ve likely been on the antidote before it ever got here. I think the POTUS knew this and that’s the reason he refused to shake her hand at the SOTU address. She likely planned to infect him with it...she deliberately had it on her hands. When he refused, she became infuriated that she didn’t carry out her mission...and THAT is why she tore up the Peoples’ copy of the speech in rage.
IF proven, these communist SOBs all need to be publicly hanged.


19 posted on 04/16/2020 7:17:23 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: puppypusher

Step 1. China is having problems with protesters in Taiwan.
Step 2. Chinese are making fun of Xi calling him Winnie the Pooh.
Step 3. China is put in a box with Trump’s trade deal. Xi looks weak on the world stage. Sent a low level government type to sign the deal.
Step 4. China releases a bioweapon to put down the protests, show the chinese people who is the boss and cripple the western world’s economy.

I think it is just that simple.


20 posted on 04/16/2020 7:19:40 AM PDT by Texas resident (The American media is our enemy)
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